Emily Wilkinson is an educator specializing in autoethnography and emotion. They are a recent graduate of Columbia University’s PhD program in English Ed., where they studied the intersections of emotions, dialogical pedagogy, conservatism, and queerness in a rural middle school classroom. They currently teach social studies in Northern California, USA, is Teacher Consultant with the Bay Area Writing Project, and serves as the secretary of the Genders and Sexualities Equality Assembly of the National Council of Teachers of English.

• 1. Part I: An Emotional Orientation to the State of Jefferson 2. Introduction: Swimming with Sharks in Tanks of Our Own Making 3. Chapter 1: It’s All Relational: A Framework Diffracted and Emotional Literature Review 4. Chapter 2: Crystallizing Experiences into Autoethnography 5. Chapter 3: Red is the Color of Anger, Embarrassment, and Love 6. Chapter 4: An Explosion of Secondary Traumatic Stress at the Secret Gay Trade 7. Chapter 5: The Intricacies of Depression in the Classroom 8. Chapter 6: Racing Through the State of Jefferson 9. Chapter 7: Open House is a Borderland 10. Chapter 8: Implications: Seeing Sharks in the Light

Emily Wilkinson is an educator specializing in autoethnography and emotion. They are a recent graduate of Columbia University’s PhD program in English Ed., where they studied the intersections of emotions, dialogical pedagogy, conservatism, and queerness in a rural middle school classroom. They currently teach social studies in Northern California, USA, is Teacher Consultant with the Bay Area Writing Project, and serves as the secretary of the Genders and Sexualities Equality Assembly of the National Council of Teachers of English.

• 1. Part I: An Emotional Orientation to the State of Jefferson 2. Introduction: Swimming with Sharks in Tanks of Our Own Making 3. Chapter 1: It’s All Relational: A Framework Diffracted and Emotional Literature Review 4. Chapter 2: Crystallizing Experiences into Autoethnography 5. Chapter 3: Red is the Color of Anger, Embarrassment, and Love 6. Chapter 4: An Explosion of Secondary Traumatic Stress at the Secret Gay Trade 7. Chapter 5: The Intricacies of Depression in the Classroom 8. Chapter 6: Racing Through the State of Jefferson 9. Chapter 7: Open House is a Borderland 10. Chapter 8: Implications: Seeing Sharks in the Light

Emily Wilkinson is an educator specializing in autoethnography and emotion. They are a recent graduate of Columbia University’s PhD program in English Ed., where they studied the intersections of emotions, dialogical pedagogy, conservatism, and queerness in a rural middle school classroom. They currently teach social studies in Northern California, USA, is Teacher Consultant with the Bay Area Writing Project, and serves as the secretary of the Genders and Sexualities Equality Assembly of the National Council of Teachers of English.

• 1. Part I: An Emotional Orientation to the State of Jefferson 2. Introduction: Swimming with Sharks in Tanks of Our Own Making 3. Chapter 1: It’s All Relational: A Framework Diffracted and Emotional Literature Review 4. Chapter 2: Crystallizing Experiences into Autoethnography 5. Chapter 3: Red is the Color of Anger, Embarrassment, and Love 6. Chapter 4: An Explosion of Secondary Traumatic Stress at the Secret Gay Trade 7. Chapter 5: The Intricacies of Depression in the Classroom 8. Chapter 6: Racing Through the State of Jefferson 9. Chapter 7: Open House is a Borderland 10. Chapter 8: Implications: Seeing Sharks in the Light