Post Qualitative Inquiry

Post Qualitative Inquiry: Texts and Lectures by Elizabeth A. St.Pierre brings together a curated selection of writings and public lectures by Elizabeth Adams St.Pierre, whose work has shaped and energized the international conversation on post qualitative inquiry.

Developed alongside the landmark Post Qualitative Inquiry Lecture Series featuring St.Pierre at the University of Georgia (2024–2025), this collection offers an archival record of a rare scholarly event that convened more than 400 participants from over 30 countries, alongside leading international guests whose work intersects with poststructural, feminist, posthumanist, and new materialist approaches to inquiry. Organized around six key publications chosen by St.Pierre as representative touchstones of the field, the book pairs each text with its corresponding lecture, and with introductions by Stephanie Jones that situate the ideas historically, philosophically, and politically. Together, the materials trace evolving engagements with ontological inquiry, difference, immanence, new empiricisms, refusal of method, and the conditions under which “the new” in research can emerge. Rather than prescribing a way to “do” post qualitative inquiry, the collection documents a generative discursive space in which concepts, problems, and philosophical inheritances are re-opened and re-read.

For scholars, graduate students, and teachers of qualitative and post qualitative research, the book provides access to a significant moment in the development of PQI, along with multimodal media that preserve the lectures’ dialogic and affective force.

Elizabeth A. St.Pierre is an internationally renowned scholar of qualitative and post qualitative inquiry. She was awarded the 2025 Lifetime Achievement Award by the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (ICQI) and has given invited talks across the United States and the globe on the philosophy of science, social science research, poststructural feminism, qualitative research, and post qualitative inquiry for 30 years. Dr. St.Pierre is a professor at the University of Georgia where she teaches doctoral seminars on Foucault, Derrida, New Materialisms/New Empiricisms, Feminist Research Methods, Affect Theory, Post Qualitative Inquiry, Postmodern Theory, and Critical Studies in the Mary Frances Early College of Education and the Institute for Women’s and Gender Studies. She is a beloved teacher and mentor at the University of Georgia and institutions across the globe where she has supported students and faculty for three decades.

Stephanie Jones is an internationally renowned interdisciplinary scholar who engages critical feminist posthumanist philosophies to write about how informal and formal education spaces can be more creative, critical, expansive, and healing. She has been honored with numerous awards for her research including the Outstanding Book Award from the Society of Professors of Education and the Outstanding Book Award from the American Educational Research Association (Qualitative Research SIG) for her 2016 co-authored book with James F. Woglom On Mutant Pedagogies: Seeking Justice and Drawing Change in Teacher Education. Dr. Jones is a Meigs Distinguished Professor at the University of Georgia where she teaches courses on Feminist and Justice-Oriented Pedagogies, Bodies and Sex Education, Social Class and Poverty, Writing for Qualitative and Post Qualitative Scholars, and Teacher Education in the Mary Frances Early College of Education and the Institute for Women’s and Gender Studies.