Kelly W. Guyotte is Associate Professor of Qualitative Research at the University of Alabama, USA, and Coordinator of the Educational Research Program. Inspired by her background in the visual arts, her research interests include gender and equity in higher education, artful inquiry practices, STEAM education, and teaching/mentoring in qualitative inquiry.

Jennifer R. Wolgemuth is Associate Professor of Educational Research at the University of South Florida, USA, and Director of the Graduate Certificate in Qualitative Research. Drawing on critical theories, she explores inquiry as an agential process that investigates and creates the lives and communities to and for which researchers are responsible.

Introduction: Why Philosophical Mentoring in Qualitative Research? Mentoring Moment: Willful Habit 1. Becoming Feminist Swarm: Inquiring Mentorship Methodologically Together Mentoring Moment: The Mentor I Never Knew I Needed 2. Flipping Mentoring: Feminist Materialist Praxis as Quiet Activism Mentoring Moment: Lost in the Becomings 3. Kinning and Composting: Mentorship/t in Post Qualitative Research Mentoring Moment: for kwg 4. Ruinous Mentorship Mentoring Moment: The Voice of Calm Mentoring Moment: Learning is Water Reflection 5. Unfinished: (Post)Philosophically Informed Mentoring and Relational Ethics Mentoring Moment: She Said I Should Call Her Jenni Mentoring Moment: My North Star 6. Mentoring as Radical Interconnectivity and Love: Post-Oppositional and De/colonial Approaches to Qualitative Research Mentoring in Higher Education Mentoring Moment: A Mentoring Moment with My Mentor Mentoring Moment: Mentorship as Radical Care 7. The Importance of Relationships in Mentorship and Methodological Identities Mentoring Moment: Mentoring Amalgam Mentoring Moment: Mentor and Athena 8. "I don't want feelings. I want tacos.": Toward a New Materialist Mentoring Practice Mentoring Moment: Culturally Relevant Mentorship in Motion Mentoring Moment: A Qualitative Mentoring Process Diagram in Haiku 9. String Figure Mentoring in a Qualitative Inquiry Assemblage Mentoring Moment: Mentoring as a Collective Relationality 10. Mentoring (Maybe) as a Philosophical Event Mentoring Moment: Before the Beginning: A Poem for My Mentor, Dr. Susan Copeland