Who's who

Academic profile

Dr Meredith Miller is a widely-published academic with a range of experience teaching English Literature at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Her academic research interests are in cultural materialism, theories of gender and sexuality and the history of the novel from 1865 to 1965.

Her current academic project is a book entitled Female Subjects in the Fin de Siecle Novel: Modernity, Will and Desire, forthcoming from Palgrave Macmillan in 2013. She is also an active writer of fiction, whose stories have been most recently published in Stand, Short Fiction, Prole and The View from Here. Her creative/critical contribution to Nicholas Rombes' Requiem 102 project can be viewed here: requiem39.tumblr.com

Dr Miller received an MA in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University in 1996 and a DPhil in English Literature from the University of Sussex in 2001. 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. She is a frequent reviewer for the journal Gothic Studies (Manchester University Press) and, as a nationally recognised expert in women's writing, is a peer reviewer for Contemporary Women's Writing (Oxford University Press).

Sample publications

Books

• Female Subjects in the Fin de Siecle Novel: Modernity Will and Desire. Palgrave, 2013
• 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

Fiction

• 'Ice'. Stand, Issue 199, forthcoming 2013
• 'The Window's Wife'. Prole, Issue 6, November 2011
• 'Thanksgiving'. The View from Here, Issue 32, 2011
• '1977, or so'. Short Fiction, Volume III, 2009

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 Country. 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

• 'Masculine Sexual Dissidence and the Female Subject: Henry James and E M Forster' Long Nineteenth-Century Network. University of the West of England, 7 December 2011
• 'That Fine-moulded Hand Which was the Symbol of Life Made Perfect:' Aesthetics and Desire at the Fin de Siècle. Fourth International Gissing Society Conference, University of York, March 2011
• '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 (University College Falmouth and Exeter University), 15 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, 15 March 2007

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