{"product_id":"understanding-wpa-readiness-and-renewal-9781433193163","title":"Understanding WPA Readiness and Renewal","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eUnderstanding WPA Readiness and Renewal\u003c\/em\u003e examines WPA journeys and journeying.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDesigned for WPA graduate seminars and professional development workshops, this book addresses two questions:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e How do people develop readiness to serve as WPAs?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e How do experienced WPAs find or create renewal opportunities that help them move forward throughout their lives and careers?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAuthors address these questions from their sometimes-intersecting identities as BIPOC scholars, LGBTQ+ people, graduate students, and adjunct faculty, as well as early, mid-, and later-career WPAs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAuthors draw on their experience teaching at a range of two- and four-year institutions to analyse the complexities, contingencies, and rewards of short and long-term WPA work. These scholars contend that understanding WPA readiness and renewal involves questioning inherited definitions of those terms and engaging in theorized, self-aware conversations that \u003ci\u003ereflect\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003ereflect on\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations and Tables – Acknowledgments – Joseph Janangelo: Understanding WPA Readiness and Renewal: Of Preparation, Pipe Dreams, and Possibilities – Melvin E. Beavers: Leadership Readiness: Becoming a Rhetorically Mindful WPA –Gabrielle Isabel Kelenyi: (Re)Visioning WPA-GO: Finding WPA Readiness as a Graduate Student Leader – Elise A. Green: How to WPA: Career Planning, Survival and NTT Power at the Convergence of My Professional and Personal Lives – Mark Blaauw-Hara: Ready to be an Equity-Focused WPA: Reforming Community-College Developmental Writing – Erin Lehman\/Joanne Baird Giordano: Rethinking WPA Work for Open-Access Contexts: Preparing for Literacy Program Responsibilities – Kaitlin Clinnin\/Jennifer Eidum\/Morgan Hanson\/Mariya Tseptsura: Ready for a Career and a Family: Experiencing (In)Fertility as an Early Career WPA – Amy Ferdinandt Stolley: Unlearning Writing Program Administration – Jolivette Mecenas: Refusal as Renewal: An Asian\/American Woman Saying No While WPA-ing – Katherine Daily O’Meara: What Is Gained in Transition: Lessons from a WPA in Liminal Space – Jacob Babb\/Susan Popham: Revolving Doors: Programmatic Renewal and Regeneration through Leadership Reorganization – Jeffrey Klausman: Composing your WPA Career: Pleasure, Responsibility, and Wisdom – Colin Charlton\/Jonikka Charlton: Renewal through Cartography: Designing Resilience amidst Persistent Ecological Change – Beth Brunk: It’s All About the Student: Advocating for Students at All Levels of Leadership – Joseph Janangelo: I’m Still Here, Goddammit: Toward Irreverent Understandings of White Nostalgia, White Irreplaceability, and WPA \u003ci\u003eIn-Situ \u003c\/i\u003eLongevity – Carrie S. Leverenz: Getting Out of the Way: Antiracism and the Unbearable Whiteness of Being a WPA – Susan M. Lang: Readiness and Renewal: Not Just a Point in Time, but Processes – Mark Blaauw-Hara: Understanding WPA Readiness and Renewal as Mindful Improvisation – Patti Poblete: Readiness and Renewal: What Am I Even? – Author Biographies – Index.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Peter Lang Publishing Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51039693930839,"sku":"9781433193163","price":84.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781433193163.jpg?v=1750944506","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/understanding-wpa-readiness-and-renewal-9781433193163","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}