• Contact

    Xchanges: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Technical Communication, Rhetoric, and Writing Across the Curriculum.
  • Home
  • Archives
  • About
  • Staff
  • Resources
  • Submissions
  • CFP
  • Contact

Teaching Boldly, Teaching Queerly: Embracing Radical (Un)Growth and Possibilities as a Graduate Instructor in First-Year Writing

by Molly Ryan | Xchanges 19.1, Spring 2025


About the Author

Download PDF Download PDF

 

Contents

Introduction

A Look in the Mirror

A Power of Choice

The Friendly Classroom

Abandoning Grading

The Power of Transformation

Final Thoughts

References

About the Author

Molly Ryan (she/her) is a PhD student in Rhetoric and Writing at Virginia Tech, an instructor in the first-year writing program, and the Director of the Academy for Outstanding Graduate Pedagogy. Molly's research interests include higher education leadership and policy, student-centered pedagogy in the writing classroom, and the applicability of WPA training to higher education administration. Molly's work has appeared in Kairos, The Sandbox, and elsewhere.

Pages: 1· 2· 3· 4· 5· 6· 7· 8· 9

Posted by chanakya_das on Mar 26, 2025 in Issue 19.1

Related posts

  • Academic Leadership by Day, Student by Night: Juggling Department Management, Teaching, and a PhD Program as a Minority Woman
  • Empathy for the Instructor: A Reflection of Using Empathy-Based Pedagogy as a Graduate Teaching Assistant
  • Reclaiming Authority in the FYC Classroom as a Graduate Teaching Assistant: Using Feminist Pedagogies to Empower
  • Reflections on Collaborative Writing
  • Editor's Note
  • Editor's Note
  • Chat(GPT)-ing about the Affordances Generative AI Tools Offer for ADHD Writers
  • Experienced Teachers, Emergent Researchers: Graduate Students Developing Scholarly Identities
  • Local Assessment Design and Graduate Student Wellbeing
  • Precarity and Negotiations of Racialized Identities of Two POC Grad Instructors in a PWI
  • Redistributing Care Work: Toward Labor Justice for Graduate Student Instructors

© by Xchanges • ISSN: 1558-6456 • Powered by B2Evolution

Cookies are required to enable core site functionality.