Lisa M. Tillmann-Healy

Bio: Lisa M. Tillmann-Healy is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Prison. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 1 publications receiving 3 citations.

Is There a Definition? Ruminating on Poetic Inquiry, Strawberries and the Continued Growth of the Field

Abstract: Over the last ten years, Poetic Inquiry (PI) has proven itself as an emergent arts-based research methodology. It has gained greater acceptance in the larger community of qualitative research due in large part to the hundreds of published studies that employ the writing or analysis of poetry as a major focus of the research process (Finley, 2003; Prendergast, Leggo & Sameshima, 2009; Prendergast & Galvin, 2012). However, despite this greater acceptance and increase in studies found in the literature, there has not been a critical contemporary exploration of the history, theory and method of PI that could lend itself to defining what the method is, for those unfamiliar with it. This article provides a summary of PI as it exists in the literature today. This includes surveying the rhizomatic history of the method, exploring debates around who should or should not use the method and conversation around the current uses of PI in qualitative research.

Poetic Bodies: Female Body Image, Sexual Identity and Arts-Based Research

Abstract: This article reviews the use of a poetic form of analysis and representation of interview data collected on the topic of women’s body image and sexual identity. The researcher developed a tri-voiced poetic method that merges participant, researcher and literature voices. In this article the author advocates tri-voiced poems as a way of sharing researcher viewpoints, opening up dialogue, challenging stereotypes, and reaching and educating broad audiences.

Postcolonial M/Othering: Poetics of Remembering and Writing as an Invitation to Rememory:

Abstract: To open up possibilities in inquiry, the authors write in a manner that extends a lens of postcolonial m/Othering through poetic autoethnography. They draw on the conceptualization of rememory to w...