Nancy K Miller
Biographic Data
| ID | 249895 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nancy K Miller |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nancy K |
| FAMILY NAME | Miller |
| SIGNATURE | MILLER N K |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Graduate Center, CUNY |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 39 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Is this Recovery
"Is this Recovery?"Chronicity and Closure in Graphic Illness Memoir Nancy K. Miller (bio) Mental disorders are often recurrent, and treatment only partially effective. What does real recovery—if that's the right word—actually look like, and how can it be assessed? —Benedict Carey, "Mental-Health Researchers Ask: What is 'Recovery'?" New York Times, February 25, 2020 Healthy individuals should be able to fully recover. And we think that will be a …
A Backward Glance
Elegiac Friendship
Between 2001 and 2007 three women I loved died: Naomi Schor, Carolyn Heilbrun, and Diane Middlebrook. Although we were all well past middle age, I had failed to imagine ever losing any of them. Lose one’s parents, of course, and I had. However sad, the death of parents conforms to the order of things. Each time I lose a friend I am shocked beyond sadness. The world shrinks. So does my sense of what anchors me to it. Why do friends seem to matter …
The Trauma of Diagnosis
This essay highlights the visual figurations through which comics artists have expressed the bodily and psychic shock of receiving a cancer diagnosis-their own, or that of a loved one. A cancer diagnosis challenges the sense we have of our place in the world. Graphic memoir pictures that disruption and exposes the workings of the disease, whatever the outcome of the story. I focus on the moment of diagnosis as the gateway into the emotional journ…
My Avatar"; "In the Waiting Room"; "Dr. Sweater
“My Avatar”; “In the Waiting Room”; “Dr. Sweater” Nancy K. Miller (bio) Click for larger view View full resolution [End Page 224] Click for larger view View full resolution [End Page 225] Click for larger view View full resolution [End Page 226] Nancy K. Miller The Graduate Center/CUNY Nancy K. Miller Nancy K. Miller is Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the Graduate Center/CUNY. Her most recent books are What They S…
“I’s” in Drag
It is impossible for me to admit—I’d sooner admit to the existence of God—that she wants to be possessed, that she dreams of it.
French Dressing
French Dressing looks at the ancien régime's scenarios of libertine seduction--unsafe sex and its consequences for women's lives. It places the gender performances of male and female-authored novels in dialogue in order to recover the complexity of a century obsessed, as we are today, with writing and living plots of desire. French Dressing exposes the erotic anxieties behind a national culture of sexual self-display--French undressing.
March, 43 BCE
20 March, 43 BCE: Ovid Is Born Diane Middlebrook NOTE FROM DIANE MIDD1EBROOK'S LITERARY EXECUTORS "Ovid Is Born" is the first chapter of Ovid: A Biography, an experimen tal work by Diane Middlebrook (1939—2007) combining research on Roman life with fictional renderings of key moments in the Roman poet's life. As originally conceived, the book was to contain nine chap ters, each designed to represent turning points in the arc of the poet's life st…
Family Hair Looms
Family Hair Looms Nancy K. Miller (bio) heirloom—2. something having special monetary or sentimental value or significance that is handed on either by or apart from formal inheritance from one generation to another. —Webster’s Third International Dictionary In the last years of his life, my father’s rent-controlled apartment on the Upper West Side became the repository of what had been his lawyer’s office in the glamorous Woolworth Building in Lo…
Out of the Family
Marjane Satrapi Satrapi , Marjane . Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood . Vol. 1 . New York : Pantheon , 2003 . [Google Scholar]'s graphic memoir Persepolis offers a new perspective on familial legacies and feminist generations. Through the use of black-and-white stylised images and the interplay of panels, Satrapi shows how three generations of women interact in the spaces of memory as well as history. In this autobiographical narrative of a tr…
I Killed My Grandmother
Read together as autobiographies of a name, these two very different narratives provide unexpected points of connection to my silenced family story. The essay explores the extent to which my identity as a third-generation American has been entangled with a collective history shaped by the trauma of departure. I reimagine the documents of my personal archive within the grand immigration sagas of the twentieth century
Marital Choice in Sub-Saharan Africa
Comparative Sociology is an international scholarly journal, published in six issues per year, dedicated to advancing comparative sociological analyses of societies and cultures, institutions and organizations, groups and collectivities, networks and interactions. All submissions for articles are peer-reviewed double-blind. The journal publishes book reviews and theoretical presentations, conceptual analyses and empirical findings at all levels o…
