Stephanie Anne Shelton
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3750608 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Stephanie Anne Shelton |
| PRENOMES | Stephanie Anne |
| SOBRENOME | Shelton |
| ASSINATURA | SHELTON S A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Alabama |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5561-4331 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 35 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 69 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 35 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2010 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
A Layering of Selves
This paper examines the ways that artful inquiry affords qualitative research students newly creative and embodied opportunities to understand and engage with subjectivity and bias—important concepts in the field of qualitative inquiry. Moving beyond the inadequacy of traditional teaching practices, such as student-generated written subjectivity statements, we share here an artful methodological approach using paper dolls to disrupt conventional …
Enter, the Chorus
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…
Queer(ing) the Bias Monster and Subjectivities
Bias is a long-established concern in qualitative research, and researchers often work to erase, or at least manage, bias through subjectivity statements that work as confessionals, rather than approaching bias and subjectivity as inevitable, humanizing, and valuable research concepts. This paper draws on imaginative narratives and Barad’s engagements with queer theory to emphasize the importance of disrupting these notions and understanding bias…
Strategies and examples for applying reflexivity in qualitative research
Purpose This paper, written by a research team that is working with justice-involved youth across the USA, begins by explaining our interest in and commitment to reflexivity as a concept and practice. Then, we offer an overview of what reflexivity is – and is not, as well as why reflexivity is critically important to qualitative inquiry. Finally, in an effort to extend extant literature on the topic of reflexivity, we provide specific examples fr…
The Center Cannot Hold
There are more anti‐LGBTQ+ policies and legislation affecting schools now than ever before. Within this political milieu, teachers navigate censorship, surveillance, community criticism, and curricular mandates that limit or even illegalize their efforts to foster queer‐ and trans‐affirming classrooms. This article presents a case study of Echo's efforts and experiences, as she found her curricular agency and teaching effectiveness stripped away …
Worthy-of-Trust
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…
Querying queer quantitative educational research
The past decade has seen growth in the use of quantitative methods for queer educational research. The purpose of the present study was to review research published in education journals from 2011 to 2022 that used quantitative methods and took up the language of queerness. We ultimately identified 55 such articles and analyzed them for their theoretical engagements, the inclusion of LGBTQ+ identities/people, the place of race and racism in the s…
Watermelons and Writing Qualitatively
My grandmother grew watermelons, and a childhood spent helping her taught me a lot about writing, and about writing qualitatively. Neighboring farmers laced soil with fertilizers that accelerated growth but thickened the rind and softened the meat. Others pulled fruit from the vines before ripening, producing soft rinds and bland, mealy fruit. She’d cluck her tongue and say, “Watermelons don’t sweeten off the vine.” Writing and watermelons have a…
Home/Work
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
Communities of mutation
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…
Queer(ing) and Trans(ing) Critical Media Literacies in Response to Anti-lgbtqia+ Legislation and Policies
Revisiting Peshkin
Purpose Qualitative research is well-established and widely adopted across a range of disciplines; however, there is little discussion of the teaching of qualitative research methods. What engagements there are primarily focus on methods rather than core concepts that inform ethical and effective use of those approaches. “Subjectivity” and “reflexivity” are pervasive concepts taken up in numerous textbooks, handbooks, and journal guidelines. But,…
List-keepers and other carrier bag stories
Encyclopedia of Queer Studies in Education
Queer studies is an extensive field that spans a range of disciplines. This volume focuses on education and educational research and examines and expounds upon queer studies particular to education fields. It works to examine concepts, theories, and methods related to queer studies across PK-12, higher education, adult education, and informal learning. The volume takes an intentionally intersectional approach, with particular attention to the int…
“That’s Why They Call It Window Pain”
We are both first-generation women PhDs who survived traumatic, abusive childhoods, and found ourselves caretakers of those who once cared for us, in the height of COVID-19 lockdowns. The pandemic complicated our responsibilities in un/comfortable and un/expected ways, as care of parents and academic positions, all differently fragile, required negotiating dis/connections between academia and family, all while the virus and uncertainty hung thick…
Queer Contemplative Pedagogy
While teaching a secondary gender studies course, high school teacher "Eleanor" found that though most students identified as queer and expressed interest in disrupting normative understandings of genders and sexualities, their classroom contributions often reified problematic norms. She implemented what she termed a Queer Contemplative Pedagogy to challenge students to think more contemplatively about genders and sexualities. Based on ethnograph…
Spinning Futures
In this article, we interrogate our experiences as four women academics with two short stories written in conversation with one another: The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin, and 'The Ones Who Stay and Fight,' written by N. K. Jemisin. Both Le Guin and Jemisin's stories evoke questions about ethics and responsibility in the face of oppression. More specifically, both stories offer complicated and nuanced considerations for how …
