Assistant Professor & Writing Center Director
English
Director
Writing Center
Office
Willard-DiLoreto Hall
W401-41
Biography
Amanda Fields is an Assistant Professor of English and Writing Center Director at Central 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.
Education
Areas of Expertise
rhetoric; composition; assessment; antiracist policy and practice; queer & third space rhetorics; participatory action research; social policies; writing center theory; youth studies; creative writing
Publications, Research & Presentations
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 (peer-reviewed)
Fields, Amanda, Elizabeth Leahy, Celeste DelRusso, & Erica Cirillo-McCarthy. “Snapping From the Center: Equitable Writing Center Administration.” WPA: Writing Program Administration, Vol. 47, No. 1, 2023, pp. 163-176.
Fields, Amanda. “The Tucson Youth Poetry Slam: An Analysis of Discourse By and About Youth Performance.” Children’s Literature Quarterly Vol. 47, No. 4, 2023, pp. 163-176.
Cirillo-McCarthy, Erica, Celeste DelRusso, Amanda Fields, and Elizabeth Leahy. “Preserving Self and Center: Equitable Writing Center Praxis that Rejects Absurdity.” The Peer Review, Issue 7, No. 1, 2023.
Fields, Amanda. “Composing an Anti-Racism and Social Justice Statement at a Rural Writing Center.” Writing Center Journal, Issue 39, no. 1-2, 2022, pp. 169-190.
Fields, Amanda, and Melanie Carter. “Keyword Analysis: Selfie.” Community Literacy Journal, vol. 10, no. 1, 2015, pp. 101-109.
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. Issue 20, No. 1, 2015.
Snapp, Shannon, Jennifer Hoenig, Amanda Fields, and Stephen T. Russell. “Messy, Butch, and Queer: LGBTQ Youth and the School-to-Prison Pipeline.” 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. “Youth Voices and Knowledges: Slam Poetry Speaks to Social Policies.” Sexuality Research and Social Policy, Vol. 11, No. 4, 2014, pp. 310-21.
Book Chapters (peer-reviewed)
Crossroads Collaborative. “Reflections on Emergent Entremundista Pedagogy: Teacher-Researchers in Engaged Transdisciplinary Public Scholarship.” 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. “Messy, Butch, and Queer: LGBTQ Youth and the School-to-Prison Pipeline.” 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. “Activist Mapping: (Re)framing Narratives about Writing Center Space.” 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. “Enumerated U.S. State Laws: Evidence from Policy Advocacy.” 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. “Pulled into Brightness.” So to Speak: A Feminist Journal of Language and Art, 2018 Contest Annual, pp. 51-63.
Fields, Amanda. “At Nile Badrawi.” Superstition Review, no. 6, 2010.
Fields, Amanda. “Feeling Strange.” Siouxland Magazine, Fall 2010.
Fields, Amanda. “Cairo Tunnel.” Brevity, no. 30, 2009.
Fiction
Fields, Amanda. “Buffalo.” The Wrath-Bearing Tree, Feb. 2019.
Fields, Amanda. “Phosphorescence.” Nashville Review, Summer 2012.
Fields, Amanda. “Boiler Room.” Indiana Review vol. 29, no. 1, 2007.
Poetry
Fields, Amanda. “One Pine Lake.” Contemporary American Voices, July 2012.
Fields, Amanda. “Muezzin.” Contemporary American Voices, July 2012.
Fields, Amanda. “The Last Good Bye.” George & Mertie’s Place, 2000.
Fields, Amanda. “Presentational Abortion.” Knotgrass, vol. 3, no. 1, 2000.
Research Briefs
Fields, Amanda, Leah Stauber, Sammy Dominguez, & The Crossroads Collaborative. “Listen, Mijito: Disidentification and Coalitional Consciousness in Youth Slam.” Crossroads Connections, April 2015.
Profiles
Fields, Amanda. “Protecting the Patriarchy: A Conversation About Mom Rage with Minna Dubin.” Literary Mama, October/November 2023.
Fields, Amanda. “A Conversation with Sari Fordham.” Literary Mama, May/June 2021.
Reviews
Fields, Amanda. “The Roots of Mama Rage: A Review of Writing Maternity: Medicine, Anxiety, Rhetoric, and Genre.” Literary Mama. July/August 2023.
Fields, Amanda. “Stet the Tears: A Review of You Could Make This Place Beautiful.” Literary Mama. May/June 2023.
Fields, Amanda. “Since Feeling Is First: A Review of If This Were Fiction: A Love Story in Essays.” Literary Mama. November/December 2022.
Fields, Amanda. “Transnational Motherhood: A Review of Mother Country.” Literary Mama. July/August 2022.
Fields, Amanda. “Giving Voice: A Review of When Home Is Not Safe: Writings on Domestic Verbal, Emotional and Physical Abuse,” by Judith Skillman and Linera Lucas. Literary Mama. March/April 2022.
Fields, Amanda. The Waiting Room, by Leah Kaminsky. Rain Taxi, vol. 22, no. 1, 2017.
Fields, Amanda. The 160-Character Solution: How Text Messaging and Other Behavioral Strategies Can Improve Education, by Benjamin L. Castleman. Teacher-Scholar: The Journal of the State Comprehensive University. vol. 7, no. 1, 2016.
Fields, Amanda. The Longest Night, by Andria Williams. The Rumpus. 22 March 2016.
Fields, Amanda. Slam School: Learning Through Conflict in the Hip-Hop and Spoken Word Classroom, by Bronwen E. Low. Community Literacy Journal, vol. 8, no. 1, 2013.
Reprints
Fields, Amanda. “Cairo Tunnel.” In Concert: An Integrated Approach to Reading & Writing, Book II, edited by Kathleen T. McWhorter, 1st ed., Pearson, 2012. (3rd reprint)
Fields, Amanda. “Cairo Tunnel.” Expressways: Scenarios for Paragraph and Essay Writing, edited by Kathleen T. McWhorter, 3rd ed., Pearson, 2012. (2nd reprint)
Fields, Amanda. “Cairo Tunnel.” The Compact Reader: Short Essays By Method and Theme, edited by Jane E. Aaron & Ellen Kuhl Repetto, 9th ed. Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2010. (1st reprint)
Awards & Grants
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, July 2018
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 - “Boiler Room,” 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
Memberships & Affiliations
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
Courses Taught
Graduate
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’ Workshop
Intermediate Literary Nonfiction
Research Writing
First-Year Writing
Introduction to Literary Nonfiction
Introduction to Fiction
Introduction to Creative Writing
Introduction to Literature