D.A. Miller, Professor

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Office: 407 Wheeler

Phone: 510-642-2747

Email: damiller@berkeley.edu

Areas of Interest

19th-Century British and European Fiction. Narrative and Novel Theory. Classic Cinema. Gay and Cultural Studies.

Professional Statement

John F. Hotchkis Professor. B.A., Yale College (1970); B.A., Trinity Hall, Cambridge (1972); M.A., Cambridge (1976); Ph.D., Comparative Literature, Yale University (1977). D.A. Miller works in the areas of nineteenth-century fiction, film, and gay and cultural studies.  He writes a regular column for Film Quarterly.

Selected Publications and Papers Delivered

 

 8½, Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan [BFI Film Classics], 2008.

Jane Austen, or The Secret of Style, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003.

Place for Us: Essay on the Broadway Musical, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998.

Bringing Out Roland Barthes, Berkeley and Los Angeles:University of California Press, 1992.

The Novel and the Police, Berkeley and Los Angeles:University of California Press, 1988.

Narrative and its Discontents: Problems of Closure in the Traditional Novel, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1981.

“On the University of Brokeback Mountain,” Film Quarterly 60:3 (2007), 50-60.

"Foutre! Bougre! Ecriture!" The Yale Journal of Criticism 14:2, 2001:503-511.

"Visual Pleasure in 1959." October 81, 1997: 35-58.

"Austen’s Attitude." The Yale Journal of Criticism 8, 1995: 1-5.

"Anal Rope." Representations 32, Fall 1990: 114-133

"The Late Jane Austen." Raritan, Summer 1990: 55-79.

"Sontag’s Urbanity." October 49,Summer 1989:91-101.

"1839: Body Bildung and Textual Liberation," in A New History of French Literature, edited by Denis Hollier, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1989: 681-687.

Office Hours

W 5:30-7