Contents
Preface
Introduction: Sustaining Our Programs, Sustaining Ourselves
Section 1: Organic Relationships
1. From Putting Out Fires to Managing Fires: Lessons for WPAs from Indigenous Fire Managers
2. Seeing the Forest and the Trees: A Rhizomatic Metaphor for Writing
Program Administration
3. Light and the Quantum Physics of WPA Work
4. Grounding WPA Work: A Phenomenology of Program
Development as a Liminal WPA
Section 2: Institutional Landscapes
5. The WPA as Labor Activist
6. Learning, Representing, and Endorsing the Landscape: WPA as Cartographer
7. Approaching WPA Labor with Ahimsa: Mapping Emotional Geographies through Sustainable Leadership
8. Representing the Basement
9. Interlocking Circles
Section 3: Performance Crafts
10. The Affordances and Risks of Artisanal Production as a Metaphor for Writing Program Administration
11. "Building the Plane as We Fly It": Revising Our Thinking about Our First-Year Experience Program
12. I’m Just Playin’: Directing Writing Programs as Improv
Afterword: Sustaining What for Why?
Index