L Faulkner
Biographic Data
| ID | 40953 |
|---|---|
| NAME | L Faulkner |
| GIVEN NAMES | L |
| FAMILY NAME | Faulkner |
| SIGNATURE | FAULKNER L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bowling Green State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9146-1424 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 43 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 319 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 43 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Poetic portraits of older women in the great black swamp
Poetic portraiture is an arts-based research (ABR) method for representing an interviewee's embodied aspects of their life story in poetry and poetic forms’. Creating poetic portraits allows researchers to evocatively engage with participants’ stories by challenging dominant ideologies and stereotypes to foreground marginalized voices and perspectives. It is a powerful method for demonstrating researcher reflexivity, portraying nuanced pictures o…
Excavations
The future of autoethnography lies in intersectional reflexivity and critical perspective taking, which the authors demonstrate in their pleated narrative. In a collaborative autoethnography, the authors use journals, recollected conversations, letters, memory work, and sociological introspection to reconstruct their romantic and intellectual relationship from thirty years ago when they were undergraduate students attending different colleges. Th…
Using the communication theory of identity to examine identity negotiation among LGBTQ+ college students with multiple conflicting salient identities
We conducted in-depth interviews with 20 LGBTQ+ college students about their salient identities and identity negotiation strategies framing their experiences of negotiating identity gaps that created conflicts between their salient identities using the Communication Theory of Identity (CTI). Participants engaged in three main identity negotiation strategies including identity compartmentalization, gap reconciliation, and ignoring the gap. We deve…
For Better or Worse
The following essay is a response to Laurel Richardson’s collection of poems about marriage titled For Better or Worse. Reading the poems made the author consider how she talks, thinks, and teaches about marriage as a scholar who studies close relationships and how Richardson’s poems can instruct students and others about the ideals, critiques, and realities of marriage. The author presents assignments and class discussions about marriage in two …
Setting the Agenda
I use the erasure poems in the poetry chapbook, "Bringing Up Baby," as Critical Interpersonal and Family Communication (CIFC) research to critique white middle-class notions of mothering and motherhood. Poetic inquiry is a form of Arts-Based Research (ABR) methodology that offers Critical Family Communication (CFC) researchers a way to highlight the aesthetics of personal experience, focus on embodiment and participatory measures, and use artisti…
Poetic Portraiture as Critical Arts-Based Pedagogy and Methodology
We conducted life history interviews with 18 older women about their lives and used poetic portraiture as a form of a poetic inquiry to present women’s stories. Poetic portraits are a representation of an interviewee in verse that focus on embodied aspects of their life story. Graduate students in a relational communication seminar created poetic transcriptions of the interviews as a form of qualitative thematic analysis and used the transcripts …
“Treat me like a person, rather than another number”
Using Feminist Participatory Action Research, graduate and undergraduate students at a midsized, midwestern public university collaborated with investigators on welcoming and inclusive practices in the classroom through focus-group discussions. The research team conducted six focus-group sessions with 39 students from marginalized communities about how instructors can include and center marginalized and intersecting identities based on age, ethni…
YouToo
In this collaborative autoethnography, we unmask our experiences with sexual assault and harassment in academic contexts through the use of a note format. We describe moments characterized by shame and anger, as well as moments of disciplining when we called out untoward behavior. We call attention to bystanders by describing instances of sexual harassment and assault in an article that will be read primarily by academics. This represents a femin…
Buttered Nostalgia
The author uses poetic inquiry as CFIC (critical family and interpersonal communication) methodology to tell a story of cooking, cleaning, and caring for her elderly parents in the house she grew up in during the COVID-19 pandemic for 11 days in March 2020 when COVID-19 lockdowns began in the US. The piece is organized as a series of daily menus, lyric reflections, and narrative poems about family stories, family values, and the enactment of supp…
Creative Approaches to Writing Qualitative Research
