Cynthia J Miller
Biographic Data
| ID | 168792 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cynthia J Miller |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cynthia J |
| FAMILY NAME | Miller |
| SIGNATURE | MILLER C J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Emerson College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2464-0227 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
New Queer Asias: From queer studies in Asia to queer theory from Asia
This special issue explores a new strategy for addressing an old problem in queer theory and queer Asian studies: how to effectively challenge Western hegemony and provincialize Euro-American experiences of gender and sexuality. Specifically, we are interested not only in how a critical regional and transnational queer studies can generate new knowledge and insight about non-normative genders and sexualities in Asia and Asian diasporas, but also,…
Cruising homotopia: Radical pragmatism, critical presentism, and the PFLAG China Rainbow Cruise
How might we rethink not only what queer can do but also where and when queer can be? This article analyzes the PFLAG China Rainbow Cruise to expand existing understandings of queerness, including its spatial and temporal dimensions and its relationship to antinormativity. Drawing inspiration from Milani and Levon's idea of "homotopia," I use the phrase "cruising homotopia" to playfully extend and critique Muñoz's theory of queerness as "cruising…
We can only be healthy if we love ourselves: Queer Aids NGOs, kinship, and alternative families of care in China
In this article, I draw from recent developments in the anthropological literatures on kinship and care to complicate and extend analyses of Chinese queer NGOs and AIDS activism. By highlighting the practical, moral, and political dimensions of daily life and work within Chinese queer NGOs, I argue that they constitute what I call "alternative families of care" by serving as important sources of material and emotional support and care for queer m…
Dying for Money: The Effects of Global Health Initiatives on NGOs Working with Gay Men and HIV/Aids in Northwest China
Drawing on 17 months of ethnographic fieldwork (2007-2011), this article critically examines the consequences of two global health initiatives (GHIs), the Global Fund and the Gates Foundation, on NGOs engaged in HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment among gay men in northwest China. I argue that a short-term surge in funding provided by GHIs between 2008 and 2010 exacerbated preexisting conflicts between NGOs by promoting a neoliberal process in whic…
Marketing, Monsters, and Music: Teensploitation Horror Films
Memories from the Margins: Stories and Images of Urban Homelessness
Among any city’s most wounded bodies and minds are the homeless - individuals who live on the streets, without any formal claim to place. For many of these individuals, the vessels of historical memory are not museums, or classrooms, or library archives, but parks, alleyways, and subway stations. As the numbers of homeless individuals increase dramatically each year, their social, physical, and psychological trauma increasingly characterizes urba…
America Reflected: Language, Satire, Film, and the National Mind by Peter C. Rollins
The Fun Factory: The Keystone Film Company and the Emergence of Mass Culture
The Democratic Embrace: Ric Burns's Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film
In this interview, filmmaker Ric Burns talks candidly about his 2006 project, Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film. An icon of the 1960s underground art world, Warhol and his work take on added dimension through Burns's lens, as visionary, philosopher, and cultural antagonist. Burns sets the context for the controversial artist and filmmaker's career, shedding light on the ways in which a childhood full of creativity and isolation, a fierce respect fo…
The Social Impacts of Televised Media among the Yucatec Maya
The development of the Yucatan region has brought a wide range of new issues and pressures to indigenous Maya communities. Many of these are transmitted through the discourse of televised media, which is becoming increasingly popular among the rural Maya. Televised programming depicts an array of values, social roles, and behavior patterns that are in direct contrast to Yucatec Mayan culture. As exposure to the media and its urban orientation bec…
Words and Women: A Transatlantic View
Male/Female Linguistic Behavior
Words and Women
Dying for Money: The Effects of Global Health Initiatives on NGOs Working with Gay Men and HIV/Aids in Northwest China
Drawing on 17 months of ethnographic fieldwork (2007-2011), this article critically examines the consequences of two global health initiatives (GHIs), the Global Fund and the Gates Foundation, on NGOs engaged in HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment among gay men in northwest China. I argue that a short-term surge in funding provided by GHIs between 2008 and 2010 exacerbated preexisting conflicts between NGOs by promoting a neoliberal process in whic…
