Julie-Ann Scott-Pollock
Biographic Data
| ID | 4078925 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Julie-Ann Scott-Pollock |
| GIVEN NAMES | Julie-Ann |
| FAMILY NAME | Scott-Pollock |
| SIGNATURE | SCOTT-POLLOCK J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina Wilmington |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3201-8590 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Performing out-of-control identity
Dialogue on difference
Performing marginalized embodiment in fitness culture
This analysis of personal narrative as performance identity explores the reperformance of marginalized embodiment in group fitness classes in the national fitness affiliate CrossFit and the national Pure Barre franchise. The researcher re-connects with a participant from a study two decades ago focused on bulimic identity as a personal narrative performance. The participant and author struggle through the re-emergence of past co-performances of m…
Witnessing the Danger We Knew Always New Was There
This reflective autoethnographic essay grapples with how the January 6 insurrection challenged our progressive, White, middle-class, privileged family in our relationships with those who support the insurrection and former president Donald J. Trump in our southern coastal city. Our children navigate new realizations about other White, privileged children who they never realized did not share their values. I struggle with how sensing the differenc…
And Then I Stopped Trying to Fit
In this essay, I autoethnographically map my experience of pursuing and then denouncing the “religion” of merit into which I was indoctrinated in my white, second-generation immigrant household. I argue that my disabled body is marked as visible through medical discourse that originated within, and is in turn perpetuated by, white patriarchal discourse. This visibility interrupts the power of white invisibility, allowing a means of understanding …
I Mean There’s Nothing to Worry About…Until There’s Something to Worry About
This autoperformance script maps the journey to tenure and promotion to full professor of a personal narrative researcher and performance artist in a supportive, affirming communication studies department in a regional state university with the Carnegie classification of “higher research activity.” The writer/performer/researcher enacts an autoarchaeological analysis of annual review comments combined with autoethnographic (re)creations of colleg…
(Re)directing a university storytelling troupe for at-risk elementary students for course credit
This essay maps a professor/director's experience designing and leading a university storytelling troupe that performs for children in local Title 1 elementary schools for course credit. The director begins by applying performance ethnographic and personal narrative research methodology to redesign the course to meet the needs of at-risk children and then explains the process through which the students in the open-enrollment troupe select and ada…
The visceral remains
Through analyzing the narratives of two elders experiencing Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) as personal performances of identity, this essay explores repetition in interpersonal interactions beyond a familiar diagnostic sign of the progression of memory loss. The author argues that, as AD hinders the body’s ability to diversify language and adhere to cultural expectations for personal performances, the visceral desire that compels humans to perform for/…
Creating and Performing “I Accept My Role”
This artist statement and poetic response to Ed Mabrey's poem map my ongoing journey to understanding my role in the cultural pursuit of racial justice. I begin with my initial reactions to the request to respond to Mabrey's poem as part of the Opening Session of the 2017 National Communication Association annual convention and explain my reasons for choosing to respond with an autoethnographic poem. I then trace my understandings of racism as 1)…
Embracing the Vulnerabilities and Possibilities of Storytelling, Listening, and (Re)Creating Identity with Others
This article illuminates how the stories that we tell and retell to understand ourselves, others, and our cultural positions are forever vulnerable to change. It traces a narrative researcher's experience conducting open-ended interviews with elders in the beginning stages of memory loss, through a combination of field notes, performance of personal narrative analysis, and autoethnography. In addition to grappling with her own inevitable physical…
She Was Here
This essay traces a co-exploration into understanding aging, memory, and purpose through the analysis of elders stories told during varying stages of memory loss. Responding to the prompt, "What are the memories you don't want to forget?" participants told stories of "culturally uncomfortable" identities they worried no one else prioritized remembering. As the researchers, we were faced with the struggle to continue human connection beyond vulner…
Narrative Performance Research
Through this autoethnographic essay I explore how a critical qualitative researcher's disclosure of her personal reactions to participants’ narratives can offer an opportunity to resist cultural marginalization. This opportunity requires a level of vulnerability and disclosure that can feel risky but is often necessary in the pursuit of identification and transformative understanding. Mapping my experience as it became tangible to me of my almost…
Almost Passing
This study explores the relationship between gender norms and able-bodied biases through a performance analysis of seven physically disabled women's open-ended personal narratives. Each participant has been medically diagnosed as physically disabled while appearing to fit the social categories of White, thin, young, and athletic. Findings map the ongoing cultural interpretations of their bodies as both atypical and familiar so that they almost (b…
Performance Studies
This reflective essay re-creates two conversations that set my path as a performance studies scholar. The first takes place at the beginning of the last year of my undergraduate degree, when a professor directed me away from law school and toward a communication degree with a performance studies concentration. The second takes place the summer before I began graduate school as I struggled to figure out how to ask Kristin Langellier to be my thesi…
"Problematizing a Researcher's Performance of "Insider Status
This article struggles with the complications of a researcher claiming insider status in an analysis of physically disabled professionals' narratives as performance of identity when some participants actively resist the idea that the researcher can access their experiences through her body that is more or less disabled than theirs. Through applying reflexive autoethnographic techniques the researcher interweaves stories from her past with the sto…
