Join the UGA Qualitative Research Program for the UGA QUAL Lab Speaker Series: The Home/Work of Academic Mothers: Storying Feminist and Artful Approaches to Qualitative Inquiry presented by Dr. Kelly Guyotte.

Register at https://bit.ly/UGAQL10.

In Living a Feminist Life, Sara Ahmed explains, “To bring feminist theory home is to make feminist work in the places we live, the places we work. When we think of feminist theory as homework, the university too becomes something we work on as well as at.” This presentation tells the stories of two recent studies – one that explored how academic mothers navigated the Covid-19 pandemic, and an ongoing study on how academic mothers negotiate pregnancy to postpartum within and alongside academia. Both studies center feminist theories and artful inquiry approaches, drawing inspiration from scholars like Sara Ahmed and even the speculative fiction work of Ursula K. Le Guin. In this presentation, I will unpack both studies, storying the theoretical/methodological decisions that my research teams and I made (and are making), and exploring what is produced when home and work collide."