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Books and Special Issues<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Song, J. & Miller, E. R<\/strong>. (2025). Language teacher emotions. <\/a><\/em>Cambridge University Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Warriner, D. S. and Miller, E. R.<\/strong> (eds) (2021) Extending applied linguistics for social impact: Cross-disciplinary collaborations in diverse spaces of public inquiry<\/em>. <\/em><\/a>London: Bloomsbury Publishers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kayi-Aydar, H., Gao, X., Miller, E. R.<\/b>, Varghese, M., and Vitanova, G. (eds). (2019) Theorizing and analyzing language teacher agency<\/a><\/i>. Bristol, England: Multilingual Matters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Miller, E. R.<\/b>, 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<\/i>, 79.
Editors’ Introduction<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kubota, R. & Miller, E. R.<\/b> (Guest Editors) (2017) Reexamining and reenvisioning criticality in language studies, Critical Inquiry in Language Studies: An International Journal<\/i>, 14, 2-3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Deters, P., Gao, X., Miller, E. R.<\/strong>, & Vitanova, G. (eds.) (2015) Theorizing and analyzing agency in aecond language learning: Interdisciplinary approaches<\/a>. Bristol, England: Multilingual Matters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Miller, E. R.<\/b> (2014) The language of adult immigrants: Agency in the making.<\/a><\/i> Bristol, England: Multilingual Matters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals<\/b><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Gkonou, C. & Miller, E. R.<\/strong> (Forthcoming, 2026). Learning to feel: Emotion regulation as language teacher knowledge. Journal for the Psychology of Language Learning<\/em>. Special Issue edited by Sam Morris and Sachiko Nakamura.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Miller, E. R.,<\/strong> & Song, J. (Early Online, 2026). Emotions and language education<\/a>. TESOL Quarterly, 60th<\/sup> Anniversary Issue<\/em>. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/tesq.70113 <\/a>Open Access<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Miller, E. R.<\/strong> (2025). Language program administrators\u2019 accounts of nurturing teacher belonging and its emotional effects. TESOL Quarterly, <\/em>59, 4, 2289-2313. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/tesq.70014<\/a> Open Access<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Miller, E. R. <\/strong>& Gkonou, C. (2025) \u201cInvestigating entanglements in experienced language teachers\u2019 sense of belonging and what belonging does,\u201d International Journal of Applied Linguistics<\/em>, 35<\/em>, 3, 977-986. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/ijalI was.12683<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Miller, E. R.<\/strong> (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<\/em> in International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching<\/em>, 62<\/em>, 3, 1349-1459. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1515\/iral-2024-0077<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gkonou, C. and Miller, E. R<\/strong>. (2023) Relationality in language teacher emotion regulation: Regulating emotions through, with and for others. System, <\/em>115, 1-10. Open Access at the following link:  https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0346251X23000684 <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Miller, E. R.<\/strong> (2023) Commentary: Understanding emotions in EMI institutions through attending to context, history, and ideology. Linguistics and Education, <\/em>75. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.linged.2023.101179<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Miller, E. R.<\/strong> & Gkonou, C. (2023) Exploring Teacher Caring as a “Happy Object” in Language Teacher Accounts of Happiness. Applied Linguistics, 44,<\/em> 2, 328-346.<\/em> https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/applin\/amac034<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gkonou, C. & Miller, E. R<\/strong>. (2021) An Exploration of Language Teacher Reflection, Emotion Labor and Emotional Capital, TESOL Quarterly,<\/em> 55, 1, 134-155. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/tesq.580<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Roeder, R., Araujo-Jones, D., & Miller, E. R.<\/strong> (2020) Grammar in communicative language teaching: Teacher beliefs about theory versus practice. International Journal of English Language Teaching, 8, <\/em>4, 45-64.