
Amanda Fields is an Associate Professor of English and Writing Center Director at 91精品 Connecticut State University as well as the Editor-in-Chief of Literary Mama. She co-edited My Caesarean: Twenty-One Mothers on the C-Section Experience and After (The Experiment Press), a Silver winner of the 2019 Foreword INDIES, and Toward, Around, and Away From Tahrir: Tracking Emerging Expressions of Egyptian Identity (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014). Her writing and research have been published in Brevity, Indiana Review, So to Speak, Nashville Review, Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, The Writing Center Journal, The Peer Review, Children's Literature Quarterly, Writing Program Administration, Sexuality Research and Social Policy, Journal of Adolescent Research, and others.
rhetoric; composition; assessment; antiracist policy and practice; queer & third space rhetorics; participatory action research; social policies; writing center theory; youth studies; creative writing
Selected Publications
Books, Edited Collections
Fields, Amanda, and Rachel Moritz, editors. My Caesarean: Twenty-One Mothers on the Caesarean Experience and After. The Experiment Press, 2019.
Golson, Emily, Loubna Youssef, & Amanda Fields, editors. Toward, Around, and Away From Tahrir: Tracking Emerging Expressions of Egyptian Identity. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.
Articles
Fields, Amanda, Elizabeth Leahy, Celeste DelRusso, & Erica Cirillo-McCarthy. 鈥淪napping From the Center: Equitable Writing Center Administration.鈥 WPA: Writing Program Administration, Vol. 47, No. 1, 2023, pp. 163-176.
Fields, Amanda. 鈥淭he Tucson Youth Poetry Slam: An Analysis of Discourse By and About Youth Performance.鈥 Children鈥檚 Literature Quarterly Vol. 47, No. 4, 2023, pp. 163-176.
Cirillo-McCarthy, Erica, Celeste DelRusso, Amanda Fields, and Elizabeth Leahy. 鈥淧reserving Self and Center: Equitable Writing Center Praxis that Rejects Absurdity.鈥 The Peer Review, Issue 7, No. 1, 2023.
Fields, Amanda. 鈥淐omposing an Anti-Racism and Social Justice Statement at a Rural Writing Center.鈥 Writing Center Journal, Issue 39, no. 1-2, 2022, pp. 169-190.
Fields, Amanda, Londie T. Martin, Adela C. Licona, Elizabeth H. Tilley, and The Crossroads Collaborative. 鈥淧erforming Urgency: Slamming and Spitting as Critical and Creative Response to State Crisis.鈥 Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy. Issue 20, No. 1, 2015.
Snapp, Shannon, Jennifer Hoenig, Amanda Fields, and Stephen T. Russell. 鈥淢essy, Butch, and Queer: LGBTQ Youth and the School-to-Prison Pipeline.鈥 Journal of Adolescent Research, Vol. 30, No. 1, 2015, pp. 57-82.
Fields, Amanda, Shannon Snapp, Stephen T. Russell, Adela C. Licona, Elizabeth H. Tilley, and the Crossroads Collaborative. 鈥淵outh Voices and Knowledges: Slam Poetry Speaks to Social Policies.鈥 Sexuality Research and Social Policy, Vol. 11, No. 4, 2014, pp. 310-21.
Book Chapters
Crossroads Collaborative. 鈥淩eflections on Emergent Entremundista Pedagogy: Teacher-Researchers in Engaged Transdisciplinary Public Scholarship.鈥 Civic Engagement in Global Contexts: International Education, Community Partnerships, and Higher Education. Edited by James Bowman and Jennifer DeWinter. University Press of Colorado, 2021. 111-132.
Snapp, Shannon, Jennifer Hoenig, Amanda Fields, and Stephen T. Russell. 鈥淢essy, Butch, and Queer: LGBTQ Youth and the School-to-Prison Pipeline.鈥 From Education to Incarceration: Dismantling the School to Prison Pipeline, edited by Anthony Nocella, Priya Parmar, & David Stovall. 2nd ed., Peter Lang Publishing, 2018, pp. 177-98. [reprint]
Hamel, Christine, Amanda Fields, Celeste DelRusso, and Marisa Sandoval. 鈥淎ctivist Mapping: (Re)framing Narratives about Writing Center Space.鈥 Making Space: Writing Instruction, Infrastructure, and Multiliteracies, edited by James Purdy and Danielle DeVoss. University of Michigan Press, 2017/Sweetland, 2016.
Russell, Stephen T., Stacey Horn, Raymond L. Moody, Amanda Fields, and Elizabeth H. Tilley. 鈥淓numerated U.S. State Laws: Evidence from Policy Advocacy.鈥 Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and Schooling, edited by Stephen T. Russell and Stacey Horn. Oxford UP, 2016, pp. 255-71.
