CFP reminder: The Reluctant Supervisor: Recognizing and Rethinking Power in Writing Center Supervisory Practices
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Dear colleagues,
We are writing to remind you about our call for chapter proposals for an edited collection about writing center supervisory practices. We will begin reviewing submissions on May 15th. We look forward to reading your proposals! The original call is below.
Rachel Azima (with Jasmine Kar Tang, Katie Levin, and Meredith Steck)
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Dr. Rachel Azima
Writing Center Director
Associate Professor of Practice, English
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Lincoln, NE 68588-0333
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Chair Emeritus, Midwest Writing Centers Association Executive Board
Dear colleagues,
We invite chapter proposals for The Reluctant Supervisor: Recognizing and Rethinking Power in Writing Center Supervisory Practices, an edited collection that engages specifically with supervision as distinct from leadership per se. Writing Center Studies has emphasized collaboration in every context, including collaborative leadership, but we’re interested in asking: what does this emphasis mean for supervisory practices, which are inevitably hierarchical?
We propose a collection that wrestles with and takes on the power dynamics, tensions, contradictions, and challenges of writing center supervisory work in an effort to name, own, and recognize supervision as a fundamental part of our work. We hope contributors will question, critique, and engage the messiness of writing center supervisory practice. We welcome submissions that unapologetically engage with racial power and its intersections and that continue to disrupt the notion of writing centers as neutral sites of teaching and learning.
We invite 500-word proposals that draw from multiple methodologies and institutional contexts. Chapters in the published collection will be of varying lengths, from the very brief to the more expansive.
We seek contributions from people in a wide variety of institutional roles and from different types of institutions. Further, while we welcome submissions from writing center directors and from seasoned practitioners, we strongly encourage submissions from graduate students, assistant directors, adjunct faculty, and from those who are early in their supervisory careers (or who have had supervisory roles in the past) as well.
We especially encourage submissions from members of historically marginalized or minoritized communities.
The full call for proposals and details on the submission process are on our website. Proposals should be submitted by May 15, 2022. Prospective contributors will be informed about the status of their submission by July 1, 2022. Questions can be sent to ReluctantSu...@gmail.com. We welcome any pre-proposal questions you have. Please feel encouraged to forward this call widely in your networks!
Rachel Azima, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Katie Levin, University of Minnesota–Twin Cities
Meredith Steck, Case Western Reserve University
Jasmine Kar Tang, University of Minnesota–Twin Cities
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Katie Levin, PhD
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Co-Director,
Center for Writing
Affiliate Graduate Faculty,
Literacy & Rhetorical Studies
University of Minnesota, which
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