Full Description
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?
Contents
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
Section 2
Defining WPA
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
Section 3
Theorizing WPA
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
Index