Entangled Time Hops
This article explores the micro- and macro-level implications of the dual global pandemics of COVID-19 and racism through a narrative structure based on Barad’s discussion of “timehops.” Weaving personal, national, and international stories, the article explores qualitative research’s responsibility and potential to offer new ways to respond to the entanglements of people, places, moments, materials, and these pandemics
Dichotomies of method and practice
Purpose Transcription is an integral component to qualitative research, and as such, the ways that researchers discuss transcription in the literature matter. Scholarly discussions on the “how” and “why” of transcription not only shape discourse within interview data-based fields; they inform the ways that researchers understand the roles and ramifications of transcribing. This study aims to provide a comprehensive literature review of articles o…
Finding ourselves as Black women in Eurocentric theory
Purpose Qualitative research consistently centers Eurocentrism through courses' integrations of ontological, epistemological and axiological perspectives. This literal whitewashing was a source of great frustration and confusion for the authors, four Black women, who found their identities omitted and disregarded in qualitative inquiry. Using Collins' outsider-within concept and collective narratives to center their experiences, the authors seek …
It really was My fault”
This research project's initial purpose was to explore how Black youth who had been assigned to youth detention centers described their experiences with school-based racism, and how those experiences informed their experiences with school discipline prior to being detained in a correctional facility. Guided by the following research questions, (1) How do correctional facility-detained Black youth describe their experiences with racism in public s…
Queering the consent process
Researcher-based efforts to protect participant identity are common in qualitative research. Most Institutional Review Boards expect statements regarding researchers’ plans to protect participants’ privacy, often including assigning participant pseudonyms. These confidentiality practices are ubiquitous in qualitative scholarship, yet relatively unexamined. Drawing on Barad’s discussions of queer intra-action, this paper explores the implications …
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…
Queer Temporalities, Spacetimematterings, and a Pedagogy of Vulnerability in Qualitative Inquiry
This interview project began with a daughter's innocent desire to ask "Why?" but we find ourselves in an ever-looping liminality that recognizes both the impossibility of such innocence and the power of an "ability to live on the boundaries" of wanting-to-know and never-knowing. This article concludes by considering the implications of maintaining such a space within the context of a qualitative inquiry course and within the scholarly and persona…
Reconceptualizing Bias in Teaching Qualitative Research Methods
Researchers who have been prepared in positivist traditions to social research frequently equate "subjectivity" with "bias," which is viewed as both a problem to be managed and a threat to the credibility of a study. Teachers of qualitative research methods are familiar with questions about "subjectivity" that invoke "bias" from newcomers to qualitative research. This article revisits the methodological literature to examine how bias has been und…
Racism just isn't an issue anymore”
Queer Temporalities, Spacetimematterings, and a Pedagogy of Vulnerability in Qualitative Inquiry
This interview project began with a daughter's innocent desire to ask "Why?" but we find ourselves in an ever-looping liminality that recognizes both the impossibility of such innocence and the power of an "ability to live on the boundaries" of wanting-to-know and never-knowing. This article concludes by considering the implications of maintaining such a space within the context of a qualitative inquiry course and within the scholarly and persona…
You stick up for all kids”
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…
When I do “bad stuff,” I make the most difference’
Research has demonstrated that teacher allies are integral to social justice work that strives to ensure safety and success for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual, and other gender and sexuality non-conforming (LGBTQIA+) students. However, prevailing discussions present allyhood in ways that ignore the complexities and contradictions that shape an ally’s efforts and experiences. Drawing on narrative-based interviews wit…
Finding ourselves as Black women in Eurocentric theory
Purpose Qualitative research consistently centers Eurocentrism through courses' integrations of ontological, epistemological and axiological perspectives. This literal whitewashing was a source of great frustration and confusion for the authors, four Black women, who found their identities omitted and disregarded in qualitative inquiry. Using Collins' outsider-within concept and collective narratives to center their experiences, the authors seek …
Queering the consent process
Researcher-based efforts to protect participant identity are common in qualitative research. Most Institutional Review Boards expect statements regarding researchers’ plans to protect participants’ privacy, often including assigning participant pseudonyms. These confidentiality practices are ubiquitous in qualitative scholarship, yet relatively unexamined. Drawing on Barad’s discussions of queer intra-action, this paper explores the implications …
The spacetimemattering and Frankenstein-esque nature of interview transcriptions
Design/methodology/approach The authors’ analysis is based on a review of literature, with this paper putting specific sections of qualitative inquiry into conversation with one another, along with Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s novel Frankenstein and Karen Barad’s concept of spacetimemattering. Findings First, in a preliminary literature review of 200+ articles, the authors found that few researchers acknowledge the creative and decision-making p…
