CURRICULUM VITAE:  DAVID LEE MILLER

 

Department of English                                                            (803) 777-4256

University of South Carolina                                                   FAX  777-906

Columbia, SC  29208                                                            damiller@sc.edu

 

 

Education and employment 

 

Ph.D. University of California, Irvine, 1979

M.A.  University of California, Irvine, 1975

B.A.  cum laude, departmental honors, Yale University, 1973

 

2004-               Professor of English & Comparative Literature, University of South

     Carolina

1998-2000       Associate Dean of Arts & Sciences, University of Kentucky

1994-2004       Professor of English, University of Kentucky

1988-94           Professor of English, University of Alabama

1989-94           Director, Hudson Strode Program in Renaissance Studies, University of

Alabama

1989                Visiting Professor of English, UNC Chapel Hill (spring semester)

1987-88           Director of English Graduate Studies, University of Alabama

1982-88           Associate Professor of English, University of Alabama

1979-81           Assistant Professor of English, University of Alabama

1978-79           Instructor, Department of English, University of Alabama



Honors & Awards 

 

N.E.H. Fellow, 2006-2007.

Harry Ransom Humanities Center Research Fellowship, University of Texas at Austin,

2003, 2005

“Great Teachers” Award, given by the University of Kentucky Alumni Association, 2002

Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Folger Shakespeare Library, 2000-01

(declined)

Short-term Fellowship, Folger Shakespeare Library, 2000-01

EGSO Most Outstanding English Professor, 1998-99, given by the University of

Kentucky English Graduate Student Organization.

Guggenheim Fellowship, 1994-95

NEH Summer Research Award, June - Sept. 1994

Short-term Fellowship, Folger Shakespeare Library, summer 1993

Junior Research Fellowship, Folger Shakespeare Library, summer 1985

Summer Research Grant, University of Alabama, 1984

Newberry Library Research Fellowship, 1982 (declined)

School of Criticism and Theory, Fellowship, 1982

N.E.H. Research Programs Division Grant in support of 1982

    Alabama Symposium in English and American Literature ($10,000)

Huntington Library Summer Research Fellowship, 1981

School of Criticism and Theory, Graduate Fellowship, 1976

 

Publications

 

In preparation: 

 

“The Collected Works of Edmund Spenser.”  General Editor, with Patrick Cheney, Joseph Loewenstein, and Elizabeth Fowler.  A new scholarly edition under contract to Oxford University Press for the Oxford English Texts Series. 

 

Forthcoming:

 

“Gender, Justice, and the Gods in The Faerie Queene, Book 5.”  In Reading Renaissance Ethics, ed. Marshall Grossman.  Routledge, December 2006.

 

Reviews: 

 

Jim Ellis, Sexuality and Citizenship:  Metapmorphosis in Elizabethan Erotic Verse.  University of Toronto Press, 2003.   In Shakespeare Studies.

Maureen Quilligan, Incest and Agency in Elizabeth’s England.  University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005.  In Shakespeare Yearbook.

 

Books authored:

 

Dreams of the Burning Child:  Sacrificial Sons and the Father’s Witness.  Cornell

University Press, 2003.

The Poem’s Two Bodies: The Poetics of the 1590 Faerie Queene.  Princeton University Press, 1988.  Reissued in paperback, 1991.

 

Books edited:

 

The Production of English Renaissance Culture.  Edited by David Lee Miller, Sharon O’Dair, and Harold Weber. Cornell University Press, 1994.

Approaches to Teaching Spenser’s Faerie Queene.  Edited by David Lee Miller and Alexander Dunlop.  Approaches to Teaching World Literature.  Modern Language Association, 1994.

After Strange Texts: The Role of Theory in the Study of Literature.  Edited by Gregory S. Jay and David L. Miller. University of Alabama Press, 1985.

 

 

Essays:

 

1.      “The Faerie Queene, 1590” in A Critical Companion to Spenser Studies, ed. Bart van Es.  New York: Palgrave, 2006, 139-165.

