K W Guyotte
Biographic Data
| ID | 41986 |
|---|---|
| NAME | K W Guyotte |
| GIVEN NAMES | K W |
| FAMILY NAME | Guyotte |
| SIGNATURE | GUYOTTE K W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alabama |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0534-1870 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Arts-Based Methodologies
Arts-based methodologies are a family of methodological practices that engage and intersect multiple disciplines, all the while centering the arts as and in inquiry. Within qualitative research, arts-based methodological practices cultivate spaces for non-traditional modes of inquiry, data, and (re)presentation, expanding possibilities for methodologies and methods, broadening how scholars/artists communicate, relate, and understand. Arts-based m…
Inquiring Artfully: Enacting Artful Politics
The introduction to this special issue considers the political potential of enactments of artful inquiry. The editors examine how taking up artful practices as a way of making knowledge, turning to artists as theorists and philosophers, presenting findings visually, poetically, or through other evocative means, reorients, and reimagines the epistemological, ontological, and axiological assumptions of social science research. In doing so, we argue…
Sensing and Overcoming Walls: Academic Mothers' Experiences Navigating Institutional Postpartum Leave Policies
This article explores academic mothers' experiences navigating institutional leave policies through a feminist narrative methodology. The authors interviewed academic mothers who gave birth while employed as full‐time faculty at U.S. higher education institutions, centering their storied encounters with postpartum leave policies. The analysis reveals how mothers came up against fragmented information, unclear procedures, and poor communication be…
Enter, the Chorus: An Ethnodrama of Academic Motherhood in (and Beyond) the Covid-19 Pandemic
How might ethnodrama (re)present ways that academic mothers responded to the collision of work/home, especially as it was intensified by virtual/electronic tools like Zoom? In 2021, we interviewed 54 academic mothers about their experiences in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic. In hearing their stories, we became interested in the ways spaces were constructed for both privacy and/or accessibility, relative to what was (in)visible whe…
(Re)Orienting Ourselves Toward What Ought to Be: Democratizing Qualitative Inquiry as Hopeful World-Building
This article learns from the liberatory praxes of Martín-Baró, a Salvadoran psychologist and cofounder of liberation psychology, and Ella Baker, an American activist known for her transformative role in the Civil Rights movement. After discussing democratizing as verb , we explore three areas of engagement— the art of being together, the art of thinking together , and the art of empowering —as these: trouble consequential givens sedimented within…
Scholar #Famous #Monster
Academic success is now coupled with social media engagement. Social media has become so normalized in the academy that absent a carefully curated social media presence, scholars risk being seen as unscholarly, unproductive, and unpopular. This article lays bare the pressures, mechanisms, and monstrosities of using social media to promote scholarship. We argue that the widespread adoption of social media outpaces critical attention to its ethics …
Inquiring Artfully: Provoking Possibilities With/Through/for Qualitative Encounters
The introduction to this special issue considers what might come from envisioning artful inquiry as a mode of thinking that inspires how we orient, how we encounter, and how we move , in our inquiry work. The editors present artful inquiry as a call to practice, to experiment, to play, to wonder. Artful inquiry is a motion, a doing, rather than a thing. A way to live questions; an invitation. In this special issue, the editors and contributing au…
Worthy-of-Trust: A Feminist-Queer Ethic of Trustworthiness
In qualitative research, trustworthiness regularly centers external-to-the-research-process approval, grounded in concepts like triangulation. Drawing on feminist-queer theories and ethics, we attempt to "right" how researchers approach trustworthiness, proposing an intra-active shift from "trustworthiness" to being "worthy-of-trust," from seeking readers'/reviewers' trust to fostering trust with participants. We queer normative conventions of tr…
Cultivating Unexpected Gifts: Storying 'Volunteer' Data Within Qualitative Focus Groups
This article explores data from focus groups that, at first glance, yielded nothing fruitful. Drawing inspiration from Robin Wall Kimmerer's writings in which she learns from the wisdom of plants, the author poses the question, what might volunteer plants teach us about unanticipated, even undesired, qualitative data? Conceptualizing volunteer data as data that were not sought, asked for, or even desired, this article reframes these data in a mor…
Home/Work: A Feminist Poetic Inquiry of Academic Mothers’ Pandemic Experiences
