Contact
Monica Miller
Assistant Professor
Acting Director, Africana Studies
Office: 420 Barnard Hall
Phone: 212-854-9210
E-mail: mmiller(at)barnard(dot)edu
Classes: T Th 1:10-2:25
Office hours: TBA
Education
Ph.D., Harvard University
B.A., Dartmouth College
Biography
Monica Miller joined the faculty of Barnard in 2001. In addition to her teaching duties in the department of English, she is affiliated with the Africana Studies, American Studies, and Film Studies programs at Barnard.
Dr. Miller specializes in African American and American literature and cultural studies. Her courses include a senior seminar on black stereotypes and performances of race, a seminar on black masculinity in literature and visual culture, and lecture classes on the Harlem Renaissance and contemporary American literature.
She has recently published articles in Callaloo and in Bad Modernisms. Her book, Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity, has just been released by Duke University Press.
Professor Miller is the recipient of grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and the American Association of University Women.