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| Historical Studies of Writing Program Administration Editors Winner of the 2004-2005 WPA Best Book Award!
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Individuals, Communities, and the Formation of a Discipline Editors © 2004 by Parlor Press. 316 pages Lauer Series in Rhetoric and Composition Winner of the 2004-2005 WPA Best Book Award (Read the press release in PDF format) View a larger image of the cover. Description In addition to eleven chapters from contributors, Historical Studies of Writing Program Administration includes a preface by Edward M. White, a concluding essay by Jeanne Gunner, interviews with Erika Lindemann and Kenneth Bruffee, and a detailed introduction by the editors, Barbara L’Eplattenier and Lisa Mastrangelo.
About the Editors Lisa Mastrangelo is assistant professor of English and coordinator of Women’s Studies at the College of St. Elizabeth, where she teaches courses in composition, rhetoric, creative nonfiction, and playwriting. Her research interests include nineteenth-century writing instruction and administration at women’s colleges. Her work in this area has been published in Rhetoric Review. Table of Contents Part I: Individuals The WPA as Publishing Scholar: Edwin Hopkins and The Labor and Cost of
the Teaching of English “Replacing Nice, Thin Bryn Mawr Miss Crandall with Fat, Harvard
Savage”: WPAs at Bryn Mawr College, 1902 to 1923 Cooperative Writing ‘Program’ Administration
at Illinois State Normal University: The Committee on English of 1904-05
and the Influence
of Professor J. Rose Colby Building a Career by Directing Composition: Harvard, Professionalism,
and Stith Thompson at Indiana University Part II: Communities “Is It the Pleasure of this Conference to Have Another?” Women’s
Colleges Meeting and Talking about Writing in the Progressive Era Sifting Through Fifty Years of Change: Writing Program Administration
at an Historically Black University Part III: Discipline Moving Toward a Group Identity: WPA Professionalization from the 1940s
to the 1970s Representing the Intellectual Work of Writing Program Administration:
Professional Narratives of George Wykoff at Purdue, 1933-1967 Industrial-Strength Composition and the Impact of Load on Teaching Doomed to Repeat It?: A Needed Space for Critique in Historical Recovery Contributing Authors |
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