This article details a poetic inquiry that explored how academic mothers navigated the tensions between home/work during the pandemic: the simultaneous pulls of academia and motherhood in competing directions. Theoretically, we draw inspiration from Sara Ahmed’s concept of feminist homework. Feminist homework, according to Ahmed, is the work feminists do to interrogate and transform oppressive patriarchal structures. It is work carried home becau…
Expanding Approaches to Thematic Analysis: Creative Engagements with Qualitative Data
Communities of mutation: Becoming feminist pedagogical monstrosities
We are feminist scholars who research and teach at a university in the United States situated within histories of sociopolitical conservativism and oppressions. In the present, looming over our classrooms, are mandates to eliminate 'divisive concepts' such as race and gender. These political monsters gnash their teeth and foam at the mouth as they swallow up equity and intersectionality from education. Here, we draw on posthuman feminisms to spec…
I am with you: Artful (k)nottings in/with qualitative pedagogy
In this article, we think-with nots, knots, and (k)nots in the interstices of theory, methodology, pedagogy, and art. We define the (k)not as a bringing together of nots—openings toward creativity, mapping, and disruption—and knots—openings toward connection, entanglement, and speculative futures. Playing (k)nots within our own relations, we-three-and-more are entangled in a complex (k)not of teachers and students, mentors and mentees, friends an…
List-keepers and other carrier bag stories: Academic mothers' (in)visible labor during the Covid-19 pandemic
Pedagogical Impasses: Posthuman Inquiry in Exhaustive Times
Impasses are often understood as blockages, as preventing something from moving along a desired trajectory. Thinking with Lauren Berlant’s conception of the impasse in the historical present and Rosi Braidotti’s writing on exhaustion in the posthuman subject, we wonder how we might move forward in/with the overwhelmingness of the present, impasses in and always exceeding the qualitative inquiry classroom. We inquire: How does the impasse inspire …
Giving up as a willful feminist practice
What do we, as women, give up? What does it mean to give up as a woman in academia? We explored this question through a study with women doctoral students to reframe giving up as a purposeful, willful act. Sara Ahmed describes willfulness in relation to women who are perceived as resisting norms, shifting away from normative expectations, refusing what is expected. In this work, we push against the prevailing discourses of women in academia as pa…
Readymade Methodology
Neither inside, nor outside. Between art and non-art. Visual artist, Marcel Duchamp's readymade art installations of the early 20th century mapped a space of between-ness, of liminality, through previously drawn boundaries in the art world. In this article, we put forth readymade methodology as a liminal approach to (post)qualitative research. Drawing from Duchamp's readymade art installations, we situate dominant methodological practices as coll…
Meanwhile: Posthuman Intra-Actions in/With a Post-Qualitative Readings Class
In January 2017, six doctoral students and an assistant professor came together under the guise of a "Readings in Educational Research" course that was created on the topic of post-qualitative inquiry. Using St. Pierre's descriptor of the "posts," the course involved engagements with poststructural, posthuman, and new materialist philosophies. Inspired by the concept of the meanwhile, this article pulses with the question: What do intra-active qu…
Cartographies of belonging: Mapping nomadic narratives of first-year students
In this work, we explore first-year students’ experiences of belonging through the theoretical and methodological lens of nomadism. Specifically, we problematize conceptions of belonging subjects and spaces as bounded and static, instead taking up belongingness as a dynamic process that enfolds complex experiences and spaces. Using feminist poststructuralism, we move toward an understanding of belonging that disrupts stasis and fixity, conceptual…
Toward a Philosophy of STEAM in the Anthropocene
This paper proposes a philosophy of STEAM education in the current moment, the Anthropocene. Whereas many proponents of STEAM focus on outcomes related to cultivating a more creative and competitive generation of STEM workers, it is, more importantly, an approach to education that can foster spaces for transdisciplinary conversations surrounding critical issues of the Anthropocene – those of ethics, sustainability, and relationality. Thus, the qu…
Becoming Openly Faithful: Qualitative Pedagogy and Paradigmatic Slippage
In this article, the authors consider the implications of teaching and enacting inquiry as an indeterminate event, one that interrogates the assumptions of paradigmatic fixity with the hopes of being other than we are. To do so, the authors articulate a sense of openly faithful pedagogical practice, blurring the boundaries of the classroom and inquiry site and promoting the possibilities inherent in “slippage.” The indeterminacy invoked in slippa…
Inquiry on the Sly: Playful Intervention as Philosophical Action
