Narratives of Hope and Grief in Higher Education

Stephanie Anne Shelton is Assistant Professor of Qualitative Research with the Department of Educational Studies in Psychology, Research Methods, and Counseling at the University of Alabama, USA.Nicole Sieben is Assistant Professor of Secondary English Education and Coordinator for Graduate Programs in English Education at the State University of New York College at Old Westbury, USA.

• 1. From Grief Grew Hope, and This Book.- 2. A Qualitative Reckoning.- 3. Hard Grief for Hard Love: Writing through Doctoral Studies and the Loss of my Mother.- 4. Losing (and Finding) Myself through Grief.- 5. Things That Are Good: Tracing Entanglements of Hope.- 6. The Art of Bereavement: An Autoethnographic Reflection on Transformational Learning Following the Loss of a Spouse.- 7. All at Once: Writing Grief.- 8. The Refrains that Help Me Remember: An Autoethnography of Grief, Epistemological Crisis, and Discovering Hope through Theory.- 9. I Can't Complain.- 10. I Refuse to Be a Bystander.- 11. Misdiagnosing Trauma and Grief: I Am Not Angry; I Am Triggered and Grief Stricken.- 12. En las sombras: A letter to my friend about grief, desire, and haunting.- 13. "Yup, Just Him": Misconceptions and Our Table for Three.- 14. Reading, Loving, and Losing my Mother: A Collage of Partial Understanding.- 15. Love you to pIeCEs.- 16. Hope: The Spark of Perseverance To Survive in the Face of Adversity.- 17. The Importance of Narratives in Finding Hope in Grief.