Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Negotiating Non-Tenure-Track Identities-Jessica Edwards, Meg McGuire, and Rachel Sanchez
Part I: Definitions
1. Practice Doesn’t Always Make Permanent: Directing a Writing Center as a Professor of Practice-Rachel Azima
2. How Student Affairs Praxis Can Aid the Nexus of Emotional Labor for NTTF-Peter Brooks
3. Contingent Faculty in the Gig Economy: A Conversation, Comparison, and Call-Erica M. Stone and Sarah E. Austin
4. “What Are You?”: Rethinking Frames for Contingent Writing Center Work-Liliana M. Naydan
Part II: Critical Perspectives
5. Having It All: The Costs and Opportunities of Non-Tenure-Track Faculty’s Institutional Progress-Lacey Wootton
6. Ghosts in the Building: Investigating Contingent-faculty Experiences-Brendan Hawkins and Julie Karaus
Part III: Lived Experiences
7. An Inconvenient Truth: Labels and Limits in Writing Center Directorship-Megan Boeshart Burelle and Elizabeth J. Vincelette
8. A Tale of Two Pities: An Inside Look at a Dual Non-Tenure-Track Household-Jessica Cory and John McHone
9. The Sound of Silence: Negotiating Non-Tenure-Track Invisibility within the Institution-Angie McKinnon Carter, Christopher Lee, and Linda Shelton
10. Disunity in a Writing Community: A Post-PhD Memoir of Professional Transitions-Liz Gumm
11. Collective Bargaining, Heterogeneity, and Non-Tenure-Track Writing Faculty-Denise Comer
12. Off Track and Sidetracked-Seth Myers
Part IV: Next Steps
13. Collaboration as Antidote to NTTF Pressures-Nathalie Joseph and Norah Ashe-McNalley
14. Collaboration Is Critical, but Further Considerations Are Needed for NTTF-Heather Jordan
15. Faculty Community Building: Portfolio-Assessment Groups as Teaching Circles-Dauvan Mulally
About the Authors
Index