EDUCATION
The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa AL
PhD, Educational Research, May 2019
MA, Higher Education Administration, 2014
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn NY
BFA, Fashion Design, 2011
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENT
Mary Frances Early College of Education, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA
2026 — Program Coordinator, Qualitative Research Program, Department of Lifelong Education, Administration, and Policy
2024 — Associate Professor with tenure, Qualitative Research Program, Department of Lifelong Education, Administration, and Policy
2019 — 2024 Assistant Professor, Qualitative Research Program, Department of Lifelong Education, Administration, and Policy
RESEARCH INTERESTS
The theory, pedagogy, and practice of qualitative inquiry. Specifically:
Expanding questions of equity and justice in higher education contexts;
Exploring the generative potential of sonic, visual, and artful methodologies;
Furthering approaches to qualitative research designs through applying posthuman, feminist, and critical materialist philosophies; and
Providing leadership in approaches to qualitative pedagogy.
EDITED BOOKS
Flint, M. & Guyotte, K. (under contract). Qualitative Pedagogy as Gift: Creatively Exploring Teaching Commitments and Reciprocations. Routledge.
Flint, M., Alvarez Hernandez, L., Copple, J., Sweet, J., & Toledo, W. (2026). Critical qualitative methodologies in gender and sexuality: Key concepts. Routledge.
REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES
Recent published and forthcoming
underlined names indicate graduate student co-authors at time of writing
Flint, M. & Deaton, A.B. (in press). Disrupting methodological certainty with wonder in the qualitative inquiry classroom. Teaching Educational Research Methods.
Flint, M., Willis, K., Price, B., Adelson, L., Elliott, L., Moore, L., Sim, E., Zhang, J., & Ullah, S. (in press). Rest as… Conceptualizing a radical qualitative pedagogy. Departures in Critical Qualitative Research (DCQR). Special Issue: Pedagogies for animating critical qualitative inquiry.
Flint, M. (2026). Hospicing philosophy: Science fictional responses to qualitative pedagogy. Educational Philosophy and Theory. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2026.2709641
Copple, J. & Flint, M. (2026). “We regret to inform you”: Enacting willful feminist negotiations of rejection. Qualitative Research Journal, 26(4), 553-564. https://doi.org/10.1108/QRJ-03-2025-0129
Wang, Y., & Flint, M. (2026) A Daoist orientation to qualitative inquiry: (Re)considerations of silence. Cultural Studies Critical Methodologies. https://doi.org/10.1177/15327086261434569
Flint, M. (2025). Paper portrait. Paperology. Thresholds. https://openthresholds-dev.onrender.com/issue/paperology#flint
Flint, M., Adams, J., Dodd, K., Johnson, M., Simmons Lee, T., Mitchell, N., & Grinnage, D. (2025). Dear theory and other stories: Healing our relationship to theory through reading. International Review of Qualitative Research, 18(1), 123-143. https://doi.org/sound10.1177/19408447251319416
Flint, M., Guyotte, K.W., & Coogler, C.H. (2025). Introduction to special issue: Enacting artful politics. International Review of Qualitative Research. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/19408447251334602
Flint, M., McLelland, L., & Kouaho, J.E. (2025). ‘It takes time’: Examining the pedagogical implications of intergroup dialogue. College Teaching. https://doi.org/10.1080/87567555.2025.2450720
Flint, M., Willis, K., Pless, J., Green, J., Williams, A, Gemar, C., Copelan, L., Silveira, V., & Isome, B. (2025). Collaging awakening and resistance with/in artful inquiry. Qualitative Inquiry. https://doi.org/10.1177/10778004251319461
Freeman, M., Flint, M., Hanawalt., C., Lee, K., Melcher, K., Nicolaides, A., & Matlock, A. (2025). The slow aesthetic pulse of emptiness. Philosophy and Theory in Higher Education, 7(1). https://www.peterlang.com/document/1570785
Guyotte, K.W., Coogler, C.H., & Flint, M. (2025). Introduction to special issue: Inquiring artfully: Provoking possibilities with/through/for qualitative encounters. Qualitative Inquiry. https://doi.org/10.1177/10778004251393197