This chapter addresses the use of creative writing forms and techniques in qualitative research writing. Paying attention to the aesthetics of writing qualitative work may help researchers achieve their goals. The chapter discusses research method, writing forms, voice, and style as they relate to the craft of creative writing in qualitative research. Researchers use creative writing to highlight the aesthetic in their work, as a form of data ana…
It’s the Best Day of Your Life
Cultural discourses surrounding weddings and wedding planning are commonly focused on the bride. Relational Dialectics Theory 2.0 is used to conduct a critical analysis of wedding planning discourses through a Critical Interpersonal and Family Communication (CIFC) lens. Contrapuntal analysis is used to analyze interview transcripts of women talking about planning their weddings. Dominant discourses include the idea of the wedding as the perfect d…
School Closed
The author uses a poem to express the difficulties of teaching college, being a parent and make-shift teacher to a grade school child, and being a daughter and a partner during the early parts of the COVID pandemic, and feeling like they failed at all of the roles and responsibilities
Performing the Pandemic in Pedagogy
It begins with whispers fully remote radical disruptions the digital divide & students’ rapt attention teaching was just a dream a promise left dangling like the flickering bl
Trigger Warning
In a chapbook of feminist poetry titled, Trigger Warning, the author responds to media headlines about violence, gender, race, and class through verse. The author uses poetic inquiry as a form of feminist methodology to collapse the false divide between the private and the public, as a form of embodied inquiry, and as feminist political response. The author wrote response poems to news headlines that “triggered” memories of past inequities as a w…
Poetic Inquiry
Poetic Inquiry: Craft, Method and Practice examines the use of poetry as a form of qualitative research, representation, and method used by researchers, practitioners, and students from across the social sciences and humanities. It serves as a practical manual for using poetry in qualitative research through the presentation of varied examples of Poetic Inquiry. It provides how-to exercises for developing and using poetry as a qualitative researc…
Shaming as a Form of Social Activism
In this article, the author uses a poem and two vignettes to argue for the power of autoethnographic stories as a means for social activism and advances three propositions: (1) Autoethnographic stories can make people feel shame (pathos); (2a) Shame is one way to get those in power to act (ethos); (2b) Shame, fear, and rage are closely related; and (3) We can use autoethnography to shame those in power to do the right thing (logos). The author us…
Bull's-Eye
In this interpretive autoethnography 1 (Denzin, 2014), the author rewrites a Faculty Senate survey from her university on Ohio HB 48, a bill that allows licensed individuals to conceal and carry guns in public places such as schools and day care centers. The use of personal narrative and satire highlights the dialectic of violence as natural aggression versus violence as a learned and lauded cultural behavior
Crank up the Feminism
In this autoethnographic essay, the author argues for the use of poetic inquiry as a feminist methodology by showing her use of poetry as research method during the past 13 years. Through examples of her poetic inquiry work, the author details how poetry as research offers Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies scholars a means of doing, showing, and teaching embodiment and reflexivity, a way to refuse the mind-body dialectic, a form of feminist …
Love & Guns
The author uses poetry to speak back to the ubiquitous talk, use, and idolization of guns in the United States and in her personal life. Scenes from a family Memorial Day picnic, runs in pro-gun country where it is common to stockpile guns and make ammo and attend conceal and carry classes at the local church, to hearing the news about the Orlando nightclub massacre while on a family vacation with her pro-National Rifle Association (NRA) family s…
Writing Practice
In a narrative poem, the author demonstrates her writing practice and the everyday work and life challenges to that practice. The poet suggests, through example, strategies for readers to begin and maintain their writing practices
Poetry is Politics
Through an autoethnographic poetry manifesto, the author makes the case for poetry as political, poetry as feminist practice, poetry as social research and autoethnography, poetry as the personal that becomes the universal, and poetry as visionary activism. The use of personal poetry engages the political power of poetry to present embodied, nuanced, and myriad scenes of marginalized and stigmatized identities
MotherWork Collage (A Queer Scrapbook)
Research Article| February 01 2017 MotherWork COLLAGE (A Queer Scrapbook) Sandra L. Faulkner Sandra L. Faulkner Sandra L. Faulkner is professor of communication and director of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Bowling Green State University. Her interests include qualitative methodology, poetic inquiry, and the relationships between culture, identities, and sexualities in close relationships. She authored or coauthored over 45 articles i…
