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.
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Introduction. On the Editorial Challenges in Writing Worldviews, Christopher Basgier, Terry Myers Zawacki, Magnus Gustafsson, Sue Hum, and Maureen Mathison
DOI: https://doi.org/10.37514/PER-B.2026.2845.1.3
Part 1. Histories and Futures
Chapter 1. What Do the Next 50 Years Hold for WAC Research? A U.S. Perspective, David R. Russell
DOI: https://doi.org/10.37514/PER-B.2026.2845.2.01
Chapter 2. Boundary-Crossing During Challenging Political Times: An Exhortation and Heuristic for WAC as Site of Deep Change, Caitlin Martin, Mandy Olejnik, Elizabeth Wardle, and Angela Glotfelter
DOI: https://doi.org/10.37514/PER-B.2026.2845.2.02
Chapter 3. Linguistic Justice: Rights, Policies, and Practices from a Transnational Perspective, Ligia A. Mihut
DOI: https://doi.org/10.37514/PER-B.2026.2845.2.03
Chapter 4. Historicizing WAC: Change in the Context of Continuity, Kathleen Blake Yancey
DOI: https://doi.org/10.37514/PER-B.2026.2845.2.04
Chapter 5. Creative Nonfiction Across the Curriculum?, Doug Hesse
DOI: https://doi.org/10.37514/PER-B.2026.2845.2.05
Part 2. Equity, Access, and Social Change
Chapter 6. Baking in the Disposition: The WAC/WID World Through Transnational Lenses, Joseph Franklin
DOI: https://doi.org/10.37514/PER-B.2026.2845.2.06
Chapter 7. Toward a Dialogic Transnational Exchange in Writing Studies Editorial Work, Lisa Arnold, Anna Habib, Joan Mullin, and Terry Myers Zawacki
DOI: https://doi.org/10.37514/PER-B.2026.2845.2.07
Chapter 8. Beyond the Binary: Using Critical Language Awareness to Navigate Conventions for Antiracist WAC, Jessa Wood and Shawna Shapiro
DOI: https://doi.org/10.37514/PER-B.2026.2845.2.08
Chapter 9. Connecting Racial and Linguistic In/Justice in Writing Across the Curriculum: Toward a Raciolinguistic Approach, Keli Tucker
DOI: https://doi.org/10.37514/PER-B.2026.2845.2.09
Chapter 10. Strategic Interventions and Compromises in Institutional Assessment: Changing the Story of Student Writing at a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI), Analeigh E. Horton, Aimee C. Mapes, and Emily Jo Schwaller
DOI: https://doi.org/10.37514/PER-B.2026.2845.2.10
Chapter 11. Holistic Access, Thomas Polk
DOI: https://doi.org/10.37514/PER-B.2026.2845.2.10
Part 3. Programmatic Perspectives
Chapter 12. WAC Visibility: Rhetorical Strategies for Establishing and Maintaining Programmatic Awareness and Engagement, Christopher Basgier
DOI: https://doi.org/10.37514/PER-B.2026.2845.2.12
Chapter 13. Deep Accountability: Motivating Obligations in Disciplinary Writing Instruction, Lacey Wootton
DOI: https://doi.org/10.37514/PER-B.2026.2845.2.13
Chapter 14. WAC: The Research University’s Mezzaterra, Cameron Bushnell
DOI: https://doi.org/10.37514/PER-B.2026.2845.2.14
Chapter 15. Realizing the Potential of WAC Micro-Credentials: Driving Program Growth on New Paths, Kimberly Harrison, Ming Fang, and Christine Martorana
DOI: https://doi.org/10.37514/PER-B.2026.2845.2.15
Chapter 16. Partnering, Scaffolding, and Adapting: Lessons Learned from a Multi-Year Project to Embed WAC Across a BSN Curriculum, Heidi Nobles, T. Kenny Fountain, and Ashley Hurst
DOI: https://doi.org/10.37514/PER-B.2026.2845.2.16
Chapter 17. WAC Emergence in English as a Foreign Language Contexts: A Tale of Two Japanese Universities, Alex Way
DOI: https://doi.org/10.37514/PER-B.2026.2845.2.17
Chapter 18. Connecting the Dots from Academic Literacies to Professional Communication Competence, Radhika Jaidev
DOI: https://doi.org/10.37514/PER-B.2026.2845.2.18
Chapter 19. A Critical Reflection on a Three-Pronged Approach to Second-Language Enhancement at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Jose Lai, Allen Ho, Olive Cheung, Amy Dai, Ella Leung, Carmen Li, and Steven Yeung
DOI: https://doi.org/10.37514/PER-B.2026.2845.2.19
Chapter 20. Crafting a Rhetorical Odyssey: Pioneering a Writing Across the Curriculum Program at a Community College, Alex Arreguin and Stacy Wilson
DOI: https://doi.org/10.37514/PER-B.2026.2845.2.20
About the Editors
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
Web Publication Date: May 14, 2026
Print Publication Date: TBD
ISBN: 978-1-64215-284-5 (PDF) 978-1-64215-285-2 (ePub) 978-1-64642-884-7 (pbk.)
DOI: 10.37514/PER-B.2026.2845
Contact Information:
Christopher Basgier: crb0085@auburn.edu
Terry Myers Zawacki: tzawacki@gmu.edu
Magnus Gustafsson: magusta@chalmers.se
Sue Hum: sue.hum@utsa.edu
Marureen Mathison: maureen.mathison@utah.edu
Perspectives on Writing
Series Editors: Rich Rice, Texas Tech University, and J. Michael Rifenburg, University of North Georgia
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