Lori E Koelsch
Biographic Data
| ID | 190169 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lori E Koelsch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lori E |
| FAMILY NAME | Koelsch |
| SIGNATURE | KOELSCH L E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Duquesne University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5182-8367 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 102 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Hidden Faculty Service in U.S. Higher Education
Although faculty service is fundamental to higher education, particular forms of service, described as hidden service, are not formally recognized in faculty evaluation and reward processes. Studies show that hidden service is disproportionately performed by women, faculty of color, and other historically marginalized groups, creating additional barriers to advancement. This narrative review synthesizes research on hidden service in U.S. higher e…
Not Subject to Appeal
We are recipients of a National Science Foundation (NSF) ADVANCE grant, which was awarded to support our work on faculty service. In early May 2025, we received an early termination notice for the grant. Uncertainty about the grant’s longevity began after the 2024 United States presidential election and was intensified when we received an initial email pausing the grant in late January 2025. To cope with this uncertainty, the first author drew up…
WeToo
In this article, we present a review of the #MeToo movement alongside therapeutic, feminist self-disclosure by situating feminist self-disclosure in dialogue with and in response to the current #MeToo era of mainstream self-disclosures regarding sexual violence. We consider issues of transference and countertransference when therapists who are survivors work with survivors of sexual violence in therapy, and we employ the categories of the Feminis…
Am I Telling the Story Right?” Poetry, Community, and Trauma
The Hill District of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) is a once vibrant community that experienced socioeconomic decline through urban renewal polices and related factors. This article presents poems constructed from interviews with women who considered the Hill District to be their home. Interviews were completed as part of an undergraduate-level community-engaged learning course in collaboration with a local agency. One component of the course wa…
Reflection/Commentary on a Past Article
Listening for home
I poems
This article argues for the value of I poems as a means to hear and understand the voices of individual women and girls. I poems are a feature of the Listening Guide (e.g., Brown & Gilligan, 1992). As a feminist method, the Listening Guide was developed to attend to the multiple and complex voices found in qualitative data, particularly when the subject of study is taboo or otherwise difficult to discuss. The creation of poems out of participant …
Reconceptualizing the Member Check Interview
The member check has been heralded as an important component of validation in qualitative research. Traditionally, the member check has been used in order to assess the accuracy with which a researcher has represented a participant's subjectivity. Some theorists, however, have argued that change, rather than representation, should be sought as a primary goal for qualitative research. The difference between using representation or change as a mark…
Building across fault lines in qualitative research
As the field of qualitative research has grown larger and the application of mixed methods has become common, methodological distinctions—and the core assumptions that underlie these distinctions—have faded in prominence. This article examines the epistemological, methodological, and methodical assumptions that define some of the fault lines between approaches to qualitative research. The metaphor of fault lines is introduced to highlight the shi…
The Virtual Patchwork Quilt
This article presents an application and expansion of the patchwork quilt metaphor for qualitative research. Building upon work by Saukko, I constructed a virtual quilt out of participant interviews. Participants were interviewed about "unlabeled" sexual experiences. Transcripts were analyzed using the Listening Guide, "sewn" into individual patches, and combined into a larger patchwork. This project is a prototype, and is intended to represent o…
I Don't Know How to Start Talking About It
This article presents five poems constructed from interviews conducted with five women about their sexual experiences as college students, as well as one poem written by the first author about her own experience. Young women were asked about confusing, problematic, and shameful sexual experiences. The Listening/Reading Guide, a feminist method, was used to identify segments of each interview that were then arranged in poetic form. Poetry was used…
Rational or Not? Subverting Understanding through the Rational/Non-rational Dichotomy
Reconceptualizing the Member Check Interview
The member check has been heralded as an important component of validation in qualitative research. Traditionally, the member check has been used in order to assess the accuracy with which a researcher has represented a participant's subjectivity. Some theorists, however, have argued that change, rather than representation, should be sought as a primary goal for qualitative research. The difference between using representation or change as a mark…
The Virtual Patchwork Quilt
This article presents an application and expansion of the patchwork quilt metaphor for qualitative research. Building upon work by Saukko, I constructed a virtual quilt out of participant interviews. Participants were interviewed about "unlabeled" sexual experiences. Transcripts were analyzed using the Listening Guide, "sewn" into individual patches, and combined into a larger patchwork. This project is a prototype, and is intended to represent o…
I Don't Know How to Start Talking About It