TEN (The Promise of Arts-Based, Ethnographic, and Narrative Research in Critical Family Communication Research and Praxis)
The author presents a personal narrative on marriage and poetic inquiry to show how arts-based research (ABR), ethnographic, and narrative research methods can realize the potential of critical work to critique, expand, and alter dominant discourse that circumscribes family communication research and praxis. Faulkner uses the personal narrative, TEN, to show how critical family communication research can be done and make an argument for ABR in et…
The Art of Criteria
The author presents ars criteria (the art of criteria) poems as a re-entry into the dialogue about rigor and quality in qualitative research using arts-based research, and poetry in particular. This piece uses found poetry to address questions of critical rigor and vigorous application of criteria in qualitative research. She argues that we need to continue to dialogue about applying criteria with rigor or adopting vigorous criteria and believes …
Method and Writing
The reviewer starts the review with her reading strategy of beginning with the discussion of the method. She argues that Adams’ work expands definitions of culture and what constitutes the field in ethnographic work in a beautifully written piece of autoethnography. Adams marries method, writing, and topic matter. The reviewer believes that this text would be appropriate for undergraduate and graduate students as well as those of us wanting an ex…
Gender, Belief in the Sexual Double Standard, and Sexual Talk in Heterosexual Dating Relationships
On Being `Just Friends
Research on cross-sex friendships has noted the presence of sexual tension in many of these relationships. Yet, to our knowledge, no studies have directly examined the frequency and effect of sexual contact on friendships. This investigation provides an initial look at the prevalence of sexual activity in otherwise `platonic' cross-sex friendships and applies a recently developed model of expectation violations to understand the related consequen…
Concern With Craft
This article contends with the question "what is good poetry?" The author argues that those interested in poetry as a means to represent research must be aware of poetic traditions and techniques and engage critically in a discussion of how an understanding of poetry informs their work. One means by which to accomplish this is through the use of ars poetica(art of poetry). The author presents a discussion of the function and utility of ars poetic…
The negotiation of closetable identities
We focused on the closetable identities of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered queer (LGBTQ) Jewish Americans through the use of identity narratives. Thirty-one people participated in narrative interviews about their identity negotiation decisions. The Communication Theory of Identity framed the inquiry by showing how the interpenetrations of identity layers and critical elements created changes and conflict in participants' lives that necessit…
Crank up the Feminism
In this autoethnographic essay, the author argues for the use of poetic inquiry as a feminist methodology by showing her use of poetry as research method during the past 13 years. Through examples of her poetic inquiry work, the author details how poetry as research offers Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies scholars a means of doing, showing, and teaching embodiment and reflexivity, a way to refuse the mind-body dialectic, a form of feminist …
Poetry is Politics
Through an autoethnographic poetry manifesto, the author makes the case for poetry as political, poetry as feminist practice, poetry as social research and autoethnography, poetry as the personal that becomes the universal, and poetry as visionary activism. The use of personal poetry engages the political power of poetry to present embodied, nuanced, and myriad scenes of marginalized and stigmatized identities
Bad Mom(my) Litany
Through personal narrative, the author shows the experience of new motherhood by juxtaposing a social science relationship researcher role with middle-class cultural expectations of mothers. Autoethnographic scenes of the exhaustion of juggling expanding roles and cultural advice about what being a good mommy means with anxiety about being a bad mother help the author question (spank) entrenched mommy myths. The author uses poetic inquiry and per…
Examining the Content and Outcomes of Young Adults' Satisfying and Unsatisfying Conversations About Sex
In this study, we examined young adults' conversational descriptions of satisfying and unsatisfying sexual conversations with a romantic partner and the relational and sexual outcomes. We coded participants' responses for content, when and where conversations occurred, and the results of conversations. Most often, conversations occurred in residences at the beginning of relationships and addressed sexual pleasure, relationship issues, sexual heal…
The Art of Criteria