Portraits of Grief
nancy k. miller is Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the Graduate Center, cuny. Her most recent books are But Enough about Me: Why We Read Other People's Lives; Bequest and Betrayal: Memoirs of a Parent's Death; and the coedited anthology, Extremities: Trauma, Testimony, and Community
But Enough About Me
In her latest work of personal criticism, Nancy K. Miller tells the story of how a girl who grew up in the 1950s and got lost in the 1960s became a feminist critic in the 1970s. As in her previous books, Miller interweaves pieces of her autobiography with the memoirs of contemporaries in order to explore the unexpected ways that the stories of other people's lives give meaning to our own. The evolution she chronicles was lived by a generation of …
But enough about me, what do you think of my memoir
In the early fall of 1990, a New Yorker cartoon showed two men in hard hats chatting in a lumber yard. One says to the other, "Well, Al, the sixties was peace. The seventies was sex. The eighties was money. Maybe the nineties will be lumber." 1 Throughout the nineties, like the hard hats, media pundits searched for the right way to characterize the decade. Presidentially speaking, if the eighties were Reagan and corporate greed, the nineties were…
Ethnographers of the Self
Introduction
(1999). Introduction: Extremities; or, Memoirs at the Fin de Siecle. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies: Vol. 14, EXTREMITIES: MEMOIRS AT THE FIN DE SIECLE, pp. 1-4
Memory Stains
(1999). Memory Stains: Annie Ernaux's Shame. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies: Vol. 14, EXTREMITIES: MEMOIRS AT THE FIN DE SIECLE, pp. 38-50
Libertinage and Feminism
Public Statements, Private Lives
Sade and the Narrative of Transgression
This major collection of essays on the Marquis de Sade, first published in 1995, encompasses a wide range of critical approaches to his œuvre, including some of the most celebrated texts in Sade scholarship. It focuses on several distinctly contemporary areas of interest: the explicitly libidinal components of Sade's work and the effects they engender, the textual and narrative apparatus which supports these operations, the ethical and political …
Representing Others
Research Article| April 01 1994 Representing Others: Gender and the Subjects of Autobiography Nancy K. Miller Nancy K. Miller nancy k. miller is Distinguished Professor of English at Lehman College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. Her most recent book is Getting Personal: Feminist Criticism and Other Autobiographical Acts (New York: Routledge, 1991). She is working on a project about contemporary memoirs and dead parents. Search for other works by …
Displacements
Getting Personal. Feminist Occasions and Other Autobiographical Acts
Decades
Research Article| January 01 1992 Decades Nancy K. Miller Nancy K. Miller Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1992) 91 (1): 65–86. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-91-1-65 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Nancy K. Miller; Decades. South Atlantic Quarterly 1 January 1992; 91 (1): 65–86. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-91-1-65 Dow…
Representing Others
Research Article| April 01 1994 Representing Others: Gender and the Subjects of Autobiography Nancy K. Miller Nancy K. Miller nancy k. miller is Distinguished Professor of English at Lehman College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. Her most recent book is Getting Personal: Feminist Criticism and Other Autobiographical Acts (New York: Routledge, 1991). She is working on a project about contemporary memoirs and dead parents. Search for other works by …
Portraits of Grief
nancy k. miller is Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the Graduate Center, cuny. Her most recent books are But Enough about Me: Why We Read Other People's Lives; Bequest and Betrayal: Memoirs of a Parent's Death; and the coedited anthology, Extremities: Trauma, Testimony, and Community
Out of the Family
Marjane Satrapi Satrapi , Marjane . Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood . Vol. 1 . New York : Pantheon , 2003 . [Google Scholar]'s graphic memoir Persepolis offers a new perspective on familial legacies and feminist generations. Through the use of black-and-white stylised images and the interplay of panels, Satrapi shows how three generations of women interact in the spaces of memory as well as history. In this autobiographical narrative of a tr…
Marital Choice in Sub-Saharan Africa
Comparative Sociology is an international scholarly journal, published in six issues per year, dedicated to advancing comparative sociological analyses of societies and cultures, institutions and organizations, groups and collectivities, networks and interactions. All submissions for articles are peer-reviewed double-blind. The journal publishes book reviews and theoretical presentations, conceptual analyses and empirical findings at all levels o…
Memory Stains
(1999). Memory Stains: Annie Ernaux's Shame. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies: Vol. 14, EXTREMITIES: MEMOIRS AT THE FIN DE SIECLE, pp. 38-50
