| Description |
1 online resource (x, 260 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction : institutional embodiment and our body of work / Melissa Nicolas and Anna Sicari -- Painting / Rita Malenczyk -- Embracing discomfort : embodiment and decolonial Writing Center praxis / Isaac Wang -- An embodied life : my post-partum writing story / Rebecca Rodriguez Carey -- What on Earth am I even doing here? Notes from an impossibly queer academic / Stacey Waite -- Non-linear transformations : queer bodies in curriculum redesign / Alex Gatten -- Embodying structures and feelings / Anna Rita Napoleone -- Embodiment in the Writing Center : storying our journey to activism / Trixie Smith with Wonderful Faison, Laura Gonzales, Elizabeth Keller, and Scotty Seacrist -- As time moves forward / Dena Arendall -- An academic career takes flight, or The first-year on the tenure track, as seen from above / Jasmine Lee -- Graduate student bodies on the periphery / Kelsie Walker, Morgan Gross, Paula Weinman, Hayat Bedaiwi, and Alyssa McGrath -- Down the rabbit hole / Elitza Kotzeva -- Writing the body / Janel Atlas -- "Never make yourself small to make them feel big" : a black graduate student's struggle to take up space and navigate the rhetoric of microaggressions in a writing program / Triauna Carey -- Bodies in conflict : embodied challenges and complex experiences / Nabila Hijazi -- Out of hand / Jennie Young -- Bodies, visible / Joshua L. Daniel and Lynn C. Lewis -- Dancing with our fears : a writing professor's tango / Mary Lourdes Silva -- "Do not disturb -- breastfeeding in progress" : reflections from a lactating WPA / Jasmine Kar Tang -- The circulation of embodied affects in a revision of a first-year Writing Program / Michael Faris -- More bodies than heads : handling male faculty as an expectant administrator / Jacquelyn Hoermann-Elliott -- About a lucky man who made the grade / Ryan Skinnell -- A day in the life : administering from a position of privileged precaritization in an age of mass shootings/ Shannon Walters -- When discomfort becomes panic : doing research in trauma as a survivor / Lauren Brentnell -- Embodied CV (abridged) / Denise Comer -- WPAs and embodied labor : Mina Shaughnessy, (inter)personal labor, and an ethics of care / Rebecca Gerdes McClain -- Somatophobia and subjectivity : or, What cancer taught me about writing and teaching writing / Julie Prebel -- A scholar anew : how cancer taught me to rekindle my embodiment research / Maureen Johnson -- A comp teacher's elegy : to Carol Edleman Warrior / Michelle LaFrance -- Born for this / Elizabeth Boquet |
| Summary |
"Our Body of Work invites administrators and teachers to consider how physical bodies inform everyday work and labor as well as research and administrative practices in writing programs. Combining academic and personal essays, it opens a meaningful discussion about the physicality of bodily experiences in the academy"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 15, 2022) |
| Subject |
Human body and language.
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Language and culture.
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Writing centers -- Administration
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Rhetoric -- Study and teaching -- Social aspects
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Academic writing -- Women authors
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Women scholars -- Attitudes
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Human body and language.
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Language and culture.
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Writing centers -- Administration.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Nicolas, Melissa, editor.
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Sicari, Anna, editor.
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| LC no. |
2022013718 |
| ISBN |
9781646422340 |
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1646422341 |
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