Andrew F Herrmann
Biographic Data
| ID | 3591379 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew F Herrmann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew F |
| FAMILY NAME | Herrmann |
| SIGNATURE | HERRMANN A F |
| AFFILIATIONS | East Tennessee State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8248-2637 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 67 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Autoethnography as Testimony
Since we wrote our last editorial, the political landscape of the world has changed drastically . . . again. The continual barrage of news—both banal and horrific—continues unabated. For example, in the United States, Donald Trump is detaining and deporting documented and undocumented immigrants without due process.1 He has deployed active military units to Los Angeles, Chicago, and Washington, DC.2 He opened “Alligator Alcatraz” in Florida, whic…
Making a Case for Autoethnography
Pursuing, Practicing, and Portraying Qualitative Research
At the Second International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (May 2006), the authors, then graduate students, interviewed Norman Denzin for Carolyn Ellis’s Advanced Qualitative Methods graduate course at the University of South Florida. Only a few parts of the interview had ever been published. The authors include the transcript of the interview here
The Present and Possible Futures of Autoethnography
Research Article| January 01 2024 The Present and Possible Futures of Autoethnography Andrew F. Herrmann, Andrew F. Herrmann [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Tony E. Adams Tony E. Adams [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of Autoethnography (2024) 5 (1): 1–6. https://doi.org/10.1525/joae.2024.5.1.1 Views Icon V…
Good Autoethnography
As Pelias astutely argued more than two decades ago, we devote much of our waking life to critique and evaluation.1 We assess our and others’ (re)actions. We determine whether certain foods, drinks, and flavors will quench us, give us energy, make us sick. We appreciate caring and supportive friends, family, strangers, and students, and we try to avoid those who harm us with their words and deeds. We note how bodies and desires change with time, …
The Future of Autoethnographic Criteria
Recently Szwabowski argued that we should not have any criteria by which to judge, evaluate, or review autoethnographic texts. While there are dangers of conformity whenever criteria are utilized, criteria can also act as a guide. Here, I cover the autoethnography triad of auto-, ethno-, and -graphy as the three main criteria for a work to be considered autoethnographic. I argue that criteria do not necessitate exclusion nor does it necessarily e…
Purity, Nationalism, and Whiteness
Fundamentalist evangelicalism is an intricate grand narrative based upon the interrelated concepts of end times’ eschatology and purity. These two concepts created the conditions by which white evangelicals abandoned their traditional moral rhetoric and overwhelmingly helped elect Donald Trump. However, the eschatological and purity concepts have also created the conditions by which evangelicalism is fracturing along racial and gender lines. This…
Learning to be Editors
Welcome to the first issue of the second volume of the Journal of Autoethnography. This short introductory essay will provide a look backward at where we went during the first year, and look forward to where we are going, as well as what we have learned and been surprised about along the way. It’s been an amazing first year. When we proposed and founded the Journal of Autoethnography, we didn’t know what the year would bring. We didn’t know that …
Forum Introduction
Journal entry, November 10, 2020: 176 days alone. 176 out of 178. Too many days. Except for my visit to see Andrew Dunn, and one trip to the comic book shop, I've been by myself. I wake up, walk downstairs, make coffee, go to the computer, and start working via Zoom. I eat lunch six feet away. Then it's back to the table. Then back to bed. I wake up, walk downstairs, make coffee, go to the computer. Occasionally there's DoorDash or Kroger's pick-…
Practicing Narrative Inquiry II
Narrative inquiry provides an opportunity to humanize the human sciences, placing people, meaning, and personal identity at the center of research, inviting the development of reflexive, relational, dialogic, and interpretive methodologies, and drawing attention to the need to focus not only on the actual but also on the possible and the good. In this chapter, we focus on the intellectual, existential, empirical, and pragmatic development of the …
The Routledge International Handbook of Organizational Autoethnography
