Current Focus
During the Fall 2008 semester, I am mentoring eight first-year teachers in the award-winning program in Introductory Composition at Purdue (ICaP) and teaching "introduction to Composition Theory," a core course in our graduate progra in rhetoric and composition. In Spring of 2008, I led a seminar in Writing Program Administration and taught a core course in our graduate program in rhetoric and composition, "Issues in Composition Studies: Modern Period"

In Fall 2006 I taught English 591 Introduction to Composition Theory to our first-year students in the Rhetoric and Compositon Graduate Program here at Purdue. I was also their mentor for their first year of teaching in Intoductory Composition at Purdue (IC@P). In Spring of 2007, I taught a seminar "Rhetorics of the Lost Archives: Theory, Research, Practices," in which seminar members worked with cartoons from the John T. McCutcheon Cartoons in Archives and Special Collections at Purdue University.

In Spring of 2006, I worked with the Purdue University Archivist as part of a Study in a Second Discipline Fellowship. For my fellowship project I processed materials in the James Berlin Papers

I recently completed a term as President of the Council of Writing Program Administrators, and am currently serving as Immediate Past President of the organization. I am also an AQIP Systems Appraiser and a PEAQ Peer Reviewer for the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools.

Recent Academic Administrative Work
7/2002-7/2005 Director of Composition, Purdue
7/99- 6/2002 Assistant Head, English Department, Purdue

Recent Publications

Rose, Shirley K. “Creating a Context”: The Institutional Logic of the Council of Writing Program Administrators’ Development of the Consultant-Evaluator Service.” The Promise and Perils of Writing Program Administration, Theresa Enos and Shane Borrowman, Eds. West Lafayette, IN: Parlor Press, 2008. 21-46

Rose, Shirley K. "An Essay on an Essay about Essays: Response to Richard Miller's 'On Asking Impertinent Questions'." Part of a three-part interchange with Richard Miller and  Irvin Peckham . College Composition and Communication 57.1 (September 2005): 142-168.

Rose, Shirley K and Samantha “Plug and Play: Technology and Mentoring of Teaching Assistants” (co-authored with Samantha Blackmon ). Don't Call It that: The Composition Practicum , Sid Dobrin, Ed. NCTE, Urbana , IL: 2005

Rose, Shirley K and Irwin Weiser . “Beyond ‘Winging It': The Place of Writing Program Administration in Rhetoric and Composition Graduate Programs.” Culture Shock: Training the New Wave in Rhetoric and Composition , Susan Romano and Virginia Anderson, Eds. Hampton Press, Cresgill , NJ : 2005.

Rose, Shirley K. “Representing the Intellectual Work of Writing Program Administration: Professional Narratives of George Wykoff at Purdue 1933-1967.” Historical Studies of Writing Program Administration. Barbara L'Eplattenier and Lisa Mastrangelo , Eds. West Lafayette , IN : Parlor Press, 2004. 221-239.

Rose, Shirley K and Irwin Weiser, Eds . Writing Program Administrator as Theorist: Making Knowledge Work . Portsmouth , NH : Boynton/Cook-Heinemann, 2002.

Rose, Shirley K. “Representing the Intellectual Work of Writing Program Administration: Professional Narratives of George Wykoff at Purdue 1933-1967.” Historical Studies of Writing Program Administration. Barbara L'Eplattenier and Lisa Mastrangelo , Eds. West Lafayette , IN : Parlor Press, 2004. 221-239.

Rose, Shirley K, and Irwin Weiser. "WPA as Researcher and Archivist." The Writing Program Administrator's Resource: A Guide to Reflective Institutional Practice . Theresa Enos and Stuart Brown, Eds. Erlbaum, 2002. 275-90.

Weiser, Irwin and Shirley K Rose. “Theorizing Writing Program Theorizing. Writing Program Administrator as Theorist . Shirley K Rose and Irwin Weiser, Eds. Portsmouth , NH : Boynton/Cook-Heinemann 2002. 183-95.

Rose, Shirley K. "Mentoring for Teaching Assistants in the Introductory Writing Program at Purdue University ." Teaching Writing Teachers: Composition Pedagogy Courses and Programs . Robert Tremmel and Bill Broz, Eds. Portsmouth , NH : Heinemann, 2002. 86-92.

