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Combining formal quantitative research with narrative-based scholarship, THE PROMISE AND PERILS OF WRITING PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION represents multiple voices from faculty balancing between the demands of teaching, writing, and administering writing programs in professional, ethical ways-often under circumstances that can be defined, at best, as difficult. In these pages, junior faculty tell their stories of triumph and trauma, while more firmly established composition scholars reflect upon the changing and challenging profession we all share. Front cover -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- John Trimbur -- 1 Living in the Spaces Between: Profiling the Writing Program Administrator -- Jillian Skeffington, Shane Borrowman, and Theresa Enos -- 2 "Creating a Context": The Institutional Logic of the Council of Writing Program Administrators' Development of the Consultant-Evaluator Service -- Shirley K Rose -- 3 Credibility, Disciplinary Bias, and the WPA -- Sharing WPA Perils as Pearls of Wisdom -- Ernest J. Enchelmayer -- Two Things -- Patti J. Kurtz -- Rocking the Boat: Asserting Authority and Change in a Writing Program -- Richard McNabb -- Irreconcilable Differences: One Former WPD's Cautionary Tale -- Erin O'Neill -- Portraits of a Field -- Chris Anson Jeanne Gunner Thomas P. Miller -- 4 Tenure-Track Faculty as WPAs -- Notes from a New WPA -- Megan Fulwiler -- "An Army of One: The Possibilities and Pitfalls of WPA Work for the Lone Compositionist" -- Randall McClure -- Why I Won't Keep My Head Down or Follow Other Bad Advice for the Junior Faculty WPA -- Stephanie Roach -- Writing Program Administration at the Small University -- Matt Smith -- Location and the WPA -- Stuart C. Brown, Andrea A. Lunsford, and Edward M. White -- 5 Non Tenure-Track Faculty as WPAs -- Without Title: One NTT's Struggle in the TT Society -- Nita Danko -- Skeletons in the Closet, Ghosts, and Other Invisible Creatures -- Suellynn Duffey -- Neither Fish Nor Fowl: The Promise and Peril of Directing a Program on an Administrative Line -- Claire C. Lamonica -- One White Girl's Failed Attempt to Unsilence the Dialogue -- Cynthia Nearman -- Three Reflections and an Observation -- Susan H. McLeod, Victor Villanueva, and Douglas Hesse -- 6 Tenure, Promotion, and the WPA -- What Is Research and Writing? -- Emily Isaacs.
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