As an ongoing practice, work can never be fully accounted for or described. Furthermore, the notion of play is often situated in opposition to work in Western cultures-as though work and play cannot occur simultaneously or even within the same location. In this article, we engage in a bit of a quandary-how to make our playful actions visible while resisting the foreclosure that visibility often entails. As an attempt at exploring this question (a…
Seeing Experiences of Interdisciplinarity through Student Artwork: Exploring Different Approaches to Analysis
This paper explores visual response methods as a representation of student learning in a college-level interdisciplinary curriculum integrating art and engineering. The visual response methods, specifically visual journals and postcards, are examples of authentic assessment and alternative data collection methods embedded in a mixed-methods (qualitative dominant) practitioner research case study. In the paper, we focus on different means for anal…
Giving up as a willful feminist practice
What do we, as women, give up? What does it mean to give up as a woman in academia? We explored this question through a study with women doctoral students to reframe giving up as a purposeful, willful act. Sara Ahmed describes willfulness in relation to women who are perceived as resisting norms, shifting away from normative expectations, refusing what is expected. In this work, we push against the prevailing discourses of women in academia as pa…
Readymade Methodology
Neither inside, nor outside. Between art and non-art. Visual artist, Marcel Duchamp's readymade art installations of the early 20th century mapped a space of between-ness, of liminality, through previously drawn boundaries in the art world. In this article, we put forth readymade methodology as a liminal approach to (post)qualitative research. Drawing from Duchamp's readymade art installations, we situate dominant methodological practices as coll…
Meanwhile: Posthuman Intra-Actions in/With a Post-Qualitative Readings Class
In January 2017, six doctoral students and an assistant professor came together under the guise of a "Readings in Educational Research" course that was created on the topic of post-qualitative inquiry. Using St. Pierre's descriptor of the "posts," the course involved engagements with poststructural, posthuman, and new materialist philosophies. Inspired by the concept of the meanwhile, this article pulses with the question: What do intra-active qu…
Cartographies of belonging: Mapping nomadic narratives of first-year students
In this work, we explore first-year students’ experiences of belonging through the theoretical and methodological lens of nomadism. Specifically, we problematize conceptions of belonging subjects and spaces as bounded and static, instead taking up belongingness as a dynamic process that enfolds complex experiences and spaces. Using feminist poststructuralism, we move toward an understanding of belonging that disrupts stasis and fixity, conceptual…
Scholar #Famous #Monster
Academic success is now coupled with social media engagement. Social media has become so normalized in the academy that absent a carefully curated social media presence, scholars risk being seen as unscholarly, unproductive, and unpopular. This article lays bare the pressures, mechanisms, and monstrosities of using social media to promote scholarship. We argue that the widespread adoption of social media outpaces critical attention to its ethics …
Inquiry on the Sly: Playful Intervention as Philosophical Action
As an ongoing practice, work can never be fully accounted for or described. Furthermore, the notion of play is often situated in opposition to work in Western cultures-as though work and play cannot occur simultaneously or even within the same location. In this article, we engage in a bit of a quandary-how to make our playful actions visible while resisting the foreclosure that visibility often entails. As an attempt at exploring this question (a…
List-keepers and other carrier bag stories: Academic mothers' (in)visible labor during the Covid-19 pandemic
Toward a Philosophy of STEAM in the Anthropocene
This paper proposes a philosophy of STEAM education in the current moment, the Anthropocene. Whereas many proponents of STEAM focus on outcomes related to cultivating a more creative and competitive generation of STEM workers, it is, more importantly, an approach to education that can foster spaces for transdisciplinary conversations surrounding critical issues of the Anthropocene – those of ethics, sustainability, and relationality. Thus, the qu…
Seeing Experiences of Interdisciplinarity through Student Artwork: Exploring Different Approaches to Analysis
This paper explores visual response methods as a representation of student learning in a college-level interdisciplinary curriculum integrating art and engineering. The visual response methods, specifically visual journals and postcards, are examples of authentic assessment and alternative data collection methods embedded in a mixed-methods (qualitative dominant) practitioner research case study. In the paper, we focus on different means for anal…
Becoming Openly Faithful: Qualitative Pedagogy and Paradigmatic Slippage