Smithers, L.E., Eaton, P.W., & Flint, M. (2025). Administrative life in the time before catastrophe: Affect and the codependence of data and fear. Critical Studies in Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/17508487.2025.2472003
Flint, M. (2024). “You don’t want to sound like you’re from Alabama”: Infrasounds of place and race in student narratives of the South. Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, 39(1b), 51-64. https://journal.jctonline.org/index.php/jct/article/view/1229
Flint, M. & Wang, Y. (2024). Artful diffractions: (En)tangling with reflexivity and new materialist philosophy. Art/Research International, 9(1), 39-68. https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/ari/index.php/ari/article/view/29734/22123
Eaton, P.W., Flint, M., Smithers, L.E. (2024). Critical inquiry in and against twenty-first century authoritarian times. Cultural Studies Critical Methodologies, 24(5), 331–342. https://doi.org/10.1177/15327086241246025
Tang, Y. Wieling, E., & Flint, M. (2024). Systemic understandings of Chinese international doctoral students’ stress-coping processes and family dynamics during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. International Journal of Systemic Therapy, 35(2), 198-226. https://doi.org/10.1080/2692398X.2023.2243570
Flint, M. (2023). Sounded histor-futurit-ies: Imagining posthuman possibilities of race and place in qualitative research. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 36(4), 672-288. https://doi.org/10.1080/09518398.2021.1885071
Flint, M., Eaton, P., & Smithers, L. (2023). (Navigating-circling-un/doing)~post-qualitative inquiry: A collective biography. Qualitative Inquiry, 29(6), 686-697. https://doi.org/10.1177/10778004221126699
Flint, M., Kilgo, C.A., Emslie, K., & Bennett, L.A. (2023). The nexus of trans collegians’ pronouns and name practices navigating campus space(s): Beyond the binary. Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 16(4), 471-485. https://doi.org/10.1037/dhe0000349
Alvarez-Hernandez, L., & Flint, M. (2023). Epistemological weaving: Writing and making sense of qualitative research with Gloria Anzaldúa. Social Sciences, 12(7), 408. https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/12/7/408/pdf
Guyotte, K.W., Coogler, C.H., & Flint, M. (2023). I am with you: Artful (k)nottings in/with qualitative pedagogy. Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, 20(2), 117-141. https://doi.org/10.1080/15505170.2021.2004955
Toledo, W., Flint, M., Sharkey, C., McCollum, S., Cottrell, A., Ferrari, B.A., Paseda, O., Mitchell, N. (2023). Building community through feminist collectivity: Being and becoming women in academia. Gender and Education, 35(4), 365-383. https://doi.org/10.1080/09540253.2023.2193208
Under review/revise and resubmit
Smithers, L., Eaton, P., Flint, M. (revise and resubmit). Circulations: Hinging the authoritarian archive of American higher education. Critical Studies in Education.
Flint, M. & Guyotte, K. (under review). Introduction: Putting Gifts in Motion: Cultivating Gift Economies through Qualitative Pedagogy. In Qualitative Pedagogy as Gift: Creatively Exploring Teaching Commitments and Reciprocations. M. Flint & K. Guyotte (Eds.). Routledge.
Copple, J. & Flint, M. (under review). From slow death toward abundant living: Rescripting authorship with(in) feminist collaboration. Journal of Curriculum Theorizing.
Wang, Y. & Flint, M. (under review). Listen, it cannot be heard: Artmaking with Daoist philosophy and silence(s). Critical Departures in Qualitative Research.
Flint, M. & Collier-Thomas, M. (abstract accepted). Wasting time: A temporal archive of the (qualitative) classroom. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education. Special Issue: Use and Waste in Education and Qualitative Research
Flint M. & Stich, A. (abstract accepted). Touching grass: Qualitative research in the (hyper) real world. Review of Education, Pedagogy, & Cultural Studies.
*Flint, M. (invited paper). Green. Art/Research International. Special Issue: Color Inquiry.
RECENT BOOK CHAPTERS
Flint, M. & Willis, K. (accepted). Affective provocations: Walking, wondering, wandering together. In Artistic methodological spaces. M. Tavin & M. Koro (Eds.). Intellect Books.
Deaton, A., & Flint, M. (in press). Becoming with the everyday: Practicing love, care, and muscular hope. In Living and Loving as Research Methodologies. L. Nguyễn, Y. Qiu, & G. Singh (Eds.). Routledge.