As a white, Scottish woman living on violently acquired, never-ceded Gadigal land on the east coast of what we now call Australia, I came to see that I was part of a big, unresolved problem. I understood this through engagement with Indigenous people and Indigenous scholarship, certainly. But it was mainly through hiking that I came to feel most viscerally what it means to be in place or out of place. This understanding, in turn, led me to leave …
Expanding Our Autoethnographic Future
Organisational autoethnography
Autoethnography: possibilities, politics and pitfalls".This special issue acknowledges the growing interest in organisational autoethnography (OAE).To date, there has been no special issue in the Journal of Organizational Ethnography on OAE.However, OAE has always been important to this journal, first introduced as a research method in the inaugural issue
Communication and ritual at the comic book shop
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine the rituals and communicative practices that simultaneously create community, out-groups and perceptions of stigma at a local comic book retail organization through autoethnography. As such this piece explores personal identity, comic book culture and how this comic book shop acts as important third place as defined by Oldenburg.Design/methodology/approachAutoethnography allows for the simultaneous r…
The Beatings Will Continue Until Morale Improves
Political decisions about higher education and organizational decision-making within higher educational institutions reflect the acceptance of academic capitalist discourse, placing financial burdens on students, stress upon faculty, and the obliteration of trust between faculty and administration. In this critical layered narrative account, a tenure-track faculty member examines the impacts and influences of academic capitalism, including how th…
On Being a Homeless Work of Fiction
In this piece the author takes a journey into the meaning of quests through the philosophical terrain of existential phenomenology and authenticity. Unlike quest narratives in literature and popular culture, our life narratives are not yet finished, but ongoing. Comparing the idea of existential homelessness with its undeniable and constant change to that of autoethnographic writing, he examines narrative and memory and how current life events ch…
The Ghostwriter Writes No More
This narrative articulates the advantages of long-term autoethnographic logotherapy. I explore how the practice of long-term autoethnographic logotherapy led me to the point where I was prepared for my father's death, and how that allowed me to let him go before he actually died. I propose that long-term personal narrative and autoethnographic writing are not merely a form of therapy and healing. Rather, it is a practice aligned with existential …
Walking in Kierkegaard's Instant and Walking out of American Christendom
In the life of Søren A. Kierkegaard “the instant” had two distinct meanings. The first use of the phrase “the instant” is the point of intersection of time and eternity. It is the split second of decision, and the flash of a personal revolutionizing vision: a decisive “glint of an eye” to live in the existential moment. However, The Instant was also the title of a broadsheet Kierkegaard published at the end of his life that directly attacked “Chr…
Ghosts, Vampires, Zombies, and Us
In this exploration, I examine how autoethnographers create connections and community through the metaphor of the undead in their various forms. Autoethnography allows us to write and speak about our anxieties, our impolite private issues, and what frightens us at home and at work, including aging, guilt, mortality, shame, and lost love. Through autoethnography, we connect the seen and the invisible, the known and the unknown, the understood and …
Ragged edges in the fractured future
PurposeThis article aims to represent three ethnographers researching an organizational event within academia: the Second International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry. It explores the divergent viewpoints of their ethnographic experiences as well as reflecting upon their relationships with each other as they attempted to understand each others' viewpoints.Design/methodology/approachThis ethnographic project involved participant observation, full…
Never Mind the Scholar, Here's the Old Punk
Purpose – Research on punk culture often falls prey to three main dilemmas. First, an ageist bias exists in most popular music research, resulting in the continued equating of music and youth. Second, punk culture research often uses a Marxist economic lens that implies fieldwork reveals already known conceptions of class and culture. Third, research on punk culture lacks ethnographic and narrative examinations. This ethnographic project explores…
“Criteria against Ourselves?”