The author presents ars criteria (the art of criteria) poems as a re-entry into the dialogue about rigor and quality in qualitative research using arts-based research, and poetry in particular. This piece uses found poetry to address questions of critical rigor and vigorous application of criteria in qualitative research. She argues that we need to continue to dialogue about applying criteria with rigor or adopting vigorous criteria and believes …
That Baby Will Cost You
This personal narrative highlights an intended ambivalent pregnancy, speaking to Sotirin's call for radical specificity in mother-writing. The author began writing in a creative nonfiction workshop from memory fragments, diary entries, interviews, and scholarly research recognizing the story contained secrets, omissions, places she can't remember, and places that are still in shadow that ethically need to stay closed. The use of creative nonficti…
Good Girl or Flirt Girl
This study provides theoretical understanding of 31 young adult Latinas' (Puerto Rican, Dominican, and Cuban) experiences and understandings of sexuality through in-depth interviews. The grounded theory analysis of defining sex and sexual relationships revealed similar descriptions of processes within Latinas' accounts. Women's responses included defining sex as intercourse, defining sex as virtually anything, and making distinctions between sex …
Method
These six poems re-present, query, and interpret the research process/method in a narrative study on Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender/Queer (LGBTQ) Jewish identity by showing the research story. They demonstrate my research/personal perspective, the integration of the scientist and the poet, and participants' perspectives before, during, and after the "formal" interview periods. These poems highlight the difficulties of identity in the field, con…
Reconciling Messages
Young Latinas'experiences and meanings of sexuality were explored through 31 interviews, with grounded theory used to provide theoretical understanding of sexual talk. The women's level of comfort with sexual talk and their explicitness influenced the kind of sexual talk they engaged in with partners. The analysis of being in a romantic relationship revealed similar descriptions of processes within the accounts that led to the discovery of the co…
TEN (The Promise of Arts-Based, Ethnographic, and Narrative Research in Critical Family Communication Research and Praxis)
The author presents a personal narrative on marriage and poetic inquiry to show how arts-based research (ABR), ethnographic, and narrative research methods can realize the potential of critical work to critique, expand, and alter dominant discourse that circumscribes family communication research and praxis. Faulkner uses the personal narrative, TEN, to show how critical family communication research can be done and make an argument for ABR in et…
Feminist Identity in Romantic Relationships
The authors used relational dialectics theory (RDT 2.0) to frame a collaborative autoethnography based on a year of their e-mail exchanges to show how romantic dyads use discourse to conceptualize themselves and their relationships. They used collaborative autoethnography (CAE) as a method to connect feminist inquiry with a critique of traditional interpersonal communication research. The use of found poetry/poetic transcription illustrates the a…
Buttered Nostalgia
The author uses poetic inquiry as CFIC (critical family and interpersonal communication) methodology to tell a story of cooking, cleaning, and caring for her elderly parents in the house she grew up in during the COVID-19 pandemic for 11 days in March 2020 when COVID-19 lockdowns began in the US. The piece is organized as a series of daily menus, lyric reflections, and narrative poems about family stories, family values, and the enactment of supp…
Trigger Warning
In a chapbook of feminist poetry titled, Trigger Warning, the author responds to media headlines about violence, gender, race, and class through verse. The author uses poetic inquiry as a form of feminist methodology to collapse the false divide between the private and the public, as a form of embodied inquiry, and as feminist political response. The author wrote response poems to news headlines that “triggered” memories of past inequities as a w…
Love & Guns
The author uses poetry to speak back to the ubiquitous talk, use, and idolization of guns in the United States and in her personal life. Scenes from a family Memorial Day picnic, runs in pro-gun country where it is common to stockpile guns and make ammo and attend conceal and carry classes at the local church, to hearing the news about the Orlando nightclub massacre while on a family vacation with her pro-National Rifle Association (NRA) family s…
MotherWork Collage (A Queer Scrapbook)
Research Article| February 01 2017 MotherWork COLLAGE (A Queer Scrapbook) Sandra L. Faulkner Sandra L. Faulkner Sandra L. Faulkner is professor of communication and director of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Bowling Green State University. Her interests include qualitative methodology, poetic inquiry, and the relationships between culture, identities, and sexualities in close relationships. She authored or coauthored over 45 articles i…
Justice! Ay! Ay! Ayotzinapa
Setting the Agenda