Rose, Shirley K, and Margaret Finders. "Thinking Together: Developing A Reciprocal Reflective Model for Approaches to Preparing College Teachers of Writing." Preparing College Teachers of Writing: Histories, Theories, Programs, and Practices . Sarah Liggett and Betty Pytlik, Eds. New York : Oxford University Press, 2002. 75-85.

Recent Conference Papers And Workshops

“More Than Hard Knocks: What WPAs Know about Learning.” Plenary Address at the 2008 Summer Conference of the Council of Writing Program Administrators in Denver, CO, July 12, 2008.

“Twenty More Years in ‘The WPA’s Progress’: A Report from Survey Research on WPA Work” (with Jonikka Charlton). Paper presented at Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), New Orleans, April 3, 2008.

“WPA-NMA Workshop: Developing a Toolkit for a Culture of Assessment.” Co-presenter for workshop sponsored by the Network for Media Action of the Council of Writing Program Administrators, CCCC, New Orleans, April 2, 2008.

“Feminist Archival Practice: That Isn’t Funny--Representing the Cartoons of John T. McCutcheon.” Paper presented at the Feminisms and Rhetorics Conference , Little Rock, AK, October 5, 2007.

“Revisiting ‘The WPA’s Progress’ Twenty years Later: Practices, Prospects, and Preparation.” Research report co-presented with Jonikka Charlton, Council of Writing Program Administrators’ Summer Conference, Tempe, AZ, July 13, 2007.

“Who Represents English Studies? Whom Does English Studies Represent? A Public Conversation.” Panelist representing Council of Writing Program Administrators for Featured Session, CCCC, New York City, March 23, 2007.

“Best Practices in the Archives: What Can We Learn from Doing?” Presentation for workshop on “Identifying the Artifacts Among Us: Exploring Possibilities in Researching and Building Local and National Archival Collections,” CCCC, New York City, March 21, 2007.

“Archival Representations and Constructions of Audience: Constructing Archives Users.” Paper presented at CCCC, New York City, March 22, 2007.

“ Unspeakable Knowledges of Writing Program Administration : When We Can't Say What We Practice.” Writing Development in Higher Education Conference in Milton Keynes , UK , May 11-12, 2006 .

"Raising Dust: Writing the Archives" CCCC, Chicago, March 17 2006 .

"Multimedia Archives and the Documentation of the WPA's Intellectual Work." Modern Language Association, Washington , D.C. , December 29, 2006 .

“Making Knowledge at Early CCCC Workshops.” Feminisms and Rhetorics Conference, Houghton , Michigan , October 8, 2005 .

“Defining, Selecting, and Implementing Variations of the ‘Common Syllabus' Approach to Writing Program Administration : Pros and Cons.” Council of Writing Program Administrators ' Summer Conference, July 9, 2005 .

“Uncovering a Writing Program's History of Discovery.” CCCC, San Francisco , March 18, 2005 .

“On Being a Text in My Own Class.” Paper presented at Council of Writing Program Administrators' Summer Conference, University of Delaware , July 2004.

“Composition Matters Across the Campus: Curriculum Development as Storytelling.” Paper presented at Conference on College Composition and Communication, San Antonio , March 2004.

“The University as the Real World': Writing to Develop Agency and Efficacy in First-Year Composition.” Paper presented at NCTE Annual Convention, San Francisco , November 2003.

“Designing for Social Action: FYC Students Writing their Way Into the University.” Presenter in a Better by Design: Showcase Session at summer conference of the Council of Writing Program Administrators, Grand Rapids, MI, July 2003

“Scholarly Citation Practices in Online Composition Studies Journals.” Paper presented at the Computers and Writing Conference, Purdue University, June 2003.

“Learning With and From Our Graduate Students: Visual Representations of WPA Scholarship.” Featured Session at Conference on College Composition and Communication, New York City , March 2003.

“Composing a Disciplinary Identity: Citation Histories of Composing Processes of Twelfth Graders and A Theory of Discourse, ” Paper presented at the Watson Conference on Rhetoric and Composition, University of Louisville , October 2002.