Prof. Serpil Aygün Cengiz, a faculty member at the Department of Folklore in the
Faculty of Language and History and Geography at Ankara University, hosted Prof.
Dr. Carolyn Ellis and Prof. Dr. Arthur Bochner as guest speakers on June 13, 2022, in
the virtual “Research Methods” course she taught in the 2021-2022 spring semester in
the graduate program. Dilek İşler Hayırlı, a doctoral student in the program, invited
the founders of autoethnography, these two esteemed academics, to the class, and
during the lesson. Gülgün Şerefoğlu, who graduated from the master’s program in
the Department of Folklore, and Dilek İşler Hayırlı acted as their translators. Bülent
Ayyıldız transcribed the video recording of the class. After Serpil Aygün Cengiz
reviewed the text, Carolyn Ellis and Arthur Bochner edited the text, enriching it in the
process