the.Assemblage: how.To

Identity questions.

+What's the history of how you became a WPA?

+How do history, inheritance, and/or disciplinary memory affect the work you do as a WPA?

+What kind of administrator do you want to be, and what are the possibilities afforded to such a role?

+What would constitute social, emotional, and intellectual preparation for WPA work?

+How could mentors guide future WPAs in learning how to deal with the demands of WPA work?

+What assumptions about WPA work recycle themselves even as teh circumstances surrounding our programs change?

+How can we respond to and reframe the negative victim narratives that have shaped the field of WPA studies so consistently?

+What might a WPA curriculum look like, and what would future WPAs need to read and do? What specific issues and questions would guide their work?

+How can resistance be reframed as a positive force with Writing Program Administration?

+What do you imagine to be the next turn in WPA theorizing?