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Title The things we carry : strategies for recognizing and negotiating emotional labor in writing program administration / edited by Courtney Adams Wooten, Jacob Babb, Kristi Murray Costello, and Kate Navickas
Published Logan : Utah State University Press, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 329 pages) : illustrations
Contents Don't worry, be happy : flourishing as a WPA / by Carrie S. Leverenz -- You lost me at "Administrator" : vulnerability and transformation in WPA work at the two-year college / by Anthony Warnke, Kirsten Higgins, Marcie Sims, and Ian Sherman -- The emotional labor of becoming : lessons from the exiting Writing Center director / by Kate Navickas -- Educating the faculty writer to "Dance with Resistance" : an affective rhetorical analysis of the National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity / by Janelle Adsit and Sue Doe -- Unleashed emotion : centering emotional labor in our professional documents / by Amy Ferdinandt Stolley -- Handling sexual assault reports as WPA / by Kim Hensley Owens -- And so I respond : the emotional labor of Writing Program administrators in crisis response / by Kaitlin Clinnin -- Shelter in place : contingency and affect in graduate teacher training courses / by Carl Schlachte -- Making visible the emotional labor of Writing Center work / by Matthew T. Nelson, Sam Deges, and Kathleen F. Weaver -- Emotional labor and Writing Program administration at religiously affiliated institutions / by Elizabeth Imafuji -- Administrating while black : negotiating the emotional labor of an African American female WPA / by Sheila Carter-Tod -- It gets bitter : considering Andy Warhol and harboring anger as a gay WPA / by Joseph Janangelo -- From great to good enough : recalibrating expectations as WPA / by Elizabeth Kleinfeld -- Navigating WPA emotional labor with mindfulness : practical strategies for wellbeing / by Christy I. Wenger -- How to be a bad WPA / by Courtney Adams Wooten -- What now and what next? Strategy sheets for negotiating emotional labor / by Courtney Adams Wooten, Jacob Babb, Kristi Murray Costello, and Kate Navickas
Summary "Emotional labor is not adequately discussed by writing program administrators. The Things we carry makes this often-invisible labor visible, demonstrates a strategy to navigate it reflectively, and opens a path for research. This collection considers how writing program administrators work when their schools or regions experience crisis situations"--Provided by publisher-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 02, 2020)
Subject Writing centers -- Administration
Writing centers -- Psychological aspects
Writing centers -- Social aspects
College adminstrators -- Psychology
Writing centers -- Administration
Form Electronic book
Author Wooten, Courtney Adams, editor.
Babb, Jacob, editor.
Costello, Kristi Murray, editor.
Navickas, Kate, editor.
LC no. 2020023994
ISBN 1646420004
9781646420001