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gkonou, C. & Miller, E. R. <\/b>(2019) Caring and Emotional Labour: Language Teachers\u2019 Engagement with Anxious Learners in Private Language School Classrooms. Language Teaching Research,<\/i> 23, 3, 372-387. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/1362168817728739<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Miller, E. R.<\/b> & 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<\/i>, 79, 49-59.https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.system.2018.03.002<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kayi-Aydar, H. & Miller, E. R.<\/b> (2018) Positioning in Classroom Discourse Studies: A State-of-the-Art Review. Classroom Discourse,<\/i> 9, 2, 79-94. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/19463014.2018.1450275<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kubota, R. & Miller, E. R.<\/b> (2017) Reexamining and Reenvisioning Criticality in Language Studies: Theories and Praxis. Critical Inquiry in Language Studies: An International Journal<\/i>, 2-3, 129-157.https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/15427587.2017.1290500<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Miller, E. R.<\/b>, Morgan, B., & Medina, A. (2017) Exploring language teacher identity work as ethical self-formation. The Modern Language Journal 101<\/i>, S1, 91-105. DOI: 10.1111\/modl.12371<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Miller, E. R.<\/b> (2016) The Ideology of Learner Agency and the Neoliberal Self. International Journal of Applied Linguistics<\/i> 26, 3, 348-365. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/ijal.12129<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Xia, X. & Miller, E. R.<\/b> (2013) Reconstructing Gender Ideologies of English Loanwords in Chinese. Language & Communication<\/i> 33, 3, 214-220. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.langcom.2013.05.004<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Miller, E. R.<\/b> (2013) Positioning Selves, Doing Relational Work, and Constructing Identities in Interview Talk. Journal of Politeness Research<\/i>, 9, 1, 75-95. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1515\/pr-2013-0004<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Miller, E. R.<\/b> (2012) Agency, Language Learning and Multilingual Spaces. Multilingua<\/i>, 31, 4, 441-468. https:\/\/doi-org.librarylink.uncc.edu\/10.1515\/multi-2012-0020<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Miller, E. R. <\/b>(2012) Performativity Theory and Language Learning: Sedimenting, Appropriating, and Constituting Language and Subjectivity. Linguistics and Education, <\/i>23, 1, 88-99. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.linged.2011.02.010<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Miller, E. R<\/b>. & Zuengler, J. (2011) Negotiating Access to Learning through Resistance to Classroom Practice. Modern Language Journal<\/i>, 95, Supplementary Issue, 130-147. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/j.1540-4781.2011.01273.x<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Miller, E. R<\/b>. (2011) Indeterminacy and Interview Research: Co-constructing Ambiguity and Clarity in Interviews with an Adult Immigrant Learner of English. Applied Linguistics, 32<\/i>, 1, 43-59. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/applin\/amq039<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Miller, E. R<\/b>. (2010) Agency in the Making: Adult Immigrants’ Accounts of Language Learning and Work. TESOL Quarterly, 44<\/i>, 3, 465-487. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.5054\/tq.2010.226854<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Miller, E. R.<\/b> (2009) Orienting to “Being Ordinary”: The (Re)construction of Hegemonic Ideologies among Adult Immigrant Learners of English. Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 6, <\/i>4, 315-344. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/15427580903337446<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zuengler, J. & Miller, E. R<\/b>. (2006) Cognitive and Sociocultural Perspectives: Two Parallel SLA Worlds? TESOL Quarterly, 40<\/i>, 1, 35-58. (40th anniversary issue.) https:\/\/doi.org\/10.2307\/40264510<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Young, R. & Miller, E. R<\/b>. (2004) Learning as Changing Participation: Negotiating Discourse Roles in the ESL Writing Conference. Modern Language Journal, 88, <\/i>4, 519-535. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/j.0026-7902.2004.t01-16-.x<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Contributions to Edited Volumes<\/b><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Miller, E. R. <\/strong>(2026). Foreword, in H. Uysal and X. A. Gao (Eds.) Reimagining language teacher agency: Transperspectival insights and actionable strategies, pp. v-vii.