Stories of Hyperembodiment
This essay stems from a performance analysis of twenty-six physically disabled professionals' personal narratives: attending to the points when narrators focused their attention on how their bodies shaped their identities, particularly those who struggled with the mixed reactions and understandings of disabled identity. Narrators struggled to perform how atypical flesh, blood, and bone "mattered" in their daily lived experience, grappling with ho…
Attending to the disembodied character in research on professional narratives
This essay provides a rationale of how Performance Analysis and Narrative Positioning within research on Physically Disabled Professionals’ Personal Narratives can provide insight into the role of the body in the analysis of professional narratives. Through analyzing the participants’ open-ended narratives as performances in which the narrators draw upon performativities to reconcile the absurdity associated with their deemed ‘unprofessional’ bod…
Performing Unfeminine Femininity
This study explores the emergence of the bulimic identity through an analysis of the personal narrative performances of five young women recovering from bulimia nervosa. The bulimic self emerges as the storyteller, narrator, character, and audience within the context of the narrative performances. The participants take on the roles of the authoritative narrator guiding the action and of their own audience, actively engaging in the constitution of…
"Problematizing a Researcher's Performance of "Insider Status
This article struggles with the complications of a researcher claiming insider status in an analysis of physically disabled professionals' narratives as performance of identity when some participants actively resist the idea that the researcher can access their experiences through her body that is more or less disabled than theirs. Through applying reflexive autoethnographic techniques the researcher interweaves stories from her past with the sto…
Stories of Hyperembodiment
This essay stems from a performance analysis of twenty-six physically disabled professionals' personal narratives: attending to the points when narrators focused their attention on how their bodies shaped their identities, particularly those who struggled with the mixed reactions and understandings of disabled identity. Narrators struggled to perform how atypical flesh, blood, and bone "mattered" in their daily lived experience, grappling with ho…
Attending to the disembodied character in research on professional narratives
This essay provides a rationale of how Performance Analysis and Narrative Positioning within research on Physically Disabled Professionals’ Personal Narratives can provide insight into the role of the body in the analysis of professional narratives. Through analyzing the participants’ open-ended narratives as performances in which the narrators draw upon performativities to reconcile the absurdity associated with their deemed ‘unprofessional’ bod…
Performing Unfeminine Femininity
This study explores the emergence of the bulimic identity through an analysis of the personal narrative performances of five young women recovering from bulimia nervosa. The bulimic self emerges as the storyteller, narrator, character, and audience within the context of the narrative performances. The participants take on the roles of the authoritative narrator guiding the action and of their own audience, actively engaging in the constitution of…
Embracing the Vulnerabilities and Possibilities of Storytelling, Listening, and (Re)Creating Identity with Others
This article illuminates how the stories that we tell and retell to understand ourselves, others, and our cultural positions are forever vulnerable to change. It traces a narrative researcher's experience conducting open-ended interviews with elders in the beginning stages of memory loss, through a combination of field notes, performance of personal narrative analysis, and autoethnography. In addition to grappling with her own inevitable physical…
(Re)directing a university storytelling troupe for at-risk elementary students for course credit
This essay maps a professor/director's experience designing and leading a university storytelling troupe that performs for children in local Title 1 elementary schools for course credit. The director begins by applying performance ethnographic and personal narrative research methodology to redesign the course to meet the needs of at-risk children and then explains the process through which the students in the open-enrollment troupe select and ada…
The visceral remains
Through analyzing the narratives of two elders experiencing Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) as personal performances of identity, this essay explores repetition in interpersonal interactions beyond a familiar diagnostic sign of the progression of memory loss. The author argues that, as AD hinders the body’s ability to diversify language and adhere to cultural expectations for personal performances, the visceral desire that compels humans to perform for/…
Almost Passing
This study explores the relationship between gender norms and able-bodied biases through a performance analysis of seven physically disabled women's open-ended personal narratives. Each participant has been medically diagnosed as physically disabled while appearing to fit the social categories of White, thin, young, and athletic. Findings map the ongoing cultural interpretations of their bodies as both atypical and familiar so that they almost (b…
Performing Unfeminine Femininity
This study explores the emergence of the bulimic identity through an analysis of the personal narrative performances of five young women recovering from bulimia nervosa. The bulimic self emerges as the storyteller, narrator, character, and audience within the context of the narrative performances. The participants take on the roles of the authoritative narrator guiding the action and of their own audience, actively engaging in the constitution of…
Attending to the disembodied character in research on professional narratives
This essay provides a rationale of how Performance Analysis and Narrative Positioning within research on Physically Disabled Professionals’ Personal Narratives can provide insight into the role of the body in the analysis of professional narratives. Through analyzing the participants’ open-ended narratives as performances in which the narrators draw upon performativities to reconcile the absurdity associated with their deemed ‘unprofessional’ bod…
Stories of Hyperembodiment
This essay stems from a performance analysis of twenty-six physically disabled professionals' personal narratives: attending to the points when narrators focused their attention on how their bodies shaped their identities, particularly those who struggled with the mixed reactions and understandings of disabled identity. Narrators struggled to perform how atypical flesh, blood, and bone "mattered" in their daily lived experience, grappling with ho…
