Doctoral Students’ Identities and Emotional Wellbeing in Applied Linguistics: Autoethnographic Accounts
About this ebook
Through 12 select contributions, the book examines the intersection of identity work and emotional labor in the doctoral student journey, sharing insights into the potential of autoethnography for self-reflection, community building, and healing in doctoral studies. Contributors examine their doctoral journeys through personal narratives and testimonials to understand their own experiences, agency, identity, and emotions, encouraging current or former doctoral students to engage in the critical reflection of their own experiences. Chapters are divided into four themes: interrelating multiple identities, navigating and negotiating in-betweenness, engaging emotions and wellbeing, and establishing support systems.
Offering unique perspectives from a global spread of Ph.D. candidates, this book will be highly relevant reading for researchers and prospective or current doctoral students of applied linguistics, language education, TESOL, and LOTE. It will also be of interest to those interested in higher education, dissertation research, and autoethnography as a method.
About the author
Bedrettin Yazan is Associate Professor in the Department of Bicultural-Bilingual Studies, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA.
Ethan Trinh is a Vietnamese queer immigrant, Critical Researcher, and Teacher Educator at Georgia State University, USA.
Luis Javier Pentón Herrera is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Modern Languages, University of Warsaw, Poland, and Coordinator of the Graduate TESOL Certificate, George Washington University, USA.