Eaton, P., Smithers, L., & Flint, M. (accepted). GIRL!! WHAT THE FUCK IS ACTUALLY GOING ON AROUND HERE??? Or Queering Time: Proximal Archivings of the (Authoritarian) Present. In Accumulating Proximities. A. Franklin-Phipps & B. Varga (Eds).
Willis, K. & Flint, M. (accepted). Forgetting and (re)membering: An unpacking guide for artful inquiry. In Nourishing Recipes and Resistance in Education,. A. R. Corso, J. Kouakeu, E. Langston, C. Smith, D. Varier (Eds). 123 Press Imprint.
Flint, M. (2026). Mapping beginnings: (Re)orientations to critical qualitative approaches to gender and sexuality. In Critical qualitative approaches to gender and sexuality: Key Concepts. M. Flint, L. Alvarez-Hernandez, J. Copple, J. Sweet, & W. Toledo (Eds.). Routledge.
Flint, M., Alvarez-Hernandez, L., Copple, J., Sweet, J., & Toledo, W. (2026). Editors outro: Reflections on the future of critical qualitative approaches to gender and sexuality. In Critical qualitative approaches to gender and sexuality: Key Concepts. M. Flint, L. Alvarez-Hernandez, J. Copple, J. Sweet, & W. Toledo (Eds.). Routledge.
Flint, M., Eaton, P., & Smithers, L. (2026). Speculation as radical present: Tending hopeful futures in higher education pedagogy and practice. In Educational Fictions. S. Hrastinski (Ed). Routledge.
Flint, M. & Charlemagne, D. [1] (2025). Invoking Ezili (or ride, Ezili, ride): Tracing de/anti/colonial hauntings in the social studies. In B. Varga (Eds)., The Hauntological Social Studies: More-Than-Human Deviances, Imbrications, and Proliferations of Possibility. Springer.
Flint, M. & Perry, S. (2024). Engaging relationality, multiplicity, and wonder: Artmaking as analysis. (pp. 219-231). In K. Guyotte, J. Wolgemuth, & S.A. Shelton (Eds.)., Expanding Approaches to Thematic Analysis. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003389149-15
Flint, M. (2024). Racialized retellings: (Un)ma(r)king space and place on college campuses. (pp. 23-38). In R. Raaper (Eds.). Contemporary dynamics of student experience and belonging in higher education. Routledge. [reprint of journal article]
Alvarez-Hernandez, L., & Flint, M. (2024). Epistemological weaving: Writing and making sense of qualitative research with Gloria Anzaldúa. (pp. 76-89). In N. Changfoot, C. Rice and E. Chandler (Eds.). Rethinking artful politics: Bodies of difference remaking body worlds. MDPI Books. [reprint of journal article]
Guyotte, K.W., Flint, M., & Latopolski, K. (2024). Cartographies of belonging: Mapping nomadic narratives of first-year students. (pp. 7-22). In R. Raaper (Eds.). Contemporary dynamics of student experience and belonging in higher education. Routledge.
Guyotte, K.W., Shelton, S.A., & Flint, M. (2023). Feminist pedagogies: Careful(l) ethics in teaching qualitative research methods. In M. Nind (Eds.), Handbook of Teaching and Learning Social Research Methods. (pp. 27-31). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800884274.00011
Flint, M. & Tate, M. (2023). Cartographic accounts: Qualitatively mapping with Braidotti. In K. Roulston (Ed.). Questions for questioners: Inventive approaches to qualitative interviews (pp. 87-107). Myers Education Press. Winner of the Outstanding Book Award from The Society of Professors of Education.
Roulston, K. & Flint, M. (2023). Go-alongs, walking interviews and mobile methods. In K. Roulston (Ed.). Questions for questioners: Inventive approaches to qualitative interviews (pp. 195-214). Myers Education Press. Winner of the Outstanding Book Award from The Society of Professors of Education.
RECENT SELECTED AWARDS
2025
Early Career Scholar Award. American Educational Research Association Division D: Measurement and Methodologies (AERA Division D: Section 3)
2023
D. Keith Osborne Faculty Senate Excellence in Teaching Award, Mary Frances Early College of Education (MFECOE), University of Georgia
2021
Lilly Teaching Fellowship, University of Georgia
40 under 40 Award, College of Education, University of Alabama
2020
Illinois Qualitative Dissertation Award, Experimental Category, ICQI
Outstanding Dissertation Award, Qualitative Research SIG, AERA