BUILDING YOUR BOOKSHELF
Adler-Kassner, Linda. The Activist WPA: Changing Stories About Writing and Writers. Logan, UT: Utah State UP, 2008.
Alexander, Jonathan and Jacqueline Rhodes. On Multimodality: New Media in Composition Studies. NCTE Published, 2014.
Anson, Chris M. The WAC Casebook. New York: Oxford UP, 2001.
Behm, Nicholas N., Gregory R. Glau, Deborah H. Holdstein, Duane Roen, and Edward M. White, eds. The WPA Outcomes Statement: A Decade Later. West Lafayette, IN: Parlor Press, 2013.
Bloom, Lynn Z., Donald A. Daiker, and Edward M. White, eds. Composition Studies in the New Millennium: Rereading the Past, Rewriting the Future. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois UP, 2003.
Bousquet, Marc, Tony Scott, and Leo Parascondola, eds. Writing Instruction in the Managed University: Tenured Bosses and Disposable Teachers. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 2004.
Charlton, Colin, Jonikka Charlton, Tarez Samra Graban, Kathleen J. Ryan, and Amy Ferdinant Stolley, eds. Gen Admin: WPA Identities in the Twenty-First Century. West Lafayette, IN: Parlor Press, 2011.
Dew, Debra, and Alice Horning, eds. Untenured Faculty as Writing Program Administrators: Institutional Practices and Politics. West Lafayette, IN: Parlor Press: 2008.
Enos, Theresa, and Shane Borrowman, eds. The Promise and Perils of Writing Program Administration. West Lafayette, IN: Parlor Press, 2008.
Enos, Theresa, and Stuart Brown, eds. The Writing Program Administrator's Resource: A Guide to Reflective Institutional Practice. New York: Erlbaum, 2002.
Hansen, Kristine, and Christine R. Farris, eds. College Credit for Writing in High School: The "Taking Care of" Business. IL: National Council of Teachers of English, 2010.
Harris, Joseph. A Teaching Subject: Composition Since 1966. Utah: Utah State University Press, 2012.
L'Eplattenier, Barbara, and Lisa Mastrangelo, Historical Studies of Writing Program Administration: Individuals, Communities, and the Formation of a Discipline. West Lafayette, IN: Parlor Press, 2004.
Malenczyk, Rita, ed. A Rhetoric for Writing Program Administrators. Anderson, SC: Parlor Press, 2013
McLeod, Susan H. Writing Program Administration. West Lafayette, IN: Parlor Press, 2007.
Myers-Breslin, Linda, ed. Administrative Problem-Solving for Writing Programs and Writing Centers: Scenarios in Effective Program Management. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English, 1999
Nicolas, Melissa. (E)Merging Identities: Graduate Students in the Writing Center. Southlake, Texas: Fountainhead, 2008.
O'Neill, Peggy, Angela Crow, and Larry W. Burton, eds. A Field of Dreams: Independent Writing Programs and the Future of Composition Studies. Logan, UT: Utah State UP, 2002.
Palermi, Jason. Remixing Composition: A History of Multimodal Writing and Pedagogy. Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 2012.
Rickly, Rebecca, and Krista Ratcliffe, eds. Performing Feminist Administration in Rhetoric and Composition Studies. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2010.
Rose, Shirley K., and Irwin Weiser, eds. The Writing Program Administrator as Researcher: Inquiry in Action and Reflection. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann/Boynton-Cook, 1999.
Rose, Shirley K., and Irwin Weiser, eds. Going Public: What Writing Programs Learn from Engagement. Logan: Utah State UP, 2010.
Rose, Shirley K and Irwin Weiser, eds. The Writing Program Administrator as Theorist: Making Knowledge Work. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook-Heinemann, 2002.
Shipka, Jody. Toward a Composition Made Whole. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011.
Strickland, Donna, and Jeanne Gunner. The Writing Program Interrupted: Making Space for Critical Discourse. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2009.
Ward, Irene, and William J. Carpenter, eds. The Allyn and Bacon Sourcebook for Writing Program Administrators. New York: Longman, 2002.
Welch, Nancy and Tony Scott, eds. Composition in the Age of Austerity. Utah: Utah State University Press, 2016.
Yancey, Kathleen Blake, ed. Delivering College Composition: The Fifth Canon. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 2006.
Building your bookshelf as a new writing program administrator is a great way to increase your knowledge and provide you context about the field. Although this is not an exhaustive list of books and/or edited collections, they should provide a good start to building your resources. Click on each resource for additional information on the publisher website. (Please note I have included an Amazon or Project Muse link when the publisher information was not available online.)
