Laura Miller U. California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106-3170 email: lmiller@umail.ucsb.edu EDUCATION PhD University of California, Santa Barbara, English, in progress 2004-present Examination Fields: Restoration/18th Century Romantic/Victorian Theories of Genders and Sexualities Advanced to candidacy: June 2007 (Status: P2) MA California State University, Northridge, English, June 2004 BA Duke University, English, September 1997

Areas of Interest

• British literature and culture, 1660-1775
• Literature and science
• Print culture
  
• Gender studies

Current Projects and Publications

DISSERTATION

Narrating Newton, Narrating Truth: Fame, Print, and Scientific Authorship

Committee: William B. Warner (English, Co-Director), Elizabeth Heckendorn Cook (English, Co-Director), Anita Guerrini (History, Environmental Studies)

PUBLICATIONS

Essay on the Pepysian ballad category "Sea - Love, Gallantry, and Actions" together with the selection of ballads for the category, forthcoming in  Early Modern Broadside Ballads: From the Pepys Collection. Ed. Patricia Fumerton. Tempe, Arizona: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.

"Between Life and Death: Representing Medicine, Necrophilia, and the Figure of the Intercessor in M.G. Lewis's The Monk." Accepted for Sex and Death in the Eighteenth Century. Ed. Jolene Zigarovich. Under review at U of Delaware P. 

"Sea, Love, Gallantry, and Actions."  Pepys Category Essay. Pepys Ballad Archive, Early Modern Center, UC, Santa Barbara.  http://emc.english.ucsb.edu/ballad_project/pepys_categories/sea.asp

CONFERENCES

"Algarotti Removed from the Ladies: English Editions of Newtonianesimo per le dame" - Presentation

      Sept. 2008                "The Culture of Print in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Medicine (STEM)", Center for the History of Print Culture in Modern America, UW-Madison. Madison, WI

"Teaching Newton to the Ladies: Translations of Algarotti in England" - Presentation

      Jun. 2008                "Teaching and Text" SHARP (Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing) conference, Oxford, UK

"English Broadside Ballad Archive" - Digital Projects Poster Session

      Jun. 2008                "Teaching and Text" SHARP (Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing) conference, Oxford, UK

"Newton and Newtonianism" - Panel Chair

      2008                American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies annual meeting, Portland, OR

"Imagination and Scientific Evidence in Comedies About Virtuosi" - Presentation

      2008                American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies annual meeting, Portland, OR

"Physical Education in the Eighteenth Century" - Panel Chair

      2007                American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies annual meeting, Atlanta, GA

"Scientists, Poets, and Scientific Poets" - Presentation

      2007                American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies annual meeting, Atlanta, GA

 "Public Tears for the 'Already written' Mind in Pope's 'Eloisa to Abelard'" - Presentation

      2006               American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies annual meeting,  Montreal, Quebec

      2005               American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies annual meeting, Las Vegas, NV

"Ideology and Visual Rupture: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell" - Presentation

      2004               Western Regional Conference on Christianity in Literature  "Faith in Conversation With Theory in Conversation With Faith"

ACADEMIC INVOLVEMENT

·       Early Modern Center Brown Bag conference paper presentations

·       Early Modern Center Ballads Project

         Worked on transcriptions and cataloguing of the ballads in the Pepys Ballad Archive.
         Wrote essay for teaching edition of Pepys Ballads.
         Poster presentation at SHARP 2008

·       Co-Organizer, Early Modern Center Conference 2007

·       Respondent panel, 2006 Early Modern Center Colloquium (Speakers Paul Yachnin and Dena Goodman)

·       18th Century Reading Group

·       19th Century Reading Group

·       Mock Examiner for students taking M.A. Exams

·       Co-President, Associated Graduate Students in English

·       Faculty Senate Library Committee

Teaching Experience

Supervisors: Ilene Miele, Craig Cotich

This first-year composition course was taught exclusively to first-generation or low-income students in conjunction with UCSB's Educational Opportunity Program. Quarters taught: Fall 2006, Winter 2007, Winter 2008

Teaching Assistant, Department of English

Instructor: English 10EM. Introduction to Early Modern English Literature, 1500-1800. Supervisor: Prof. Patricia Fumerton.

Writing Instructor, STEP (Summer Transitional Enrichment Program)

This transitional summer writing course for entering first-year students was designed for first-generation or low-income students in conjunction with UCSB's Educational Opportunity Program.

This upper-division eighteenth-century survey course was also simulcast to distance learners at Allan Hancock College and UCSB's Ventura Center.

Winter 2006: English 102, 18th Century British and American Literature, Prof. E. Heckendorn Cook

Guest Lecture: "Self-Fashioning in The Rape of the Lock"

Spring 2006: English 104B, 20th Century British and Anglophone Literature, Prof. Enda Duffy

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