<\/a><\/em> Springer Nature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Miller, E. R<\/strong>. (2026). Foreword, in M. Nazari, I. Xodabandelu, & S. Karimpour (Eds.) Emotional vulnerability of language teachers in digital settings<\/a>, pp.v-vii<\/em>. Springer Nature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Diao, W., Miller, E. R.,<\/strong> and Kubota, R. (2026) \u201cSecond Language Identity Construction\u201d for J. Herschensohn, M. Young-Scholten, A.F. Dobao, A. Ho-Cheong Leung (Eds.) Cambridge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition, 2nd<\/sup> Edition<\/a><\/em>, pp. 259-278. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sanczyk-Cruz, A. and Miller, E. R. <\/strong> (2025) \u201c<\/strong>Language Teacher Identity and Agency Informing Teaching Practice: Empowering Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Learners in Adult ESL\u201d in H. Uysal and H. J. Kim (eds.), Criticality, Agency, and Language Teacher Identities: Research and Praxis from Global Teacher Educatio<\/em>n<\/a>,<\/em> pp. 41-62. Bloomsbury.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Miller, E. R.<\/strong>  (2025) \u201cCommentary,\u201d in H. J. Kim and H. Uysal (eds) Criticality,<\/em> Agency, and Language Teacher Identities: Research and Praxis from Global Teacher Education<\/em><\/a>, pp. 87-93. Bloomsbury.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Miller, E. R.<\/strong> (2024) \u201cExploring Language Teacher Emotions of Belonging and Identity Formation from a Critical Poststructuralist Perspective,\u201d in A. Feryok (ed), Language Teacher Identity and Well-Being<\/a><\/em>, pp. 45-60. Multilingual Matters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sanczyk-Cruz, A. and Miller, E. R.<\/strong> (2024) \u201cLanguage teacher professional values, identity tensions, and agentive actions in the adult ESL setting<\/a>,\u201d in Z. Tajeddin and B. Yazan (eds), Language Teacher Identity Tensions: Nexus of Agency, Emotion and Investment<\/a><\/em>, 231-245. Routledge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Miller, E. R.<\/strong>  (2024) \u201cIdentity, discourse and second language research.\u201d In B. Paltridge and M. T. Prior (eds) Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Discourse<\/a>, <\/em>327-338. Routledge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sanczyk-Cruz, A. and Miller, E. R<\/strong>. (2022) \u201cThe Interplay of Ecological Influences in Language Teacher Identity and Agency Negotiation,<\/a>\u201d in K. Sadeghi and F. Ghaderi (eds), Theory and Practice in Second Language Teacher Identity<\/em> (pp. 263-276), Springer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Miller, E. R.<\/strong> (2022) \u201cEmpowerment and its Limitations: Considering Why \u2018Things Go Wrong\u2019 in Second-Language Classrooms<\/a>,\u201d in J. Schwieter, J. R. Flores, and P. Iida (eds), Engaging in Critical Language Studies, Vol. 9 <\/em>(pp. 189-206),<\/a> Information Age Publishing. Reprinted (with new Epilog) from Language Across Disciplinary Boundaries,<\/em> 7-32, by M. Mantero, P. C. Miller, & J. Watzke (eds), 2008, Information Age Publishing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Miller, E. R. <\/strong>(2022) Hiding in plain sight: Methodological ideologies in discourse-based research in applied linguistics<\/a>, in S. K. M\u00e4\u00e4tt\u00e4 and M. K. Hall (eds), Mapping Ideology in Discourse Studies <\/em><\/a>(pp. 117-135). Berlin & New York: De Gruyter Mouton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Miller, E. R<\/strong>. (2021) An Applied Linguist at Work: Tracing Language Choices in a Social Sustainability Network, in D. Warriner and E. R. Miller <\/strong>(eds), Extending applied linguistics for social impact: Cross-disciplinary collaborations in diverse spaces of public inquiry<\/a> (<\/em>pp. 59-80). London: Bloomsbury Publishers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Warriner, D. S. and Miller, E. R.<\/strong> (2021) Introduction, in D. Warriner and E. R. Miller <\/strong>(eds) Extending applied linguistics for social impact: Cross-disciplinary collaborations in diverse spaces of public inquiry <\/em><\/a>(pp. 1-11).<\/em> London: Bloomsbury Publishers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gkonou, C. & Miller, E. R.<\/b> (2020) Critical Incidents in Language Teachers\u2019 Narratives of Emotional Experience, In C. Gkonou, J.M. Dewaele and J. King (eds.), Language Teaching: An Emotional Rollercoaster<\/a>, <\/i>131-149.<\/i> Bristol, England: Multilingual Matters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Miller, E. R.<\/b> & Gkonou, C. (2019) Researching emotions in language teacher education and practice. In G. Barkhuizen (ed.) Qualitative research topics in language teacher education<\/a>, <\/i>56-62.