Elizabeth Miller
Assistant Professor
Victorian literature, visual and material culture, gender studies
Office: Ellis 366
Office Phone: 593-2946
Email: millere5@ohio.edu
Degrees
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin - Madison
M.A. University of Wisconsin - Madison
B.A. Marquette University
Publications
BOOK
Framed: The New Woman Criminal in British Culture at the Fin de Siècle. Forthcoming in 2008. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan Press.
ARTICLES
“Body, Spirit, Print: The Radical Autobiographies of Annie Besant and Helen and Olivia Rossetti.” Forthcoming in Feminist Studies. 35 t.s. pages.
“Collections and Collectivity: William Morris in the Rare Book Room.” Journal of William Morris Studies. 17.2 (Summer 2007): 73-88.
“‘At a Distance from the Scene of the Atrocity’: Death and Detachment in Poe’s ‘The Mystery of Marie Rogêt.’” Representations of Death in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Writing and Culture. Ed. Lucy E. Frank. Aldershot: Ashgate P, 2007. 173-188.
“‘Shrewd Women of Business’: Madame Rachel, Victorian Consumerism, and The Sorceress of the Strand.” Victorian Literature and Culture 34.1 (Spring 2006): 311-332.
“Trouble with She-Dicks: Private Eyes and Public Women in The Adventures of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective.” Victorian Literature and Culture 33.1 (Spring 2005): 47-65.
“‘The Inward Revolution’: Sexual Terrorism in The Princess Casamassima.” The Henry James Review 24:2 (Spring 2003): 146-167.
REFERENCE ARTICLES
“‘Why Women Desire the Franchise’ by Frances Power Cobbe.” Forthcoming in Landmarks in Feminist Writings. Ed. Tiffany Wayne. Westport, CT: Greenwood P, 2008.
”Bridget Jones’s Diary, by Helen Fielding.” Forthcoming in The Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction. New York: Facts on File, 2008.
“The New Woman.” Companion to the British Short Story. Ed. Andrew Maunder. New York: Facts on File, 2007. 331-32.
“’Our Friend Judith,’ by Doris Lessing.” Companion to the British Short Story. 310-11.
Curriculum Vitae
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Assistant Professor of English, Ohio University (2006-present)
Visiting Assistant Professor of English and Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Michigan (2004-06)
Visiting Assistant Professor of English, University of Oklahoma (2003-2004)
PROJECT IN PROGRESS
Print Culture and Late-Victorian Literary Radicalism.
SELECTED FELLOWSHIPS
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar. “The Oscar Wilde Archive.” William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, UCLA. (June-July 2007).
Joseph R. Dunlap Memorial Fellowship. William Morris Society in the United States. (January 2007).
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation / Public Goods Council Postdoctoral Fellowship. Public Goods Council of the University of Michigan. (2004-2006)
Graduate Exchange Fellowship. One year dissertation fellowship to the University of Warwick, U.K. University of Wisconsin International Institute. (2001-2002)
SELECTED CONFERENCE PAPERS
“Engendering Socialism in Walter Crane’s Political Cartoons.” Modern Language Association (MLA) Conference. Chicago, IL. (December 2007).
“Sustainable Socialism: Morris on Waste.” Special Session on “William Morris and Material Culture.” North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA) Conference. Victoria, BC. (October 2007)
“Subject to Change: Radical Women’s Autobiography at the Fin de Siècle.” 18th and 19th-Century British Women Writers Conference. U of Kentucky. (April 2007).
“The Working Class? Socialism and Gender in The Secret Agent.” MLA Conference. Philadelphia, PA. (December 2006).
“The New Woman Vs. Radical Feminism: Helen and Olivia Rossetti’s A Girl among the Anarchists.” NAVSA Conference. Purdue U. (September 2006).
“Word of Mouth: Oral and Print Narrative in William Morris’s News from Nowhere.” Narrative Conference. Ottawa, Canada. (April 2006).
“Closer than Sisters: Helen and Olivia Rossetti’s Auto-Anarcho-Biography.” Midwest Victorian Studies Association (MVSA) Conference. Detroit, MI. (April 2006).
“Measured Revolution: Poetry and the Late-Victorian Radical Press.” MLA Conference. Panel: “Writing Periodically: Poetry and Periodicals.” Division on Victorian Literature. Washington DC. (December 2005)
“No News Is Good News: William Morris’s Textual Dystopia.” NAVSA Conference. U of Virginia. (September 2005)
“How We Might (Not) Read: William Morris and Late-Victorian Print Culture.” Morris in the 21st Century. 50th conference of the William Morris Society. U of London. (July 2005)
“Exile London: Race, Cosmopolitanism, and Late-Nineteenth-Century Anarchist Literature.” Victorian Europeans Conference. U of London. (June 2005)
“Everybody Against the Policeman: Early British Film and the Legacy of Sherlock Holmes.” MVSA Conference. Chicago, IL. (April 2005)
“Dirty Pictures: Images of the Racialized Criminal in Early Detective Fiction.” MLA Conference. Panel: “Race, Image, Text.” Philadelphia, PA. (December 2004)
“This Is the Way the World Ends: Terrorism and Masculinity in Henry James’s The Princess Casamassima and Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent.” Victorian Terrors Conference. The Dickens Project. U of California – Santa Cruz. (August 2004)
“New Women Criminals: Suffragettes in Early British Film, 1896-1913.” MLA Conference. Panel: “Film and Ideology.” Division on Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century Literature. San Diego, CA. (December 2003)
“Jean Rhys, Female Criminality, and Early British Film Culture: A Voyage in the Dark and The Exploits of Three-Fingered Kate.” Modernist Studies Association (MSA) Conference. Birmingham UK. (September 2003)
“Beautiful For Ever!: Madame Rachel and The Sorceress of the Strand.” Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (RSVP) Conference. U of Michigan. (August 2002)
“Public Women: London and Female Criminality in L. T. Meade’s Detective Fiction.” Literary London Conference: Representations of London in Literature. U of London. (July 2002)
“In the Broad Noon of Public Scorn: Beatrice Cenci, Shelley, and the Critics.” New Visions: The Writer in Literature and Criticism. U of East Anglia. (February 2002)
“Trouble with She-Dicks: The Magazine Detective Fiction of C. L. Pirkis and L. T. Meade.” 18th- and 19th-Century British Women Writers Conference. U of Kansas. (March 2001)
Courses
English 254
English 314
English 315
English 464
English 512 / 773