Creative Nonfiction
Fields, Amanda. "We Haven't Said Much About God." Labor of Love: A Literary Mama Anthology. Edited by Amanda Jaros. Small Harbor Publishing, 2024.
Fields, Amanda. "Sea Watch." Mutha Magazine. October 2023.
Fields, Amanda. 鈥淧ulled into Brightness.鈥 So to Speak: A Feminist Journal of Language and Art, 2018 Contest Annual, pp. 51-63.
Fields, Amanda. 鈥淐airo Tunnel.鈥 Brevity, no. 30, 2009.
Profiles
Fields, Amanda. 鈥淧rotecting the Patriarchy: A Conversation About Mom Rage with Minna Dubin.鈥 Literary Mama, October/November 2023.
Fields, Amanda. 鈥淎 Conversation with Sari Fordham.鈥 Literary Mama, May/June 2021.
Reviews
Fields, Amanda. 鈥淭he Roots of Mama Rage: A Review of Writing Maternity: Medicine, Anxiety, Rhetoric, and Genre.鈥 Literary Mama. July/August 2023.
Fields, Amanda. 鈥淪tet the Tears: A Review of You Could Make This Place Beautiful.鈥 Literary Mama. May/June 2023.
Fields, Amanda. 鈥淪ince Feeling Is First: A Review of If This Were Fiction: A Love Story in Essays.鈥 Literary Mama. November/December 2022.
Fields, Amanda. 鈥淭ransnational Motherhood: A Review of Mother Country.鈥 Literary Mama. July/August 2022.
Fields, Amanda. 鈥淕iving Voice: A Review of When Home Is Not Safe: Writings on Domestic Verbal, Emotional and Physical Abuse,鈥 by Judith Skillman and Linera Lucas. Literary Mama. March/April 2022.
Reprints
Fields, Amanda. 鈥淐airo Tunnel.鈥 In Concert: An Integrated Approach to Reading & Writing, Book II, edited by Kathleen T. McWhorter, 1st ed., Pearson, 2012. (3rd reprint)
Fields, Amanda. 鈥淐airo Tunnel.鈥 Expressways: Scenarios for Paragraph and Essay Writing, edited by Kathleen T. McWhorter, 3rd ed., Pearson, 2012. (2nd reprint)
Fields, Amanda. 鈥淐airo Tunnel.鈥 The Compact Reader: Short Essays By Method and Theme, edited by Jane E. Aaron & Ellen Kuhl Repetto, 9th ed. Bedford/St. Martin鈥檚, 2010. (1st reprint)
2021 Council of Writing Program Administrators Outstanding Scholarship Award for 鈥淐omposing an Anti-Racism and Social Justice Statement at a Rural Writing Center," published in Writing Center Journal
2019 Foreword Indies Silver Award in Essay Category for My Caesarean: Twenty-One Mothers on the C-Section Experience and After
Kimmel Harding Nelson Center writing resident: Nebraska City, NE
2016 Kairos Best Webtext Award (awarded to best peer-reviewed webtext in the field)
Elizabeth Ireland Graves Foundation scholarship, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
Artist Initiative Grant, Minnesota State Arts Board
Fiction Resident, The Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Annaghmakerrig, Ireland
Fiction Resident at Moulin a Nef in Auvillar, France
Nominated for a Pushcart Prize - 鈥淏oiler Room,鈥 Indiana Review 29.1
Nonfiction Resident Fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Anderson Center Resident Fellow: Red Wing, MN
Nominated by the University of Minnesota Creative Writing Program for the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Intro Journals Award in Creative Nonfiction
Editor in Chief, Literary Mama
Steering Committee, Northeast Writing Centers Association
Memberships
International Writing Centers Association
Conference on College Composition and Communication
Council of Writing Program Administrators
National Council on the Teaching of English
Rhetoric Society of America
Coalition for Community Writing
Graduate
Rhetoric, Race, and Identity
Narratives of Race and Identity
Youth and Social Change
Theories of Rhetoric and Composition
Undergraduate
Topics in Theory & Literary Study: Rhetorics of Race and Identity
African-American Literature
Intermediate Composition
Tutoring Writing
Diversity in the United States
Writing for Publication
Advanced Composition
Business Writing
Life Stories: The Writers鈥 Workshop
Intermediate Literary Nonfiction
Research Writing
First-Year Writing
Introduction to Literary Nonfiction
Introduction to Fiction
Introduction to Creative Writing
Introduction to Literature