Writing Worldviews: Extended Scholarly Conversations from IWAC 2023
Edited by Christopher Basgier, Terry Myers Zawacki, Magnus Gustafsson, Sue Hum, and Maureen Mathison
Copy edited by Don Donahue. Designed by Mike Palmquist.
Framed by the IWAC 2023 conference theme of WAC in transitional times, Writing Worldviews offers a diversity of perspectives on growth and change in the field amid social, political, educational, technological, and global pressures. Across histories and futures, equity and linguistic justice, and place-based program practices, the contributors to this edited collection take up questions defining WAC’s next decade: What principles and practices do we carry forward? What do we leave behind? How do we prepare to meet future challenges and the opportunities they afford as WAC becomes increasingly translingual and transnational? In response, this volume offers both a map of the field and a call to shape it with intention as we participate in writing and rewriting existing worldviews through the languages we use, the methods we apply, the interpretive and discursive practices we employ, and the rhetorical positions we assume. As the title suggests, it is through scholarly conversations, like those begun at IWAC 2023 and extended here, that the values structuring our work become visible and contestable, providing WAC leaders with frameworks for decision-making, program design, and institutional action.
Christopher Basgier is Director of University Writing at Auburn University, which won the 2025 Exemplary Enduring WAC Program Award. His research spans WAC, writing centers, and generative AI pedagogy. He is active in the Association for Writing Across the Curriculum and serves as an Associate Publisher with the WAC Clearinghouse.
Terry Myers Zawacki is Emerita Professor and Director of the George Mason University WAC program. Her publications include Engaged Writers and Dynamic Disciplines and edited collections on graduate writing support and WAC and second language writing. She has given keynote talks at a number of national and international conferences.
Magnus Gustafsson is Associate Professor of academic writing and communication in the disciplines at the Department of Communication and Learning in Science at Chalmers University of Technology. His research is oriented towards writing studies with a focus on peer learning and collaborative writing and the integration of language and content.
Sue Hum, Professor of English at the University of Texas at San Antonio, specializes in visual rhetoric, multimodal literacy, and writing-enriched pedagogy. Co-PI of over $1.8 million in NSF and USDA-funded projects, she authored Persuading with Numbers (2017) and received UTSA’s President’s Distinguished Achievement Award for Innovation and Impact (2021).
Maureen Mathison is Associate Professor in writing and rhetoric studies at the University of Utah. Her research and teaching focus on rhetoric of science and WAC, with an emphasis on STEM fields. She is the author of Sojourning in Disciplinary Cultures: A Case Study of Writing in Engineering (Utah State University Press).
Publication Information:
Basgier, Christopher, Terry Myers Zawacki, Magnus Gustafsson, Sue Hum, & Maureen Mathison (Eds.). (2026). Writing Worldviews: Extended Scholarly Conversations from IWAC 2023. The WAC Clearinghouse; University Press of Colorado. https://doi.org/10.37514/PER-B.2026.2845
Series Editors: Rich Rice, Texas Tech University, and J. Michael Rifenburg, University of North Georgia
This book is available in whole and in part in Adobe’s Portable Document Format (PDF). It will also be available in a low-cost print edition from our publishing partner, the University Press of Colorado .
