Introduction Opening Up: Toward a Critical Discourse for Writing Program Administration / Donna Strickland / Jeanne Gunner
Part 1. The Cultural Work of Writing Programs
1. Conservative Writing Program Administrators (WPAs) / Jeff Rice
2. Standards and Purity: Understanding Institutional Strategies to Insure Homogeneity / Tom Fox
3. Feminisms and the Problem of Complicity in Writing Program Administrator Work / Laura Bartlett Snyder
4. How We Do What We Do: Facing the Contradictory Political Economics of Writing Programs / Tony Scott
Part 2. Alternative WPA Discourses
5. Freedom and Safety, Space and Place: Locating the Critical WPA / Sidney I. Dobrin
6. Redefining Work and Value for Writing Program Administration / Bruce Horner
7. Queer Eye for the Camp Program: Toward a Queer Critique of WPA Work / William. P. Banks / Jonathan Alexander
8. Inviting Trouble: The Subversive Potential of the Outsider Within Standpoint / Jane E. Hindman
9. Laboring to Globalize a First-Year Writing Program / Wendy Hesford / Edgar Singleton / Ivonne M. García
10. The Pragmatics of Professionalism / Thomas P. Miller / Jillian Skeffington
Part 3. Subjectivity, Identity, Reflection
11. The Writing Program Administrator and Enlightened False Consciousness: The Virtues of Becoming an Empty Signifier / Joe Marshall Hardin
12. "Acting Out" or Acts of Agency: WPA and "Identities of Participation" / Kathryn Valentine
13. Analyzing Narratives of Change in a Writing Program / Margaret Shaw / Gerry Winter / Brian Huot
14. Writing Program Administration Outside the North American Context / Lisa Emerson / Rosemary Clerehan
15. WPAs and Identity: Sounding the Depths / Christopher Burnham / Susanne Green
16. Place, Culture, Memory / Suellynn Duffey
