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BOOKS

Caswell, Nikki, Jackie Grutsch McKinney, and Becky Jackson. The Working Lives of Writing Center Directors. Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2016.

Grutsch McKinney, Jackie. Strategies for Writing Center Research. Lenses on Composition Series. Anderson, SC: Parlor Press, 2016.

Grutsch McKinney, Jackie. Peripheral Visions for Writing Centers. Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2013. Print. Winner of the 2014 IWCA Outstanding Book Award.
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ARTICLES & CHAPTERS

Grouling, Jennifer and Jackie Grutsch McKinney. "Taking Stock: Multimodality in Writing Center Users' Texts." Computers and Composition. 41 (September 2016): 56-67.

Jackson, Becky, Jackie Grutsch McKinney, and Nikki Caswell. "Writing Center Administration as/and Labor." Composition Forum. Special Issue on Emotion in Composition. 34 (Summer 2016): NP. 

Grutsch McKinney, Jackie. "New Media Matters: Tutoring in the Late Age of Print." Writing Center Journal 29.2 (Fall 2009): 28-51. Rpt. in The Oxford Guide for Writing Tutors. Eds. Lauren Fitzgerald and Melissa Ianetta. Oxford University Press, 2015.

Grutsch McKinney, Jackie. "New Media Matters: Tutoring in the Late Age of Print." Writing Center Journal 29.2 (Fall 2009): 28-51. Rpt. in The Routledge Reader on Writing Centers and New Media. Eds. Sohui Lee & Rusty Carpenter. Routledge, 2014.

Balester, Valerie, Nancy Grimm, Jackie Grutsch McKinney, Sohui Lee, David Sheridan, and Naomi Silver. "The Idea of a Multiliteracy Center: Six Responses." Praxis: A Writing Center Journal. 9.2 (2012): NP.
 
Jackson, Rebecca and Jackie Grutsch McKinney. "Beyond Tutoring: Mapping the Invisible Landscape of Writing Center Work." Praxis: A Writing Center Journal. 9.1 (2011): NP.

Grutsch McKinney, Jackie. “Making Friends with Web 2.0: Writing Centers and Social Networking Sites.” Before and After the Tutorial: Writing Centers and Institutional Relationships. Eds. Robert Koch, William Macauley, and Nick Mauriello. Hampton Press, 2011. 203-214.

Grutsch McKinney, Jackie. "New Media Matters: Tutoring in the Late Age of Print." Writing Center Journal 29.2 (Fall 2009): 28-51. Rpt. in St. Martin’s Sourcebook for Writing Tutors. Ed. Christina Murphy and Steve Sherwood. 4th Ed. Boston, MA: Bedford/St. Martins, 2011. 344-361.

Grutsch McKinney, Jackie. "New Media (R)evolution: Multiple Models for Multiliteracies." in Multiliteracy Centers: Writing Center Work, New Media, and Multimodal Rhetoric. Eds. David Sheridan and James Inman. Hampton Press, 2010. 207-223.

Grutsch McKinney, Jackie. "New Media Matters: Tutoring in the Late Age of Print." Writing Center Journal. 29.2 (Fall 2009): 28-51.

Fleckenstein, Kris, Jackie Grutsch McKinney, and Fred Johnson. "A Portable Ecology: Supporting New Media and Laptop-Ready Pedagogy at Ball State." Technological Ecologies and Sustainability: Methods, Modes, and Assessment. Eds. Danielle DeVoss, Heidi McKee, and Dickie Selfe. Computers and Composition Digital Press (an imprint of Utah State University Press), 2009.

Ranieri, Paul and Jackie Grutsch McKinney. “‘Fitness for the Occasion’: How Context Matters for JWPAs.” Untenured Faculty as Writing Program Administrators: Institutional Practices and Politics. Eds. Alice S. Horning and Debra Frank Dew. Lauer Series in Rhetoric and Composition. Parlor Press, 2007.  
        
Grutsch McKinney, Jackie. “Leaving Home Sweet Home: Towards Critical Readings of Writing Center Spaces.” Writing Center Journal 25.2 (Fall 2005): 6-20. 
         
Grutsch McKinney, Jackie. “The American Scholar Writes the New ‘Research’ Essay.” The Journal of Teaching Writing 20.1/2 (2002): 71-86. [acceptance 2003; actual printing fall 2004]
         
Grutsch McKinney, Jackie and Elizabeth Chiseri-Strater. “Inventing a Teacherly Self: Positioning Journals in the TA Seminar.”WPA: Journal of the Council of Writing Program Administrators. 27.1/2 (2003): 59-74.

BOOK REVIEWS

Grutsch McKinney, Jackie. [BOOK REVIEW] Greenfield, Laura and Karen Rowan, eds. Writing Centers and the New Racism. Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2011. Writing Lab Newsletter 37.1-2 (2012).

Grutsch McKinney, Jackie and Emily Standridge. [BOOK REVIEW] Hewett, Beth. The Online Writing Conference: A Guide for Teachers and Tutors. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 2010. Print. Writing Center Journal 31.2 (2011): 128-134.

