Abstract
Four personae are presented as ways in which I act out my role as a professor studying eating disorders: (a) a former anorexic, (b) a seasoned professor, (c) a concerned, yet controlled, mother, and (d) a partner of my eating disorder. Using autoethnography, I present the internal wrestling match I go through on what to expose about myself as a scholar. In doing so, I experience a surveillance type of watching from various audience members, including myself, and this puts the anorexia back in my face again as a possible option. I reveal the myth of controlling one's research or one's body in our self-presentations as autoethnographic scholars.
Journal Title
Iowa Journal of Communication
Volume
41
Issue
1
First Page
125
Last Page
148
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Chatham-Carpeneter, April
(2009)
"When the Personal Becomes Professional: Surveillances of a Professor's Eating Disorder Personae,"
Iowa Journal of Communication: Vol. 41:
No.
1, Article 10.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/ijc/vol41/iss1/10
Copyright
©2009 Iowa Communication Association
