Linda Miller

Associate Professor of English

Tel. 484-664-3247
Fax 484-664-3633
Office: Center for the Arts 271  
Email: lmiller@muhlenberg.edu

Education

     1988: MFA, Fiction Prose, University of Michigan
     1985: BA, Philosophy, University of Michigan, Residential College

Select Awards, Publications and Presentations:

You Can Never Pretend the Power Isn’t There, a documentary theater piece (co-written
and performed, 2006-2007)

“Writing as Performance: The Pedagogy of the Spectator.” Presented at the Conference on
College Composition and Communication, New York City, New York, March 24, 2007.

“Emerging Knowledge in English Studies: Perspectives from Writing Centered Practices.”
Presented at the Modern Language Association Conference, Chicago, Illinois, December
28, 1999.

“The Photograph,” a short story, published in Il Gira Sole, an anthology of poetry and fiction, edited by Jorie Miller (Two Dog Press, July 1997)

“Cradlesong,” a short story.  (Cimarron Review, October 1994)
    
Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Grant in Literature, 1993.   

“The Craft of Instrument Restoration,” nonfiction essay, (Point of Beginning, June/July 1990).

“Watching For Coyotes,” a short story, (The Luxury of Tears: Winning Stories from
the  of Arts and Letters Competition, edited by Susan Greenberg, Little Rock,
Arkansas: August House, Inc., October 1989).

National Society of Arts & Letters Career Award for Short Fiction, 1988.

University of Michigan Avery and Julie Hopwood Award in Major Short Story, 1987.

Teaching

Linda Miller’s primary field is creative writing – fiction prose and playwriting – but she has also taught courses in nonfiction writing and poetry, the process and theory of writing, and contemporary literature.  In addition, Professor Miller has co-taught writing and acting workshops in Ireland.  First Year Seminar topics range from The Creative Process to Endangered Writers to Reading Museums.