Table of Contents

1. Emerson C. Shuck, Administration of the Freshman English Program



2. Gary Olson and Joseph M. Moxley, Directing Freshman Composition: The Limits of Authority



3. Barbara L’Eplattenier, Finding Ourselves in the Past: An Argument for Historical Work on WPAs



4. Charlton, Jonikka and Shirley Rose, Twenty More Years in the WPA’s Progress



5. Neal Lerner, Searching for Robert Moore


Section 2

Defining WPA


6. Joseph Harris, Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss: Class Consciousness in Composition



7. Marc Bousquet, Tenured Bosses and Disposable Teachers



8. Shirley K. Rose and Irwin Weiser, "The WPA as Researcher and Archivist



9. Paul Kei Matsuda, Let’s Face it: Language Issues and the Writing Program Administrator



10. Amy Vidali, Disabling Writing Program Administration



11. Anne Ellen Geller and Harry Denny, Of Ladybugs, Low Status and Loving the Job: Writing Center Professionals Navigating Their Careers



12. Thomas Amorose, WPA Work at the Small College or University: Re-Imagining Power and Making the Small School Visible



13. Tim Taylor, Writing Program Administration at the Two Year College: Ghosts in the Machine


Section 3

Theorizing WPA


14. Jeanne Gunner, Decentering the WPA



15. Bruce Horner, Redefining Work and Value for Writing Program Administration



16. Donna Strickland,The Managerial Unconscious of Composition Studies



17. Laura Micchiche, More than a Feeling: Disappointment and WPA Work



18. Linda Adler-Kassner, The WPA as Activist: Systematic Strategies for Framing, Action and Representation



19. Melissa Ianetta, If Aristotle Ran the Writing Center: Classical Rhetoric and Writing Center Administration



20. Rachael Green-Howard, Building A WPA Library: A Bibliographic Essay