In this exploration, I consider the dilemmas I experienced as a young qualitative researcher, particularly the ethical questions about how I write, who I implicate as I write, and how community fits into my ideas of qualitative inquiry. This account is drawn from conversations with peers and mentors, ethnographic experience, and interviews. It is an explication of how the academic capitalist discourse that surrounds higher education conflicts wit…
I Know I'm Unlovable
Failure, according to the academic canonical narrative, is anything other than a tenure-track professorship. The academic job hunt is fraught with unknowns: a time of fear, hope, and despair. This personal narrative follows the author's three-year journey from doctoral candidate, to visiting assistant professor, to the unemployment line. Using a layered account and through a Foucauldian lens the author examines the academic success narrative, del…
Narrative as an organizing process
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore narratives in a new nonprofit arts center. It includes the macro‐, meso‐, and personal narratives that keep the center organized in the midst of the chaotic everyday activities. It advocates the explanatory force of narrative as an alternative to organizational life cycle theory for understanding organizational startups. Design/methodology/approach This narrative ethnography involved participant obs…
Kierkegaard and Dialogue
Journal Article Kierkegaard and Dialogue: The Communication of Capability Get access Andrew F. Herrmann Andrew F. Herrmann 1Department of Communication, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Communication Theory, Volume 18, Issue 1, February 2008, Pages 71–92, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2885.2007.00314.x Published: 15 January 2008
Organisational autoethnography
Autoethnography: possibilities, politics and pitfalls".This special issue acknowledges the growing interest in organisational autoethnography (OAE).To date, there has been no special issue in the Journal of Organizational Ethnography on OAE.However, OAE has always been important to this journal, first introduced as a research method in the inaugural issue
I Know I'm Unlovable
Failure, according to the academic canonical narrative, is anything other than a tenure-track professorship. The academic job hunt is fraught with unknowns: a time of fear, hope, and despair. This personal narrative follows the author's three-year journey from doctoral candidate, to visiting assistant professor, to the unemployment line. Using a layered account and through a Foucauldian lens the author examines the academic success narrative, del…
Good Autoethnography
As Pelias astutely argued more than two decades ago, we devote much of our waking life to critique and evaluation.1 We assess our and others’ (re)actions. We determine whether certain foods, drinks, and flavors will quench us, give us energy, make us sick. We appreciate caring and supportive friends, family, strangers, and students, and we try to avoid those who harm us with their words and deeds. We note how bodies and desires change with time, …
Expanding Our Autoethnographic Future
Ragged edges in the fractured future
PurposeThis article aims to represent three ethnographers researching an organizational event within academia: the Second International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry. It explores the divergent viewpoints of their ethnographic experiences as well as reflecting upon their relationships with each other as they attempted to understand each others' viewpoints.Design/methodology/approachThis ethnographic project involved participant observation, full…
People Get Emotional About Their Money
This article investigates the discursive practices of company stockholders in one financial cyberspace, the Berkshire Hathaway Board on The Commodity Stand 1 website. After a review of relevant research on gender and investing in computer-mediated communication and the history of the site chosen for examination, I analyze how members of the site create and maintain identity and community through their discursive performances, with particular emph…
How Did We Get This Far Apart? Disengagement, Relational Dialectics, and Narrative Control
In this layered account, the author explores the disintegration of the relationship with his fiancé. Through the concept of relational dialectics, the author explores the multiplicity of tensions in the relationship and the patterns of communication and interaction through which they are displayed. These tensions include the dialectics of closeness-separateness, certainty- uncertainty, and openness-closedness. Similarly, the relationship is viewe…
Kierkegaard and Dialogue
Journal Article Kierkegaard and Dialogue: The Communication of Capability Get access Andrew F. Herrmann Andrew F. Herrmann 1Department of Communication, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Communication Theory, Volume 18, Issue 1, February 2008, Pages 71–92, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2885.2007.00314.x Published: 15 January 2008
Making a Case for Autoethnography
Communication and ritual at the comic book shop
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine the rituals and communicative practices that simultaneously create community, out-groups and perceptions of stigma at a local comic book retail organization through autoethnography. As such this piece explores personal identity, comic book culture and how this comic book shop acts as important third place as defined by Oldenburg.Design/methodology/approachAutoethnography allows for the simultaneous r…
The Beatings Will Continue Until Morale Improves
Political decisions about higher education and organizational decision-making within higher educational institutions reflect the acceptance of academic capitalist discourse, placing financial burdens on students, stress upon faculty, and the obliteration of trust between faculty and administration. In this critical layered narrative account, a tenure-track faculty member examines the impacts and influences of academic capitalism, including how th…
