Queerly Centered : LGBTQA Writing Center Directors Navigate the Workplace

Webster, Travis

ISBN 10: 1646421485 / ISBN 13: 9781646421480

Published by Utah State University Press, 2021

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Queerly Centered : LGBTQA Writing Center Directors Navigate the Workplace
• Publisher: Utah State University Press
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1646421485
• ISBN 13: 9781646421480
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Queerly Centered explores writing center administration and queer identity, showcasing LGBTQA labor undertaken but not previously acknowledged or documented in the field’s research. Drawing from interviews with twenty queer writing center directors, Travis Webster examines the lived experiences of queer people leading writing centers, the promise and occasional peril of this work, and the disciplinary implications of such work for writing center administration, research, and praxis. Focused on directors’ queer histories, administrative activisms, and on-the-job tensions, this study connects and departs from oft-referenced lenses, such as emotional and invisible labor, for understanding work in higher education. The first book-length project that exclusively bridges writing centers and LGBTQA studies, Queerly Centered is for researchers, administrators, educators, and practitioners of all orientations and backgrounds in writing center and writing program administration, rhetoric and composition, and higher education administration.

About the Author

Travis Webster is assistant professor of writing and rhetoric at Virginia Tech University. He was the University of Houston–Clear Lake Writing Center director from 2015 to 2018 and has worked in writing centers since 2002. His research also appears in College Composition and Communication, Writing Center Journal, WPA: Writing Program Administration, and The Peer Review.