Full Description
Understanding WPA Readiness and Renewal examines WPA journeys and journeying.
Designed for WPA graduate seminars and professional development workshops, this book addresses two questions:
• How do people develop readiness to serve as WPAs?
• How do experienced WPAs find or create renewal opportunities that help them move forward throughout their lives and careers?
Authors address these questions from their sometimes-intersecting identities as BIPOC scholars, LGBTQ+ people, graduate students, and adjunct faculty, as well as early, mid-, and later-career WPAs.
Authors draw on their experience teaching at a range of two- and four-year institutions to analyse the complexities, contingencies, and rewards of short and long-term WPA work. These scholars contend that understanding WPA "readiness" and "renewal" involves questioning inherited definitions of those terms and engaging in theorized, self-aware conversations that reflect, and reflect on, understudied fears and desires about WPA work from graduate preparation to preparing for leadership rotation and retirement.
Contents
List of Illustrations and Tables - Acknowledgments - Joseph Janangelo: Understanding WPA Readiness and Renewal: Of Preparation, Pipe Dreams, and Possibilities - Melvin E. Beavers: Leadership Readiness: Becoming a Rhetorically Mindful WPA -Gabrielle Isabel Kelenyi: (Re)Visioning WPA-GO: Finding WPA Readiness as a Graduate Student Leader - Elise A. Green: How to WPA: Career Planning, Survival and NTT Power at the Convergence of My Professional and Personal Lives - Mark Blaauw-Hara: Ready to be an Equity-Focused WPA: Reforming Community-College Developmental Writing - Erin Lehman/Joanne Baird Giordano: Rethinking WPA Work for Open-Access Contexts: Preparing for Literacy Program Responsibilities - Kaitlin Clinnin/Jennifer Eidum/Morgan Hanson/Mariya Tseptsura: Ready for a Career and a Family: Experiencing (In)Fertility as an Early Career WPA - Amy Ferdinandt Stolley: Unlearning Writing Program Administration - Jolivette Mecenas: Refusal as Renewal: An Asian/American Woman Saying No While WPA-ing - Katherine Daily O'Meara: What Is Gained in Transition: Lessons from a WPA in Liminal Space - Jacob Babb/Susan Popham: Revolving Doors: Programmatic Renewal and Regeneration through Leadership Reorganization - Jeffrey Klausman: Composing your WPA Career: Pleasure, Responsibility, and Wisdom - Colin Charlton/Jonikka Charlton: Renewal through Cartography: Designing Resilience amidst Persistent Ecological Change - Beth Brunk: It's All About the Student: Advocating for Students at All Levels of Leadership - Joseph Janangelo: I'm Still Here, Goddammit: Toward Irreverent Understandings of White Nostalgia, White Irreplaceability, and WPA In-Situ Longevity - Carrie S. Leverenz: Getting Out of the Way: Antiracism and the Unbearable Whiteness of Being a WPA - Susan M. Lang: Readiness and Renewal: Not Just a Point in Time, but Processes - Mark Blaauw-Hara: Understanding WPA Readiness and Renewal as Mindful Improvisation - Patti Poblete: Readiness and Renewal: What Am I Even? - Author Biographies - Index.
