Abstract
This autoperformance script maps the journey to tenure and promotion to full professor of a personal narrative researcher and performance artist in a supportive, affirming communication studies department in a regional state university with the Carnegie classification of “higher research activity.” The writer/performer/researcher enacts an autoarchaeological analysis of annual review comments combined with autoethnographic (re)creations of collegial interactions. The script illuminates underlying tensions surrounding interpretive, creative, qualitative scholarship. The writer/performer/researcher asserts that while autoethnographic performance scholarship has gained legitimacy through the success of multiple high-profile scholars and publishing outlets, questions and vulnerabilities linked to the postpositivist biases endure and require our continued attention.
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