1st Edition
Landmark Essays on Writing Program Administration
Leading with the provocative observation that writing programs administration lacks “an established set of texts that provides a baseline of shared knowledge . . . in which to root our ongoing conversations and with which to welcome newcomers,” Landmark Essays on Writing Program Administration focuses on WPA identity to propose one such grouping of texts. This Landmark volume is the cornerstone resource for new Writing Program Administrators and graduate students seeking an ever-important overview of the literature on Writing Program Administration. Drawing broadly across scholarship in writing programs and writing centers, Ritter and Ianetta work to historicize, theorize, and problematize the ever-shifting answers offered to the question: Who—or what—is a WPA?
Table of Contents
Introduction
Canon Fodder? Surveying Our WPA Landmarks – Melissa Ianetta and Kelly Ritter
Section 1
Historicizing WPA
- Emerson C. Shuck, Administration of the Freshman English Program
- Gary Olson and Joseph M. Moxley, Directing Freshman Composition: The Limits of Authority
- Barbara L’Eplattenier, Finding Ourselves in the Past: An Argument for Historical Work on WPAs
- Charlton, Jonikka and Shirley Rose, Twenty More Years in the WPA’s Progress
- Neal Lerner, Searching for Robert Moore
- Joseph Harris, Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss: Class Consciousness in Composition
- Marc Bousquet, Tenured Bosses and Disposable Teachers
- Shirley K. Rose and Irwin Weiser, "The WPA as Researcher and Archivist
- Paul Kei Matsuda, Let’s Face it: Language Issues and the Writing Program Administrator
- Amy Vidali, Disabling Writing Program Administration
- Anne Ellen Geller and Harry Denny, Of Ladybugs, Low Status and Loving the Job: Writing Center Professionals Navigating Their Careers
- Thomas Amorose, WPA Work at the Small College or University: Re-Imagining Power and Making the Small School Visible
- Tim Taylor, Writing Program Administration at the Two Year College: Ghosts in the Machine
- Jeanne Gunner, Decentering the WPA
- Bruce Horner, Redefining Work and Value for Writing Program Administration
- Donna Strickland,The Managerial Unconscious of Composition Studies
- Laura Micchiche, More than a Feeling: Disappointment and WPA Work
- Linda Adler-Kassner, The WPA as Activist: Systematic Strategies for Framing, Action and Representation
- Melissa Ianetta, If Aristotle Ran the Writing Center: Classical Rhetoric and Writing Center Administration
- Rachael Green-Howard, Building A WPA Library: A Bibliographic Essay
Section 2
Defining WPA
Section 3
Theorizing WPA
Index
Biography
Kelly Ritter is Professor of English and Writing Studies and Associate Dean for Curricula and Academic Policy at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She has seventeen years’ experience as a WPA across three different universities. Her most recent book is Reframing the Subject: Postwar Instructional Film and Class-Conscious Literacies (2015). From 2012 to 2017, she was editor of College English.
Melissa Ianetta is Professor of English and Unidel Andrew B. Kirkpatrick Jr. Chair in Writing at the University of Delaware, where she has served as a WPA in both the university’s writing center and the English department’s composition program. She is the current editor of College English and, with Lauren Fitzgerald of Yeshiva University, she co-authored The Oxford Guide for Writing Tutors: Practice and Research.
