Faculty Profile

B.A., Rochester; M.A., Ph.D., Johns Hopkins

Professor Miller is the author of Poetic License: Authority and Authorship in Medieval and Renaissance Contexts (Oxford University Press, 1986).  Recent publications include: “Ladies of the Oddest Passion: Early Modern Women and the Arts of Discretion,” (Modern Philology, 2006); “Telling Tales: Locating Female Nurture and Narrative in The Faerie Queene,” in Gender and Oral Traditions in Early Modern Literary Texts (forthcoming); "The Passion Signified: The Construction of Emotions in Sidney and Wroth" (Criticism, 2001);  "Lady Mary Wroth in the House of Busirane" in Worldmaking Spenser: Explorations in the Early  Modern Age (2000); "Mother Tongues: Language and Lactation in Early Modern Literature," (English Literary Renaissance, 1997).

Principles of Literary Study

Spenser

Sixteenth-Century Literature

Seventeenth-Century Poetry

Renaissance Literature and Culture

Spenser and Renaissance Culture

Seventeenth-Century Poetry

Early Modern Women

Wroth and Spenser

The Writing of Renaissance Women