Sandy Tarabochia
Sandy Tarabochia a white woman with long brown hair, is framed in front of trees, smiling into the camera
Dr. Sandy Tarabochia is a researcher, writer, and novice poet studying the human dimensions of faculty writing lives. Work related to that research appears in Writing & Pedagogy, Composition Forum,Composition Studies, and is forthcoming in Written Communication and Peitho. At the University of Oklahoma she enjoys learning with students about research methods, environmental writing, rhetoric and sexuality, and more. She is co-founder and co-editor of the journal Writers: Craft & Context, author of Reframing the Relational: A Pedagogical Ethic for Cross-Curricular Literacy Work, and co-editor of Diverse Approaches to Teaching, Learning, and Writing Across the Curriculum: IWAC at 25.
Title: Aesthetic Ways of Knowing in Qualitative Writing Studies Research: A Poetic Inquiry Workshop
Date: Friday, April 16, 10-11:15 AM EST
Description: Poetic inquiry is an arts based research method used across disciplines in which a researcher composes poetry from research materials. Poetic inquiry can be a means of data transcription, analysis, re/presentation, as well as an approach to invention or self-reflexive practice. As part of a feminist, liberatory methodology, poetic inquiry honors alternative ways of knowing, challenges claims to objective truth, dismantles binaries (public/private, mind/body, intellect/emotion) and stimulates embodied engagement. In this workshop, I’ll share how poetic inquiry has become central to my current project—a longitudinal study of faculty writers. Participants will experiment with poetic inquiry as a means of engaging in the intellectual, emotional, and spiritual work of research. Attendees should bring materials for art-making. These may include: reports from journal reviewers, excerpts of interview transcripts or fieldnotes from your research, copy of a page from a book that gets you excited about your research, scissors, glue, colored pencils or markers, etc. Everyone should bring paper and something to write with. We will share our creations and reflect on the potential of poetic inquiry in ongoing research endeavors.
This workshop is limited to 30 participants.