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Queer Contingency In Writing Center Administrative Work, Patrick Greene, Travis Webster
Queer Contingency In Writing Center Administrative Work, Patrick Greene, Travis Webster
Writing Center Journal
Using a sprinkle of Queer Theory, their on-the-job experiences, and writing center scholarship that challenges disciplinary orthodoxies, two intersectionally queer and contingent writing center researcher-administrators examine the constraints of contingency; discuss the underlife of queer labor; and point to queer labor nuances and possibilities alongside contingent writing center work.
Contingency And Its Intersections In Writing Centers: An Introduction, Maggie M. Herb, Liliana M. Naydan, Clint Gardner
Contingency And Its Intersections In Writing Centers: An Introduction, Maggie M. Herb, Liliana M. Naydan, Clint Gardner
Writing Center Journal
Introduction to WCJ 41.1, which is a special issue on contingency in writing centers.
Comfort, Contingency, And Writing Center Work: An Essay In Three Illusions, Loren Maria Guay
Comfort, Contingency, And Writing Center Work: An Essay In Three Illusions, Loren Maria Guay
Writing Center Journal
In this hybrid essay, I engage creatively with the illusory nature of contingent work, presenting three episodes from my personal experiences as a contingent writing program administrator (WPA) during the COVID-19 pandemic. At the same time, I interrogate these experiences by building on past critiques of “comfortable” writing centers, applying Sara Ahmed’s work on the affectiveness of (dis)comfort in order to examine comfort and its uneasy relationship with labor. For whom is the writing center expected to labor to provide comfort? Whose comfort, and moreover whose safety, is jeopardized or made invisible in the process? In answering these questions, this …