1st Edition

Reimagining Graduate Education in Writing Studies Sustainable, Equitable, and Inclusive Approaches

Edited By Kirsti Cole, Sarah Henderson Lee Copyright 2026
224 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

224 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Reimagining Graduate Education in Writing Studies explores the development of sustainable, equitable, and interdisciplinary graduate programs within Writing Studies.   Proposing five key benchmarks of sustainability in graduate education – accessibility, diversity, interdisciplinary design, situatedness, and professionalization – each chapter speaks to one or more of these benchmarks,... Read more

Foreword. From Emig to Equity: The Continued Need for Graduate Student Support, by Chris Anson 

Introduction. Interdisciplinary, Sustainable, and Kind: Writing Studies Graduate Education

Sarah Henderson Lee and Kirsti Cole 

1. Using an Ecological Approach to Advance Writing Support at the Graduate Level 

Shyam Sharma

2. Evolving Writing Supports to Sustain All Graduate Students

Marilyn Gray and Tallinn Phillips

3. Revisiting Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB) Work for Sustainable Graduate Education: Reflections of Two Doctoral Students and One Teacher Educator

Isaac Adubofour, Aygul Alieva, and Gloria Park  

4. Preparing Literacy Educators for Flexible, Equitable, and Inclusive Open-Access Teaching

Joanne Baird Giordano and Holly Hassel

5. Creating Collaborative Conditions: The Intersections of Program Administration, Course Design, and Critical Friendship

Sarah Henderson Lee and Kirsti Cole

6. Moving Beyond the One-Shot by Engaging Graduate Student Instructors with Information Literacy Instruction

Kelly Moreland and Jennifer Turner

7. Feminist Mentoring of Graduate Instructors Through a First-Year Writing Lecture-Discussion Model

Callie F. Kostelich, Josephine Lawson, Maeve Kirk, Emerson Kurdi, and Michael J. Faris

8. Graduate Education for Basic Writing WPAs: Navigating Trauma-Informed Approaches to Cognition and Carework

Lynn Reid

9. Professionalization and Mentorship: Snapshots from In-Service Graduate Teaching Assistants

Alex Frech, Allison Hosman, Grace Kranz, and Maria Mercedes Sempe

10. Methods in Dialogue

Jennifer Clary-Lemon, Samira Grayson, Derek Mueller, Kate Pantelides, Christopher Rogers, and Molly Ryan

11. Sustainability of Research Network Forum Introductions: Graduate Students, Mentoring, and the Creation of Scholarship Pre- and Post-COVID

Risa P. Gorelick and Carrie Wastal

12. Pausing to Re-learn: Sharing Messes to Sustain Ourselves in a Demanding Profession

Khadidja Belhadi, Tiffany Bishop, Allison Hauser, Rachel Gramer, Joyce R. Walker, and Lisya Seloni

 

Afterword. LLMs in Support of Sustainable Graduate Education, by David Reider

Index

Biography

Kirsti Cole is Professor of English and Co-Director of the Campus Writing and Speaking Program at North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA.

Sarah Henderson Lee is a Professor and Chair of the Department of English at Minnesota State University, Mankato, MN, USA.