Review: An Autoethnography of Becoming a Qualitative Researcher: A Dialogic View of Academic Development, by Trude Klevan and Alec Grant

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Book Review| April 01 2023 Review: An Autoethnography of Becoming a Qualitative Researcher: A Dialogic View of Academic Development, by Trude Klevan and Alec Grant Trude Klevan and Alec Grant. An Autoethnography of Becoming a Qualitative Researcher: A Dialogic View of Academic Development. New York: Routledge, 2022. 166 pages. 2 B/W illustrations. $34.65, £28.80 (paperback). ISBN 9780367425135 Knut Tore Sælør Knut Tore Sælør University of South-Eastern Norway knut.tore.salor@usn.no Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar knut.tore.salor@usn.no Journal of Autoethnography (2023) 4 (2): 308–311. https://doi.org/10.1525/joae.2023.4.2.308 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Knut Tore Sælør; Review: An Autoethnography of Becoming a Qualitative Researcher: A Dialogic View of Academic Development, by Trude Klevan and Alec Grant. Journal of Autoethnography 1 April 2023; 4 (2): 308–311. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/joae.2023.4.2.308 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of Autoethnography Search For those concerned about nepotism, a book that deals with friendship in academia might not be of interest. Or perhaps this is just the book you should read. Reading this book has been intriguing. It is not voluminous, yet parts of it are dense and challenging. The book starts with the first email Trude Klevan sent to Alec Grant, back in September 2015, sharing her concern about “her lack of confidence in getting by convincingly in ‘academic-speak’ situations.”1 As a PhD student, Klevan reaches out to the far more experienced academic Alec Grant after reading some of his work, and this is the beginning of a friendship and email exchange that constitutes the core and common thread in the book, at one point referred to as “an unfinalized and open-ended conversation.”2 One might suspect that such an approach could result in a mess of incoherent text, yet it... You do not currently have access to this content.