Books and Special Issues
Warriner, D. S. and Miller, E. R. (eds) (2021) Extending applied linguistics for social impact: Cross-disciplinary collaborations in diverse spaces of public inquiry. London: Bloomsbury Publishers.
Kayi-Aydar, H., Gao, X., Miller, E. R., Varghese, M., and Vitanova, G. (eds). (2019) Theorizing and Analyzing Language Teacher Agency. Bristol, England: Multilingual Matters.
Miller, E. R., Kayi-Aydar, H., Varghese, M., & Vitanova, G. (Guest Editors) (2018) Interdisciplinarity in Language Teacher Agency: Theoretical and Analytical Explorations, System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics, 79.
Editors’ Introduction
Kubota, R. & Miller, E. R. (Guest Editors) (2017) Reexamining and Reenvisioning Criticality in Language Studies, Critical Inquiry in Language Studies: An International Journal, 14, 2-3.
Deters, P., Gao, X., Miller, E. R., & Vitanova, G. (eds.) (2015) Theorizing and Analyzing Agency in Second Language Learning: Interdisciplinary Approaches. Bristol, England: Multilingual Matters.
Miller, E. R. (2014) The Language of Adult Immigrants: Agency in the Making. Bristol, England: Multilingual Matters.
Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals
Miller, E. R. & Gkonou, C. (Early Online) “Investigating Entanglements in Experienced Language Teachers’ Sense of Belonging and What Belonging Does,” International Journal of Applied Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijal.12683
Miller, E. R. (2024) “Commentary: Exploring ‘the pinch’ of emotion labor in language teacher research” for Special Issue Emotion as pedagogy: Why the emotion labor of L2 educators matters in International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 62, 3, 1349-1459. https://doi.org/10.1515/iral-2024-0077
Gkonou, C. and Miller, E. R. (2023) Relationality in language teacher emotion regulation: Regulating emotions through, with and for others. System, 115, 1-10. Open Access at the following link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0346251X23000684
Miller, E. R. (2023) Commentary: Understanding Emotions in EMI Institutions through Attending to Context, History, and Ideology. Linguistics and Education, 75. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.linged.2023.101179
Miller, E. R. & Gkonou, C. (2023) Exploring Teacher Caring as a “Happy Object” in Language Teacher Accounts of Happiness. Applied Linguistics, 44, 2, 328-346. https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/amac034
Gkonou, C. & Miller, E. R. (2021) An Exploration of Language Teacher Reflection, Emotion Labor and Emotional Capital, TESOL Quarterly, 55, 1, 134-155. https://doi.org/10.1002/tesq.580
Roeder, R., Araujo-Jones, D., & Miller, E. R. (2020) Grammar in communicative language teaching: Teacher beliefs about theory versus practice. International Journal of English Language Teaching, 8, 4, 45-64.
Gkonou, C. & Miller, E. R. (2019) Caring and Emotional Labour: Language Teachers’ Engagement with Anxious Learners in Private Language School Classrooms. Language Teaching Research, 23, 3, 372-387. https://doi.org/10.1177/1362168817728739
Miller, E. R. & Gkonou, C. (2018) Language Teacher Agency, Emotion Labor and Emotional Rewards in Tertiary-level English Language Classes. System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics, 79, 49-59.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.system.2018.03.002
Kayi-Aydar, H. & Miller, E. R. (2018) Positioning in Classroom Discourse Studies: A State-of-the-Art Review. Classroom Discourse, 9, 2, 79-94. https://doi.org/10.1080/19463014.2018.1450275
Kubota, R. & Miller, E. R. (2017) Reexamining and Reenvisioning Criticality in Language Studies: Theories and Praxis. Critical Inquiry in Language Studies: An International Journal, 2-3, 129-157.https://doi.org/10.1080/15427587.2017.1290500
Miller, E. R., Morgan, B., & Medina, A. (2017) Exploring language teacher identity work as ethical self-formation. The Modern Language Journal 101, S1, 91-105. DOI: 10.1111/modl.12371
Miller, E. R. (2016) The Ideology of Learner Agency and the Neoliberal Self. International Journal of Applied Linguistics 26, 3, 348-365. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijal.12129
Xia, X. & Miller, E. R. (2013) Reconstructing Gender Ideologies of English Loanwords in Chinese. Language & Communication 33, 3, 214-220. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langcom.2013.05.004
Miller, E. R. (2013) Positioning Selves, Doing Relational Work, and Constructing Identities in Interview Talk. Journal of Politeness Research, 9, 1, 75-95. https://doi.org/10.1515/pr-2013-0004
Miller, E. R. (2012) Agency, Language Learning and Multilingual Spaces. Multilingua, 31, 4, 441-468. https://doi-org.librarylink.uncc.edu/10.1515/multi-2012-0020