Performance Studies
This reflective essay re-creates two conversations that set my path as a performance studies scholar. The first takes place at the beginning of the last year of my undergraduate degree, when a professor directed me away from law school and toward a communication degree with a performance studies concentration. The second takes place the summer before I began graduate school as I struggled to figure out how to ask Kristin Langellier to be my thesi…
"Problematizing a Researcher's Performance of "Insider Status
This article struggles with the complications of a researcher claiming insider status in an analysis of physically disabled professionals' narratives as performance of identity when some participants actively resist the idea that the researcher can access their experiences through her body that is more or less disabled than theirs. Through applying reflexive autoethnographic techniques the researcher interweaves stories from her past with the sto…
Narrative Performance Research
Through this autoethnographic essay I explore how a critical qualitative researcher's disclosure of her personal reactions to participants’ narratives can offer an opportunity to resist cultural marginalization. This opportunity requires a level of vulnerability and disclosure that can feel risky but is often necessary in the pursuit of identification and transformative understanding. Mapping my experience as it became tangible to me of my almost…
Almost Passing
This study explores the relationship between gender norms and able-bodied biases through a performance analysis of seven physically disabled women's open-ended personal narratives. Each participant has been medically diagnosed as physically disabled while appearing to fit the social categories of White, thin, young, and athletic. Findings map the ongoing cultural interpretations of their bodies as both atypical and familiar so that they almost (b…
Creating and Performing “I Accept My Role”
This artist statement and poetic response to Ed Mabrey's poem map my ongoing journey to understanding my role in the cultural pursuit of racial justice. I begin with my initial reactions to the request to respond to Mabrey's poem as part of the Opening Session of the 2017 National Communication Association annual convention and explain my reasons for choosing to respond with an autoethnographic poem. I then trace my understandings of racism as 1)…
Embracing the Vulnerabilities and Possibilities of Storytelling, Listening, and (Re)Creating Identity with Others
This article illuminates how the stories that we tell and retell to understand ourselves, others, and our cultural positions are forever vulnerable to change. It traces a narrative researcher's experience conducting open-ended interviews with elders in the beginning stages of memory loss, through a combination of field notes, performance of personal narrative analysis, and autoethnography. In addition to grappling with her own inevitable physical…
She Was Here
This essay traces a co-exploration into understanding aging, memory, and purpose through the analysis of elders stories told during varying stages of memory loss. Responding to the prompt, "What are the memories you don't want to forget?" participants told stories of "culturally uncomfortable" identities they worried no one else prioritized remembering. As the researchers, we were faced with the struggle to continue human connection beyond vulner…
I Mean There’s Nothing to Worry About…Until There’s Something to Worry About
This autoperformance script maps the journey to tenure and promotion to full professor of a personal narrative researcher and performance artist in a supportive, affirming communication studies department in a regional state university with the Carnegie classification of “higher research activity.” The writer/performer/researcher enacts an autoarchaeological analysis of annual review comments combined with autoethnographic (re)creations of colleg…
(Re)directing a university storytelling troupe for at-risk elementary students for course credit
This essay maps a professor/director's experience designing and leading a university storytelling troupe that performs for children in local Title 1 elementary schools for course credit. The director begins by applying performance ethnographic and personal narrative research methodology to redesign the course to meet the needs of at-risk children and then explains the process through which the students in the open-enrollment troupe select and ada…
The visceral remains
Through analyzing the narratives of two elders experiencing Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) as personal performances of identity, this essay explores repetition in interpersonal interactions beyond a familiar diagnostic sign of the progression of memory loss. The author argues that, as AD hinders the body’s ability to diversify language and adhere to cultural expectations for personal performances, the visceral desire that compels humans to perform for/…
And Then I Stopped Trying to Fit
In this essay, I autoethnographically map my experience of pursuing and then denouncing the “religion” of merit into which I was indoctrinated in my white, second-generation immigrant household. I argue that my disabled body is marked as visible through medical discourse that originated within, and is in turn perpetuated by, white patriarchal discourse. This visibility interrupts the power of white invisibility, allowing a means of understanding …
Witnessing the Danger We Knew Always New Was There
This reflective autoethnographic essay grapples with how the January 6 insurrection challenged our progressive, White, middle-class, privileged family in our relationships with those who support the insurrection and former president Donald J. Trump in our southern coastal city. Our children navigate new realizations about other White, privileged children who they never realized did not share their values. I struggle with how sensing the differenc…
Performing marginalized embodiment in fitness culture
This analysis of personal narrative as performance identity explores the reperformance of marginalized embodiment in group fitness classes in the national fitness affiliate CrossFit and the national Pure Barre franchise. The researcher re-connects with a participant from a study two decades ago focused on bulimic identity as a personal narrative performance. The participant and author struggle through the re-emergence of past co-performances of m…
Dialogue on difference
Performing out-of-control identity
Sociology (16 works) · Psychology (14 works) · Narrative (13 works) · Aesthetics (12 works) · Art (12 works) · Literature (12 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Gender Studies (7 works)