The Ghostwriter Writes No More
This narrative articulates the advantages of long-term autoethnographic logotherapy. I explore how the practice of long-term autoethnographic logotherapy led me to the point where I was prepared for my father's death, and how that allowed me to let him go before he actually died. I propose that long-term personal narrative and autoethnographic writing are not merely a form of therapy and healing. Rather, it is a practice aligned with existential …
People Get Emotional About Their Money
This article investigates the discursive practices of company stockholders in one financial cyberspace, the Berkshire Hathaway Board on The Commodity Stand 1 website. After a review of relevant research on gender and investing in computer-mediated communication and the history of the site chosen for examination, I analyze how members of the site create and maintain identity and community through their discursive performances, with particular emph…
How Did We Get This Far Apart? Disengagement, Relational Dialectics, and Narrative Control
In this layered account, the author explores the disintegration of the relationship with his fiancé. Through the concept of relational dialectics, the author explores the multiplicity of tensions in the relationship and the patterns of communication and interaction through which they are displayed. These tensions include the dialectics of closeness-separateness, certainty- uncertainty, and openness-closedness. Similarly, the relationship is viewe…
Kierkegaard and Dialogue
Journal Article Kierkegaard and Dialogue: The Communication of Capability Get access Andrew F. Herrmann Andrew F. Herrmann 1Department of Communication, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Communication Theory, Volume 18, Issue 1, February 2008, Pages 71–92, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2885.2007.00314.x Published: 15 January 2008
Narrative as an organizing process
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore narratives in a new nonprofit arts center. It includes the macro‐, meso‐, and personal narratives that keep the center organized in the midst of the chaotic everyday activities. It advocates the explanatory force of narrative as an alternative to organizational life cycle theory for understanding organizational startups. Design/methodology/approach This narrative ethnography involved participant obs…
Never Mind the Scholar, Here's the Old Punk
Purpose – Research on punk culture often falls prey to three main dilemmas. First, an ageist bias exists in most popular music research, resulting in the continued equating of music and youth. Second, punk culture research often uses a Marxist economic lens that implies fieldwork reveals already known conceptions of class and culture. Third, research on punk culture lacks ethnographic and narrative examinations. This ethnographic project explores…
“Criteria against Ourselves?”
In this exploration, I consider the dilemmas I experienced as a young qualitative researcher, particularly the ethical questions about how I write, who I implicate as I write, and how community fits into my ideas of qualitative inquiry. This account is drawn from conversations with peers and mentors, ethnographic experience, and interviews. It is an explication of how the academic capitalist discourse that surrounds higher education conflicts wit…
I Know I'm Unlovable
Failure, according to the academic canonical narrative, is anything other than a tenure-track professorship. The academic job hunt is fraught with unknowns: a time of fear, hope, and despair. This personal narrative follows the author's three-year journey from doctoral candidate, to visiting assistant professor, to the unemployment line. Using a layered account and through a Foucauldian lens the author examines the academic success narrative, del…
Ragged edges in the fractured future
PurposeThis article aims to represent three ethnographers researching an organizational event within academia: the Second International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry. It explores the divergent viewpoints of their ethnographic experiences as well as reflecting upon their relationships with each other as they attempted to understand each others' viewpoints.Design/methodology/approachThis ethnographic project involved participant observation, full…
Ghosts, Vampires, Zombies, and Us
In this exploration, I examine how autoethnographers create connections and community through the metaphor of the undead in their various forms. Autoethnography allows us to write and speak about our anxieties, our impolite private issues, and what frightens us at home and at work, including aging, guilt, mortality, shame, and lost love. Through autoethnography, we connect the seen and the invisible, the known and the unknown, the understood and …
Walking in Kierkegaard's Instant and Walking out of American Christendom
In the life of Søren A. Kierkegaard “the instant” had two distinct meanings. The first use of the phrase “the instant” is the point of intersection of time and eternity. It is the split second of decision, and the flash of a personal revolutionizing vision: a decisive “glint of an eye” to live in the existential moment. However, The Instant was also the title of a broadsheet Kierkegaard published at the end of his life that directly attacked “Chr…
On Being a Homeless Work of Fiction
In this piece the author takes a journey into the meaning of quests through the philosophical terrain of existential phenomenology and authenticity. Unlike quest narratives in literature and popular culture, our life narratives are not yet finished, but ongoing. Comparing the idea of existential homelessness with its undeniable and constant change to that of autoethnographic writing, he examines narrative and memory and how current life events ch…
The Ghostwriter Writes No More
