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      Writing Program Administration

      Series Editors: Susan H. McLeod and Margot Soven

      The Writing Program Administration series provides a venue for scholarly monographs and projects that are research- or theory-based and that provide insights into important issues in the field. We encourage submissions that examine the work of writing program administration, broadly defined (e.g., not just administration of first-year composition programs). Possible topics include but are not limited to 1) historical studies of writing program administration or administrators (archival work is particularly encouraged); 2) studies evaluating the relevance of theories developed in other fields (e.g., management, sustainability, organizational theory); 3) studies of particular personnel issues (e.g., unionization, use of adjunct faculty); 4) research on developing and articulating curricula; 5) studies of assessment and accountability issues for WPAs; and 6) examinations of the politics of writing program administration work at the community college.

      Books in the Series

      GenAdmin: Theorizing WPA Identities in the 21st Century by Colin Charlton, Jonikka Charlton, Tarez Samra Graban, Kathleen J. Ryan, and Amy Ferdinandt Stolley (2011).

      GenAdmin

      Theorizing WPA Identities in the Twenty-First Century

      Colin Charlton, Jonikka Charlton,

      Tarez Samra Graban, Kathleen J. Ryan, and Amy Ferdinandt Stolley

      Parlor Press

      Anderson, South Carolina

      www.parlorpress.com

      Parlor Press LLC, Anderson, South Carolina, USA

      © 2011 by Parlor Press

      All rights reserved.

      Printed in the United States of America

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      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Charlton, Colin, 1971-

      GenAdmin : theorizing WPA identities in the 21st century / Colin Charlton ...[et al.].

      p. cm.

      Includes bibliographical references and index.

      ISBN 978-1-60235-236-0 (pbk. : alk. paper) -- ISBN 978-1-60235-237-7 (hardcover : alk. paper) -- ISBN 978-1-60235-238-4 (adobe ebook) -- ISBN 978-1-60235-239-1 (epub)

      1. English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching. 2. Report writing--Study and teaching (Higher) 3. Writing centers--Administration. I. Title.

      PE1404.C477 2011

      808'.042071--dc23

      2011030631

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      Cover design by Colin Charlton.

      Printed on acid-free paper.

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      Dedications

      To my mentors, especially Pat, Shirley, Bud, Linda, and Nancy, who taught me that my questions mattered, to my coauthors who taught me that questions are richer when asked and answered together, and to Karl for being the best one.

      —AFS

      To my feminist mentors—Elizabeth, Hepsie, Nancy, and Jody—for teaching me early on about the need for balance. To my coauthors for making me think and laugh. To Cima and Eva for their furry friendship. To John for everything else.

      —KR

      To my mentors—Pat, Victor, Shirley, and Bud—for being steadfast and humane in their guidance, and for treating their students as full-fledged participants in the field. To A, C, J, and K for taking this project on. To Eric, for always making space for me to write.

      —TSG

      To Shirley, Dick, Donna, Bud, and Gerry, for living what this book is about before I could articulate it. To those who have or will have the passion and conviction to embrace administrative work, most especially my four coauthors. To my mom and my sweet loves, Duncan, Ian, and Colin, who remind me what matters when I need it most. And especially to my dad, who would have told everyone he knew about his baby girl’s book.

      —JC

      To Mom and Dad, for the Zen of it all. To my partners in crime, for the comingling of voices. To Shirley, for asking me why I was here. And to J, for being the best answer I will ever think of.

      —CC

      Contents

       Acknowledgments

       Prelude

       1 Toward a Philosophy of Generation Administration

       Interlude

       2 Listening to and Rewriting History

       Interlude

       3 Constructing Professional Identities

       Interlude

       4 Becoming WPAs

       Interlude

       5 Enacting GenAdmin Discourse

       Interlude

       6 Re-Theorizing a GenAdmin Ethics

       Afterword

       Jeanne Gunner, Joseph Harris,

       Dennis Lynch, and Martha Townsend

       Notes

       Works Cited

       About the Authors

       Index for Print Edition