Fugitive administrative rhetorics

Authors

Norma Denae Dibrell, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Andrew Hollinger, The University of Texas Rio Grande ValleyFollow
Maggie Shelledy, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

Fall 2023

Abstract

This article is a work in defining fugitivity in writing program administration. We return to the intersecting phenomena of the pandemic, of climate change, of state-sanctioned violence, of gerrymandering, and of stolen rights. We recognize the complicity writing programs have with this status quo, and we hope that Fugitive Administrative Rhetorics is a helpful framework for developing WPA practices that diverge from this complicity. Our writing is intended to acknowledge a deep scholarly debt within rhetoric and composition to the first fugitives of the academic space, the multiply marginalized students and faculty that built the undercommons: Black, Indigenous, Latinx, queer, women, immigrant, neurodivergent.

Comments

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Recommended Citation

Dibrell, D., Hollinger, A., and Shelledy, M. (2023). Fugitive administrative rhetorics. WPA: Writing Program Administration 47(1), 148-162.

First Page

148

Last Page

162

Publication Title

WPA: Writing Program Administration