COLUMN

Geek in the Center column for the Writing Lab Newsletter.
     Grutsch McKinney, Jackie. "Blogging." WLN 34.1 (2009): 7-9.
     Grutsch McKinney, Jackie.  "Instant Messaging." WLN 34.2 (2009): p. 6-8.
     Grutsch McKinney, Jackie."Writing Center Websites, Then and Now." WLN 34.4/5 (2010): 6-9.
     Grutsch McKinney, Jackie. "Cloud 9." WLN. 34.6 (2010): 12-13.
     Grutsch McKinney, Jackie. "Audio-Video-Textual Conferencing Options." WLN 34.9/10 (2010): 11-13.
     Grutsch McKinney, Jackie. “750words.com.” WLN 35.2 (October 2010): 7-9.
     Grutsch McKinney, Jackie. “Twitter.” WLN 35.3 (Nov/Dec 2010): 6-9.
     Grutsch McKinney, Jackie. “Research and Reference Management Tools.” WLN 35.9-10 (May/June 2011): 7-9.
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IN PROGRESS/UNDER REVIEW

"Metaphors We Work By: New Writing Center Directors’ Labor and Identities" with Rebecca Jackson and Nikki Caswell for WPAs in Transition. 

GRANTS

"A Peripheral Vision of Writing Centers." International Writing Center Association Research Grant. 2008. Funded.
Creative Teaching Grant. Ball State Office of Teaching and Learning. 2004. Funded.
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CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

"Writing Center Leadership 101." East Central Writing Center Association. Dowagiac, Michigan. March 2017.

"Preparing for Writing Center Leadership Roles." Conference on College Composition and Communication. Portland, OR. March 2017.

"Beyond the Anecdotal: Studying Writing Center Director Labor." International Writing Centers Association. Denver, CO. October 2016.
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"Acting Out: The Legacy of Hephzibah Roskelly and Elizabeth Chiseri-Strater." Conference on College Composition and Communication. Houston, TX. March 2016.

"Anonymous Subjects." Conference on College Composition and Communication. Tampa, FL. March 2015.

"Studying Writing Center Stories: Methods for Qualitative Narrative Inquiry." IWCA Collaborative @CCCC. March 2015. Tampa, FL. 

"Neither Here Nor There: Opening the Story of Writing Center Labor." Conference on College Composition and Communication. Indianapolis, IN. March 2014. Indianapolis, IN.

"The Social Center: Closing the Echo Chamber and Opening the Writing Center on Twitter." IWCA Collaborative @CCCC. March 2014. Indianapolis, IN. 

"The Public (Face) Work of Administration: A Case Study of Six New Writing Center Directors." CCCC. Las Vegas, NV. March 2013.

"'The Problems of Remaking Are Many': Contingency in 21st Century Writing Centers." International Writing Center Association. San Diego, CA. October 2012.

"Action Research: Making Responsible Changes in the Writing Center." East Central Writing Center Association Conference. Indianapolis, Indiana. March 2012.

"Generating Writing Center Stories: Action Research as Activism." IWCA Collaborative @CCCC. St. Louis, MO. 21 March 2012. 

"From Writing Center to Multiliteracy Center: Imagining the Twenty-First Century." Panel Presentation with David Sheridan, Nancy Grimm, Valerie Balester, Sohui Lee, and Naomi Silver. Computers and Writing. Ann Arbor, MI. May 2011.

"Rogue Peer Feedback: Students are Doing it for Themselves." CCCC. Louisville, KY. 19 March 2010. Session G/42 09:30 to 10:45.

"Epic Fail: Research on Sessions Gone Awry." IWCA Collaborative @ CCCC. Louisville, KY. 17 March 2010. With Graduate Students/Assistant Directors Emily Standridge and Dani Weber.

“Developing IM in the Writing Center: Platforms, Discourses, and Hidden Benefits,” East Central Writing Center Association, April 2009, Purdue University. Panel presentation with Nikki Caswell (Kent State University) and Jason Luther (Syracuse University).

"Views from the Bridge: Surveying the Landscape of 21st Century Writing Center Work," IWCA@CCCC, March 2009, San Francisco, CA.

"Professional Concerns of Writing Center Directors: What Happened?" CCCC, March 2009, San Francisco, CA.

"Co-Emergence: Interdependency of Writing Program and Writing Center for Evolving and Sustaining New Media Writing." Thomas Watson Conference. Louisville, KY. October 2008. Roundtable of contributors to Technological Ecologies and Sustainability.

"Writing Center Hacks: Tapping into the Possibilities of Freeware." East Central Writing Center Association. Columbus, OH. April 2008. Chair and Presenter.

“Crafting a Writing Center Logo, Designing an Identity.” CCCC. New York, NY. March 2007. Chair and Presenter.
      
 “Where, oh, Where Has Our Identity Gone?: Reading the Story in Writing Center Promotional Writing.” Thomas Watson Conference on Rhetoric and Composition. Louisville, KY. October 2006.
       
“Visualizing the Writing Center: Training Tutors to Work with New Media.” East Central Writing Center Association. Mount Union College. March 2006.
       
“Now For My Next Trick: Performing the Role of a Female/Administrator.”  CCCC.  San Francisco, CA. March 2005.
       
“Teaching Teachers Gloria Anzaldua’s ‘How to Tame a Wild Tongue’: Exploring Issues in Language, Diversity, and Identity." Composing Cultures: Diversity and the Teaching of Writing.  Durham, NH. October 2004.
       
“Composition Classroom Design.” CCCC.  San Antonio, TX.  March 2004. 
       
“3D Tutoring: Visual Rhetoric and the Writing Center.”  International Writing Center Association Conference.  Hershey, PA. October 2003.