Courtney Adams Wooten
Courtney Adams Wooten
Director
Assistant Professor
Writing Program Administration, Feminist Rhetorics, Composition
Courtney Adams Wooten began her career at Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, TX, serving as the writing program administrator there for four years before joining GMU as the Director of Composition. She is the author of Childfree and Happy: Transforming the Rhetoric of Women's Reproductive Choices and she has co-edited the collections WPAs in Transition and The Things We Carry: Strategies for Recognizing and Negotiating Emotional Labor in Writing Program Administration, and she has published in Composition Studies, WPA, Peitho, Harlot, Academic Labor, and College English as well as several edited collections. She received the Presidential Award for Faculty Excellence in Teaching in 2023.
Current Research
Student Experiences in Hybrid Writing Courses.
WPA Work at Large Institutions.
Onboarding GTAs into gWPA Positions.
Selected Publications
Childfree and Happy: Transforming the Rhetoric of Women's Reproductive Choices. Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2023.
The Things We Carry: Strategies for Recognizing and Negotiating Emotional Labor in Writing Program Administration. Courtney Adams Wooten, Jacob Babb, Kristi Murray Costello, and Kate Navickas, eds. Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2020.
WPAs in Transition: Navigating Educational Leadership Positions.Courtney Adams Wooten, Jacob Babb, and Brian Ray, eds. Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2018.
“As My Dad Lay Dying.” WPA: Writing Program Administration, vol. 47, no. 1, 2023, pp. 13-19.
“Research is a Team Sport: A Collaborative PARS Approach to Sustainable Hybrid and Online Writing Instruction Development.” With Lourdes Fernandez, Ariel M. Goldenthal, Kerry Folan, and Jessica Matthews. In PARS in Charge: Resources and Strategies for Online Writing Program Leaders. Eds. Jessie Borgman and Casey McArdle. WAC Clearinghouse, 2023, pp. 102-113. Available at https://wac.colostate.edu/docs/books/pars3/chapter7.pdf.
Expanded Publication List
Courses Taught
ENGH 101: Composition
ENGH 302: Advanced Composition
ENGH 615: Proseminar in Composition Instruction
ENGH 722: Composition Pedagogies and Programs in Context
Education
Ph.D in English (Rhetoric and Composition), University of North Carolina at Greensboro, May 2014.
M.A. in English, Winthrop University, May 2008.
B.A. in English with Honors, Wingate University, May 2006.
Recent Presentations
“Scarcity Rhetorics and WPA Work at Large Institutions.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. Spokane, WA. April 2024.
“Rethinking Assumptions: Student-Informed Hybrid Writing Course Design.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. With Kerry Folan and Ariel Goldenthal. Chicago, IL. February 2023.
“Beyond Checking the Boxes: Collaborative Longitudinal Assessment of Student Writing in General Education.” Virginia Assessment Group Conference. With Gina Polychronopoulos. Richmond, VA. November 2022.
“Challenging Reproductive Doxa through Childfree Rhetorics.” Rhetoric Society of America. Baltimore, MD. May 2022.
“The Things We’re Carrying Two Years Later.” Carolinas WPA Keynote. With Jacob Babb, Kristi Murray Costello, and Kate Navickas. March 4, 2022.
In the Media
Interview with New Books Network about Childfree and Happy: Transforming the Rhetoric of Women's Reproductive Choices.
Dissertations Supervised
Joan Jiyoung Hwang, Beyond Linguistic Variations: Translingual Identities and Audience Awareness In Writing Contexts (2024)