Wayward Stories: A Rhetoric of Community in Writing Center Administration

dc.contributor.advisorBrooks-Gillies, Marilee
dc.contributor.authorHull, Kelin
dc.contributor.otherBuchenot, Andre
dc.contributor.otherLayden, Sarah
dc.date.accessioned2019-08-15T13:12:53Z
dc.date.available2019-08-15T13:12:53Z
dc.date.issued2019-07
dc.degree.date2019en_US
dc.degree.disciplineEnglishen
dc.degree.grantorIndiana Universityen_US
dc.degree.levelM.A.en_US
dc.descriptionIndiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)en_US
dc.description.abstractSix weeks in to my position as assistant director of the writing center and suddenly I was confronted by a cluster bombing of issues and concerns – microaggressions, depression, confusion, suspicion – each one separate but related, and threatening to tear a new hole in the already fragile foundation of community in my writing center. How do we feel, what do we do, how does a community survive when the story we’re experiencing isn’t the story we want or expected - when it is, in a word, terrible? After McKinney’s Peripheral Visions, we know our labor and our centers do not look, act, and feel cozy, iconoclastic, or focused on one-on-one tutoring all of the time. And yet, if we are going to continue to move beyond the grand narrative, a deep and meaningful understanding of community is essential. When we put our story in relation to our communities, then our story becomes just one thread in a much more complex tapestry. We cannot separate one person’s story from the story of the writing center. Each person, each story, is a stitch in the rhetorical fabric of community. Using critically reflexive stories to change and shape practice, this thesis highlights the grand narrative of community and shows how that narrative serves to stymie community growth. These stories resist boundaries. They are wayward. They are counter to the narratives around which we construct our lives. When we share stories and write together, we begin to understand the threads we’re all weaving into the tapestry – our community, stitched together through shared practice; a process that will never end, as each person comes and goes. The community will never be resolved, and in the ambiguity of boundlessness, comes a new way of seeing the world - through constellations and the dwelling in inbetween.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1805/20366
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.7912/C2/409
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.subjectWriting centersen_US
dc.subjectWriting center administrationen_US
dc.subjectCommunityen_US
dc.subjectRhetoricen_US
dc.subjectEmotion in higher educationen_US
dc.subjectCultural rhetoricsen_US
dc.subjectAdministrationen_US
dc.subjectGraduate studentsen_US
dc.subjectGraduate student administratorsen_US
dc.subjectIdentity in higher educationen_US
dc.subjectEmotionen_US
dc.subjectIdentityen_US
dc.subjectPoweren_US
dc.subjectRelationalityen_US
dc.subjectConnectionen_US
dc.subjectRelationshipsen_US
dc.subjectCommunity rhetoricsen_US
dc.subjectWriting center studiesen_US
dc.titleWayward Stories: A Rhetoric of Community in Writing Center Administrationen_US
dc.typeThesis
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