While local conditions remain at the forefront of writing program administration, transnational activities are slowly and thoroughly shifting the questions we ask about writing curricula, the space and place in which writing ...

One wonders if there is any academic field that doesn't suffer from the way it is portrayed by the media, by politicians, by pundits and other publics. How well scholars in a discipline articulate their own definition can ...

The argument of this collection is that the cultural and intellectual legacies of postmodernism impinge, significantly and daily, on the practice of the Writing Program Administrator. WPAs work in spaces where they must ...

The imperative to write and to publish is a relatively new development in the history of academia, yet it is now a significant factor in the culture of higher education. Working with Faculty Writers takes a broad view of ...

A wide variety of professional and personal perspectives about the costs, benefits, struggles, and triumphs experienced by writing program administrators transitioning into and out of leadership positions. Contributors ...

Hall reveals the conceptual frameworks found in and created by ordinary writing center documents. The values and beliefs underlying course syllabi, policy statements, website copy and comments, assessment plans, promotional ...

Emotional labor is not adequately discussed by writing program administrators. The Things we carry makes this often-invisible labor visible, demonstrates a strategy to navigate it reflectively, and opens a path for research. ...

Examines intersections among writing center administration and LGBTQA identity, exploring queer directors, their administrative labor, and the implications of their labor in administration. Shows the nuanced and complex ...

Analyzes and critiques one particular writing center's partnership-approach to collaboration with disciplinary faculty and upper administrators across the curriculum and offers writing centers a framework for responding ...

Gathers emerging scholars of colour and their white accomplices to challenge the cherished lore about the work of writing centres. Writing within an intersectional feminist frame, the contributors name and critique the ...