Elizabeth Adams St. Pierre, Ph.D.

Announcing a new book on post qualitative inquiry to be published by Routledge on November 17, 2026.

St.Pierre, Elizabeth A. & Jones, Stephanie. (2027). Post qualitative inquiry: Texts and lectures by Elizabeth A. St.Pierre. Routledge.

The book is based on a series of 6 public lectures on post qualitative inquiry presented by Dr. St.Pierre and organized and introduced by Dr. Jones in 2024-2025. Invited guests were featured at each lecture and held workshops about their own scholarship the mornings of the lectures. Those guests were as follows: Dr. Aaron Kuntz, Dr. Sophia Jeong, Dr. Saralyn McKinnon-Crowley, Dr. Martin Camiré, Dr. Alecia Jackson, Dr. Lisa Mazzei, Dr. Jonathan Eakle, Dr. Hillevi Lenz-Taguchi, and Dr. Maggie McLure.

Here’s the link to the full playlist of video recordings of the 6 lectures:

https://www.youtube.com/@PostQualitativeInquiryLectures/podcasts

Before joining the University of Georgia in 1995, Dr. St.Pierre had careers as a high school English teacher and a librarian.

At UGA, her research, scholarship, and teaching focus on poststructural and feminist theories of human being and language and on “post qualitative inquiry,” which she first described in a handbook chapter in 2011. She developed and teaches courses on Theoretical Frameworks for Doctoral Studies, The Postmodern Turn, Post Qualitative Inquiry, Writing Up Qualitative Research, Foucault, Derrida and Deconstruction, Affect Theory, New Empiricisms and New Materialisms, and Scientifically Based Research in Education.

She has edited special issues of journals on reading for inquiry (2024), new approaches to inquiry (2021), using concept instead of method in inquiry (2017), new empiricisms and new materialisms (2016), qualitative data analysis after coding (2014), post qualitative inquiry (2013), the state of qualitative inquiry (2006), and poststructural feminism (1997).

Dr. St.Pierre won the ICQI Lifetime Achievement Award in 2025

Selected Publications.

St.Pierre, E.A. (2025). A primer for post qualitative inquiry. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 22(3), pp. 571-595. Special issue on “the critical humanisms and post qualitative inquiry in psychology.” https://doi.org/10.1080/14780887.2024.2347579

St.Pierre, E.A. (2024). Reading for post qualitative inquiry. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 37(6), pp. 1600-1610. https://doi.org/10.1080/09518398.2024.2340041

St.Pierre, E.A. (2021). Post qualitative inquiry, the refusal of method, and the risk of the new. Qualitative Inquiry, 27(1), 3-9. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1077800419863005

St.Pierre, E.A. (2019). Post qualitative inquiry in an ontology of immanence. Qualitative Inquiry, 25(1), pp. 3-16. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1077800418772634

St.Pierre, E.A. (2017). Haecceity: Laying out a plane for post qualitative inquiry. Qualitative Inquiry, 23(9), 686-698. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1077800417727764

St.Pierre, E.A. (2016). The empirical and the new empiricisms. Cultural Studies-Critical Methodologies, 16(2), 111-124. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1532708616636147

St.Pierre, E.A. (2015). Practices for the “new” in the new empiricisms, the new materialisms, and post qualitative inquiry. In N. Denzin & M. Giardina (Eds.). Qualitative Inquiry and the Politics of Research. (pp. 75-95). Left Coast Press. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781315421377-4/practices-new-new…

St.Pierre, E.A. (2012). Another postmodern report on knowledge: Positivism and its others. International Journal of Leadership in Education: Theory and Practice, 15(4), (pp. 483-503). https://doi.org/10.1080/13603124.2012.696710

St.Pierre, E.A. (2011). Post qualitative research: The critique and the coming after. In N.K. Denzin & Y.S. Lincoln (Eds.). Sage handbook of qualitative inquiry (4th ed.) (pp. 611-635). Sage. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/irqr.2008.1.3.319

St.Pierre, E.A. (2011). Refusing human being in humanist qualitative inquiry. In N.K. Denzin & M.D. Giardina (Eds.), Qualitative inquiry and the global crisis (pp. 40-55). Left Coast Press. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781315421254-10/refusing-human…

Freeman, M., deMarrais, K., Preissle, J, Roulston, K. & St.Pierre, E. A. (2007). Standards of evidence in qualitative research: An incitement to discourse. Educational Researcher, 36(1), 25-32. https://doi.org/10.3102/0013189X06298009

St.Pierre, E.A. (2006). Scientifically based research in education: Epistemology and ethics. Adult Education Quarterly, 56(4), 239-266. https://doi.org/10.1177/0741713606289025

Richardson, L. & St.Pierre, E.A. (2005). Writing: A method of inquiry. In N.K. Denzin & Y.S. Lincoln (Eds.). Handbook of Qualitative Research (3rd ed.), (pp. 959-978). Sage.

St.Pierre, E.A. (2001). Coming to theory: Finding Foucault and Deleuze. In Kathleen Weiler (Ed.). Feminist engagements: Reading, resisting, and revisioning male theorists in education and cultural studies (pp. 141-163). Routledge.

St.Pierre, E. A. (2000). Poststructural feminism in education: An overview. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 13(5), 477-515. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09518390050156422

St.Pierre, E. A. (1997). Methodology in the fold and the irruption of transgressive data. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 10(2), 175-189. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/095183997237278