Dear colleagues,
We’re thrilled to announce that our collection, The Reluctant Supervisor: Recognizing and Rethinking Power in Writing Center Supervisory Practices, is available for pre-order! You can snag a 40% discount using the code ALST26 until the book is released this October. Please consider adding it to your personal collections and/or inviting your library to pre-order the book!
The collection is available here: https://upcolorado.com/utah-state-university-press/the-reluctant-supervisor. We’re also including a blurb and the list of contributors below.
We’re so grateful to our contributors, reviewers, and all the folks supporting the project at Utah State UP, and we’re excited for you all to read it!
Jasmine Kar Tang, with Rachel Azima, Katie Levin, and Meredith Steck
Co-editors
The discipline of writing center studies has long emphasized collaboration in every context, including leadership. But what does this emphasis mean for supervision, which is inherently hierarchical? The Reluctant Supervisor attends to how power—institutional, racial, and otherwise—operates in work relationships, staff policies, and administrative decisions.
Giving sustained attention to writing center administrators as supervisors (in addition to their roles as leaders, directors, mentors, and teachers), contributors write from the specificities of their local contexts, institutional positions, and embodied histories in ways that deepen our understanding of supervisory practice.
The Reluctant Supervisor wrestles with the challenges of recognizing and owning supervision as a fundamental part of writing center work. It provides valuable perspectives for aspiring, new, and experienced writing center professionals and others in higher education looking to develop a more reflective supervisory practice—especially those who want to center equity and justice in their workplaces.
Contributors: Eric C. Camarillo, Scott Chien-Hsiung Chiu, Dominique M. Clayton, Genie Giaimo, Nicole E. Green, Yanar Hashlamon, Allie Johnston, Stacie Klinowski, Katie Levin, Anna Rita Napoleone, Lucia Pawlowski, Meredith Steck, Meghan Velez, Isaac K. Wang