2.      “All Father: Ben Jonson and the Psychodynamics of Authorship,” excerpted from Dreams of the Burning Child.  In Printing and Parenting in Early Modern England, ed. Douglas A. Brooks.  Ashgate, 2003.

3.      “Only a Rite.” In Grief and Gender, 700-1700, ed. Jennifer Vaught with Lynne Dickson.  New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003, 243-48.

4.      “Death’s Afterword.”  In Imagining Death in Spenser and Milton, ed. Elizabeth Jane Bellamy, Patrick Cheney, and Michael Schoenfeldt. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003, pp. 185-199.

5.      “The Body of Fatherhood.”  American Notes & Queries 15.1 (Winter, 2002): 1-16.

6.       “The Father’s Witness:  Sacrifice and Subjectivity in the Elizabethan Theater.”  Occasional Publication No. 3.  University of Massachusetts Center for Renaissance Studies.  [6200 words, 6 illustrations].   Partly adapted from essay #1 below.

  1.  “The Father’s Witness: Patriarchal Images of Boys.” Representations 70 (Spring,

2000): 114-140.

  1.  “Spenser.”  [3500 word article] In Encyclopedia of the Renaissance, ed. Paul F. Grendler, et al. New York: Scribner’s, 2000.
  2.  “The Otherness of Spenser’s Language.”  Afterword to Worldmaking Spenser: Explorations in the Early Modern Age, ed. Patrick Cheney and Lauren Silberman.  University Press of Kentucky, 2000, pp. 244-48.
  3. “The Earl of Cork’s Lute.” In Spenser’s Life and the Subject of Biography, ed. Judith Anderson, Donald Cheney, and David Richardson.  Massachusetts Studies in Early Modern Culture. University of Massachusetts Press, 1996, pp. 146-171.
  4.  “Writing the Specular Son: Jonson, Freud, Lacan, and the (K)not of Masculinity.”  In Desire in the Renaissance: Psychoanalysis and Literature, ed. Regina Schwartz and Valeria Finucci.  Princeton University Press, 1994, pp. 233-260.
  5.  “Spenser and the Gaze of Glory.” In Edmund Spenser’s Poetry, Norton Critical Edition, ed. Hugh Maclean and Anne Lake Prescott.  Norton, 1993, pp. 756-64.  [Partly adapted from no. 7 below]
  6.  “The Writing Thing,” diacritics 20:4 (Winter, 1990): 17-29. [review-essay]
  7.  “Calidore.”  [1500 word article]  In The Spenser Encyclopedia, ed. A. C. Hamilton et. al. University of Toronto Press, 1990.
  8.  “The Death of the Modern: Gender and Desire in Marlowe’s  ‘Hero and Leander,’” South Atlantic Quarterly 88,4 (Fall, 1989): 757-787.  Reprinted in Critical Essays on Christopher Marlowe, ed. Emily C. Bartels (New York: G.K. Hall, 1997), pp. 71-94.
  9.  “Figuring Hierarchy: The Dedicatory Sonnets to The Faerie Queene.”  In Renaissance Papers 1987, ed. Dale B. J. Randall and Joseph A. Porter, pp. 49-59.  Published by the Southeastern Renaissance Conference.
  10.  “Spenser’s Poetics: The Poem’s Two Bodies,” Publications of the Modern Language Association 101 (March, 1986): 170-185.   Excerpted in Critical Essays on Edmund Spenser, ed. Mihoko Suzuki (New York:  G.K. Hall, 1996), pp. 61-76; reprinted in Edmund Spenser, ed. Andrew Hadfield, Longman Critical Reader Series (London: Longman, 1996), pp. 85-111.
  11.  “A Response to William A. Sessions,” in Spenser at Kalamazoo 1984, ed. Francis G. Greco, pp. 45-48. Published by Clarion University, 1984.
  12.  “Spenser’s Vocation, Spenser’s Career,” English Literary History 50 (1983): 197-231. 
  13.  “‘The Pleasure of the Text,’ Two Renaissance Versions,” New Orleans Review 9 (1982): 50-55.
  14.  “Hamlet:  The Lie as an Image of the Fall,” Renaissance Papers 1979, ed. A. Leigh DeNeef and Thomas Hester.  Southeastern Renaissance Conference, pp.1-9.
  15.  “Authorship, Anonymity, and The Shepheardes Calender,” Modern Language Quarterly 40 (1979): 219-36.
  16.  “Abandoning the Quest,” English Literary History 46 (1979): 173-92.
  17. “Dominion of the Eye in Frost,” in Frost: Centennial Essays II, ed. Jac L. Tharpe. University Press of Mississippi, 1976, pp. 141-58.

