Laura Miller, Ph.D.

Professor of English
Department of English, Film, Languages, and Performing Arts College of Arts, Culture, and Scientific Inquiry

678-839-4891
lmiller@westga.0ofkEHgyd6xZ698EiNJJREC8Coedu

Boyd Building - Room 321
Office Hours
M 3:30-5:30 PM (F2F); W 11-12 and 5-6 (online). Also available by appointment M-F.

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Laura Miller, Ph.D.

Dr. Miller finished her Ph.D. in 2010 at the University of California, Santa Barbara and has been teaching at West Georgia since fall 2011. She studies the intersections of literature, media, and science during the eighteenth century. Her first book, Reading Popular Newtonianism: Print, the Principia, and the Dissemination of Newtonian Science, was published by the University of Virginia Press in 2018. Dr. Miller has held fellowships at the Houghton Library at Harvard University, the Library Company of Philadelphia, and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. She is currently working on her second book, which focuses on the connections between readership, scientific experimentation, and conceptions of early American government as experimental, as well as other projects related to library history, science, the digital humanities, and gender. She is currently co-investigator on a three-year AHRC-funded grant (£842,708), entitled Libraries, Reading Communities, and Cultural Formation in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic. Details to be found here: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FS007083%2F1 Please visit https://www.upress.virginia.edu/title/5100 to order her book.

  • B.A., English, Duke University, 1997
  • M.A., English, California State University, Northridge, 2004
  • Ph.D., English, UC Santa Barbara, 2010

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Summer 2020 Sections

  • XIDS-2100 (Science at the Movies) Section: E02

Spring 2020 Sections

  • XIDS-2000 (Intro to Interdisc Studies) Section: 01
  • ENGL-3410 (Technology for Editors/Writers) Section: 1DW
  • ENGL-4000 (BritLitI-PoliticalBodies) Section: 01W
  • ENGL-5000 (Political Bodies) Section: 01

Fall 2019 Sections

  • XIDS-2100 (Science at the Movies) Section: 01
  • ENGL-2110 (World Lit: Transgressions) Section: 01
  • ENGL-4106 (Studies in Genre:Drama) Section: 01W
  • ENGL-5106 (Studies in Genre:Drama) Section: 01

Summer 2019 Sections

  • XIDS-2100 (Intro to Gender Studies) Section: E01

Spring 2019 Sections

  • ENGL-3410 (Technology for Editors/Writers) Section: 1DW
  • ENGL-4000 (BritLit I-18th Century) Section: 01W
  • ENGL-4384 (Senior Seminar) Section: 01W
  • ENGL-5000 (BritLit I - 18th Century) Section: 01

Fall 2018 Sections

  • ENGL-2110 (World Literature) Section: 02
  • ENGL-4385 (Translating Science) Section: 01W
  • ENGL-6105 (Seminar in British Lit I) Section: 01

Summer 2018 Sections

  • XIDS-2100 (Intro to Gender Studies) Section: E02

Fall 2017 Sections

  • XIDS-2100 (Digital Humanities) Section: 02
  • ENGL-2120 (British Literature) Section: 01
  • ENGL-3000 (Research and Methodology) Section: 02W

Summer 2017 Sections

  • XIDS-2100 (Arts&Ideas: Digital Humanities) Section: E03

Spring 2017 Sections

  • ENGL-2120 (British Literature) Section: 01
  • ENGL-3000 (Research and Methodology) Section: 01W
  • ENGL-4000 (BritLit I-Ballads, Broadsides+) Section: 01W
  • ENGL-5000 (BritLit I-Ballads, Broadsides+) Section: 01

Fall 2016 Sections

  • ENGL-2120 (British Literature-Honors) Section: 25H
  • ENGL-4385 (Science & Literature) Section: 01W
  • BIOL-4985 (Translating Science) Section: 02W

Summer 2016 Sections

  • XIDS-2100 (Digital Humanities) Section: E01

Spring 2016 Sections

  • XIDS-2100 (Gender and Sexuality) Section: 01
  • ENGL-2190 (Literature by Women) Section: 01
  • ENGL-4385 (Eighteenth-Century British Lit) Section: 02W
  • ENGL-5385 (Eighteenth-Century British Lit) Section: 02

Summer 2015 Sections

  • XIDS-2100 (Arts&Ideas: Gender&Sexuality) Section: 03

Spring 2015 Sections

  • ENGL-2190 (Literature by Women) Section: 01
  • ENGL-4108 (Studies in the Novel - British) Section: 01W
  • ENGL-5108 (Studies in the Novel-British) Section: 01
  • ENGL-6105 (Seminar in British Lit I) Section: 01

Selected Publications

Editor. Special Issue, "Libraries and Booksellers in the Long Eighteenth Century." Library & Information History 2015; 31(3).

Sea: Transporting England. Broadside Ballads from the Pepys Collection: A Selection of Texts, Approaches, and Recordings. Ed. Patricia Fumerton. Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2012 (247-266).

Personal

Dr. Miller has lived in New York, North Carolina, and California before moving to Georgia. Her favorite things to do outside of academia include spending time with her family, cooking, reading, exercise, and travel.