Miller, E. R. (2012) Performativity Theory and Language Learning: Sedimenting, Appropriating, and Constituting Language and Subjectivity. Linguistics and Education, 23, 1, 88-99. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.linged.2011.02.010
Miller, E. R. & Zuengler, J. (2011) Negotiating Access to Learning through Resistance to Classroom Practice. Modern Language Journal, 95, Supplementary Issue, 130-147. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-4781.2011.01273.x
Miller, E. R. (2011) Indeterminacy and Interview Research: Co-constructing Ambiguity and Clarity in Interviews with an Adult Immigrant Learner of English. Applied Linguistics, 32, 1, 43-59. https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/amq039
Miller, E. R. (2010) Agency in the Making: Adult Immigrants’ Accounts of Language Learning and Work. TESOL Quarterly, 44, 3, 465-487. https://doi.org/10.5054/tq.2010.226854
Miller, E. R. (2009) Orienting to “Being Ordinary”: The (Re)construction of Hegemonic Ideologies among Adult Immigrant Learners of English. Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 6, 4, 315-344. https://doi.org/10.1080/15427580903337446
Zuengler, J. & Miller, E. R. (2006) Cognitive and Sociocultural Perspectives: Two Parallel SLA Worlds? TESOL Quarterly, 40, 1, 35-58. (40th anniversary issue.) https://doi.org/10.2307/40264510
Young, R. & Miller, E. R. (2004) Learning as Changing Participation: Negotiating Discourse Roles in the ESL Writing Conference. Modern Language Journal, 88, 4, 519-535. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0026-7902.2004.t01-16-.x
Chapters in Edited Volumes
Sanczyk-Cruz, A. and Miller, E. R. (In Press, 2025) “Language Teacher Identity and Agency Informing Teaching Practice: Empowering Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Learners in Adult ESL” in H. Uysal and H. J. Kim (eds.), Criticality, Agency, and Language Teacher Identities: Research and Praxis from Global Teacher Education/, Bloomsbury.
Miller, E. R. (In Press, 2025) “Commentary,” in H. J. Kim and H. Uysal (eds) Criticality, Agency, and Language Teacher Identities: Research and Praxis from Global Teacher Education. Bloomsbury.
Diao, W., Miller, E. R., & Kubota, R. (Forthcoming) “Second Language Identity Construction” for J. Herschensohn, M. Young-Scholten, A.F. Dobao, A. Ho-Cheong Leung (Eds.) Cambridge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition, 2nd Edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Miller, E. R. (2024) “Exploring Language Teacher Emotions of Belonging and Identity Formation from a Critical Poststructuralist Perspective,” in A. Feryok (ed), Language Teacher Identity and Well-Being, pp. 45-60. Multilingual Matters.
Sanczyk-Cruz, A. and Miller, E. R. (2024) “Language teacher professional values, identity tensions, and agentive actions in the adult ESL setting,” in Z. Tajeddin and B. Yazan (eds), Language Teacher Identity Tensions: Nexus of Agency, Emotion and Investment, 231-245. Routledge.
Miller, E. R. (2024) “Identity, discourse and second language research.” In B. Paltridge and M. T. Prior (eds) Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Discourse, 327-338. Routledge.
Sanczyk-Cruz, A. and Miller, E. R. (2022) “The Interplay of Ecological Influences in Language Teacher Identity and Agency Negotiation,” in K. Sadeghi and F. Ghaderi (eds), Theory and Practice in Second Language Teacher Identity (pp. 263-276), Springer.
Miller, E. R. (2022) “Empowerment and its Limitations: Considering Why ‘Things Go Wrong’ in Second-Language Classrooms,” in J. Schwieter, J. R. Flores, and P. Iida (eds), Engaging in Critical Language Studies, Vol. 9 (pp. 189-206), Information Age Publishing. Reprinted (with new Epilog) from Language Across Disciplinary Boundaries, 7-32, by M. Mantero, P. C. Miller, & J. Watzke (eds), 2008, Information Age Publishing.
Miller, E. R. (2022) Hiding in plain sight: Methodological ideologies in discourse-based research in applied linguistics, in S. K. Määttä and M. K. Hall (eds), Mapping Ideology in Discourse Studies (pp. 117-135). Berlin & New York: De Gruyter Mouton.
Miller, E. R. (2021) An Applied Linguist at Work: Tracing Language Choices in a Social Sustainability Network, in D. Warriner and E. R. Miller (eds), Extending applied linguistics for social impact: Cross-disciplinary collaborations in diverse spaces of public inquiry (pp. 59-80). London: Bloomsbury Publishers.
Warriner, D. S. and Miller, E. R. (2021) Introduction, in D. Warriner and E. R. Miller (eds) Extending applied linguistics for social impact: Cross-disciplinary collaborations in diverse spaces of public inquiry (pp. 1-11). London: Bloomsbury Publishers.
