"I" in academic and scholarly writing

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This is not a search for advice. This is a point of curiosity to me, because my education was sort of extreme and obsessive on this point, and it occurs to me that perhaps other fifth-graders were not scarred for life by writing papers that said things like "this author feels that Disney World would be an idea summer vacation destination for her family."

So, inquiring minds and all that....

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"I" was never acceptable anywhere ever until I started taking classes in Women and Gender Studies, where they like you to socially locate yourself and acknowledge your standpoint and biases and motivations for research. I, personally, like that. That's why I have "white/female/bisexual/cisgendered/middle-class/college-educated/person with disabilities" on my LJ info page.

If you are talking about your personal experience and/or standpoint, it's entirely kosher. It seems to me like it would add value to your Bristol paper as an intro to the material, at the very least.