Writing "Home" in Rural Queer Teacher Narratives: A Collaborative Autoethnography

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dc.contributor.advisorGilbert, Jen
dc.contributor.authorCummings, Darren Randall
dc.date.accessioned2023-08-04T15:20:11Z
dc.date.available2023-08-04T15:20:11Z
dc.date.issued2023-08-04
dc.date.updated2023-08-04T15:20:11Z
dc.degree.disciplineEducation
dc.degree.levelDoctoral
dc.degree.namePhD - Doctor of Philosophy
dc.description.abstractThis dissertation seeks to investigate the lives of rural queer teachers in their communities and schools. I explore how notions of ‘home’ and ‘belonging’ might keep queer teachers in their rural locations despite an overwhelming discourse that associates the rural with rejection and homophobia. This study is a collaborative autoethnography that employs writing and discussion groups to explore rural queer life through Deleuze and Guattari’s philosophical notions of the rhizome, assemblage, and perpetual “becomings” as a result of territorialization, deterritorialization, and reterritorialization. This framework informs the theoretical and methodological components of the study by demonstrating how group members negotiate their multiple identities as queer, educator, and rural community member, while also mapping “becomings” that occur within the collaborative writing group. I also investigate how the theoretical works on utopia by Cvetkovich (2008) and Muñoz (2009) might be utilized as a way to re-imagine the rural queer experience.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10315/41383
dc.languageen
dc.rightsAuthor owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.
dc.subjectEducation
dc.subject.keywordsQueer
dc.subject.keywordsTeachers
dc.subject.keywordsEducation
dc.subject.keywordsRural
dc.subject.keywordsLGBTQ
dc.subject.keywordsNew materialism
dc.subject.keywordsDeleuze and Guattari
dc.subject.keywordsCollaborative autoethnography
dc.subject.keywordsUtopia
dc.subject.keywordsNarrative
dc.subject.keywordsFocus groups
dc.titleWriting "Home" in Rural Queer Teacher Narratives: A Collaborative Autoethnography
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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