Nicolas, Melissa, editorSicari, Anna, editorUtah State University Press, publisher2022-09-282022-09-282022https://hdl.handle.net/10217/235782Includes bibliographical references and index.Our Body of Work invites administrators and teachers to consider how physical bodies inform everyday work and labor as well as research and administrative practices in writing programs. Combining academic and personal essays, it opens a meaningful discussion about the physicality of bodily experiences in the academy.--Provided by publisher.Introduction: institutional embodiment and our body of work / Melissa Nicolas and Anna Sicari -- Painting / Rita Malenczyk -- Embracing discomfort: embodiment and decolonial Writing Center praxis / Isaac Wang -- An embodied life: my post-partum writing story / Rebecca Rodriguez Carey -- What on Earth am I even doing here? Notes from an impossibly queer academic / Stacey Waite -- Non-linear transformations: queer bodies in curriculum redesign / Alex Gatten -- Embodying structures and feelings / Anna Rita Napoleone -- Embodiment in the Writing Center: storying our journey to activism / Trixie Smith with Wonderful Faison, Laura Gonzales, Elizabeth Keller, and Scotty Seacrist -- As time moves forward / Dena Arendall -- An academic career takes flight, or The first-year on the tenure track, as seen from above / Jasmine Lee -- Graduate student bodies on the periphery / Kelsie Walker, Morgan Gross, Paula Weinman, Hayat Bedaiwi, and Alyssa McGrath -- Down the rabbit hole / Elitza Kotzeva -- Writing the body / Janel Atlas -- "Never make yourself small to make them feel big": a black graduate student's struggle to take up space and navigate the rhetoric of microaggressions in a writing program / Triauna Carey -- Bodies in conflict: embodied challenges and complex experiences / Nabila Hijazi -- Out of hand / Jennie Young -- Bodies, visible / Joshua L. Daniel and Lynn C. Lewis -- Dancing with our fears: a writing professor's tango / Mary Lourdes Silva -- "Do not disturb -- breastfeeding in progress": reflections from a lactating WPA / Jasmine Kar Tang -- The circulation of embodied affects in a revision of a first-year Writing Program / Michael Faris -- More bodies than heads: handling male faculty as an expectant administrator / Jacquelyn Hoermann-Elliott -- About a lucky man who made the grade / Ryan Skinnell -- A day in the life: administering from a position of privileged precaritization in an age of mass shootings/ Shannon Walters -- When discomfort becomes panic: doing research in trauma as a survivor / Lauren Brentnell -- Embodied CV (abridged) / Denise Comer -- WPAs and embodied labor: Mina Shaughnessy, (inter)personal labor, and an ethics of care / Rebecca Gerdes McClain -- Somatophobia and subjectivity: or, What cancer taught me about writing and teaching writing / Julie Prebel -- A scholar anew: how cancer taught me to rekindle my embodiment research / Maureen Johnson -- A comp teacher's elegy: to Carol Edleman Warrior / Michelle LaFrance -- Born for this / Elizabeth Boquet.born digitalbooksengCopyright and other restrictions may apply. User is responsible for compliance with all applicable laws. For information about copyright law, please see https://libguides.colostate.edu/copyright.All rights reserved. User is responsible for compliance. Please contact University Press of Colorado at https://upcolorado.com/our-books/rights-and-permissions for use information.Human body and languageLanguage and cultureWriting centers -- AdministrationRhetoric -- Study and teaching -- Social aspectsAcademic writing -- Women authorsWomen scholars -- AttitudesTextAccess is limited to the Adams State University, Colorado State University, Colorado State University Pueblo, Community College of Denver, Fort Lewis College, Metropolitan State University of Denver, Regis University, University of Alaska Fairbanks, University of Colorado Boulder, University of Colorado Colorado Springs, University of Colorado Denver, University of Denver, University of Northern Colorado, University of Wyoming, Utah State University and Western Colorado University communities only.