Carolyn Ellis

Carolyn Ellis is Distinguished University Professor Emerita of Communication and Sociology at the University of South Florida. She has contributed to the narrative and autoethnographic study of human life through integrating ethnographic, literary, and evocative writing to portray and make sense of show more lived experience in cultural context. Her publications include Final Negotiations: A Story of Lore, Lost, and Chronic Illness, Exocative Autoethnography: Writing Lives and Telling Stories (with Arthur Bochner), and Autoethnography: Undemanding Qualitative Research and Handbook of Autoethnography, both with Tony E. Adams and Stacy Holman Jones. She co-edits the Routledge book series Writing Lives: Ethnographic Narratives. show less