Research in Action: Framing Autoethnography through the Arts
Framing Autoethnography through the Arts
Date: Wednesday, May 20th, 2026
Time: 1 – 2 p.m. (EDT) | 10 – 11 a.m. (PDT) | 2 – 3 p.m. (ADT)
Mode: Online via Microsoft Teams
In this hourlong session entitled Framing Autoethnography through the Arts, special guest speaker Dr. Fiona Blaikie will examine the emergence of autoethnography framed by multimodality, situated feminist ontology, the post qualitative, immanence, and worlding.
Professor, former Dean, Chair of AERI, Associate Director, Posthumanism Research Institute, and Chief Examiner of IBO Visual Arts, Fiona’s scholarship investigates aesthetic and pedagogical values inherent in criteria for high-school studio art assessment, alongside epistemological gaps between high-school and tertiary studio art. In a shift to examine social theory on the body and clothing, her 2021 edited collection Visual and cultural identity constructs of youth and young adults: Being, becoming and belonging was published by Routledge. Recent work draws on post-qualitative methods, new materialities, worlding, posthumanism, transhumanism, popular culture and science fiction as themes for art pedagogies. Awards for scholarship include CSEA, the USSEA/InSEA International Ziegfeld Award. In November 2025 Professor Blaikie was inducted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Arts and Humanities division.
