The first book-length empirical investigation of writing center directors labor, The Working Lives of New Writing Center Directorspresents a longitudinal qualitative study of the individual professional lives of nine new directors. Inspired by Kinkead and Harris sWriting Centers in Context(1993), the authors adopt a case study approach to examine the labor these directors performed and the varied motivations for their labor, as well as the labor they ignored, deferred, or sidelined temporarily, whether or not they wanted to.

The study shows directors engaged in various...