Nancy K. Miller

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Nancy K. Miller[https://julijasukys.com/?cat=123 She writes how as a young woman she rejected her father’s surname, Kipnis, and took her mother’s name, Miller (retaining only the middle initial K. from her father).] (born 21 February 1941) is an American literary scholar, feminist theorist and memoirist. Currently a Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the CUNY Graduate Center, Miller is the author of several books on feminist criticism, women’s writing, and most recently, family memoir, biography, and trauma.{{cite web|url=http://web.gc.cuny.edu/english/faculty/miller.html |title=Nancy Miller |publisher=The Graduate Center, CUNY - English |accessdate=2013-08-10}}

Education

She received her B.A. from Barnard College (1961), her M.A. from Middlebury College, and her Ph.D. in French at Columbia University.

Career

In 1981, Miller became the first full-time tenured member of the Women’s Studies program at Barnard College and was appointed its director, a post she held until her appointment at CUNY in 1988.{{cite web|url=https://womensstudies.barnard.edu/chairs-and-directors-womens-studies-barnard-college |title=Chairs and Directors of Women's Studies |publisher=Barnard College |accessdate=2013-08-10}} Prior to that, she taught in the French department at Columbia University.{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofwo0000unse_v4e3 |url-access=registration |title=Encyclopedia of Women's Autobiography: K-Z |chapter=Miller, Nancy K. |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |year=2005 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofwo0000unse_v4e3/page/395 395]–397}}

Miller founded the Gender and Culture Series at Columbia University Press in 1983 along with feminist scholar Carolyn Heilbrun, and continues to co-edit the series.{{cite web|url=https://cup.columbia.edu/series/64 |title=Gender and Culture Series |publisher=Columbia University Press |accessdate=2013-08-10}} Between 2004 and 2007, she and geographer Cindi Katz co-edited the journal Women’s Studies Quarterly, which received the Phoenix Award for Significant Editorial Achievement from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals under their leadership.{{cite web |url=http://www.celj.org/phoenix |title=Phoenix Award for Significant Editorial Achievement |publisher=The Council of Editors of Learned Journals |accessdate=2013-08-10 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100620041839/http://www.celj.org/phoenix |archivedate=2010-06-20 }}

Miller has been a visiting professor at Harvard University, Hebrew University, and Tel Aviv University, and a Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar. She is the winner of numerous fellowships and awards, including the Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Fellowship, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, and the NEH Senior Fellowship.

Contributions

Miller's early contributions to literary theory include that of the “invisible intertext” added by women to a more conventional form of writing, as by blending a quest plot with the romantic plot normatively prescribed to early female authors.J. Childers ed., The Columbia Dictionary of Modern Literary and Cultural Criticism (1995) p. 90 and p. 265 She was further notable for her opposition to Roland Barthes's influential theory of The Death of the Author, pointing out how this tended to occlude gender subjectivities in a text through emphasising what she called the web, as opposed to the role of the weaver:R.-E. Joeres, Respectability and Deviance (1998) p. 143 the theory serving thereby as a postmodern mask for phallocentrism.M. Evans, Feminism (2001) p. 331 Her position gave rise to a famous debate within feminism on the issue with Peggy Kamuf.{{Cite web |url=http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2009-06-12-moi-en.html |title=I am not a woman writer |access-date=2016-05-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140107045922/http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2009-06-12-moi-en.html |archive-date=2014-01-07 |url-status=dead }}

Miller also played an influential role in pioneering the unification of personal accounts with theoretical explorations inside the same text, thus making concrete second wave feminism's linking of the personal and public realms.V. Boynton ed, Encyclopedia of Women's Autobiography K-Z (2005) p. 395-6

Bibliography

My Brilliant Friends: Our Lives in Feminism (2019) {{ISBN|978-0-231-19054-1}}
Breathless: An American Girl in Paris (2013) {{ISBN|978-1-580-05488-1}}
What They Saved: Pieces of a Jewish Past (2011) {{ISBN|978-0-8032-3001-9}}
But Enough About Me: Why We Read Other People's Lives (2002) {{ISBN|978-0-231-12523-9}}
Extremities: Trauma, Testimony, and Community, co-edited with Jason Tougaw (2002) {{ISBN|978-0-252-07054-9}}
Bequest and Betrayal: Memoirs of a Parent's Death (2000) {{ISBN|978-0-253-21379-2}}
French Dressing: Women, Men, and Fiction in the Ancien Regime (1995) {{ISBN|978-0-415-90321-9}}
Contre-courants: les femmes s'écrivent à travers les siècles, with Mary Ann Caws, Elizabeth Houlding, and Cheryl Morgan (1994) {{ISBN|978-0-13-042920-9}}
Getting Personal: Feminist Occasions and Other Autobiographical Acts (1991) {{ISBN|978-0-415-90324-0}}
Subject to Change: Reading Feminist Writing (1988) {{ISBN|978-0-231-06661-7}}
The Poetics of Gender (1986) {{ISBN|978-0-231-06311-1}}
The Heroine's Text: Readings in the French and English Novel, 1722-1782 (1980) {{ISBN|978-0-231-04910-8}}

References

External links

{{URL|nancykmiller.com|Official website}}
{{Twitter|id=nancykmiller|name=Nancy K. Miller}}
[http://whattheysaved.com/ "What They Saved" website]
[http://www.theminnesotareview.org/journal/ns68/interview_miller.shtml/ Interview with Nancy K. Miller - The Minnesota Review]
[http://www.womenwriters.net/interviews/nancykmiller.html/ Interview with Nancy K. Miller - Women Writers]
[http://barnard.edu/sfonline/heilbrun/miller_01.htm/ The Age Difference - The Scholar & Feminist Online]
[https://library.brown.edu/collatoz/info.php?id=494/ Nancy K. Miller Papers] - Pembroke Center Archives, Brown University

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