This article presents five poems constructed from interviews conducted with five women about their sexual experiences as college students, as well as one poem written by the first author about her own experience. Young women were asked about confusing, problematic, and shameful sexual experiences. The Listening/Reading Guide, a feminist method, was used to identify segments of each interview that were then arranged in poetic form. Poetry was used…
Rational or Not? Subverting Understanding through the Rational/Non-rational Dichotomy
WeToo
In this article, we present a review of the #MeToo movement alongside therapeutic, feminist self-disclosure by situating feminist self-disclosure in dialogue with and in response to the current #MeToo era of mainstream self-disclosures regarding sexual violence. We consider issues of transference and countertransference when therapists who are survivors work with survivors of sexual violence in therapy, and we employ the categories of the Feminis…
Am I Telling the Story Right?” Poetry, Community, and Trauma
The Hill District of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) is a once vibrant community that experienced socioeconomic decline through urban renewal polices and related factors. This article presents poems constructed from interviews with women who considered the Hill District to be their home. Interviews were completed as part of an undergraduate-level community-engaged learning course in collaboration with a local agency. One component of the course wa…
Rational or Not? Subverting Understanding through the Rational/Non-rational Dichotomy
I Don't Know How to Start Talking About It
This article presents five poems constructed from interviews conducted with five women about their sexual experiences as college students, as well as one poem written by the first author about her own experience. Young women were asked about confusing, problematic, and shameful sexual experiences. The Listening/Reading Guide, a feminist method, was used to identify segments of each interview that were then arranged in poetic form. Poetry was used…
Building across fault lines in qualitative research
As the field of qualitative research has grown larger and the application of mixed methods has become common, methodological distinctions—and the core assumptions that underlie these distinctions—have faded in prominence. This article examines the epistemological, methodological, and methodical assumptions that define some of the fault lines between approaches to qualitative research. The metaphor of fault lines is introduced to highlight the shi…
The Virtual Patchwork Quilt
This article presents an application and expansion of the patchwork quilt metaphor for qualitative research. Building upon work by Saukko, I constructed a virtual quilt out of participant interviews. Participants were interviewed about "unlabeled" sexual experiences. Transcripts were analyzed using the Listening Guide, "sewn" into individual patches, and combined into a larger patchwork. This project is a prototype, and is intended to represent o…
Reconceptualizing the Member Check Interview
The member check has been heralded as an important component of validation in qualitative research. Traditionally, the member check has been used in order to assess the accuracy with which a researcher has represented a participant's subjectivity. Some theorists, however, have argued that change, rather than representation, should be sought as a primary goal for qualitative research. The difference between using representation or change as a mark…
I poems
This article argues for the value of I poems as a means to hear and understand the voices of individual women and girls. I poems are a feature of the Listening Guide (e.g., Brown & Gilligan, 1992). As a feminist method, the Listening Guide was developed to attend to the multiple and complex voices found in qualitative data, particularly when the subject of study is taboo or otherwise difficult to discuss. The creation of poems out of participant …
Listening for home
Reflection/Commentary on a Past Article
Am I Telling the Story Right?” Poetry, Community, and Trauma
The Hill District of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) is a once vibrant community that experienced socioeconomic decline through urban renewal polices and related factors. This article presents poems constructed from interviews with women who considered the Hill District to be their home. Interviews were completed as part of an undergraduate-level community-engaged learning course in collaboration with a local agency. One component of the course wa…
WeToo
In this article, we present a review of the #MeToo movement alongside therapeutic, feminist self-disclosure by situating feminist self-disclosure in dialogue with and in response to the current #MeToo era of mainstream self-disclosures regarding sexual violence. We consider issues of transference and countertransference when therapists who are survivors work with survivors of sexual violence in therapy, and we employ the categories of the Feminis…
Not Subject to Appeal
We are recipients of a National Science Foundation (NSF) ADVANCE grant, which was awarded to support our work on faculty service. In early May 2025, we received an early termination notice for the grant. Uncertainty about the grant’s longevity began after the 2024 United States presidential election and was intensified when we received an initial email pausing the grant in late January 2025. To cope with this uncertainty, the first author drew up…
Hidden Faculty Service in U.S. Higher Education
Although faculty service is fundamental to higher education, particular forms of service, described as hidden service, are not formally recognized in faculty evaluation and reward processes. Studies show that hidden service is disproportionately performed by women, faculty of color, and other historically marginalized groups, creating additional barriers to advancement. This narrative review synthesizes research on hidden service in U.S. higher e…
Psychology (9 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Active listening (4 works) · Art (4 works) · Participatory Visual Research Methods (4 works) · Poetry (4 works) · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics (4 works) · Communication (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Literature (3 works)