Laramie 2.0: The Journey of a Queer Professor. (March 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Teman, Eric D.
• Is Part Of: Qualitative inquiry. Volume 23:Number 3(2017)
• Page Start: 225
• Page End: 227
• Publication Date: 2017-03
• Subjects: autoethnography -- poetry -- GLBTTQA+ -- queer -- Laramie; Social sciences -- Methodology -- Periodicals; Social sciences -- Research -- Periodicals; 300.72
• DOI: 10.1177/1077800416640013
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1077-8004

Abstract

Through autoethnographic poetry, I take the reader on a journey through my experience of moving to Laramie, Wyoming, to become faculty at the University of Wyoming. As a gay male who is still haunted by the 1998 brutal murder of Matthew Shepard in Laramie, I engage in storytelling: relaying my personal experiences of living in modern-day Laramie, showing the reader my fears, obstacles, and revelations through prose.