Words and Women: A Transatlantic View
Words and Women
Cruising homotopia: Radical pragmatism, critical presentism, and the PFLAG China Rainbow Cruise
How might we rethink not only what queer can do but also where and when queer can be? This article analyzes the PFLAG China Rainbow Cruise to expand existing understandings of queerness, including its spatial and temporal dimensions and its relationship to antinormativity. Drawing inspiration from Milani and Levon's idea of "homotopia," I use the phrase "cruising homotopia" to playfully extend and critique Muñoz's theory of queerness as "cruising…
Words and Women
Words and Women: A Transatlantic View
Male/Female Linguistic Behavior
The Social Impacts of Televised Media among the Yucatec Maya
The development of the Yucatan region has brought a wide range of new issues and pressures to indigenous Maya communities. Many of these are transmitted through the discourse of televised media, which is becoming increasingly popular among the rural Maya. Televised programming depicts an array of values, social roles, and behavior patterns that are in direct contrast to Yucatec Mayan culture. As exposure to the media and its urban orientation bec…
The Democratic Embrace: Ric Burns's Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film
In this interview, filmmaker Ric Burns talks candidly about his 2006 project, Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film. An icon of the 1960s underground art world, Warhol and his work take on added dimension through Burns's lens, as visionary, philosopher, and cultural antagonist. Burns sets the context for the controversial artist and filmmaker's career, shedding light on the ways in which a childhood full of creativity and isolation, a fierce respect fo…
The Fun Factory: The Keystone Film Company and the Emergence of Mass Culture
America Reflected: Language, Satire, Film, and the National Mind by Peter C. Rollins
Memories from the Margins: Stories and Images of Urban Homelessness
Among any city’s most wounded bodies and minds are the homeless - individuals who live on the streets, without any formal claim to place. For many of these individuals, the vessels of historical memory are not museums, or classrooms, or library archives, but parks, alleyways, and subway stations. As the numbers of homeless individuals increase dramatically each year, their social, physical, and psychological trauma increasingly characterizes urba…
Marketing, Monsters, and Music: Teensploitation Horror Films
We can only be healthy if we love ourselves: Queer Aids NGOs, kinship, and alternative families of care in China
In this article, I draw from recent developments in the anthropological literatures on kinship and care to complicate and extend analyses of Chinese queer NGOs and AIDS activism. By highlighting the practical, moral, and political dimensions of daily life and work within Chinese queer NGOs, I argue that they constitute what I call "alternative families of care" by serving as important sources of material and emotional support and care for queer m…
Dying for Money: The Effects of Global Health Initiatives on NGOs Working with Gay Men and HIV/Aids in Northwest China
Drawing on 17 months of ethnographic fieldwork (2007-2011), this article critically examines the consequences of two global health initiatives (GHIs), the Global Fund and the Gates Foundation, on NGOs engaged in HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment among gay men in northwest China. I argue that a short-term surge in funding provided by GHIs between 2008 and 2010 exacerbated preexisting conflicts between NGOs by promoting a neoliberal process in whic…
Cruising homotopia: Radical pragmatism, critical presentism, and the PFLAG China Rainbow Cruise
How might we rethink not only what queer can do but also where and when queer can be? This article analyzes the PFLAG China Rainbow Cruise to expand existing understandings of queerness, including its spatial and temporal dimensions and its relationship to antinormativity. Drawing inspiration from Milani and Levon's idea of "homotopia," I use the phrase "cruising homotopia" to playfully extend and critique Muñoz's theory of queerness as "cruising…
New Queer Asias: From queer studies in Asia to queer theory from Asia
This special issue explores a new strategy for addressing an old problem in queer theory and queer Asian studies: how to effectively challenge Western hegemony and provincialize Euro-American experiences of gender and sexuality. Specifically, we are interested not only in how a critical regional and transnational queer studies can generate new knowledge and insight about non-normative genders and sexualities in Asia and Asian diasporas, but also,…
Sociology (9 works) · Political science (5 works) · Art (4 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Media studies (4 works) · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues (3 works) · Art history (3 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works)