This essay troubles notions of presence, embodiment and subjectivity in collaborative writing practice by considering how collaboration operates in the ‘solitary’ practice of critically conscious, performative autoethnography. Drawing on Powell and Stephenson Shaffer's conceptualization of performance as Derridean “hauntology” and grounded in three collaborations with ‘ghostly’ partners, the essay explores when and why it matters to engage the deceased performatively, as articulate bodies in their own right.
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