Publications
Book: Talk, Tools, and Texts: A Logic-in-Use for Studying Lifespan Literate Action Development. Practices and Possibilities Series. WAC Clearinghouse / University Press of Colorado. 2019.
Edited Collections:
Improvisations: Methods and Methodologies in Lifespan Writing Research. (co-edited with Talinn Phillips). Perspectives on Writing Series / Lifespan Writing Research Series. WAC Clearinghouse / University Press of Colorado. 2024.
Approaches to Lifespan Writing Research: Generating an Actionable Coherence. (co-edited with Talinn Phillips). Perspectives on Writing Series. WAC Clearinghouse / University Press of Colorado. 2020.
Articles and Chapters:
Studying Writing through the Lifespan with Grounded Theory. In T. Phillips & R. Dippre (Eds.) Improvisations: Methods and Methodologies in Lifespan Writing Research. Perspectives on Writing Series / Lifespan Writing Research Series. The WAC Clearinghouse; University Press of Colorado. 2024.
Deepening and Keeping the Present: Grounded Theory in Action. In T. Phillips & R. Dippre (Eds.) Improvisations: Methods and Methodologies in Lifespan Writing Research. Perspectives on Writing Series / Lifespan Writing Research Series. The WAC Clearinghouse; University Press of Colorado. 2024.
Conducting Lifespan Writing Research: Challenges, Opportunities, and the State of a Radical Research Agenda (coauthored with Talinn Phillips). In T. Phillips & R. Dippre (Eds.) Improvisations: Methods and Methodologies in Lifespan Writing Research. Perspectives on Writing Series / Lifespan Writing Research Series. The WAC Clearinghouse; University Press of Colorado. 2024.
Radicality in the Short Term: Generating Structural Change (coauthored with Talinn Phillips). In T. Phillips & R. Dippre (Eds.) Improvisations: Methods and Methodologies in Lifespan Writing Research. Perspectives on Writing Series / Lifespan Writing Research Series. The WAC Clearinghouse; University Press of Colorado. 2024.
Radically Longitudinal, Radically Contextual: The Lifespan as a Focus for Longitudinal Writing Research (co-authored with Talinn Phillips) In J. Fishman and A. Kimme Hea (Eds.) Telling Stories: Perspectives on Longitudinal Writing Research. 2023.
Facilitating Writers’ Ongoing Self-Agency and Networked Learning (co-authored with Nadya Yakovchuk, Lucie Dvorakova, Allison Farrell, Niamh Fortune, and Melissa Weresh). In J. Bleakney, J.L. Moore, & P. Rosinski (Eds.) Writing Beyond the University: Implications for Fostering Writers’ Lifelong Learning and Agency. Center for Engaged Learning Open Access Book Series.
Beyond the University: Towards Transfer (co-authored with Niamh Fortune, Allison Farrell, Lucie Dvorakova, Melissa Weresh, and Nadya Yakovchuk. In M. Keane, C. McAvinia, & I. O’Sullivan (Eds.) Emerging Issues IV: Changing Times, Changing Contexts. Educational Developers in Ireland Network. 2021.
Haikus, Lists, Submarine Maintenance, and Star Trek: Tracing the Rambling Paths of Writing Development. In K. Blewett, T. Donahue, & C. Monroe (Eds.) The Expanding Universe of Writing Studies: Higher Education Writing Research. Peter Lang. 2021.
Stabilizing the Unstable: Exploring the Histories, Practices, and Literate Actions of Writers at the Aging Stage of Life. Writing and Pedagogy 12(1): 1-22. 2020.
Always Already Relocalized: The Protean Nature of Context in Lifespan Writing (with Anna Smith). In T. Phillips and R. Dippre (Eds.) Approaches to Lifespan Writing Research: Generating an Actionable Coherence. 2020.
Faith, Squirrels, and Artwork: The Expansive Agency of Textual Coordination. Literacy in Composition Studies 6(2): 76-93. 2018.
