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J. Hillis Miller Online

Dept. of English and Comparative Literature
University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697


 

[ Career | Bibliography | Awards and Honors | Service ]


 

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:

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:

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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