Publications

Book: Burnin’ Daylight: Building a Principle-Driven Writing Program.  Utah State University Press.  2024.

Articles and Chapters:

Aligning with and through Difference: Tracing the Thingifications of a Multi-Campus Outcomes Statement (coauthored with Jessica Ouellette).  Composition Studies 53(1): 63-79.  2025.

Trading Time: Communicating Grand Strategy to Administration through Hour-Tracking.  In L. Graziano, K. Halasek, R. Hudgins, S. Miller-Cochran, F. Napolitano, & N. Szymanski (Eds.) Making Administrative Work Visible: Data-Driven Approaches to Understanding the Labor of Writing Program Administration.  2023.

Grounding WPA Work: A Phenomenology of Program Development.  In L. Wilkes, L. Mina, and P. Poblete (Eds.) Toward More Sustainable Metaphors of Writing Program Administration.  Utah State University Press.  2023.

Visualizing the Role of Small, Stubborn Facts: Changing Stories of Writing.  In D. Mueller, L. Bearden, and R. Gramer (Eds.) Radiant Figures: Visual Rhetorics in Everyday Administrative Contexts.  Computers and Composition Digital Press.  2021.

Presentations

Dippre, R. (2025, February). Classic Grounded Theory and WPA Work in the 2020s. Presentation at the 2025 UMaine Writing Studies Colloquium.  Orono, Maine.

Dippre, R., Adent, A., Zavodny, E., & Hartwell, K. (2019, July).  The Nexus of Local and National Contexts in Writing Program Administration: UMaine’s Writing Program, 1972-2018.  Presentation at the Council of Writing Program Administrators Annual Conference.  Baltimore, Maryland.

Thoune, D., Kahn, S., Dippre, R., Titus, M. (2019, July).  Promoting the CWPA Labor Resource Center.  Presentation at the Council of Writing Program Administrators Annual Conference.  Baltimore, Maryland.

Kahn, S., Thoune, D., Frazee, A., & Dippre, R. (2019, July). Developing/Sustaining Ethical Labor Practices in Writing Programs.  Half-Day Institute at the Council of Writing Program Administrators Annual Conference.  Baltimore, Maryland.

Dippre, R. (2018, July).  Incremental, Lasting Change: Transforming the Story of Writing at UMaine across the Decades.  Presentation at the Council for Writing Program Administrators Annual Conference.  Sacramento, California.

Mitchell, P., Dippre, R., & Dubois, K. (2018, March).  Building Bridges: Exploring and Strengthening TA – Tutor Alignment.  Presentation at the Northeast Writing Center Association Annual Conference.  Worchester, Massachusetts.

Dippre, R. (2016, July).  Trajectories of GTA Development: How Teaching Assistants Take Up and Think Through a “Writing about Writing” Approach to English 101.  Presentation at the Council of Writing Program Administrators Annual Conference.  Raleigh, North Carolina.

Mitchell, P., & Dippre, R. (2016, April).  Writing New Stories: Threshold Concepts as a Bridge for Collaboration between Writing Centers and Writing Programs.  Presentation at the Northeast Writing Center Association Annual Conference.  Keene, New Hampshire.