 

Electronic Publications:

 

1.      “Methodology without Method and the Politics of Dissent: Some Thoughts on Cultural Studies.”  At http://web.gsuc.cuny.edu/renaissancestudies/Cultstudies/index.htm

2.      “The Body of Fatherhood” (same as #5 under “Essays”), in Agora: A Journal of the English Department at Eastern Illinois University, 27.4 (May, 2002), at http://www.eiu.edu/~agora/.

 

 

Reviews:

 

1.       Hamlet in His Modern Guises, by Alexander Welsh.  Shakespeare Quarterly 54.2 (2003): 203-05.                                                                                                                                      

2.       Imagining Rabelais, by Anne Lake Prescott. American Notes & Queries, Winter 2000, pp. 57-59.

3.       Broken English: Dialects and the Politics of Language in Renaissance Writings, by Paula Blank. Shakespeare Studies 26 (1998): 315-318.

4.       The Renaissance Bible: Scholarship, Sacrifice, and Subjectivity, by Debora Kuller Shuger.  Spenser Newsletter 27.2 (Spring-Summer 1996): 5-9.

5.       Spenser’s Famous Flight: A Renaissance Idea of a Literary Career, by Patrick Cheney. Spenser Studies 25.3 (Autumn 1994): 5-8.

6.       Spenser’s Secret Career, by Richard Rambuss.  Journal of English and Germanic Philology 95.1 (January 1996): 115-17.

7.       Literary Fat Ladies: Rhetoric, Gender, Property, by Patricia Parker.  South Atlantic Review 55.1 (January, 1990): 111-113.

8.       Poetic License: Authority and Authorship in Medieval and Renaissance Contexts, by Jacqueline T. Miller. South Atlantic Review 53.2 (May, 1988): 132-34.

9.       The House of Death: Messages from the English Renaissance, by Arnold Stein.  Modern Language Quarterly 48.2 (June 1987): 190-92.

10.   Literary Theory/Renaissance Texts, ed. Patricia Parker and David Quint.  South Atlantic Review 52.4 (November, 1987): 114-116.

11.   Self-Crowned Laureates: Spenser, Jonson, Milton, and the Literary System, by Richard Helgerson. Southern Humanities Review 18 (Winter, 1984): 75-76.

12.   The World, the Text, and the Critic, by Edward W. Said.  Modern Language Quarterly 44.4 (December, 1983): 433-35.

13.   Endlesse Worke: Spenser and the Structures of Discourse, by Jonathan Goldberg.  Southern Humanities Review

14.   The People’s Doonesbury, by Gary Trudeau. Society for the Fine Arts Review 4 (Winter, 1982): 3-4.

 

Invited lectures and presentations:

 

“Rereading Renaissance Ethics,” University of Maryland Renaissance Reckonings series, 2001-02

“Responses and Directions.” Closing Roundtable Panel for “The Place of Spenser: Words, Worlds, Works.” Pembroke College, Cambridge University, July 6-8, 2001

“‘A Dead Hand at a Baby’: Child Sacrifice in Dickens,” Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies, Princeton University, March 30, 2001

“Methodology without Method.” Video teleconference on “Renaissance Studies at the Millennium,” CUNY Renaissance Studies Program, March 31, 2000. 