<\/i> New York: Routledge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kayi-Aydar, H., Gao, X., Miller, E. R.,<\/strong> Varghese, M., and Vitanova, G. (2019) Introduction. In H. Kayi-Aydar, X. Gao, E.R.<\/strong> Miller,<\/strong> M. Varghese, and G. Vitanova (eds.) Theorizing and Analyzing Language Teacher Agency<\/a>, <\/em>1-9. Bristol, England: Multilingual Matters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Roeder, R., Miller, E. R.<\/b>, & Garc\u00e9s-Conejos Blitvich, P. (2019) Pedagogy, Audience, and Attitudes: Influencing University Students\u2019 Metalinguistic Awareness about Texting Practices. In P. Bou-Franch & P. Garc\u00e9s-Conejos Blitvich (Eds.), Analyzing Digital Discourse: New Insights and Future Directions<\/a>, <\/i>367-389. Palgrave Macmillan, UK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Miller, E. R.<\/b> (2018) Interaction Analysis. In Plonsky, L., De Costa, P., Aek, P., and Starfield, S. (eds.) Handbook of Applied Linguistics Research Methodology<\/a>,<\/i> 615-638. Palgrave Macmillan, UK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Miller, E. R.<\/b> (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<\/a>,<\/i> 117-131. Georgetown University Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Miller, E. R. <\/b> (2015) Power, Resistance and Second Language Learning. In N. P. Markee (Ed.), Handbook of Classroom Discourse and Interaction<\/a>,<\/i> 461-474. Wiley-Blackwell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vitanova, G., Miller, E. R.<\/b>, 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<\/a>, <\/i> 1-13. Bristol, England: Multilingual Matters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Miller, E. R.<\/b> & Kubota, R. (2013) Second Language Identity Construction. In J. Herschensohn & M. Young-Scholten (Eds.) Cambridge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition<\/a>,<\/i> 230-250. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Miller, E. R. <\/b>(2011) Analyzing Linguistic Constructs and Interactional Performance in Investigating Emergent Identities.  In K. Ciepiela (Ed.) Identity through a Language Lens<\/a>,<\/i> 185-196. Frankfurt: Peter Lang.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Miller, E<\/b>. R<\/b>. (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<\/a>,<\/i> 7-32. St. Louis, MO: International Society of Language Studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zuengler, J. & Miller, E<\/b>. R.<\/b> (2007) Apprenticing into a Community: Challenges of the Asthma Project. In K. Cole & J. Zuengler (Eds.) Research in Classroom Discourse Analysis: Current Perspectives<\/i><\/a>, 129-148. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. <\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Miller, E. R.<\/b> (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<\/i><\/a>, 119-141. Greenwich, CT: Information Age Publishing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Miller, E. R<\/b>. (2002) Minority Languages in the Classroom: Promise Becomes Possibility. In F. V. Tochon (Ed.) The Foreign Self: Truth Telling and Educational Inquiry<\/i><\/a>, 83-99. Madison, WI: Atwood Publishing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Invited Book Reviews<\/b><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Miller, E. R.<\/b> (2018) Review of The Discourses of Capitalism: Everyday Economists and the Production of Common Sense<\/i> by C. Chun, New York: Routledge, 2017. Discourse and Communication, 12<\/i>, 2, 209-212.DOI<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Miller, E. R. <\/b>(2011) Review of Language Diversity in the USA<\/em> by K. Potowski (Ed.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Modern Language Review, 106<\/em>, 4, 1125-1126.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Miller, E. R. <\/b>(2009) Review of Advanced Language Learning<\/i> by H. Byrnes (Ed.), New York: Continuum International Publishing Group, 2006. International Journal of  Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 12, <\/i>3, 348-353.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Miller, E. R<\/b>. (2007) Review of Beyond the Beginnings: Literacy Intervention for Upper Elementary Language Learners<\/i> by A. Carrasquillo, S. B. Kucer, & R. Abrams. Clevedon, England: Multilingual Matters, 2004. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 10, <\/i>1,<\/i>191-195.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Miller, E. R<\/b>. (2003) Review of Identity and the Young English Language Learner<\/i> by E. M. Day. Clevedon, England: Multilingual Matters, 2002. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism<\/i>, 6<\/i>, 2, 153-155.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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