International Review of Qualitative Research

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ire’ne lara silva wrote “everything must be a little wild.” Reading should also be done with the entirety/wideness of being. In this article—which seeks to showcase/highlight the promise and responsibilities inherent in reading and writing—I chronicle ...

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This visual-verbal essay is a modified version of the script for a virtual performance that I did as part of the “Scholarly Reading Practices” session at the ICQI conference in May 2022. It is a work of “autotheory” (McCrary, 2015) that explores the ...

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This article engages with the intersections of reading, writing, and friendship (between the two authors). Specifically, we (re)trace conversations, presentations, notes, and text messages that have emerged since we (e.g., authors) have become thinking-...

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In this article, I outline the academic life of reading, what it demands, and what it has become for too many—an evasion of thinking. I discuss the crisis that the evasion of reading has caused and how the contemporary university has promoted this crisis. ...

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This paper engages with concepts from Nathan Snaza’s book Animate Literacies: Literature, Affect, and the Politics of Humanism in relation to reading practices as an academic, both as a scholar and as a teacher. This paper thinks with Snaza’s writing on ...

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This paper will examine the role of affect as a key force in the experience of reading. I argue reading is an experience rather than an instrument of cognition. The latter, I suggest, gives way to dehumanizing and violating forms of reading as instrument ...

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This article’s contribution utilizes eroticism to re-imagine the meanings of what it is to feel fully and pleasurably as becoming, in tandem with existing, moving through, and/or being present to one’s traumas. Therefore, what possibilities emerge when ...

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This article emerged from curiosity about how we, as white women, might responsibly engage the knowledges of Black women theorists in our reading practices. We briefly consider how whiteness in a white supremacist society has produced (our) reading ...

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This collaboratively written article follows the narratives, memories, and reflections of six Black women and their professor, a White woman, as we read and grappled with theory in a qualitative research course. We explore our shared and individual ...

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In this article, I catalog the lessons I have learned from reading beyond the qualitative inquiry canon. The catalog offers lessons based on seven infinitive verbs and/or verb phrases—to be patient, to tend, to linger, to love, to not say anything and/or ...

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Since ancient times, humor has held an interesting place within philosophical readings describing human life and nature. Laughter and humor often received objections and negative assessments, with the idea that human life would not suffer much loss if ...

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In this article, we engage the tension between the failures and possibilities of theories to which we hold attachments. The failure of theory for us is also the failure of qualitative research because as scholars who engage in philosophically informed and ...