I use the erasure poems in the poetry chapbook, "Bringing Up Baby," as Critical Interpersonal and Family Communication (CIFC) research to critique white middle-class notions of mothering and motherhood. Poetic inquiry is a form of Arts-Based Research (ABR) methodology that offers Critical Family Communication (CFC) researchers a way to highlight the aesthetics of personal experience, focus on embodiment and participatory measures, and use artisti…
Sex and Gender Differences in Personal Relationships
Sex and Gender Differences in Personal Relationships
On Being `Just Friends
Research on cross-sex friendships has noted the presence of sexual tension in many of these relationships. Yet, to our knowledge, no studies have directly examined the frequency and effect of sexual contact on friendships. This investigation provides an initial look at the prevalence of sexual activity in otherwise `platonic' cross-sex friendships and applies a recently developed model of expectation violations to understand the related consequen…
Looking through Northern Exposure at Jewish American Identity and the Communication Theory of Identity
This study explores Jewish American identity from a communication theory of identity perspective. We analyzed six episodes of the television show, Northern Exposure, for their representation of Jewish American identity. Next, the shows were edited into video segments reflecting the themes and shown to 26 Jewish Americans in order to elicit their perceptions of the communal expressions of Jewish identity. The study initially focuses on a communal …
Reconciling Messages
Young Latinas'experiences and meanings of sexuality were explored through 31 interviews, with grounded theory used to provide theoretical understanding of sexual talk. The women's level of comfort with sexual talk and their explicitness influenced the kind of sexual talk they engaged in with partners. The analysis of being in a romantic relationship revealed similar descriptions of processes within the accounts that led to the discovery of the co…
Good Girl or Flirt Girl
This study provides theoretical understanding of 31 young adult Latinas' (Puerto Rican, Dominican, and Cuban) experiences and understandings of sexuality through in-depth interviews. The grounded theory analysis of defining sex and sexual relationships revealed similar descriptions of processes within Latinas' accounts. Women's responses included defining sex as intercourse, defining sex as virtually anything, and making distinctions between sex …
Gender, Belief in the Sexual Double Standard, and Sexual Talk in Heterosexual Dating Relationships
Method
These six poems re-present, query, and interpret the research process/method in a narrative study on Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender/Queer (LGBTQ) Jewish identity by showing the research story. They demonstrate my research/personal perspective, the integration of the scientist and the poet, and participants' perspectives before, during, and after the "formal" interview periods. These poems highlight the difficulties of identity in the field, con…
Concern With Craft
This article contends with the question "what is good poetry?" The author argues that those interested in poetry as a means to represent research must be aware of poetic traditions and techniques and engage critically in a discussion of how an understanding of poetry informs their work. One means by which to accomplish this is through the use of ars poetica(art of poetry). The author presents a discussion of the function and utility of ars poetic…
Hello Kitty Goes to College
Demographic and Religious Differences in the Dimensions of Self-Disclosure Among Hindus and Muslims in India
This paper discusses a survey, carried out by the authors, of Hindu and Muslim men and women in six Indian states to determine if social/cultural identities influenced self-disclosure. Specifically, an individual's sex, religious, and state identity were investigated. Results indicated that across religions, women disclosed more than men. Comparisons based on religious identification and state of birth revealed significant differences between Hin…
Examining the Content and Outcomes of Young Adults' Satisfying and Unsatisfying Conversations About Sex
In this study, we examined young adults' conversational descriptions of satisfying and unsatisfying sexual conversations with a romantic partner and the relational and sexual outcomes. We coded participants' responses for content, when and where conversations occurred, and the results of conversations. Most often, conversations occurred in residences at the beginning of relationships and addressed sexual pleasure, relationship issues, sexual heal…
The negotiation of closetable identities
We focused on the closetable identities of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered queer (LGBTQ) Jewish Americans through the use of identity narratives. Thirty-one people participated in narrative interviews about their identity negotiation decisions. The Communication Theory of Identity framed the inquiry by showing how the interpenetrations of identity layers and critical elements created changes and conflict in participants' lives that necessit…
Frogging It
