Ashley Miller
Associate Professor of English and Department Chair
Education
- B.A., Vassar College
- M.A., Indiana University
- Ph.D., Indiana University
Courses
- ENGL 123: Family Matters
- ENGL 129: Secrets & Lies
- ENGL 224: Victorian Ghosts
- ENGL 326: The British Romantics
- ENGL 373: Victorian Sexualities
- ENGL 375P: Literary Detectives
- ENGL 380P: The Novel and the New
- ENGL: 382: British Fiction after 1850
- ENGL 100W: Writing Essentials
- ENGL 101W: College Writing
- ENGL 208W: Professional Writing
- ENGL 303W: English Language
Areas of Interest
18th- and 19th-century British literature, ecocriticism and the history of science, gender and sexuality studies, and the history of ghost stories
Publications
- Poetry, Media, and the Material Body (Cambridge, 2018).
Other recent publications include essays in Nineteenth-Century Contexts (2022 and 2014), Victorian Studies (2019), Victorian Literature and Culture (2018), and Studies in Romanticism (2011), and a chapter in Nineteenth-Century Energies (Routledge, 2016).
- Fruitless Futures: Victorian Elegies for the Nonreproductive Body. In progress.
Awards
- FDC Small Grant for research materials, 2024.
- Professional Development Travel Fund grant to present at the British Women Writers
Conference in Boulder, CO, 2024. - FDC Small Grant for research materials, 2023.
- Professional Development Travel Fund grant to present at the Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-
Century Studies conference in Knoxville, TN, 2023. - FDC Small Grant for research materials, 2022.
- FDC Small Grant to fund membership in the National Committee on Faculty Development
& Diversity, 2021. - Arthur Anderson New Teacher of the Year Award, 2020.
- FDC Small Grant to conduct research at the Huntington Library, 2020.
- FDC Collaborative Grant (with Ian MacInnes in English and Stephanie Henderson in
Theatre) to research, design, and produce a collection of historical dress, 2019, 2021. - Merit bonus for research, 2019.
- FDC Large Grant to participate in a seminar at the North American Victorian Studies
Association/Australasian Victorian Studies Association in Florence, Italy, 2017. - Postdoctoral Mellon Fellowship, University of Texas at Austin, 2012 (declined)
- Competitive Visiting Lectureship, Indiana University, 2011-2012.
- James A. Work Memorial Award for English Literature, Indiana University, 2010.
- William Riley Parker Prize for British Literature, Indiana University, 2010.
- Patrick Brantlinger Victorian Studies Dissertation Year Fellowship, Indiana University, 2009-
2010. - Competitive Travel Grant, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University, 2008.
- Competitive Travel Grant, Northeast Modern Language Association, 2007.
- Distinction, PhD qualifying oral exams, Indiana University, 2006.
- Best Graduate Student Essay Prize, Midwest Conference on British Studies, 2005.