This narrative articulates the advantages of long-term autoethnographic logotherapy. I explore how the practice of long-term autoethnographic logotherapy led me to the point where I was prepared for my father's death, and how that allowed me to let him go before he actually died. I propose that long-term personal narrative and autoethnographic writing are not merely a form of therapy and healing. Rather, it is a practice aligned with existential …
The Beatings Will Continue Until Morale Improves
Political decisions about higher education and organizational decision-making within higher educational institutions reflect the acceptance of academic capitalist discourse, placing financial burdens on students, stress upon faculty, and the obliteration of trust between faculty and administration. In this critical layered narrative account, a tenure-track faculty member examines the impacts and influences of academic capitalism, including how th…
Organisational autoethnography
Autoethnography: possibilities, politics and pitfalls".This special issue acknowledges the growing interest in organisational autoethnography (OAE).To date, there has been no special issue in the Journal of Organizational Ethnography on OAE.However, OAE has always been important to this journal, first introduced as a research method in the inaugural issue
Communication and ritual at the comic book shop
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine the rituals and communicative practices that simultaneously create community, out-groups and perceptions of stigma at a local comic book retail organization through autoethnography. As such this piece explores personal identity, comic book culture and how this comic book shop acts as important third place as defined by Oldenburg.Design/methodology/approachAutoethnography allows for the simultaneous r…
Practicing Narrative Inquiry II
Narrative inquiry provides an opportunity to humanize the human sciences, placing people, meaning, and personal identity at the center of research, inviting the development of reflexive, relational, dialogic, and interpretive methodologies, and drawing attention to the need to focus not only on the actual but also on the possible and the good. In this chapter, we focus on the intellectual, existential, empirical, and pragmatic development of the …
The Routledge International Handbook of Organizational Autoethnography
As a white, Scottish woman living on violently acquired, never-ceded Gadigal land on the east coast of what we now call Australia, I came to see that I was part of a big, unresolved problem. I understood this through engagement with Indigenous people and Indigenous scholarship, certainly. But it was mainly through hiking that I came to feel most viscerally what it means to be in place or out of place. This understanding, in turn, led me to leave …
Expanding Our Autoethnographic Future
Purity, Nationalism, and Whiteness
Fundamentalist evangelicalism is an intricate grand narrative based upon the interrelated concepts of end times’ eschatology and purity. These two concepts created the conditions by which white evangelicals abandoned their traditional moral rhetoric and overwhelmingly helped elect Donald Trump. However, the eschatological and purity concepts have also created the conditions by which evangelicalism is fracturing along racial and gender lines. This…
Learning to be Editors
Welcome to the first issue of the second volume of the Journal of Autoethnography. This short introductory essay will provide a look backward at where we went during the first year, and look forward to where we are going, as well as what we have learned and been surprised about along the way. It’s been an amazing first year. When we proposed and founded the Journal of Autoethnography, we didn’t know what the year would bring. We didn’t know that …
Forum Introduction
Journal entry, November 10, 2020: 176 days alone. 176 out of 178. Too many days. Except for my visit to see Andrew Dunn, and one trip to the comic book shop, I've been by myself. I wake up, walk downstairs, make coffee, go to the computer, and start working via Zoom. I eat lunch six feet away. Then it's back to the table. Then back to bed. I wake up, walk downstairs, make coffee, go to the computer. Occasionally there's DoorDash or Kroger's pick-…
The Future of Autoethnographic Criteria
Recently Szwabowski argued that we should not have any criteria by which to judge, evaluate, or review autoethnographic texts. While there are dangers of conformity whenever criteria are utilized, criteria can also act as a guide. Here, I cover the autoethnography triad of auto-, ethno-, and -graphy as the three main criteria for a work to be considered autoethnographic. I argue that criteria do not necessitate exclusion nor does it necessarily e…
Good Autoethnography
As Pelias astutely argued more than two decades ago, we devote much of our waking life to critique and evaluation.1 We assess our and others’ (re)actions. We determine whether certain foods, drinks, and flavors will quench us, give us energy, make us sick. We appreciate caring and supportive friends, family, strangers, and students, and we try to avoid those who harm us with their words and deeds. We note how bodies and desires change with time, …
Pursuing, Practicing, and Portraying Qualitative Research
At the Second International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (May 2006), the authors, then graduate students, interviewed Norman Denzin for Carolyn Ellis’s Advanced Qualitative Methods graduate course at the University of South Florida. Only a few parts of the interview had ever been published. The authors include the transcript of the interview here
The Present and Possible Futures of Autoethnography
Research Article| January 01 2024 The Present and Possible Futures of Autoethnography Andrew F. Herrmann, Andrew F. Herrmann [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Tony E. Adams Tony E. Adams [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of Autoethnography (2024) 5 (1): 1–6. https://doi.org/10.1525/joae.2024.5.1.1 Views Icon V…
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