1. Introduction to Arts-Based Research, Patricia Leavy

2. Philosophical and Practical Foundations of Artistic Inquiry: Creating Paradigms, Methods, and Presentations Based in Art, Shaun McNiff

3. A/r/tography as Living Inquiry, Rita Irwin, Natalie LeBlanc, Jee Yeon Ryu, & George Belliveau

4. Dreaming Bigger: Culturally Congruent and Contemplative Approaches to Arts-Based Research, Kakali Bhattacharya

5. Creative Arts Therapies and Arts-Based Research, Cathy A. Malchiodi

6. Creativity and Imagination: Research as World Making!, Celiane Camargo-Borges

II. Literary Genres

7. Narrative Inquiry, Mark Freeman

8. The Art of Autoethnography, Tony E. Adams & Stacy Holman Jones

9. Revisiting “Long Story Short”: Encounters with Creative Nonfiction as Methodological Provocation, Anita Sinner, Erika Hasebe-Ludt, & Carl Leggo

10. Social Fiction, Patricia Leavy

11. Poetic Inquiry: Poetry as/in/for Social Research, Sandra L. Faulkner

III. Performance Genres

12. A/r/tographic Inquiry in a New Tonality: The Relationality of Music and Poetry, Peter Gouzouasis

13. Living, Moving, and Dancing: Embodied Ways of Inquiry, Celeste Snowber

14. Ethnodrama and Ethnotheatre, Joe Salvatore

15. Reflections on the Techniques and Tones of Playbuilding by a Director/Actor/Researcher/Teacher, Joe Norris

IV. Visual Arts

16. Arts-Based Visual Research, Gunilla Holm, Fritjof Sahlström, & Harriet Zilliacus

17. Drawing, Painting, and Story as Research, Barbara J. Fish

18. Collage as Arts-Based Research, Victoria Scotti & Gioia Chilton

19. Installation Art: The Voyage Never Ends, Jennifer L. Lapum

20. How to Draw Comics the Scholarly Way: Creating Comics-Based Research in the Academy, Marcus B. Weaver-Hightower, Paul J. Kuttner, & Nick Sousanis

V. Audiovisual Arts

21. Film as Research/Research as Film, Trevor Hearing & Kip Jones

22. Documentary Film as Arts-Based Research, Yehudit Silverman

VI. Multimethod and Team Approaches

23. Art-Based Inquiry of Marine Debris in Education for Sustainability, Karin Stoll, Wenche Sørmo, & Mette Gårdvik

24. Multimethod Arts-Based Research: Considerations of Space and Place in Arts Research, Jaime Lynn Rice & Susan Finley

VII. Arts-Based Research within Disciplines or Area Studies

25. Arts-Based Research in Education, James Haywood Rolling, Jr.

26. An Overview of Arts-Based Research in Sociology, Anthropology, and Psychology, Jessica Smartt Gullion & Lisa Schäfer

27. Deepening the Mystery of Arts-Based Research in the Health Sciences, Jennifer L. Lapum

28. Arts-Based Research in the Natural Sciences, Rebecca Kamen

29. Learning from Aesthetics: Unleashing Untapped Potential in Business, Keiko Krahnke, Donald Gudmundson, & Isaac Wanasika

VIII. Perspectives from Around the Globe

30. Arts-Based Research Traditions and Orientations in Europe: Perspectives from Finland and Spain, Anniina Suominen, Mira Kallio-Tavin, & Fernando Hernández-Hernández

31. Arts-Based Practices in Taiwan: An Agency for Change, Yichien Cooper

32. Personal Reflections on 10 Years of Arts-Based Research Practice in Japan, Masayuki Okahara

33. The London Arts-Based Research Centre: The Creative Psyche as Knowledge Generator, Roula-Maria Dib

IX. Additional Considerations

34. Criteria for Evaluating Arts-Based Research, Patricia Leavy

35. Translation in Arts-Based Research, Nancy Gerber

36. Arts-Based Writing: The Performance of Our Lives, Vittoria S. Daiello, Candace Jesse Stout, & Dani Clark

37. Art, Agency, and Ethics in Research: A Posthumanist Vision of Goodness in Arts Based Research, Jerry Rosiek

38. Seeing More: Aesthetic-Based Research as Pedagogy of Self-Cultivation, Liora Bresler

39. The Pragmatics of Publishing the Experimental Text, Norman K. Denzin

40. Going Public: The Reach and Impact of Ethnographic and Academic Research, Sarah Abbott &Phillip Vannini

Conclusion

41. On Realizing the Promise of Arts-Based Research, Patricia Leavy