Gkonou, C. & Miller, E. R. (2020) Critical Incidents in Language Teachers’ Narratives of Emotional Experience, In C. Gkonou, J.M. Dewaele and J. King (eds.), Language Teaching: An Emotional Rollercoaster, 131-149. Bristol, England: Multilingual Matters.
Miller, E. R. & Gkonou, C. (2019) Researching emotions in language teacher education and practice. In G. Barkhuizen (ed.) Qualitative research topics in language teacher education, 56-62. New York: Routledge.
Kayi-Aydar, H., Gao, X., Miller, E. R., Varghese, M., and Vitanova, G. (2019) Introduction. In H. Kayi-Aydar, X. Gao, E.R. Miller, M. Varghese, and G. Vitanova (eds.) Theorizing and Analyzing Language Teacher Agency, 1-9. Bristol, England: Multilingual Matters.
Roeder, R., Miller, E. R., & Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (2019) Pedagogy, Audience, and Attitudes: Influencing University Students’ Metalinguistic Awareness about Texting Practices. In P. Bou-Franch & P. Garcés-Conejos Blitvich (Eds.), Analyzing Digital Discourse: New Insights and Future Directions, 367-389. Palgrave Macmillan, UK.
Miller, E. R. (2018) Interaction Analysis. In Plonsky, L., De Costa, P., Aek, P., and Starfield, S. (eds.) Handbook of Applied Linguistics Research Methodology, 615-638. Palgrave Macmillan, UK.
Miller, E. R. (2017) (In)convenient Fictions: Ideologies of Multi-lingual Competence as Resource for Recognizability. In A. De Fina, D. Ikizoglu, & J. Wegner (eds.) Diversity and Super-Diversity: Sociocultural Linguistic Perspectives, 117-131. Georgetown University Press.
Miller, E. R. (2015) Power, Resistance and Second Language Learning. In N. P. Markee (Ed.), Handbook of Classroom Discourse and Interaction, 461-474. Wiley-Blackwell.
Vitanova, G., Miller, E. R., Gao, X., & Deters, P. (2015) Introduction to theorizing and analyzing agency in second language learning: Interdisciplinary approaches. In Deters, P., Gao, X., Miller, E. R., & Vitanova, G. (eds.) Theorizing and Analyzing Agency in Second Language Learning: Interdisciplinary Approaches, 1-13. Bristol, England: Multilingual Matters.
Miller, E. R. & Kubota, R. (2013) Second Language Identity Construction. In J. Herschensohn & M. Young-Scholten (Eds.) Cambridge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition, 230-250. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Miller, E. R. (2011) Analyzing Linguistic Constructs and Interactional Performance in Investigating Emergent Identities. In K. Ciepiela (Ed.) Identity through a Language Lens, 185-196. Frankfurt: Peter Lang.
Miller, E. R. (2008) Empowerment and its Limitations: Considering Why “Things Go Wrong” in Second-Language Classrooms. In M. Mantero, P. C. Miller, & J. Watzke (Eds.) Language Across Disciplinary Boundaries, 7-32. St. Louis, MO: International Society of Language Studies.
Zuengler, J. & Miller, E. R. (2007) Apprenticing into a Community: Challenges of the Asthma Project. In K. Cole & J. Zuengler (Eds.) Research in Classroom Discourse Analysis: Current Perspectives, 129-148. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Miller, E. R. (2006) Learning English, Positioning for Power: Adult Immigrants in the ESL Classroom. In M. Mantero (Ed.) Identity and Second Language Learning: Culture, Inquiry, and Dialogic Activity in Educational Contexts, 119-141. Greenwich, CT: Information Age Publishing.
Miller, E. R. (2002) Minority Languages in the Classroom: Promise Becomes Possibility. In F. V. Tochon (Ed.) The Foreign Self: Truth Telling and Educational Inquiry, 83-99. Madison, WI: Atwood Publishing.
Invited Book Reviews
Miller, E. R. (2018) Review of The Discourses of Capitalism: Everyday Economists and the Production of Common Sense by C. Chun, New York: Routledge, 2017. Discourse and Communication, 12, 2, 209-212.DOI
Miller, E. R. (2011) Review of Language Diversity in the USA by K. Potowski (Ed.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Modern Language Review, 106, 4, 1125-1126.
Miller, E. R. (2009) Review of Advanced Language Learning by H. Byrnes (Ed.), New York: Continuum International Publishing Group, 2006. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 12, 3, 348-353.
Miller, E. R. (2007) Review of Beyond the Beginnings: Literacy Intervention for Upper Elementary Language Learners by A. Carrasquillo, S. B. Kucer, & R. Abrams. Clevedon, England: Multilingual Matters, 2004. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 10, 1,191-195.
Miller, E. R. (2003) Review of Identity and the Young English Language Learner by E. M. Day. Clevedon, England: Multilingual Matters, 2002. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 6, 2, 153-155.