Dr Jennifer L Miller

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Last Updated: January 6, 2021

about me

Research Interests

children's literature, gender/sexuality, digital culture, subcultures

Research Keywords

LGBTQ+, children, childhood, literature, digital culture

Teaching Interests

gender/sexuality, LGBTQ+ Studies, children's literature, popular culture, children/childhood, digital culture

Biography

Dr. Miller's interdisciplinary research focuses on gender, sexuality, children/childhood, subcultures, and digital culture. Her work is published in several journals including European Journal of American Studies, Journal of Homosexuality, Fast Capitalism, and The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory. She has also published book chapters in Heroes, Heroines, and Everything in Between and The Dialectic of Digital Culture, which she co-edited.

She is currently completing a book manuscript, The Transformative Potential of LGBTQ+ Children's Literature, which is under contract with the University Press of Mississippi.

Additionally, Dr. Miller has started a book review blog, RaiseThemRighteous, focused on socially engaged children's picture books. She served as a Cybils Awards Judge (2020, 2019, and 2018).

Dr. Miller earned a PhD in Cultural Studies and a Graduate Certificate in Gender Studies from George Mason University, a MA in Literary and Cultural Studies from Carnegie Mellon University, and BAs in English Literature and Women's and Gender Studies from Montclair State University.

Education

- 2014 PhD in Cultural Studies
  George Mason University, 2014
- 2012 Certificate (Post Graduate) in Women's and Gender Studies
  George Mason University, 2012
- 2006 MA in Literary & Cultural Studies
  Carnegie Mellon University, 2006
- 2004 BA in English Literature - Women's Studies
  Montclair State University, 2004

Memberships

- Jan 2015 to Present Children's Literature Association
- Jan 2010 to Present National Women's Studies Association

Awards and Honors

- Dec 2019 Larry Huff Teaching Award sponsored by English Department, University of Texas at Arlington

Publications

2019

Book
The Dialectic of Digital Culture
[Miller, JenniferL, Arditi, David , Miller, Jennifer]. "Lexington".

In Process

Book
The Transformative Potential of LGBTQ+ Children’s Picture Books
[]. "The University of Mississippi Press". Accepted.

2021

Book Chapter
For the Little Queers: Imagining Queerness in ‘New’ Queer Children’s Literature
LGBTQ Culture: The Changing Landscape
[Miller, Jennifer , Drushel, Bruce]. "Routledge".
https://www.routledge.com/LGBTQ-Culture-The-Changing-Landscape/Drushel/p/book/9780367634940

2020

Book Chapter
Institutionalizing Sexuality: Sexology, Psychoanalysis, and the Law
Introduction to LGBTQ+ Studies
[Miller, Jennifer , Pomerleau, Clark]. New York: "SUNY Press".

Book Chapter
LGBTQ+ Children’s Picture Books
Introduction to LGBTQ+ Studies
[]. New York: "SUNY Press".

Book Chapter
Thirty Years of Queer Theory
Introduction to LGBTQ+ Studies
[]. New York: "SUNY Press".

In Process

Book Chapter
Lift Every Voice: Transforming Higher Education by Decentering Whiteness in the Classroom
Decolonising the Literature Curriculum
[Miller, JenniferLynn, Byer, Charlotte]. Decolonising the Literature Curriculum. "Palgrave". Accepted.

2019

Book Chapter
Queering the Straight World?: Mommy Blogs, Queer Kids, and the Digital World Making
The Dialectic of Digital Culture
[Miller, JenniferL, Arditi, David, Miller, Jennifer ]. "Lexington".

2017

Book Chapter
A Little Queer: Ambivalence and the Work of Gender Play in Children’s Literature
Heroes, Heroines, and Everything in Between: Challenging Gender and Sexuality Stereotypes in Children’s Entertainment
[Miller, JenniferL, Olson, Christopher, Reinhard, CarrieLynnD]. "Roman and Littlefield".

2020

Book Review
Considering Emma Goldman: Feminist Political Ambivalence and the Imaginative Archive, by Clare Hemmings
Journal for the Study of Radicalism
[Miller, Jennifer]. 14(2),
https://msupress.org/9781684301140/journal-for-the-study-of-radicalism-14-no-2/

2013

Book Review
What’s New about the New Sexuality Studies
Introducing the New Sexuality Studies
[Miller, JenniferL, Seidman, Steven, Fischer, Nancy, Meeks, Chet]. 41, 389-391.

