Órla Meadhbh Murray (she/ they) is Assistant Professor of Criminology and Sociology at Northumbria University, Fellow at Durham University’s Institute for Medical Humanities, and co- founder of the Institutional Ethnography Network. Their research addresses inequalities in higher education, sociology of the gut, and feminist knowledge production, primarily through institutional ethnography.Maria Tamboukou is a scholar in Gender and Feminist Studies and has held professorial roles in the UK, Sweden, and Australia. Her work spans feminist epistemologies, narrative inquiry, and archival research. She has published widely, including her latest book, Numbers and Narratives: A Feminist Genealogy of Automathographies (2025).

• Foreword Introduction: Liz Stanley and the Power of Texts: A Feminist Sociological Tribute Part I: Challenging Sociology 1. On Provocation 2. How we feel: the Mass Observation Archive, Elias and doing sociology Part II: Doing Feminist Research with Texts 3. Beyond the cookbook: Feminist research, personal narratives, and scholarly insights 4. A Stanleyian Toolkit Approach: Learning to Read and Write with Feminist Fractured Foundationalism Part III: Thinking Auto/Biographically 5. Wave~Diffractions. Revisiting the Untimely Academic Novellas in the Anthropocene 6. (Un)alienated Groundings: Feminist and Queer Revisions of Indian Personal Narratives 7. Relating with past lives: cultural historian as a biographer Part IV: Reading and Rewriting Letters 8. The stroke of my pen: On transferring the past into the present 9. Learning and Teaching about the Epistolarium in a Foreign Language Degree in Brazil: A Correspondence Between a Teacher, Her Two Students, and the Author They Read 10. Emergent properties in the letters of Nancy Nolan and Leonard Woolf: “…produce something good for yourself and possibly at some time good for other people…” Part V: Problematising the Archive 11. Fan letter from a sociologist of secrets in the archive 12. Women mathematicians’ ‘epistolaria’: between the personal and the scientific Afterword: Toward Feminist Textualities Yet to Come

Órla Meadhbh Murray (she/ they) is Assistant Professor of Criminology and Sociology at Northumbria University, Fellow at Durham University’s Institute for Medical Humanities, and co- founder of the Institutional Ethnography Network. Their research addresses inequalities in higher education, sociology of the gut, and feminist knowledge production, primarily through institutional ethnography.Maria Tamboukou is a scholar in Gender and Feminist Studies and has held professorial roles in the UK, Sweden, and Australia. Her work spans feminist epistemologies, narrative inquiry, and archival research. She has published widely, including her latest book, Numbers and Narratives: A Feminist Genealogy of Automathographies (2025).

• Foreword Introduction: Liz Stanley and the Power of Texts: A Feminist Sociological Tribute Part I: Challenging Sociology 1. On Provocation 2. How we feel: the Mass Observation Archive, Elias and doing sociology Part II: Doing Feminist Research with Texts 3. Beyond the cookbook: Feminist research, personal narratives, and scholarly insights 4. A Stanleyian Toolkit Approach: Learning to Read and Write with Feminist Fractured Foundationalism Part III: Thinking Auto/Biographically 5. Wave~Diffractions. Revisiting the Untimely Academic Novellas in the Anthropocene 6. (Un)alienated Groundings: Feminist and Queer Revisions of Indian Personal Narratives 7. Relating with past lives: cultural historian as a biographer Part IV: Reading and Rewriting Letters 8. The stroke of my pen: On transferring the past into the present 9. Learning and Teaching about the Epistolarium in a Foreign Language Degree in Brazil: A Correspondence Between a Teacher, Her Two Students, and the Author They Read 10. Emergent properties in the letters of Nancy Nolan and Leonard Woolf: “…produce something good for yourself and possibly at some time good for other people…” Part V: Problematising the Archive 11. Fan letter from a sociologist of secrets in the archive 12. Women mathematicians’ ‘epistolaria’: between the personal and the scientific Afterword: Toward Feminist Textualities Yet to Come

Órla Meadhbh Murray (she/ they) is Assistant Professor of Criminology and Sociology at Northumbria University, Fellow at Durham University’s Institute for Medical Humanities, and co- founder of the Institutional Ethnography Network. Their research addresses inequalities in higher education, sociology of the gut, and feminist knowledge production, primarily through institutional ethnography.Maria Tamboukou is a scholar in Gender and Feminist Studies and has held professorial roles in the UK, Sweden, and Australia. Her work spans feminist epistemologies, narrative inquiry, and archival research. She has published widely, including her latest book, Numbers and Narratives: A Feminist Genealogy of Automathographies (2025).

• Foreword Introduction: Liz Stanley and the Power of Texts: A Feminist Sociological Tribute Part I: Challenging Sociology 1. On Provocation 2. How we feel: the Mass Observation Archive, Elias and doing sociology Part II: Doing Feminist Research with Texts 3. Beyond the cookbook: Feminist research, personal narratives, and scholarly insights 4. A Stanleyian Toolkit Approach: Learning to Read and Write with Feminist Fractured Foundationalism Part III: Thinking Auto/Biographically 5. Wave~Diffractions. Revisiting the Untimely Academic Novellas in the Anthropocene 6. (Un)alienated Groundings: Feminist and Queer Revisions of Indian Personal Narratives 7. Relating with past lives: cultural historian as a biographer Part IV: Reading and Rewriting Letters 8. The stroke of my pen: On transferring the past into the present 9. Learning and Teaching about the Epistolarium in a Foreign Language Degree in Brazil: A Correspondence Between a Teacher, Her Two Students, and the Author They Read 10. Emergent properties in the letters of Nancy Nolan and Leonard Woolf: “…produce something good for yourself and possibly at some time good for other people…” Part V: Problematising the Archive 11. Fan letter from a sociologist of secrets in the archive 12. Women mathematicians’ ‘epistolaria’: between the personal and the scientific Afterword: Toward Feminist Textualities Yet to Come