Melissa Alemán
Biographic Data
| ID | 4890873 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Melissa Alemán |
| GIVEN NAMES | Melissa |
| FAMILY NAME | Alemán |
| SIGNATURE | ALEMÁN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | James Madison University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1979-6964 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Pains and portends
This mediated collaborative autoethnography uses reproduced dialogue, poetic inquiry, and composite, fictionalized narratives to story the gendered experiences of two instructional faculty teaching a coordinated engineering class and working in an undergraduate engineering program at a large public university. The contrasting, gendered narratives of the engineering faculty storied in this paper illuminate several themes: (1) discourses of gendere…
Inheriting the Narratives of Dementia
This collaborative tale of a daughter and mother offers multiple stories of the two matriarchs in our family, our relationships with them, and the lessons we take from our narrative lives about how we are to be as family members, and how we are to be as family aging with dementia. Our narrative inheritance of dementia leaves us to uncover and interpret family narratives as we author our own future with dementia as caregivers to one another. The s…
Taking the grand out of grandparent
This interpretive study utilized a dialectical framework to explore themes that emerged in interviews with grandparents engaged in raising their grandchildren full-time (i.e. surrogate parents). Detailed interviews with 45 surrogate parents (ranging in age from 45 to 76 years old) were examined inductively and results revealed three primary contradictions: (i) connection versus separation, (ii) stability versus change, and (iii) protection versus…
Embracing and Resisting Romantic Fantasies as the Rhetorical Vision on a SeniorNet Discussion Board
A fantasy theme analysis of a SeniorNet discussion board found participants simultaneously embracing and resisting the relationships constructed in traditional romance narratives. The rhetorical vision that emerged illustrates how life-span conditions facilitate talk about romantic relationships. Three fantasies coalesced to construct the rhetorical vision “good men are hard to find”: the knight in shining armor, searching for a bargain, and fish…
Taking the grand out of grandparent
This interpretive study utilized a dialectical framework to explore themes that emerged in interviews with grandparents engaged in raising their grandchildren full-time (i.e. surrogate parents). Detailed interviews with 45 surrogate parents (ranging in age from 45 to 76 years old) were examined inductively and results revealed three primary contradictions: (i) connection versus separation, (ii) stability versus change, and (iii) protection versus…
Inheriting the Narratives of Dementia
This collaborative tale of a daughter and mother offers multiple stories of the two matriarchs in our family, our relationships with them, and the lessons we take from our narrative lives about how we are to be as family members, and how we are to be as family aging with dementia. Our narrative inheritance of dementia leaves us to uncover and interpret family narratives as we author our own future with dementia as caregivers to one another. The s…
Embracing and Resisting Romantic Fantasies as the Rhetorical Vision on a SeniorNet Discussion Board
A fantasy theme analysis of a SeniorNet discussion board found participants simultaneously embracing and resisting the relationships constructed in traditional romance narratives. The rhetorical vision that emerged illustrates how life-span conditions facilitate talk about romantic relationships. Three fantasies coalesced to construct the rhetorical vision “good men are hard to find”: the knight in shining armor, searching for a bargain, and fish…
Taking the grand out of grandparent
This interpretive study utilized a dialectical framework to explore themes that emerged in interviews with grandparents engaged in raising their grandchildren full-time (i.e. surrogate parents). Detailed interviews with 45 surrogate parents (ranging in age from 45 to 76 years old) were examined inductively and results revealed three primary contradictions: (i) connection versus separation, (ii) stability versus change, and (iii) protection versus…
Inheriting the Narratives of Dementia
This collaborative tale of a daughter and mother offers multiple stories of the two matriarchs in our family, our relationships with them, and the lessons we take from our narrative lives about how we are to be as family members, and how we are to be as family aging with dementia. Our narrative inheritance of dementia leaves us to uncover and interpret family narratives as we author our own future with dementia as caregivers to one another. The s…
Pains and portends
This mediated collaborative autoethnography uses reproduced dialogue, poetic inquiry, and composite, fictionalized narratives to story the gendered experiences of two instructional faculty teaching a coordinated engineering class and working in an undergraduate engineering program at a large public university. The contrasting, gendered narratives of the engineering faculty storied in this paper illuminate several themes: (1) discourses of gendere…
Art (3 works) · Narrative (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Developmental psychology (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Psychoanalysis (2 works) · Social Psychology (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works)