J. Hillis Miller Online

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J. Hillis Miller (jhmiller@benfranklin.hnet.uci.edu) was born on March 5, 1928 in Newport News, Virginia. He is married and has three children. Having been educated at Oberlin College (B.A. Summa Cum Laude 1948) and Harvard University (M.A. 1949, Ph.D. 1952), he pursued a distinguished career in the Humanities. Miller held academic appointments at the following institutions:

• Teaching Fellow in English, Harvard University, 1950-52
• Instructor in English, Williams College, 1952-53
• Assistant Professor of English, The Johns Hopkins University, 1953-59
• Associate Professor of English, 1959-63
• Professor of English, 1963-67
• Professor of English and Humanistic Studies, 1967-72
• Chairman, Department of English, 1964-67
• Chairman, Humanities Group, 1963-67
• Academic Council, The Johns Hopkins University, 1964-65; 1966- 72
• Ward-Phillips Lecturer, Notre Dame University, 1967
• Professor of English, Yale University, 1972-75
• Director of the Literature Major, Yale University, 1973-74; 1980-83
• Gray Professor of Rhetoric, Yale University, 1975-76
• Frederick W. Hilles Professor of English, Yale University, 1976-79
• Frederick W. Hilles Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Yale University, 1979-86
• UCI Distinguished Professor, University of California at Irvine, 1986-

Also, he taught Summer School at the U. of Hawaii (1958), Harvard (1962, 1973), U. of Virginia (1969), U. of Washington (1971), U. of Zurich (1972, 1978); he taught National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminars in 1974, 1977, 1980, and was Visiting Professor and Fellow of the Council of Humanities, Princeton U., 1974; Professor at the School of Criticism and Theory, University of California at Irvine, 1979; Visiting Professor, Dartmouth School of Criticism and Theory, Summer, 1986; Visiting Professor, Tulane University, June, 1987; Dartmouth School of Criticism and Theory, Summer, 1992; Professor, NEH summer seminar at Berkeley, 1993. He served on the Ad Hoc Committee for a senior appointment at Harvard University, 11/30/95, and Yale University awarded him an M.A. Privatim in 1972.

His Fellowships, Awards, and Honors include:

• Phi Beta Kappa, 1948
• Fellow of Society for Religion in Higher Education (Kent Fellow), 1949
• Research grant, American Philosophical Society, 1964
• Guggenheim Fellowships, 1959-60; 1965-66
• E. Harris Harbison Award for Distinguished Teaching (The Danforth Foundation), 1968
• Member of Modern Language Association (Research Committee, 1968-69; Executive Council, 1970-73; PMLA Editorial Board, 1975-77; 2nd Vice-President, 1984; 1st Vice-President, 1985; President, 1986)
• English Institute (Supervising Committee, 1968 -70; Chairman, 1970)
• Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1970
• Fellow of Center for the Humanities, Wesleyan University, 1971
• Trustee, Keuka College, 1971-80
• National Endowment for the Humanities Senior Fellow, 1975, 1986
• Fellow, Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences
• New England College English Association, President 1975-76
• College English Association, Board of Directors, 1977-80
• Phi Beta Kappa Lecturer, 1977-78
• Honorary Degree, Doctor of Letters, University of Florida, Gainesville, 1980
• Carnegie Fellow, University of Edinburgh, January-June, 1981
• Visiting Professor of English, Emory University, Spring Term, 1982
• Honorary Degree, Doctor of Humane Letters, Bucknell University, 1983
• Regional Director, Mellon Graduate Fellowships
• Fellow, Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University 1983-86
• Honorary Fellow, Stanford Humanities Center
• Fulbright Fellow, Autonomous University of Barcelona, March, 1990
• University of California Distinguished Faculty Lectureship, 1991-92
• University of Washington Walker-Ames Visiting Professorship, 1992
• Doctor Honoris Causa of the University of Zaragoza, 1993
• Harry Levin Prize of the American Comparative Literature, Association for Illustration, 1993
• Honorary Professor of Peking University, 1994

Furthermore, he is present or past President, Editor, or Member of Advisory Board of:
Modern Language Notes; College English; Victorian Studies; Dickens Studies; ELH; A Journal of English Literary History; Journal of the American Academy of Religion; Publications of the Modern Language Association of America; Diacritics; The Georgia Review; A Journal for Descriptive Poetics and Theory of Literature; Genre; Studies in English Literature; The Oxford Literary Review; Poetics Today, UMI Press; Longman's, Irvine Studies in the Humanities; Contention; College Literature; Signature, Connotations, Joyful Wisdom; KCET; University of California Humanities Research Institute; Commission on Preservation and Access Scholarly Advisory Committee on Modern Language and Literature; Educational Advisory Board, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation; Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture; Religion and the Arts; Imprimatur; Miscelánea; Cambridge University Press, Victorian Literature and Culture.

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