University of Massachusetts, Amherst, March 2000

University of British Columbia, February 2000

Rutgers University, October 1998

Tulane University, January 1997

Joseph S. Schick Lecture, Indiana State University, November 1996

“The Faerie Queene in the World, 1596-1996,” Yale University, September 1996

Hudson Strode Lecture, University of Alabama, November 1995

Summer 1994 Folger Institute (Harry Berger, Jr., director), Folger Shakespeare Library, July 1994

Pennsylvania State University, April 1994

University of California at Santa Barbara, February 1994

Auburn University, February 1994

University of Kentucky, January 1994

University of Massachusetts, Amherst, October 1992

Rutgers University, October 1992

Summer 1989 NEH Seminar (Thomas P. Roche, director) Princeton University, August 1989

Florida State University, October 1988

University of California at Los Angeles, October 1988

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, December 1988

 

Conference papers:

 

“Coupling Gender with Justice in Isis Church,” at Spenser’s Civilizations (4th International Spenser Society Conference), University of Toronto, May 2006.

Responses to papers in sessions on scholarly editing and on the later Derrida, Modern Language Association, 2005

“Reinventing the Law in Spenser’s Legend of Justice,” Modern Language Association, December, 2004

Organizer of plenary session, “How to Do Things with Shakespeare,” 2003 Shakespeare

Association of America conference

Respondent, “Grief and Gender in Early Modern England,” Modern Language Association, December, 2000

“Editing Spenser,” panel discussion, Modern Language Association, December 2000

“Sacrificial Manhood in Virgil and Shakespeare,” Shakespeare Association of America, April 2000

“The Father’s Witness,” Modern Language Association, December 1999

Response to papers; invited participant, “Spenser and Death” panel discussion, 34th

     International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 1999

“The Fate of Reading the Renaissance in Postmodernity, or Do the Hokey Pokey,” Renaissance Society of America, March 1998

“The Spectral Son in Virgil’s Aeneid,” Modern Language Association, December 1995

“Mourning the Body Politic in Hamlet,” South Atlantic MLA, November 1995

“Unincorporated Spenser: The Remainder,” Modern Language Association, December 1993

“Lo,” Modern Language Association, December 1990

“After Anglophilia: The Age of Shakespeare in the Heart of Dixie Now,” Renaissance Society of America, April 1991

“Post mortem,” 25th International Congress of Medieval Studies, May 1990

“Summoning the Real,” Modern Language Association, December 1989

“Epic Romance Burlesque Arthur and the text,” Renaissance Society of America, April 1989

“Gender and Desire in Marlow’s ‘Hero and Leander,’” Modern Language Association, December 1988

Response to papers, South Atlantic MLA English II section, November 1988

“Allegories of Allegory,” 23rd International Congress of Medieval Studies, May 1988

“Figuring Hierarchy: The Dedicatory Sonnets to The Faerie Queene,” Southeastern Renaissance Conference, 1987

“Ideology and the Theory of Repression,” International Association for Philosophy and

     Literature, May 1986.

“Reflections on the Above,” Modern Language Association, December 1986.

“Arthur’s Dream,” Renaissance Society of America, 1985; Southeastern Renaissance

     Conference, 1985

“The ‘Tudor Apocalypse’ Now, or Spenser and the Risks of Historicism,” 20th International Congress of Medieval Studies, May 1985

“Deconstructing Spenser,” Modern Language Association, December 1984

“Alma’s Nought,” South Atlantic MLA English II section, November 1984

Response to papers, 19th International Congress of Medieval Studies, May 1984

“‘The Pleasure of the Text,’ Two Renaissance Versions,” Southeastern Renaissance Conference, 1981

“Hamlet: The Lie as Image of the Fall,” Southeastern Renaissance Conference, 1979