In October 2021, we interviewed Joe Essid and Brian McTague on the edited collection Writing Centers at the Center of Change, published by Routledge in September 2021. Our conversation focused on change in the context of writing centers and what that means for writing center professionals. We hope you’ll enjoy it!

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“It happens either you change - you have to make a change in response to external forces, or the change is forced upon you.” - Joe Essid; “It’s always by nature that writing centers are always in a state of flux, you know? Constantly changing. Sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse, not as often for the worse. But we wanted to build on that and see if we could connect that to these individual changes that we’ve seen at different universities and colleagues.” -- Brian McTague

Resources

Fogelman, D., Rosenthal, J., Babbit, J., Martin, S., Short, M., Gomez, S., & Hoffman, J. (Executive Producer). (2021-). Only murderers in the building [TV series]. Rhode Island Ave. Productions; Another Hoffman Story Productions; 40 Share Productions; 20th Television.

Hopkinson, F., Oldfield, C., & Eaton, R. (2015-2016). Home fires [TV series]. ITV Studios; Masterpiece.

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This 36-episode podcast brings researchers at the intersection of writing centers and writing studies to help you intentionally consider and address issues affecting your work in the writing center.

Created and hosted by Esther R. Namubiru, Anna S. Habib, and Weijia Li, the goal of this podcast was to open up time and space in this productivity-saturated culture to slow down and dialogue with leading thinkers and practitioners in writing studies worldwide. The title of the podcast is inspired by Micciche, L. (2011) For slow agency. Journal of the Council of Writing Program Administrators, 35 (1), 73-90. Our inaugural episode features WLN’s journal editors whose wisdom and hard work make this journal and the blog possible.

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