Where are the five chapters?: Challenges and opportunities in mentoring students with art-based dissertations

This article explores the author’s experiences of serving on dissertation committees in which a primary methodology is art-based. Experiences at two different universities, one a state university in the United States and one an international graduate school in Europe, reveal both challenges and opportunities discovered in working with these new methodologies. The author reflects on her experiences with the student researchers, with faculty colleagues, with the institutional cultures of the universities, and with the author’s own struggles to learn new ways of thinking about the world of researchers conducting narrative, ritual, movement, musical, performative, poetic and visual forms of enquiry.