Relocating Authority
Japanese Americans Writing to Redress Mass Incarceration
“A meaningful, thoughtful, effective, and comprehensive approach to a complex conversation. On a foundational level, the sheer variety of voices and types of institutions included and represented automatically make this work unique.”
—Karen Keaton Jackson, North Carolina Central University
Disruptive Stories uses an activist editing method to select and publish authors who have been marginalized in scholarly conversations and enrich the understanding of lived writing center experiences that have been underrepresented in writing center scholarship. These chapters explore how marginality affects writing centers, the people who work in them, and the scholarship generated from them by examining the consequences—both positive and negative—of marginalization through a mix of narratives and research. Contributors provide unique perspectives ranging across status, role, nationality, race, and ability.
While US tenure-track writing center administrators (WCAs) do not make up the majority of those who hold WCA positions in writing centers, they are more likely to be the storytellers of the writing center grand narrative. They publish more, present more conference papers, edit more journals, and participate more in organizational leadership. This collection complicates that narrative by adding marginalized voices and experiences in three thematic categories: structural marginalization, globalization and marginalization, and embodied marginalization.
Disruptive Stories spurs further conversations about ways to improve the review process in writing center scholarship so that it more accurately reflects the growing diversity of its administrators and practitioners.
Contributors: Rachel Azima, Josh Botvin, Pam Bromley, Elisabeth Buck, Elise Dixon, Deborah Escalante, Sarah Fischer, Elena Garcia, Aja Gorham, Shareen Grogan, Nancy Henaku, Zandra Jordan, Weijia Li, Karen Moroski-Rigney, Esther Namubiru, Enrique Paz, Wendy Rider, Kerri Rinaldi, Myra Salcedo, Denise Stephenson, Abigail Villegran Mora
