A Critical Life
Publication Date
1-1-2026
Document Type
Article
Publication Title
Communication Education
DOI
10.1080/03634523.2026.2681649
Abstract
This autoethnographic essay, inspired by Pelias’s “The Critical Life,” follows one faculty member throughout her day. Approximately 25 years after the publication of “The Critical Life,” this piece challenges us to reflect on not only what is “critical” to, for and about our work as scholars, but the ways in which we find ourselves constrained and enacting agency in our present, sociopolitical moment.
Keywords
Academic life, autoethnography, critical communication pedagogy, critical paradigm
Department
Communication Studies
Recommended Citation
Deanna L. Fassett. "A Critical Life" Communication Education (2026). https://doi.org/10.1080/03634523.2026.2681649
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