The Center Cannot Hold
There are more anti‐LGBTQ+ policies and legislation affecting schools now than ever before. Within this political milieu, teachers navigate censorship, surveillance, community criticism, and curricular mandates that limit or even illegalize their efforts to foster queer‐ and trans‐affirming classrooms. This article presents a case study of Echo's efforts and experiences, as she found her curricular agency and teaching effectiveness stripped away …
Revisiting Peshkin
Purpose Qualitative research is well-established and widely adopted across a range of disciplines; however, there is little discussion of the teaching of qualitative research methods. What engagements there are primarily focus on methods rather than core concepts that inform ethical and effective use of those approaches. “Subjectivity” and “reflexivity” are pervasive concepts taken up in numerous textbooks, handbooks, and journal guidelines. But,…
List-keepers and other carrier bag stories
It really was My fault”
This research project's initial purpose was to explore how Black youth who had been assigned to youth detention centers described their experiences with school-based racism, and how those experiences informed their experiences with school discipline prior to being detained in a correctional facility. Guided by the following research questions, (1) How do correctional facility-detained Black youth describe their experiences with racism in public s…
Entangling past, present, and future to examine queerness and white privilege in academia
Lesbians have limited visibility or representation in educational research, and there has been even less consideration of the ways that lesbians’ experiences are racialized. Using a methodological approach that entwines Karen Barad’s concept of queer temporalities with Kimberlé Crenshaw’s discussion of single-axis intersectionality, this paper uses critical autoethnography to offer narrative examinations of the author’s queerness as constantly en…
The Influence of Barad's "Transmaterialities" on Queer Theories and Methodologies
This article considers the important interdisciplinary contributions of Karen Barad’s “Transmaterialities: Trans*/Matter/Realities and Queer Political Imaginings” (2015). Barad adopted Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein as a metaphor to examine concepts of agency, empowerment, and self-birth, in ways that challenged long-established notions of queer identities and scholarship. The present article adopts the trope of lightning strikes to consider the way…
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Conversation Analysis and Gender
In this book review, I addressed the ways that qualitative researchers have examined the links between Conversation Analysis (CA), which often is criticized as a method without context or theory, and the issue of gender. I consider the ways that the editors adopt the controversial position that CA is a politically laden method and that authors extend and challenge existing CA research. I point out the ways that this book both inconsistently conne…
Reconceptualizing Bias in Teaching Qualitative Research Methods
Researchers who have been prepared in positivist traditions to social research frequently equate "subjectivity" with "bias," which is viewed as both a problem to be managed and a threat to the credibility of a study. Teachers of qualitative research methods are familiar with questions about "subjectivity" that invoke "bias" from newcomers to qualitative research. This article revisits the methodological literature to examine how bias has been und…
Racism just isn't an issue anymore”
Finding possibilities in the impossible
Using collective biographical narrative, this paper examines the ways in which school spaces – even in socioculturally and politically conservative locations – might serve to empower trans youth. The authors explore the ways that teacher, peer and curricular interactions enabled them to navigate a range of cultural spaces and arrive at authentic selves who advocate on behalf of trans youth
The spacetimemattering and Frankenstein-esque nature of interview transcriptions
Design/methodology/approach The authors’ analysis is based on a review of literature, with this paper putting specific sections of qualitative inquiry into conversation with one another, along with Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s novel Frankenstein and Karen Barad’s concept of spacetimemattering. Findings First, in a preliminary literature review of 200+ articles, the authors found that few researchers acknowledge the creative and decision-making p…
Entangling past, present, and future to examine queerness and white privilege in academia
Lesbians have limited visibility or representation in educational research, and there has been even less consideration of the ways that lesbians’ experiences are racialized. Using a methodological approach that entwines Karen Barad’s concept of queer temporalities with Kimberlé Crenshaw’s discussion of single-axis intersectionality, this paper uses critical autoethnography to offer narrative examinations of the author’s queerness as constantly en…
When I do “bad stuff,” I make the most difference’
Research has demonstrated that teacher allies are integral to social justice work that strives to ensure safety and success for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual, and other gender and sexuality non-conforming (LGBTQIA+) students. However, prevailing discussions present allyhood in ways that ignore the complexities and contradictions that shape an ally’s efforts and experiences. Drawing on narrative-based interviews wit…
You stick up for all kids”
The Influence of Barad's "Transmaterialities" on Queer Theories and Methodologies
This article considers the important interdisciplinary contributions of Karen Barad’s “Transmaterialities: Trans*/Matter/Realities and Queer Political Imaginings” (2015). Barad adopted Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein as a metaphor to examine concepts of agency, empowerment, and self-birth, in ways that challenged long-established notions of queer identities and scholarship. The present article adopts the trope of lightning strikes to consider the way…
