Contents
Foreword | Laura R. Micciche
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Emotional Labor, Writing Studies, and Writing Program Administration | Kristi Murray Costello and Jacob Babb
Section I: Preserving Work Identities
1. Don’t Worry, Be Happy: How to Flourish as a WPA | Carrie S. Leverenz
2. You Lost Me at “Administrator”: Vulnerability and Transformation in WPA Work at the Two-Year College | Anthony Warnke, Kirsten Higgins, Marcie Sims, and Ian Sherman
3. The Emotional Labor of Becoming: Lessons from the Exiting Writing Center Director | Kate Navickas
4. Educating the Faculty Writer to “Dance with Resistance”: Rethinking Faculty Development as Institutional Transformation | Janelle Adsit and Sue Doe
5. Unleashed Emotion: Centering Emotional Labor in Our Professional Documents | Amy Ferdinandt Stolley
Section II: Preserving Communities
6. Handling Sexual Assault Reports as a WPA | Kim Hensley Owens
7. And So I Respond: The Emotional Labor of Writing Program Administrators in Crisis Response | Kaitlin Clinnin
8. Shelter in Place: Contingency and Affect in Graduate Teacher Training Courses | Carl Schlachte
9. Making Visible the Emotional Labor of Writing Center Work | Matthew T. Nelson, Sam Deges, and Kathleen F. Weaver
10. Emotional Labor and Writing Program Administration at Religiously Affiliated Institutions | Elizabeth Imafuji
Section III: Preserving Balance
11. Administrating While Black: Negotiating the Emotional Labor of an African American Female WPA | Sheila Carter-Tod
12. It Gets Bitter: Considering Andy Warhol and Harboring Anger as a Gay WPA | Joseph Janangelo
13. From Great to Good Enough: Recalibrating Expectations as WPA | Elizabeth Kleinfeld
14. Navigating WPA Emotional Labor with Mindfulness: Practical Strategies for Well-Being | Christy I. Wenger
15. How to Be a Bad WPA | Courtney Adams Wooten
Conclusion: What Now and What Next? Strategy Sheets for Negotiating Emotional Labor | Courtney Adams Wooten, Jacob Babb, Kristi Murray Costello, and Kate Navickas
Strategy Sheets
How We Flourish as WPAs: Strategies from Positive Psychology | Carrie S. Leverenz
You Lost Me at “Administrator”: Vulnerability and Transformation in WPA Work at the Two-Year College | Anthony Warnke, Kirsten Higgins, Marcie Sims, and Ian Sherman
Emotional Labor Interview | Kate Navickas
What We Take and What We Modify from NCFDD | Janelle Adsit and Sue Doe
Strategies for Discussing Emotional Labor in Your Professional WPA Documents | Amy Ferdinandt Stolley
Preparing for and Managing the Emotional Labor of Sexual Assault Reports | Kim Hensley Owens
Strategies for Managing the Emotional Labor of Crisis Response | Kaitlin Clinnin
A Heuristic for WPAs in Disaster Response | Carl Schlachte
Strategies for Making Writing Center Emotional Labor Visible | Matthew T. Nelson, Sam Deges, and Kathleen F. Weaver
Coping with the Emotional Labor of Writing Program Administration at Religiously Affiliated Institutions | Elizabeth Imafuji
Administrating While Black: Negotiating the Emotional Labor of an African American WPA | Sheila Carter-Tod
Things to Do and Remember: “It Gets Bitter: Considering Andy Warhol and Harboring Anger as a Gay WPA” | Joseph Janangelo
Strategies for a Sustainable, Equitable, and Humane WPA Practice | Elizabeth Kleinfeld
Mindfulness: A Valuable Emotion Practice for WPAs | Christy I. Wenger
How to Be a Bad WPA | Courtney Adams Wooten
Index