Writing Center Administrators as Campus Leaders (Paperback)

Writing Center Administrators as Campus Leaders challenges the current erasure of the WCA role within discourse on campus leadership by highlighting the various ways these leaders have had transformative impacts on their institutions, emphasizing the wide range of knowledge, skills, and added value that WCAs bring to the university ecosystem.

Contributors from diverse institutions, institutional contexts, identity formations, and career paths theorize different forms of leadership from within and beyond writing centers. The first section brings together perspectives on leadership theory and practice, focusing on the practical gains offered and challenges afforded via writing center professional pathways. The second section emphasizes partnerships and networks forged through intentional and creative leadership models. In the final section, contributors consider the emotional and affective dimensions of WCA labor, offering multiple roadmaps for WCAs to transition their experiences into more recognition, resources, and broader administrative roles while underscoring the potential of inclusive, community-focused leadership for current and aspiring WCAs.

Providing key insights and practical examples, Writing Center Administrators as Campus Leaders validates and inspires current and future WCAs and informs university administrators on the ways that WCAs can and do impact higher education as true campus leaders.

Candis Bond is associate professor of English and interim chair of the Department of English and World Languages at Augusta University, where she served as director of the writing center for nearly a decade. She also served as the president of the Southeastern Writing Center Association from 2024 to 2026 and is coeditor of WLN: A Journal of Writing Center Scholarship.

Joy Bracewell is the director of the Writing Center and assistant professor in the English Department at Georgia College & State University. She has over a decade of experience leading writing center initiatives and managing operations. She has held multiple leadership positions in the Southeastern Writing Center Association, and her work has appeared in Writing Lab Newsletter and Praxis.

Dr. Wonderful is the director of the Richard Wright Center for Writing, Rhetoric, and Research at Jackson State University. She has published several articles, chapters, and books on topics including race, language, and antiracist writing assessment. She is the winner of the 2023 IWCA Outstanding Book Award for Counterstories from the Writing Center, coedited with Dr. Frankie Condon.

Stacia Moroski-Rigney is assistant provost and director of the Office of Accreditation, Assessment, Curriculum, and Compliance in the Office of the Provost and an affiliate graduate faculty member in Writing, Rhetoric, and Cultures at Michigan State University. She is coauthor of The Pop Culture Zone: Writing about Popular Culture and a former president of the Southeastern Writing Center Association.

Kem Roper is writing center director at Athens State University in Athens, Alabama. She is author of the book Trust the Process: How Writing Can Help You Get Unstuck, and her work appears in the 2021 anthology 52 Weeks of Sun, as well as in The Handbook of Peer Tutoring.