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Sara Webb-Sunderhaus

Introduction

Dr. Webb-Sunderhaus came to ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú in 2018, after 12 years as a professor at Indiana-Purdue Fort Wayne (IPFW). Her research primarily focuses on the literacy practices and beliefs of Appalachians, as well as intersections of disability studies and writing program administration.

Education

• Ph.D. English (Rhetoric, Composition, and Literacy), The Ohio State University (2006)
• M.A. English, ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú University (2001)
• B.A. English, Bluffton College (1995)

Research and Teaching Interests

• Composition theories, histories, and pedagogies
• Literacy studies
• Appalachian studies
• Writing program administration
• Disability studies

Courses Taught

• ENG 304
• ENG 606
• ENG 710
• ENG 731 
• ENG 732

Selected Publications

Book–Edited Collection

• Rereading Appalachia: Literacy, Place, and Cultural Resistance. Co-edited with Kim Donehower. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, December 2015.

Articles and Book Chapters

• "Building Accessibility, Disabling Labor: Sustainable Models of WPA Work During a Pandemic." WPA: Writing Program Administration 47.1 (2023): 96-101.
• “Becoming a Participant-Researcher: The Case for Interactive Interviewing.” The Expanding
  Universe of Writing Studies: Higher Education Writing Research. Ed. Christiane Donahue et al. Peter Lang, 2021.
• "'Life Gets in the Way: The Case of a Seventh-Year Senior." Retention, Persistence, and Writing ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú. Ed. Todd Ruecker, Dawn Shepherd, Heidi Estrem, and Beth Brunk Chavez. Utah State University Press, April 2017. 114-131.
• "'Keep the Appalachian, Drop the Redneck': Tellable Student Narratives of Appalachian Identity." College English 79.1 (2016): 11-33.
• "Re-Shaping Literacy Studies: A Theory of—and for—Appalachia." Rereading Appalachia: Literacy, Place, and Cultural Resistance. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2015. 179-198.
• Rereading Appalachia: Literacy, Place, and Cultural Resistance. Co-edited with Kim Donehower. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, December 2015.
• "The Kairotic Moment" (with new afterword). With Stevens Amidon. Ecologies of Writing ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú: Profiles of Writing ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú in Context. Ed. Mary Jo Reiff, Anis Bawarshi, Michelle Ballif, and Christian Weisser. Anderson, SC: Parlor Press, 2015. 22-40.
• "'It's Me and the Adjuncts': Writing Program Administration and Marginalized Students/Teachers." Open Words: Access and English Studies 6.1 (2012): 19-32.
• "The Kairotic Moment: Pragmatic Revision of Basic Writing Instruction at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne." With Stevens Amidon. Composition Forum 23 (Spring 2011).
• "Living with Literacy's Contradictions: Appalachian Students in a First-Year Writing Course." Reclaiming the Rural: Essays on Literacy, Rhetoric, and Pedagogy. Ed. Kim Donehower, Charlotte Hogg, and Eileen E. Schell. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2011. 207-221.
• "When Access Is Not Enough: Retaining Basic Writers at an Open-Admission University." Journal of Basic Writing 29.2 (2010): 102-121.
• "A Family Affair: Competing Sponsors of Literacy in Appalachian Students' Lives." Community Literacy Journal 2.1 (2007): 5-24. Print. Reprinted in: The Norton Book of Composition Studies. Ed. Susan Miller. New York: W.W. Norton, 2009.

Grants and Awards

• Purdue Research Foundation Summer Faculty Grant. Purdue University, 2013. $8,000
• Summer Faculty Grant. IPFW, 2010. $8,000
• Robert Hacke Scholar-Teacher Award. College English Association. 2009 

Work in Progress

Book manuscript, Negotiating Difference: Literacy and Identity among Postgraduate Appalachians