Renata K. Miller
Dean, Division of Humanities and the Arts
Areas of Expertise/Research
- 19th-Century Theater
- Victorian Culture
- Victorian Literature
- Women's Suffrage
Building
North Academic Center
Office
5/225
Phone
212-650-8836
Website
Renata K. Miller
Profile
Renata Kobetts Miller is dean of the Division of Humanities and the Arts at t九色视频. Having previously served as interim dean and deputy dean, she has supported the development of new curricular and pedagogical models that incorporate primary research and internships at community partner institutions, as well as Digital Humanities and data science. This work has been supported with three major grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Before her appointment in leadership roles in Humanities and the Arts, she was chair of the English Department, and she also has extensive experience in faculty governance.
A professor of English, Miller teaches and researches Victorian literature and theater, as well as the rise of disciplines in the nineteenth century. She is the author of The Victorian Actress in the Novel and on the Stage (2019) and of a book on reinterpretations of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (2005). Her current research includes the emergence of the two cultures of sciences and humanities in the Victorian period and theories of interdisciplinarity. She is working on a book on the Independent Theatre Society and its influence in English fin de si猫cle culture.
Miller serves on the program committee of the Modern Language Association and recently was a member of the inaugural cohort of the Leadership Institute for a New Academy (LINA) held by the American Council of Learned Societies.
She earned a Ph.D. in English at Indiana University, and an A.B. in English at Princeton University.a
Education
A.B., Princeton University
M.A., Ph.D., Indiana University
Publications
Books
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, November 2018.
Recent Reinterpretations of Stevenson鈥檚 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: Why and How This Novel Continues to Affect Us. Lewiston, New York: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2005.
Articles
鈥淣ineteenth-Century Theatrical Adaptations of Novels: The Paradox of Ephemerality.鈥 Oxford Handbook of Adaptation Studies. Ed. Thomas Leitch. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. 53-70. Commissioned contribution.
鈥淓lizabeth Robins.鈥 Blackwell Encyclopedia of Victorian Literature. Ed. Dino Franco Felluga, Pamela K. Gilbert, and Linda K. Hughes. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2015. 1451-3. Peer-reviewed, commissioned contribution.
鈥淰ictorian Science Fiction.鈥 Blackwell Encyclopedia of Victorian Literature. Ed. Dino Franco Felluga, Pamela K. Gilbert, and Linda K. Hughes. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2015. 1519-28. Peer-reviewed, commissioned contribution.
鈥1893: The Independent Theatre and the Cultural Work of Drama Criticism.鈥 BRANCH: Britain, Representation, and Nineteenth-Century History. Ed. Dino Franco Felluga. Extension of Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net. January 2013. Web. Peer-reviewed, commissioned contribution.
T. W. Robertson鈥檚 Caste. The Encyclopedia of Modern Drama. Columbia University Press, 2007. 230-1.
Harley Granville-Barker鈥檚 Waste. The Encyclopedia of Modern Drama. Columbia University Press, 2007. 1443.
鈥淐hild Killers and the Competition between the Late Victorian Theater and the Novel.鈥 MLQ 66.2 (June 2005). 197-226. (One of three finalists for the Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Essay Prize for 2005.)
鈥淭he Exceptional Woman and Her Audience: Armgart, Performance, and Authorship.鈥 The George Eliot Review (2004). 38-45.
鈥淚magined Audiences: The Novelist and the Stage.鈥 The Blackwell Companion to the Victorian Novel. Ed. Patrick Brantlinger and W. B. Thesing. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2002. 207-24. Commissioned contribution.
Commissioned Book Reviews
Katherine Cockin, ed. Ellen Terry, Spheres of Influence. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2011). Victorian Studies 54 (Summer 2012): 746-48.
Review essay. Reid, Julia. Stevenson, Science, and the Fin de Si猫cle. (New York: Palgrave, 2006). Reed, Thomas L., Jr. The Transforming Draught: Jekyll and Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson, and the Victorian Alcohol Debate. (Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Company, 2006). Journal of Victorian Culture 13 (Autumn 2008): 334-39.
Newey, Katherine. Women鈥檚 Theatre Writing in Victorian Britain. (Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005). Victorian Studies 49 (Winter 2007): 386-87.
Allen, Emily. Theater Figures: The Production of the Nineteenth-Century British Novel (Columbus: Ohio University Press, 2003). Victorian Studies 46 (Spring 2004): 542-44.
Publications on Humanities and the Profession
鈥溾 Academe 97 (January-February 2011), 27-29.
鈥.鈥 The Chronicle of Higher Education Career Network. In print and on the web. 1 April 2003.
Public Scholarship
鈥淽 Academe Blog. 8 March 2017.
New York Times. In print 25 May 2016, and on the Web 24 May 2016.
Op-Ed, 鈥溾 USA Today. In print and on the Web 30 September 2010.
Courses Taught
I teach courses on Victorian literature and theater, science (in) fiction of the Victorian period, modern appropriations and uses of the Victorian period, literature of the fin de si猫cle, women writers, sensation and melodrama, and, occasionally, theater history.
Research Interests
Primary Fields of Research:
The Victorian Novel
Victorian Theater
Victorian Feminism and the Suffragettes
Contemporary Adaptations of Victorian Literature