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Writing Program Interrupted Making Space for Critical Discourse

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ISBN-10: 0867095938

ISBN-13: 9780867095937

Edition: 2009

Authors: Donna Strickland, Jeanne Gunner

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List price: $18.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Heinemann
Publication date: 8/12/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 232
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.46" tall
Weight: 0.704
Language: English

Donna Strickland is coauthor, with Jeanne Gunner, of the Boynton/Cook title The Writing Program Interrupted. Donna is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Missouri-Columbia. She has worked in writing program administration at a variety of institutions.

Jeanne Gunner is coauthor, with Donna Strickland, of the Boynton/Cook title The Writing Program Interrupted. She is Vice Chancellor for Undergraduate Education and Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Chapman University. She has been a writing program administrator, writing teacher, member of the Council of Writing Program Administrator's executive and editorial boards, co-facilitator of the WPA Summer Workshop, and author on WPA theory and issues.

Foreword
Introduction Opening Up: Toward a Critical Discourse for Writing Program Administration
The Cultural Work of Writing Programs
Conservative Writing Program Administrators (WPAs)
Standards and Purity: Understanding Institutional Strategies to Insure Homogeneity
Feminisms and the Problem of Complicity in Writing Program Administrator Work
How We Do What We Do: Facing the Contradictory Political Economics of Writing Programs
Alternative WPA Discourses
Freedom and Safety, Space and Place: Locating the Critical WPA
Redefining Work and Value for Writing Program Administration
Queer Eye for the Camp Program: Toward a Queer Critique of WPA Work
Inviting Trouble: The Subversive Potential of the Outsider Within Standpoint
Laboring to Globalize a First-Year Writing Program
The Pragmatics of Professionalism
Subjectivity, Identity, Reflection
The Writing Program Administrator and Enlightened False Consciousness: The Virtues of Becoming an Empty Signifier
"Acting Out" or Acts of Agency: WPA and "Identities of Participation"
Analyzing Narratives of Change in a Writing Program
Writing Program Administration Outside the North American Context
WPAs and Identity: Sounding the Depths
Place, Culture, Memory
References
Contributors