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“Dr. Marlen Elliot Harrison’s student-centered & project-based approaches to language & composition education have led him to teaching in over 50 different academic programs at more than 15 different universities across three continents. A published writer & researcher, he is the founder & editor-in-chief of The AutoEthnographer literary & arts magazine.”
Technicolor Third Space: Developing the AutoEthnographer Literary & Arts Magazine
“In this brief, animated autoethnography, I utilize the concept of a sociocultural third space to consider why evocative autoethnography can benefit from its own literary and arts journal.”
How Autoethnography Is Being Utilized to Support Learner Development
This manuscript – a duoethnography – seeks to examine the rationale for the increased use of autoethnography as a tool to promote/support language learner autonomy.
Project Coordinator & Writer, The Smithsonian
“In an on-going effort to challenge stereotyping, and correct the current nature of education concerning American Indians, the NMAI will devote the required scholarship to inform and assess these permanent visual statements.”
How I Met Tapputi
“Could I really write about a 3200 year old woman, of which we know so very little?”
Novel: The Queen’s Apothecary
And in his Science as he did Excell,In her high Favour he did always dwell… December of 1602, London, England. A grieving and feeble Queen Elizabeth I has decided to retire her court to Richmond Palace, a move that will require her royal apothecary, Hugh Morgan, and his staff to perform the expected scenting of…
Novel: The Perfumer of Ashur
When a heartbroken but headstrong temple assistant in the 13th century BC Mesopotamian land of Ashur is befriended by the king and promoted to the palace perfumery, her intoxicating creations will change her future. But now with the king going mad, her closest friend in danger, and her competitor’s jealousy threatening to derail her innovations,…
Curriculum Vitae
EDUCATION Interested in creative expression and psychological development, I began my education with a focus on counseling and expressive arts therapies. After some years working in public health and then international English education, I decided to pursue an interdisciplinary degree in English. One highlight of this doctoral program was the dual focus on language and…
Disrupting the MA English Thesis: Autoethnography in Advanced Literary Studies
“We will explore why and how an MA thesis director introduces autoethnography as an alternative research discourse to MA English thesis students, and examine student responses. Pedagogical implications, teaching resources, and thesis examples will be presented in order to highlight the myriad creative possibilities for using autoethnography to both celebrate and interrogate literature, literacy, and language.”
Novel: The English Teacher
BOOK 1: JAPAN When a chance discussion introduces the idea of teaching English in Japan, the gregarious yet still single Mitchell Taylor decides the time is right to shake his depression, find direction, and venture out into the world. But as a queer, Jewish American twenty-something who has never taught English or been to Japan,…