Who's who
Dr Meredith Miller
Senior Lecturer
Meredith Miller received a master's degree in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University, New York in 1996 and a DPhil in English Literature from the University of Sussex in 2001. She has been an active academic researcher, conference organiser and creative practitioner for many years in both the United States and the United Kingdom. Her particular theoretical interests are in Cultural Materialism, Marxism more widely, and theories of gender and sexuality. She has published widely on gender, sexuality, popular fiction and the history of the novel and is a frequent reviewer of both academic and creative publications.
Her current academic project is a forthcoming monograph on the fin de siècle British novel entitled The Meaning of a Woman: Modernity, Will and Desire. Work on the project has been presented by request at academic venues around the UK. Together with Rupert Loydell, she is currently editing a collection of academic essays and creative work entitled Poetry and the Real.
Dr Miller's theatre works have been produced at Pussycat Caverns and the Thrust Memorial Theatre in New Orleans and at the Marlborough Theatre in Brighton. Her creative work has appeared in Chimera and Short Fiction. Below is a list of selected papers, publications and reviews.
Sample Publications
Books:
‘The Meaning of a Woman': Modernity, Will and Desire (forthcoming)
The Historical Dictionary of Lesbian Literature (Scarecrow Press, 2006).
Editor: Feminist Gaps: Ideology and Practice in Higher Education, Special Issue of the peer-reviewed journal Feminist Teacher, Spring 2007.
Journal and Book Articles:
‘ "I Don't Want to be a [White] Girl": Gender, Race and Resistance in the Southern Gothic' in Andrew Smith and Diana Wallace (eds) The Female Gothic. Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
' The Feminine Mystique: Sexual Excess and the Pre-political Housewife', Women: A Cultural Review 16.1, Spring 2005.
'Secret Agents and Public Victims: The Implied Lesbian Reader', Journal of Popular Culture 35.1, Summer 2001.
'Walking the Walk and Talking the Talk: Ethical Pedagogy in the Multicultural Classroom', Co-authored with Cynthia Hogue and Kimberly Parker, Feminist Teacher 12.2, 1998
Book Reviews and Encyclopaedia Entries:
Review of Elizabeth Young, Black Frankenstein: The Making of an American Metaphor.
(Gothic Studies, May 2010)
Review of Brandi Homan, Bobcat Coutnry. (Stride Magazine, April 2010)
'Pulp Fiction', 'Marijane Meeker' and 'Women's Magazines'
entries for The Encyclopaedia of Erotic Literature (London: Taylor and Francis, 2006)
Review of Ludwig von Reizenstein's The Mysteries of New Orleans, (Gothic Studies 2004)
Review of Hima Raza's Left Hand Speak, (Wasifiri Spring 2003)
Review of Cynthia Cockburn's The Space Between Us: Gender and National Identities in Conflict, (Feminist Teacher 13.2, 2001)
Some Papers Recently Presented:
‘Trollope, the Law and the Psychological' Faculty Guest Seminar, University of Glasgow, Department of English, November 2009.
‘Memory and the ‘Defile of Consciousness': Freud and Narrative Time.' Looking Back on the End of Time: Modernism and Beyond conference, UEA Norwich, September 2009
‘Modernity, Will and Desire: Law and The Female Subject in Trollope and Freud'
Tremough Campus (Falmouth and Exeter Universities), 15th April, 2009
‘The Acropolis of Birmingham: Gender and Modernity in Eve's Ransom' Third International George Gissing Conference, University of Lille, March 2008
‘The Mark of Gender and The Problem of Modernity: Anthony Trollope and Henry James' Philosophy, Politics and Aesthetics Seminar Series, Brighton University. 15th March, 2007
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