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Monica L. Miller
Assistant Professor of English
Monica L. Miller, assistant professor of English, 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, the American studies, and the film studies programs at Barnard.
Professor Miller specializes in African-American and American literature and cultural studies. Her research interests include twentieth- and -twenty-first-century African-American literature, film, and contemporary art; contemporary literature and cultural studies of the black diaspora (especially black Britain); performance studies; and intersectional studies of race, gender, and sexuality.
Her teaching at Barnard includes a senior seminar on black stereotypes and performances of race; Toni Morrison; a seminar on black masculinity in literature and visual culture; and lecture classes on the Harlem Renaissance and contemporary American literature.
Her book, Slaves to Fashion: The Black Dandy and the Styling of Black Atlantic Identity: A Cultural History of the Black Dandy from Its Origins in Enlightenment England to the Present, will be published by Duke University Press.
Professor Miller is the recipient of grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, he Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and the American Association of University Women.
Selected Publications
"The Black Dandy as Bad Modernist," in Bad Modernisms, ed. R. Walkowitz and D. Mao (Duke University Press, December 2005)
"Introduction: Zoramania," "Jumpin’ at the Sun: Reassessing the Life and Work of Zora Neale Hurston," The Scholar and Feminist Online, 3.2 (Winter 2005), ed. M. L. Miller
http://www.barnard.edu/sfonline/hurston/index.htm
"W.E.B. Du Bois and the Dandy as Diasporic Race Man," Callaloo, special issue on Black Literary Masculinities 26 (3) (Summer 2003)
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EDUCATION:
B.A., Dartmouth College
Ph.D., Harvard University
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SPECIALIZATIONS:
African-American literature
and cultural studies
Black diaspora
Race, gender, sexuality