Selected Publications: Academic and Creative
For a full list of my publications, please review my curriculum vitae.
Selected Academic Publications
Golson, Emily, Loubna Youssef, and Amanda Fields, Eds. Toward, Around, and Away From Tahrir: Tracking Expressions of Emerging Egyptian Identity. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.
This peer-reviewed essay collection, written by Egyptians and Americans living and working in Cairo, Egypt, focuses on written and oral expression as viewed through the lenses of rhetoric, language and communication in order to further understand some of the changes that appear to have altered and strengthened Egyptians’ perceptions of themselves since the Egyptian Revolution commenced.
Fields, Amanda, Londie T. Martin, Adela C. Licona, Elizabeth H. Tilley, and The Crossroads Collaborative. “Performing Urgency: Slamming and Spitting as Critical and Creative Response to State Crisis.” Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy. 20.1 (August 2015)
We won the 2016 Kairos Best Webtext Award for this piece. This peer-reviewed webtext explores the possibilities of youth slam poetry, focusing on the Tucson Youth Poetry Slam. We examine the ways in which youth slam poets in Arizona have responded to and acted against regressive legislative measures that have limited their access to narratives about sexuality, health, and rights. The article is designed so as to model our understanding of queer and borderlands spaces in which fluid identifications can be fleeting yet full of possibility.
Hamel, Christine, Amanda Fields, Celeste DelRusso, and Marisa Sandoval. "Activist Mapping: (Re)Framing Narratives about Writing Center Space." Making Space: Writing Instruction, Infrastructure, and Multiliteracies. Ed. James Purdy and Danielle DeVoss. University of Michigan Press/Sweetland, 2015 (forthcoming).
This peer-reviewed book chapter explores the role and identity confusion that can come with moving a writing center from an autonomous to a shared physical and institutional space. Using Herndl and Licona's concept of constrained agency as a theoretical framework, this chapter provides an example of how to fight the damaging narratives often told about writing center spaces and examines how writing centers can successfully cross (into) boundaries of student support.
Fields, Amanda, Shannon Snapp, Stephen T. Russell, Adela C. Licona, Elizabeth H. Tilley, and the Crossroads Collaborative. "Youth Voices and Knowledges: Slam Poetry Speaks to Social Policies." Sexuality Research and Social Policy April 2014.
This peer-reviewed article uses qualitative and quantitative data to analyze a selection of poems from a local organization that supports youth poetry slam.We found that youth consistently responded to regressive legislation in Arizona through slam poetry and expressed the desire for rights to knowledges and the need for supportive policies and practices that consider and reflect the complex realities of their lives. We conclude that youth voice may inform policies and practices that are comprehensive in support of sexual health and rights for youth.
Selected Creative Publications
Fields, Amanda. "Phosphorescence." Nashville Review, Summer 2012. (fiction)
Fields, Amanda. "One Pine Lake" and "Muezzin." Contemporary American Voices, July 2012. (poetry)
Fields, Amanda. "Cairo Tunnel." Brevity 30, 2009. (essay)
Fields, Amanda. "Boiler Room." Indiana Review 29.1, 2007. (fiction, nominated for a Pushcart Prize)
Selected Academic Publications
Golson, Emily, Loubna Youssef, and Amanda Fields, Eds. Toward, Around, and Away From Tahrir: Tracking Expressions of Emerging Egyptian Identity. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.
This peer-reviewed essay collection, written by Egyptians and Americans living and working in Cairo, Egypt, focuses on written and oral expression as viewed through the lenses of rhetoric, language and communication in order to further understand some of the changes that appear to have altered and strengthened Egyptians’ perceptions of themselves since the Egyptian Revolution commenced.
Fields, Amanda, Londie T. Martin, Adela C. Licona, Elizabeth H. Tilley, and The Crossroads Collaborative. “Performing Urgency: Slamming and Spitting as Critical and Creative Response to State Crisis.” Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy. 20.1 (August 2015)
We won the 2016 Kairos Best Webtext Award for this piece. This peer-reviewed webtext explores the possibilities of youth slam poetry, focusing on the Tucson Youth Poetry Slam. We examine the ways in which youth slam poets in Arizona have responded to and acted against regressive legislative measures that have limited their access to narratives about sexuality, health, and rights. The article is designed so as to model our understanding of queer and borderlands spaces in which fluid identifications can be fleeting yet full of possibility.
Hamel, Christine, Amanda Fields, Celeste DelRusso, and Marisa Sandoval. "Activist Mapping: (Re)Framing Narratives about Writing Center Space." Making Space: Writing Instruction, Infrastructure, and Multiliteracies. Ed. James Purdy and Danielle DeVoss. University of Michigan Press/Sweetland, 2015 (forthcoming).
This peer-reviewed book chapter explores the role and identity confusion that can come with moving a writing center from an autonomous to a shared physical and institutional space. Using Herndl and Licona's concept of constrained agency as a theoretical framework, this chapter provides an example of how to fight the damaging narratives often told about writing center spaces and examines how writing centers can successfully cross (into) boundaries of student support.
Fields, Amanda, Shannon Snapp, Stephen T. Russell, Adela C. Licona, Elizabeth H. Tilley, and the Crossroads Collaborative. "Youth Voices and Knowledges: Slam Poetry Speaks to Social Policies." Sexuality Research and Social Policy April 2014.
This peer-reviewed article uses qualitative and quantitative data to analyze a selection of poems from a local organization that supports youth poetry slam.We found that youth consistently responded to regressive legislation in Arizona through slam poetry and expressed the desire for rights to knowledges and the need for supportive policies and practices that consider and reflect the complex realities of their lives. We conclude that youth voice may inform policies and practices that are comprehensive in support of sexual health and rights for youth.
Selected Creative Publications
Fields, Amanda. "Phosphorescence." Nashville Review, Summer 2012. (fiction)
Fields, Amanda. "One Pine Lake" and "Muezzin." Contemporary American Voices, July 2012. (poetry)
Fields, Amanda. "Cairo Tunnel." Brevity 30, 2009. (essay)
Fields, Amanda. "Boiler Room." Indiana Review 29.1, 2007. (fiction, nominated for a Pushcart Prize)