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Amy E. Dayton completed her PhD in rhetoric-composition and MA in applied linguistics at University of Arizona (2005, 2000). Her research interests include historiography and archival research, women’s rhetoric, community literacy, language attitudes, qualitative research, and assessment/teacher training.

Publications

Edited Collections

• Ethics and Representation in Feminist Rhetorical Research [with Jennie Vaughn]. U of Pittsburgh, 2021.
• Assessing the Teaching of Writing: Twenty-First Century Trends and Technologies.  Logan, Utah:  U Colorado/Utah State UP, 2015.

Articles and Book Chapters

•  “A Place for Everything and Everything in Its Place”: Reading Space, Place, and Gender from Anzia Yezierska to Marie Kondo.” Forthcoming in MELUS, 2022.
• “I Know It’s Going to Affect My Teaching: What Pre-Service Teachers Learn Through Tutoring Writing”  [with Dorothy Worden].  Writing Program Administration 45.1 (2021). 110-129. 
• “Jane Addams’ Rhetorical Ear,”  In Overlooked Pragmatists.  Ed by Robert Danisch.  Palgrave Macmillan 2019.
• “Digital Literacy in Rural Women’s Lives.”  Community Literacy Journal 9.2 (Spring 2015).
• “Making Sense (and Making Use) of Student Evaluations.”  Assessing the Teaching of Writing: New Trends, New Technologies.  Ed Amy Dayton.  Logan, Utah: Utah State UP, 2015.
• “Bridging Gaps and Preserving Memories through Oral History Research and Writing.”  [with Laren Hammonds, Lisa Matherson, and Leah Tollison].  English Journal 101.4 (2012): 75-80.
• “‘What the College Has Done For Me’: Anzia Yezierska and the Problem of Progressive Education.” College English 74.3 (2012): 215-233.
• “‘When I Close My Eyes, I Like to Hear English’: English Only and the Discourse of Crisis.”  Enculturation 7.2 (2010): np. Online.
• “The Limits of Language: Literacy, Morality, and Transformation in Mary Antin’s The Promised Land.”  MELUS: Journal of the Society for Ethnic Literature of the United States 34.4 (2009): 81-98.
• “Teaching English for A Better America.” Rhetoric Review 27.4 (2008): 397-414

Reviews & Interviews

• “Women, Remembered: A Review of Gaillet and Bailey.” Forthcoming in Peitho.
• Literacy in Motion: A Review of Susan Meyers’ Del Otro Lado: Literacy and Migration across the U.S.-Mexico Border and Kate Vieira’s American by Paper. Enculturation May 2019.
• “Expanding Borders and Forging New Paths:  Perspectives on Writing Research.” [with Jennie Vaughn.]   College English 76.1 (2013): 84-89.
• “Where do We Go From Here?” Review of Kelly Ritter’s Who Owns School?  Authority, Students, and Online Discourse. Rhetoric Review 31.1 (2012): 85-87.
• “A Conversation with Victoria Purcell-Gates.” [Interview].  Community Literacy Journal 4.2 (2010): 19-32. Online
• Review of Eli Hinkel, Teaching Academic ESL Writing: Practical Techniques in Vocabulary and Grammar. In Composition Studies [On-line Edition] 33.2 (2005).
• Review of Tony Silva and Paul Kei Matsuda, Landmark Essays in ESL Writing. In The Reading Matrix 2.1 (2002).