D.A. Miller

D. A. Miller is John F. Hotchkis Professor Emeritus and formerly Professor of the Graduate School.  He received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Yale University in 1977 and has taught at Columbia and Harvard as well as at Berkeley, where he was a member of the English Department for many years.  In 2017, he was Visiting Professor at the University of Tokyo, Japan, and lectures frequently in that country.   Professor Miller works in the areas of film, nineteenth-century fiction, and gay and cultural studies.  His courses have addressed the postwar European art film, the Western, queer cinema, close reading, and the work of Hitchcock, Poe, and Proust, among others.  His books include Hidden Hitchcock (University of Chicago, 2016); 8½ (BFI, New Edition, 2022); Jane Austen, or the Secret of Style (Princeton University Press, 2003); Place for Us: Essay on the Broadway Musical (Harvard University Press, 1998); Bringing Out Roland Barthes(University of California Press, 1992);  The Novel and the Police (University of California Press, 1988); and Narrative and its Discontents (Princeton University Press, 1981).  His work has been translated into European and Asian languages.  Professor Miller also has served on the editorial boards of differences, Film Quarterly, and Novel: A Forum on Fiction.  For many years, he wrote a regular column for Film Quarterly called "Second Time Around," which provided the basis of his book Second Time Around: From Art House to DVD (Columbia University Press, 2021).  In 2013, he was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He still writes on film, sometimes in collaboration with Anna Shechtman.