Reports:
Inaugural lifespan writing research conference report (2018)
Presentations
Invited Presentations
Dippre, R. (2018, May). Operationalizing a Lifespan Orientation: Charting Paths Forward in Theory and Methods. Plenary Presentation at the Inaugural Writing through the Lifespan Conference. Athens, Ohio.
Dippre, R. (2018, April). Moments, Patterns, and Practices: Constructing a Foundational Infrastructure for Studying Writing through the Lifespan. Keynote address at the Red de Lectura y Escritura en Educación Superior Conference in Feria del Libro de Bogota. Bogota, Colombia.
Conference Presentations
Bowen, L., Dippre, R., & Phillips, T. (2025, April). Re-Mixing Methods for Writing Research Across Writers’ Lifespans. Presentation at the Conference on College Composition and Communication. Baltimore, MD.
Bowen, L., Dippre, R., Phillips, T., & Smith, A. (2024, July). Considering Possible Futures for Lifespan Writing Research. Presentation at the 3rd Conference on Writing through the Lifespan. Online.
Dippre, R., Sinha, Y., & Workman, E. (2024, April). Stepping Into Lifespan Writing Research. Presentation at the Conference on College Composition and Communication. Spokane, WA.
Phillips, T., Dippre, R., Bowen, L., & Smith, A. (2023, February). Writing with and through Disruption. Presentation at the Writing Research Across Borders conference. Trondheim, Norway.
Bowen, L., Dippre, R., Phillips, T., & Smith, A. (2023, February). Writing, Hope, and Disruption: Intersections of Writing, Agency, and Identity during Major Life Transitions. Presentation at the Conference on College Composition and Communication. Chicago, Illinois.
Phillips, T., & Dippre, R. (2021, July). Opening Session: Expanding, Augmenting, and Illustrating Lifespan Writing Research. Presentation at the 2nd Biennial Conference on Writing through the Lifespan.
Smith, A., & Dippre, R. (2020, July). Addressing the Protean Nature of Context in Lifespan Writing Research. Presentation at the Lifespan Writing Online Conference.
Phillips, T., & Dippre, R. (2020, July). Radically Contextual, Radically Longitudinal: Growing Lifespan Writing Research. Presentation at the Lifespan Writing Online Conference.
Dippre, R. (2019, March). Framing the Individuated Actor Sociologically: The Ghastly Blending of Grounded Theory and Ethnomethodology. Presentation at the Conference on College Composition and Communication. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Dippre, R. (2018, June). Writing and Agency in Old Age: Methodologies to Challenge a Curriculum of Aging. Presentation at the Inaugural Writing through the Lifespan Conference. Athens, Ohio.
Dippre, R. & Smith, A. (2018, June). Tracing Contexts’ Development in Longitudinal Studies of Writing. Presentation at the Inaugural Writing through the Lifespan Conference. Athens, Ohio.
Dippre, R. & Smith, A. (2018, April). Tracing Contexts’ Development Across Time. Presentation at the American Educational Research Association Annual Convention. New York, New York.
Dippre, R. (2018, March). Faith, Comics, and History: The Stabilizing Force of Textual Coordination. Presentation at the Conference on College Composition and Communication. Kansas City, Missouri.
Dippre, R. (2017, March). Ongoing Renovation: Exploring the Development of Literate Action through an Ethnomethodological Lens. Presentation at the Conference on College Composition and Communication. Portland, Oregon.
Dippre, R. (2016, August). “I’m not the same person”: Tracing laminated literate practices through times, places, and selves. Presentation at the 50th Anniversary Dartmouth Conference. Hanover, New Hampshire.
Dippre, R. (2017, May). Exploring Writing at the Aging Stage of Life. Presentation at the Regional Conference on College Composition and Communication. Boston, Massachusetts.
Dippre, R. (2016, March). Talk, Tools, and Text: Exploring the Totality of the Literate Experience. Presentation for the UMaine Department of English Faculty Speaker Series. Orono, Maine.
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