In this article, the authors consider the implications of teaching and enacting inquiry as an indeterminate event, one that interrogates the assumptions of paradigmatic fixity with the hopes of being other than we are. To do so, the authors articulate a sense of openly faithful pedagogical practice, blurring the boundaries of the classroom and inquiry site and promoting the possibilities inherent in “slippage.” The indeterminacy invoked in slippa…
Inquiry on the Sly: Playful Intervention as Philosophical Action
As an ongoing practice, work can never be fully accounted for or described. Furthermore, the notion of play is often situated in opposition to work in Western cultures-as though work and play cannot occur simultaneously or even within the same location. In this article, we engage in a bit of a quandary-how to make our playful actions visible while resisting the foreclosure that visibility often entails. As an attempt at exploring this question (a…
Cartographies of belonging: Mapping nomadic narratives of first-year students
In this work, we explore first-year students’ experiences of belonging through the theoretical and methodological lens of nomadism. Specifically, we problematize conceptions of belonging subjects and spaces as bounded and static, instead taking up belongingness as a dynamic process that enfolds complex experiences and spaces. Using feminist poststructuralism, we move toward an understanding of belonging that disrupts stasis and fixity, conceptual…
Toward a Philosophy of STEAM in the Anthropocene
This paper proposes a philosophy of STEAM education in the current moment, the Anthropocene. Whereas many proponents of STEAM focus on outcomes related to cultivating a more creative and competitive generation of STEM workers, it is, more importantly, an approach to education that can foster spaces for transdisciplinary conversations surrounding critical issues of the Anthropocene – those of ethics, sustainability, and relationality. Thus, the qu…
Pedagogical Impasses: Posthuman Inquiry in Exhaustive Times
Impasses are often understood as blockages, as preventing something from moving along a desired trajectory. Thinking with Lauren Berlant’s conception of the impasse in the historical present and Rosi Braidotti’s writing on exhaustion in the posthuman subject, we wonder how we might move forward in/with the overwhelmingness of the present, impasses in and always exceeding the qualitative inquiry classroom. We inquire: How does the impasse inspire …
Giving up as a willful feminist practice
What do we, as women, give up? What does it mean to give up as a woman in academia? We explored this question through a study with women doctoral students to reframe giving up as a purposeful, willful act. Sara Ahmed describes willfulness in relation to women who are perceived as resisting norms, shifting away from normative expectations, refusing what is expected. In this work, we push against the prevailing discourses of women in academia as pa…
Readymade Methodology
Neither inside, nor outside. Between art and non-art. Visual artist, Marcel Duchamp's readymade art installations of the early 20th century mapped a space of between-ness, of liminality, through previously drawn boundaries in the art world. In this article, we put forth readymade methodology as a liminal approach to (post)qualitative research. Drawing from Duchamp's readymade art installations, we situate dominant methodological practices as coll…
Meanwhile: Posthuman Intra-Actions in/With a Post-Qualitative Readings Class
In January 2017, six doctoral students and an assistant professor came together under the guise of a "Readings in Educational Research" course that was created on the topic of post-qualitative inquiry. Using St. Pierre's descriptor of the "posts," the course involved engagements with poststructural, posthuman, and new materialist philosophies. Inspired by the concept of the meanwhile, this article pulses with the question: What do intra-active qu…
I am with you: Artful (k)nottings in/with qualitative pedagogy
In this article, we think-with nots, knots, and (k)nots in the interstices of theory, methodology, pedagogy, and art. We define the (k)not as a bringing together of nots—openings toward creativity, mapping, and disruption—and knots—openings toward connection, entanglement, and speculative futures. Playing (k)nots within our own relations, we-three-and-more are entangled in a complex (k)not of teachers and students, mentors and mentees, friends an…
List-keepers and other carrier bag stories: Academic mothers' (in)visible labor during the Covid-19 pandemic
Home/Work: A Feminist Poetic Inquiry of Academic Mothers’ Pandemic Experiences
This article details a poetic inquiry that explored how academic mothers navigated the tensions between home/work during the pandemic: the simultaneous pulls of academia and motherhood in competing directions. Theoretically, we draw inspiration from Sara Ahmed’s concept of feminist homework. Feminist homework, according to Ahmed, is the work feminists do to interrogate and transform oppressive patriarchal structures. It is work carried home becau…
Expanding Approaches to Thematic Analysis: Creative Engagements with Qualitative Data
Communities of mutation: Becoming feminist pedagogical monstrosities
