Contents
Foreword: An Invitation to Read for Resilience / Louise Wetherbee Phelps
Introduction: Looking toward an (Inter)Disciplinary Future? / Richard N. Matzen Jr. and Matthew Abraham
1. Documents of Dissent: Hairston’s "Breaking Our Bonds" in Context / John J. Ruszkiewicz
Part 1: Adding Writing Majors or Minors during the Great Recession
2. Forging Independence and Innovation in the Midst of Financial Austerity: The Syracuse University Writing Program / Lois Agnew and Eileen E. Schell
3. Forces Acting on a Departmental (Re-)Merger: Budgets, Spaces, Disciplines, Identities / David Beard and Chongwon Park
4. Growing despite Austerity: The Department of Rhetoric and Writing at the University of Texas at Austin / Mark Garrett Longaker, Davida Charney, Diane Davis, and Alice Batt
5. "And so two shall become one": Being (and Becoming) the School of Writing, Rhetoric and Technical Communication / Traci A. Zimmerman
6. The Great Recession: Helping and Hurting Writing Faculty in an Independent Writing Program / Richard N. Matzen Jr.
7. Drawing New Lessons from Old Stories: How Economic Arguments Re-Shaped the Values of a Newly Independent Writing Program / Jamie White-Farnham
Part II: Adjusting Existing Curricula in Response to the Great Recession
8. Surviving and Thriving in the Writing Department at Loyola University Maryland / Cindy Moore and Peggy O’Neill
9. Thriving through Disruption: Leveraging Alumni Experience to Support a Liberal Arts Writing Major / Amy Clements, Drew M. Loewe, and Mary Rist
10. Context, Strategy, Identity: A History of Change in the UC Santa Barbara Writing Program / Madeleine Sorapure and Linda Adler-Kassner
11. The Future of Independent Online Writing Programs: The Department of Rhetoric and Writing at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock / Heidi Skurat Harris and George H. Jensen
12. A Complex Ecology: The Growth of an Independent Writing Program in the Aftermath of the Great Recession / Carl Whithaus and Chris Thaiss
13. Becoming a Social Fact: Weathering the 2008 Financial Crisis at the University of Pennsylvania / Valerie Ross, Patrick Wehner, and Rodger LeGrand
14. Making a Place for Writing Studies in a Crowded Institutional Landscape / Frank Gaughan
About the Authors
Index