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…
Queer Temporalities, Spacetimematterings, and a Pedagogy of Vulnerability in Qualitative Inquiry
This interview project began with a daughter's innocent desire to ask "Why?" but we find ourselves in an ever-looping liminality that recognizes both the impossibility of such innocence and the power of an "ability to live on the boundaries" of wanting-to-know and never-knowing. This article concludes by considering the implications of maintaining such a space within the context of a qualitative inquiry course and within the scholarly and persona…
Entangled Time Hops
This article explores the micro- and macro-level implications of the dual global pandemics of COVID-19 and racism through a narrative structure based on Barad’s discussion of “timehops.” Weaving personal, national, and international stories, the article explores qualitative research’s responsibility and potential to offer new ways to respond to the entanglements of people, places, moments, materials, and these pandemics
Dichotomies of method and practice
Purpose Transcription is an integral component to qualitative research, and as such, the ways that researchers discuss transcription in the literature matter. Scholarly discussions on the “how” and “why” of transcription not only shape discourse within interview data-based fields; they inform the ways that researchers understand the roles and ramifications of transcribing. This study aims to provide a comprehensive literature review of articles o…
Finding ourselves as Black women in Eurocentric theory
Purpose Qualitative research consistently centers Eurocentrism through courses' integrations of ontological, epistemological and axiological perspectives. This literal whitewashing was a source of great frustration and confusion for the authors, four Black women, who found their identities omitted and disregarded in qualitative inquiry. Using Collins' outsider-within concept and collective narratives to center their experiences, the authors seek …
It really was My fault”
This research project's initial purpose was to explore how Black youth who had been assigned to youth detention centers described their experiences with school-based racism, and how those experiences informed their experiences with school discipline prior to being detained in a correctional facility. Guided by the following research questions, (1) How do correctional facility-detained Black youth describe their experiences with racism in public s…
Queering the consent process
Researcher-based efforts to protect participant identity are common in qualitative research. Most Institutional Review Boards expect statements regarding researchers’ plans to protect participants’ privacy, often including assigning participant pseudonyms. These confidentiality practices are ubiquitous in qualitative scholarship, yet relatively unexamined. Drawing on Barad’s discussions of queer intra-action, this paper explores the implications …
Encyclopedia of Queer Studies in Education
Queer studies is an extensive field that spans a range of disciplines. This volume focuses on education and educational research and examines and expounds upon queer studies particular to education fields. It works to examine concepts, theories, and methods related to queer studies across PK-12, higher education, adult education, and informal learning. The volume takes an intentionally intersectional approach, with particular attention to the int…
“That’s Why They Call It Window Pain”
We are both first-generation women PhDs who survived traumatic, abusive childhoods, and found ourselves caretakers of those who once cared for us, in the height of COVID-19 lockdowns. The pandemic complicated our responsibilities in un/comfortable and un/expected ways, as care of parents and academic positions, all differently fragile, required negotiating dis/connections between academia and family, all while the virus and uncertainty hung thick…
Queer Contemplative Pedagogy
While teaching a secondary gender studies course, high school teacher "Eleanor" found that though most students identified as queer and expressed interest in disrupting normative understandings of genders and sexualities, their classroom contributions often reified problematic norms. She implemented what she termed a Queer Contemplative Pedagogy to challenge students to think more contemplatively about genders and sexualities. Based on ethnograph…
Spinning Futures
In this article, we interrogate our experiences as four women academics with two short stories written in conversation with one another: The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin, and 'The Ones Who Stay and Fight,' written by N. K. Jemisin. Both Le Guin and Jemisin's stories evoke questions about ethics and responsibility in the face of oppression. More specifically, both stories offer complicated and nuanced considerations for how …
Queer(ing) and Trans(ing) Critical Media Literacies in Response to Anti-lgbtqia+ Legislation and Policies
Revisiting Peshkin
Purpose Qualitative research is well-established and widely adopted across a range of disciplines; however, there is little discussion of the teaching of qualitative research methods. What engagements there are primarily focus on methods rather than core concepts that inform ethical and effective use of those approaches. “Subjectivity” and “reflexivity” are pervasive concepts taken up in numerous textbooks, handbooks, and journal guidelines. But,…
List-keepers and other carrier bag stories
Querying queer quantitative educational research
The past decade has seen growth in the use of quantitative methods for queer educational research. The purpose of the present study was to review research published in education journals from 2011 to 2022 that used quantitative methods and took up the language of queerness. We ultimately identified 55 such articles and analyzed them for their theoretical engagements, the inclusion of LGBTQ+ identities/people, the place of race and racism in the s…
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