Often, themes in work and life intertwine; the author recognized that a cadre of poems she had written during the past several years were about relationship dissolution. The poems concerned romantic and friendship dissolution and the aspects of identity creation and loss this entails. The author presents the poems and makes an explicit connection to interpersonal relationship dissolution literature through the technique of poetic analysis. This a…
That Baby Will Cost You
This personal narrative highlights an intended ambivalent pregnancy, speaking to Sotirin's call for radical specificity in mother-writing. The author began writing in a creative nonfiction workshop from memory fragments, diary entries, interviews, and scholarly research recognizing the story contained secrets, omissions, places she can't remember, and places that are still in shadow that ethically need to stay closed. The use of creative nonficti…
Bad Mom(my) Litany
Through personal narrative, the author shows the experience of new motherhood by juxtaposing a social science relationship researcher role with middle-class cultural expectations of mothers. Autoethnographic scenes of the exhaustion of juggling expanding roles and cultural advice about what being a good mommy means with anxiety about being a bad mother help the author question (spank) entrenched mommy myths. The author uses poetic inquiry and per…
Method and Writing
The reviewer starts the review with her reading strategy of beginning with the discussion of the method. She argues that Adams’ work expands definitions of culture and what constitutes the field in ethnographic work in a beautifully written piece of autoethnography. Adams marries method, writing, and topic matter. The reviewer believes that this text would be appropriate for undergraduate and graduate students as well as those of us wanting an ex…
Feminist Identity in Romantic Relationships
The authors used relational dialectics theory (RDT 2.0) to frame a collaborative autoethnography based on a year of their e-mail exchanges to show how romantic dyads use discourse to conceptualize themselves and their relationships. They used collaborative autoethnography (CAE) as a method to connect feminist inquiry with a critique of traditional interpersonal communication research. The use of found poetry/poetic transcription illustrates the a…
Justice! Ay! Ay! Ayotzinapa
TEN (The Promise of Arts-Based, Ethnographic, and Narrative Research in Critical Family Communication Research and Praxis)
The author presents a personal narrative on marriage and poetic inquiry to show how arts-based research (ABR), ethnographic, and narrative research methods can realize the potential of critical work to critique, expand, and alter dominant discourse that circumscribes family communication research and praxis. Faulkner uses the personal narrative, TEN, to show how critical family communication research can be done and make an argument for ABR in et…
The Art of Criteria
The author presents ars criteria (the art of criteria) poems as a re-entry into the dialogue about rigor and quality in qualitative research using arts-based research, and poetry in particular. This piece uses found poetry to address questions of critical rigor and vigorous application of criteria in qualitative research. She argues that we need to continue to dialogue about applying criteria with rigor or adopting vigorous criteria and believes …
Writing Practice
In a narrative poem, the author demonstrates her writing practice and the everyday work and life challenges to that practice. The poet suggests, through example, strategies for readers to begin and maintain their writing practices
Poetry is Politics
Through an autoethnographic poetry manifesto, the author makes the case for poetry as political, poetry as feminist practice, poetry as social research and autoethnography, poetry as the personal that becomes the universal, and poetry as visionary activism. The use of personal poetry engages the political power of poetry to present embodied, nuanced, and myriad scenes of marginalized and stigmatized identities
MotherWork Collage (A Queer Scrapbook)
Research Article| February 01 2017 MotherWork COLLAGE (A Queer Scrapbook) Sandra L. Faulkner Sandra L. Faulkner Sandra L. Faulkner is professor of communication and director of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Bowling Green State University. Her interests include qualitative methodology, poetic inquiry, and the relationships between culture, identities, and sexualities in close relationships. She authored or coauthored over 45 articles i…
Bull's-Eye
In this interpretive autoethnography 1 (Denzin, 2014), the author rewrites a Faculty Senate survey from her university on Ohio HB 48, a bill that allows licensed individuals to conceal and carry guns in public places such as schools and day care centers. The use of personal narrative and satire highlights the dialectic of violence as natural aggression versus violence as a learned and lauded cultural behavior
Sociology (33 works) · Psychology (30 works) · Art (20 works) · Literature (19 works) · Social Psychology (18 works) · Gender Studies (17 works) · Poetry (17 works) · Aesthetics (16 works) · Philosophy (15 works) · Epistemology (13 works)