2010

Book Review
Edward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and Love; The Outcast Redeemer
Politics and Culture
[Miller, JenniferL, Rowbotham, Sheila].(2),

2020

Journal Article
Queer Theory: Youth & Families
The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory
[Miller, JenniferL]. The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory. Oxford: "Oxford University Press".

2019

Journal Article
Bound to Capitalism: The Pursuit of Profit and Pleasure in Digital Pornography
Fast Capitalism
[Miller, JenniferL.]. 2(16),
https://fastcapitalism.journal.library.uta.edu/index.php/fastcapitalism/article/view/33

Journal Article
Queer Theory: Queer of Color Critique
The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory
[Miller, JenniferL]. The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory. 27(1), 82 - 99. "Oxford University Press".
https://academic.oup.com/ywcct/article/27/1/82/5511216?searchresult=1

2018

Journal Article
Queer Theory: Femininity and Masculinity
The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory
[Miller, JenniferL, Badmington , Neil, Mason, Emma]. The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory. 26(1), 265 - 284. Oxford: "Oxford University Press".
https://academic.oup.com/ywcct/article/26/1/265/5076847?searchresult=1

Journal Article
For the Little Queers: Imagining Queerness in “New” Queer Children’s Literature
[Miller, JenniferL]. Journal of Homosexuality.

2017

Journal Article
Queering the Virgin: Evangelical World Making and the Heterosexual Crisis
European Journal of American Studies
[Miller, JenniferL, Costa, Francisco]. European Journal of American Studies. 11(3),

2010

Journal Article
Kink Unbound (?): Pursuing Pleasure and Profit in Pornography
[Miller, JenniferL]. Schuylkill: Graduate Journal for the Humanities and Humanistic Social Sciences.. 10(2),

2020

Textbook
Introduction to LGBTQ+ Studies
[Amory, Deborah , Massey, Sean, Miller, Jennifer]. New York: "SUNY Press".

Presentations

- November 2018
  Miller, JenniferL, "Disrupting Hegemonic Social Imaginaries in Children’s Culture", Atlanta, Georgia. (November 1, 2018).
- November 2018
  Miller, JenniferL, "Just Bodies?: A Dialectic Exploration of Feminist Utopian Visions of Reproductive Justice", Atlanta, Georgia. (November 1, 2018).
- November 2018
  Miller, JenniferL, "Picturing Queer Childhoods: A study of queerness in children’s picture books", Atlanta, Georgia. (November 1, 2018).
- November 2018
  Miller, JenniferL, "Reproductive Futures: Second Wave Feminist Technotopias Meet Post-Millennial Possibilities ", Atlanta, Georgia. (November 1, 2018).
- June 2018
  Miller, JenniferL, "Reading Gender through the Metaphor of Water in New Queer Children’s Literature", 2018 Children’s Literature Association, San Antonio, TX. (June 1, 2018).
- January 2016
  Miller, JenniferL, "A Little Queer – Ambivalence and the Work of Gender Play in Children’s Literature", Montreal, Quebec. (January 1, 2016).
- November 2015
  Miller, JenniferL, "Bound to Capitalism: Kink, Commodity Culture, and the Question of Authenticity ", Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (November 1, 2015).
- September 2010
  Miller, JenniferL, "Save the Children, Save the World: Notes on Censorship and Citizenship", George Mason University, Fairfax, VA. (September 1, 2010).
- December 2009
  Miller, JenniferL, "Post - Feminism. Feminist Student Organization", George Mason University, Fairfax, VA. (December 1, 2009).
- November 2009
  Miller, JenniferL, "When Queer Went Gay: Prescription and the Problem of Desire in Queer Theor", Washington, DC. (November , 2009).
- April 2009
  Miller, JenniferL, "Film Censorship and the Cultural Reproduction of the Happy Hetero - Family", New Orleans, LA. (April 1, 2009).
- March 2009
  Miller, JenniferL, "The Violence of Everyday Life: Queer Visibilities", University of North Carolina, Asheville, NC. (March 1, 2009).

Students Supervised

- 2019
  Directed Individual/Independent Study
  Maddison Simmons, Simmons adapted her Honors Thesis into a research profile for an OER textbook I co-edited. (English)
  Lesbian Young Adult Novels

Courses

Service to the University

- Aug 2017 to Present Committee Member
  
  Women's and Gender Studies Advisory Board

Service to the Community

- Aug 2020 to Present
  Committee Member (Arlington, TX,
  Family Engagement Team (Wimbish World Language Academy)
- Aug 2020 to Present
  Officer, President/Elect/Past (Arlington, TX,
  Wimbish World Language Academy PTA

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