Family Hair Looms
Family Hair Looms Nancy K. Miller (bio) heirloom—2. something having special monetary or sentimental value or significance that is handed on either by or apart from formal inheritance from one generation to another. —Webster’s Third International Dictionary In the last years of his life, my father’s rent-controlled apartment on the Upper West Side became the repository of what had been his lawyer’s office in the glamorous Woolworth Building in Lo…
Conference Call
Research Article| November 01 1990 Conference Call Barbara Christian; Barbara Christian Barbara Christian is Professor of Afro-American Studies at the University of California at Berkeley. She is author of Black Women Novelists, the Development of A Tradition: 1892-1976 (Westport, CN; Greenwood, 1980); Teaching Guide to Black Foremothers (Old Westbury, NY: Feminist, 1980); Black Feminist Criticism, Perspectives on Black Women Writers (New York: P…
Public Statements, Private Lives
The Heroine's Text
The Exquisite Cadavers
Female Sexuality and Narrative Structure in "La Nouvelle Héloïse" and "Les Liaisons dangereuses
Novels of Innocence
Most novels, because they so wholly enlist our sympathies, seem to tend toward the subjective, the passive, the feminine. The subtitle of the Marquis de Sade's Justine, The Misfortunes of Virtue, might no less pertinently be attached to Henry James's Portrait of a Lady or Wings of the Dave. Such a loss, from a more detached, more dynamic, more masculine point of view, may be envisaged as a gain of experience
La Rochefoucauld
The Heroine's Text
The Text's Heroine
The Heroine's Text
Rereading as a Woman
Would it not stand to reason that men and women read differently, that there must be a fundamental disparity between what they bring to, do to, demand from and write about texts? And if we do read differently, is it not necessary to figure out how and where we do so? To what extent is the 'body of scholarship' on any given author really two bodies? These questions, formulated by Susan Winnett as the rationale for a special session at MLA (1983) c…
Parables and politics
In Dora's Case
Editors' Preface
Men's Reading, Women's Writing
Imaging American Women
Conference Call
Research Article| November 01 1990 Conference Call Barbara Christian; Barbara Christian Barbara Christian is Professor of Afro-American Studies at the University of California at Berkeley. She is author of Black Women Novelists, the Development of A Tradition: 1892-1976 (Westport, CN; Greenwood, 1980); Teaching Guide to Black Foremothers (Old Westbury, NY: Feminist, 1980); Black Feminist Criticism, Perspectives on Black Women Writers (New York: P…
Getting Personal. Feminist Occasions and Other Autobiographical Acts
Decades
Research Article| January 01 1992 Decades Nancy K. Miller Nancy K. Miller Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1992) 91 (1): 65–86. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-91-1-65 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Nancy K. Miller; Decades. South Atlantic Quarterly 1 January 1992; 91 (1): 65–86. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-91-1-65 Dow…
Displacements
Representing Others
Research Article| April 01 1994 Representing Others: Gender and the Subjects of Autobiography Nancy K. Miller Nancy K. Miller nancy k. miller is Distinguished Professor of English at Lehman College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. Her most recent book is Getting Personal: Feminist Criticism and Other Autobiographical Acts (New York: Routledge, 1991). She is working on a project about contemporary memoirs and dead parents. Search for other works by …
Sade and the Narrative of Transgression
This major collection of essays on the Marquis de Sade, first published in 1995, encompasses a wide range of critical approaches to his œuvre, including some of the most celebrated texts in Sade scholarship. It focuses on several distinctly contemporary areas of interest: the explicitly libidinal components of Sade's work and the effects they engender, the textual and narrative apparatus which supports these operations, the ethical and political …
Public Statements, Private Lives
Libertinage and Feminism
Ethnographers of the Self
Introduction
(1999). Introduction: Extremities; or, Memoirs at the Fin de Siecle. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies: Vol. 14, EXTREMITIES: MEMOIRS AT THE FIN DE SIECLE, pp. 1-4
Memory Stains
(1999). Memory Stains: Annie Ernaux's Shame. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies: Vol. 14, EXTREMITIES: MEMOIRS AT THE FIN DE SIECLE, pp. 38-50
But enough about me, what do you think of my memoir
In the early fall of 1990, a New Yorker cartoon showed two men in hard hats chatting in a lumber yard. One says to the other, "Well, Al, the sixties was peace. The seventies was sex. The eighties was money. Maybe the nineties will be lumber." 1 Throughout the nineties, like the hard hats, media pundits searched for the right way to characterize the decade. Presidentially speaking, if the eighties were Reagan and corporate greed, the nineties were…
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