Dr Jennifer L Miller

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Last Updated: February 12, 2020

about me

Research Interests

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

Teaching Interests

gender/sexuality, writing, 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 Queer 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 (2018) and is participating as a reviewer in Multicultural Children's Literature Day 2019. 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

Publications

2020

Textbook
Institutionalizing Sexuality: Sexology, Psychoanalysis, and the Law
LGBTQ Studies: An Open Introduction
[]. New York: "SUNT OER".

Textbook
LGBTQ* Children’s Picture Books as World-Making Project and Historical Archive
LGBTQ Studies: An Open Introduction
[].

Textbook
Thirty Years of Queer Theory
An Open Introduction.
[]. New York: "SUNY OER".

Journal Article (In Process)

Accepted
Lift Every Voice: Transforming Higher Education by Decolonizing Reading Lists
Decolonising the Literature Curriculum
[Miller, JenniferLynn]. "Palgrave".

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 ].

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].

Journal Article (In Process)

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

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),

2019

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

2018

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

2017

Journal Article
European Journal of American Studies.Special Issue –Re-Queering the Nation: America’s Queer Crisis
Queering the Virgin: Evangelical World Making and the Heterosexual Crisis
[Miller, JenniferL, Costa, Francisco]. 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),

2019

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

Journal Article (In Process)

Accepted
The Transformative Potential of Queer Children’s Picture Books
[].

2018

Other
Queer Theory
[Miller, JenniferL, Badmington , Neil, Mason, Emma]. The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory. 28,

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).

Courses

Service to the University

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

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