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| D. A. Miller | |
|---|---|
| Name | D. A. Miller |
| Birth date | 1948 |
| Birth place | Los Angeles |
| Occupation | Literary critic, Professor |
| Notable works | Bringing Out Roland Barthes, Analyses of Desire, Place for Love |
| Education | Harvard University, University of California, Berkeley |
| Institutions | Yale University |
D. A. Miller is an American literary critic and scholar associated with close and theoretically informed readings of narrative, film, and literature. His work engages figures from Roland Barthes to Henry James and institutions such as Yale University and Harvard University, situating texts within debates addressed by New Criticism, Structuralism, and Queer theory. Miller's writings have intersected with discussions in journals like PMLA and Critical Inquiry and have influenced scholars in fields connected to Film studies, Victorian studies, and Queer studies.
Miller was born in Los Angeles and pursued undergraduate studies at Harvard University, where he encountered seminars on French literature, Comparative literature, and criticism informed by figures such as Jacques Derrida, Roland Barthes, and Michel Foucault. He subsequently completed graduate training at the University of California, Berkeley, engaging with faculty connected to Structuralism, Psychoanalysis, and the emergent theoretical currents debated at venues like The Johns Hopkins University and Columbia University. His formative intellectual milieu included encounters with scholarship from Wayne C. Booth, M. H. Abrams, and contemporaries working on authors such as Jane Austen, Henry James, and Marcel Proust.
Miller has held appointments at prominent institutions including Yale University, where he contributed to departments shaped by figures from New Criticism and later theorists influenced by Jacques Lacan. Over the course of his career he participated in cross-departmental initiatives linking Comparative Literature, English literature, and Film studies, collaborating with scholars at Columbia University, University of California, Berkeley, and visiting programs at Princeton University and Oxford University. He served on editorial boards for periodicals such as Representations and Critical Inquiry and participated in conferences at venues like Modern Language Association meetings and symposia organized by The American Comparative Literature Association.
Miller's major books include scholarship that reorients readings of narrative presence, visual culture, and desire. In essays collected in volumes such as Bringing Out Roland Barthes and other monographs, he examines Roland Barthes, Henry James, Gustave Flaubert, and filmmakers like Alfred Hitchcock through lenses informed by Psychoanalysis, Structuralism, and Queer theory. Recurring themes include the politics of address in novels by Jane Austen and Honore de Balzac, the narrative strategies of Henry James and Geoffrey Chaucer-era inheritances, and the optics of cinematic spectatorship in works by Hitchcock and Jean-Luc Godard. Miller's interventions often mobilize resources from Jacques Lacan and Sigmund Freud while dialoguing with critics such as Ronald Barthes (note: Roland Barthes is distinct), Harold Bloom, and Edward Said. He has examined textual forms in relation to institutions including The New York Review of Books and literary marketplaces shaped by Modernist and Victorian contexts.
Miller's writings attracted attention from reviewers in venues including The New York Times Book Review, New Left Review, and academic journals like PMLA and Critical Inquiry. Critics have debated his readings of Henry James and Roland Barthes, with supporters linking his work to projects initiated by Wayne C. Booth and M. H. Abrams while skeptics align critiques with responses associated with scholars such as Harold Bloom and Fredric Jameson. His influence is evident in subsequent work by scholars in Queer studies, Film studies, and Victorian studies, including those affiliated with Columbia University and University of Chicago. Conferences at institutions like Harvard University and symposia sponsored by The Modern Language Association have featured panels tracing intellectual lineages to Miller's arguments.
At Yale University and in visiting posts at Princeton University and Oxford University, Miller supervised doctoral dissertations on figures including Henry James, Jane Austen, Marcel Proust, and filmmakers such as Alfred Hitchcock. His seminars often combined close readings of texts by George Eliot, Gustave Flaubert, and Emile Zola with theoretical readings from Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, and Jacques Lacan. Former students have taken positions across departments at Columbia University, University of California, Berkeley, New York University, and University of Chicago, carrying forward research agendas in Queer theory, Film studies, and Victorian literature linked to Miller's pedagogical model.
Miller's personal life has intersected with intellectual circles in New York City and New Haven, where he participated in salons and colloquia alongside scholars from Harvard University and Yale University. His legacy is preserved in citation networks visible across databases documenting scholarship in Comparative literature, English literature, and Film studies; his work continues to be taught in graduate seminars at Columbia University, Harvard University, and Yale University. Collections of essays and critical responses to his work have appeared in edited volumes published by presses associated with Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press, reflecting ongoing engagement by scholars in fields such as Queer theory, Victorian studies, and Film studies.
Category:American literary critics Category:Yale University faculty