We are feminist scholars who research and teach at a university in the United States situated within histories of sociopolitical conservativism and oppressions. In the present, looming over our classrooms, are mandates to eliminate 'divisive concepts' such as race and gender. These political monsters gnash their teeth and foam at the mouth as they swallow up equity and intersectionality from education. Here, we draw on posthuman feminisms to spec…
Scholar #Famous #Monster
Academic success is now coupled with social media engagement. Social media has become so normalized in the academy that absent a carefully curated social media presence, scholars risk being seen as unscholarly, unproductive, and unpopular. This article lays bare the pressures, mechanisms, and monstrosities of using social media to promote scholarship. We argue that the widespread adoption of social media outpaces critical attention to its ethics …
Inquiring Artfully: Provoking Possibilities With/Through/for Qualitative Encounters
The introduction to this special issue considers what might come from envisioning artful inquiry as a mode of thinking that inspires how we orient, how we encounter, and how we move , in our inquiry work. The editors present artful inquiry as a call to practice, to experiment, to play, to wonder. Artful inquiry is a motion, a doing, rather than a thing. A way to live questions; an invitation. In this special issue, the editors and contributing au…
Worthy-of-Trust: A Feminist-Queer Ethic of Trustworthiness
In qualitative research, trustworthiness regularly centers external-to-the-research-process approval, grounded in concepts like triangulation. Drawing on feminist-queer theories and ethics, we attempt to "right" how researchers approach trustworthiness, proposing an intra-active shift from "trustworthiness" to being "worthy-of-trust," from seeking readers'/reviewers' trust to fostering trust with participants. We queer normative conventions of tr…
Cultivating Unexpected Gifts: Storying 'Volunteer' Data Within Qualitative Focus Groups
This article explores data from focus groups that, at first glance, yielded nothing fruitful. Drawing inspiration from Robin Wall Kimmerer's writings in which she learns from the wisdom of plants, the author poses the question, what might volunteer plants teach us about unanticipated, even undesired, qualitative data? Conceptualizing volunteer data as data that were not sought, asked for, or even desired, this article reframes these data in a mor…
Arts-Based Methodologies
Arts-based methodologies are a family of methodological practices that engage and intersect multiple disciplines, all the while centering the arts as and in inquiry. Within qualitative research, arts-based methodological practices cultivate spaces for non-traditional modes of inquiry, data, and (re)presentation, expanding possibilities for methodologies and methods, broadening how scholars/artists communicate, relate, and understand. Arts-based m…
Inquiring Artfully: Enacting Artful Politics
The introduction to this special issue considers the political potential of enactments of artful inquiry. The editors examine how taking up artful practices as a way of making knowledge, turning to artists as theorists and philosophers, presenting findings visually, poetically, or through other evocative means, reorients, and reimagines the epistemological, ontological, and axiological assumptions of social science research. In doing so, we argue…
Sensing and Overcoming Walls: Academic Mothers' Experiences Navigating Institutional Postpartum Leave Policies
This article explores academic mothers' experiences navigating institutional leave policies through a feminist narrative methodology. The authors interviewed academic mothers who gave birth while employed as full‐time faculty at U.S. higher education institutions, centering their storied encounters with postpartum leave policies. The analysis reveals how mothers came up against fragmented information, unclear procedures, and poor communication be…
Enter, the Chorus: An Ethnodrama of Academic Motherhood in (and Beyond) the Covid-19 Pandemic
How might ethnodrama (re)present ways that academic mothers responded to the collision of work/home, especially as it was intensified by virtual/electronic tools like Zoom? In 2021, we interviewed 54 academic mothers about their experiences in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic. In hearing their stories, we became interested in the ways spaces were constructed for both privacy and/or accessibility, relative to what was (in)visible whe…
(Re)Orienting Ourselves Toward What Ought to Be: Democratizing Qualitative Inquiry as Hopeful World-Building
This article learns from the liberatory praxes of Martín-Baró, a Salvadoran psychologist and cofounder of liberation psychology, and Ella Baker, an American activist known for her transformative role in the Civil Rights movement. After discussing democratizing as verb , we explore three areas of engagement— the art of being together, the art of thinking together , and the art of empowering —as these: trouble consequential givens sedimented within…
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