Mission
The mission of the Program in Writing and Rhetoric (PWR) is to offer high-quality writing courses to UW students that emphasize ethical composing across difference. To fulfill this mission, we train and mentor instructors in antiracist, accessible, translingual, and multimodal pedagogies that enact practices of inclusion and equity. With the Program for Writing Across Campus (PWAC) and in collaboration with numerous campus partners, we actively create and support knowledge-building about writing and writing instruction broadly within the program, the English department, and across campus.
PWR Administrative Team
This page has a full listing of the current PWR administrative team.
PWR Leadership History
Director
- Professor Stephanie L. Kerschbaum (2021-Present)
Previous Directors
- Professor Candice Rai (2014-2021)
- Professor Anis Bawarshi (2004-2014)
- Professor Juan Guerra (2003-2004)
- Professor Gail Stygall (1997-2003)
- Professor Carolyn Allen (1995-97)
- Lecturer Laurie George (1994-95)
- Professor Gary Handwerk (Interim Director: 1990-91)
- Professor John Webster (1986-1994)
- Professor George Dillon
- Professor Thomas Lockwood
- Professor Charles Schuster
- Professor William Irmscher