SHANNON MICHELLE MILLER
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Associate Professor, Temple University, Fall 1999-
Assistant Professor, Temple University, Fall 1993-Spring 1999
Assistant Professor, Albion College, Fall 1991-Spring 1993
EDUCATION
1987-August 1991 Ph.D. in English literature, University of California,
Santa Barbara.
Dissertation: "The
Raleigh Enterprise and the New World."
Director: Richard
Helgerson
Advisors: Patricia
Fumerton, Michael O'Connell, Mark Rose.
1985-1987 M.A. in English literature, University of California,
Santa Barbara.
1981-1985 B.A. magna cum laude in English, Dartmouth College.
AWARDS
Fellow, Tanner Humanities Center, University of Utah, 2001-2002
American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies/Folger Institute
Fellowship, 2000-2001
Summer Research Grant, Temple University, Summer 1994, 1995,
1997, 1999, 2001
Grant-in-Aid, Temple University, 1996
Fellow, John Carter Brown Library, Fall 1992
UC Santa Barbara General Affiliates Dissertation Fellowship,
1990
Interdisciplinary Humanities Center Research Grant, UC Santa
Barbara, 1990
Humanities Dissertation Fellowship, UC Santa Barbara, 1989-90
Humanities Social Sciences Research Grant, UC Santa Barbara,
1989
Humanities Research Associate, UC Santa Barbara, 1989
Regents Fellowship, UC Santa Barbara, 1985
PUBLICATIONS
Books:
Invested with Meaning: The Raleigh Circle in the New World.
University of Pennsylvania Press.
June, 1998.
Articles:
"Constructing the Female Self: Architectural Structures
in Mary Wroth's Urania"
in Renaissance Culture and the Everyday, eds. Patricia
Fumerton and Simon Hunt.
(University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999)
"'Mirrours More then One': Edmund Spenser and Female Authority
in the Seventeenth Century" in
Worldmaking Spenser: Explorations in the Early Modern
Age, eds. Patrick Cheney and
Lauren Silberman. (University of Kentucky Press, 1999)
"Mary Sidney and Inducements to Writing Poetry" in Write or Be
Written: Early Modern Women
Poets and Cultural Constraints, eds. Ursula Appelt and Barbara
Smith. (Scolar Press, 2000)
"Consuming Mothers/Consuming Merchants: the Carnivalesque
Economy in Jacobean
City Comedy." Modern Language Studies: 26.2, 3:
73-97.
"Topicality and Subversion in William Shakespeare's Coriolanus." SEL 32, Spring (1992): 287-310.
"Exchanging the New World: Production and Reproduction in
the Newfoundland Enterprise."
Medievalia et Humanistica: Studies in Medieval & Renaissance
Culture 19 (1992): 104-132.
Reviews:
Book Review of Ilona Bellís Elizabethan Women and the Poetry of
Courtship. Clio.
(Summer, 2000)
Book Review Essay of Karen Kupperman's America in the European
Consciousness, William
Hamlin's The Image of America, and Patricia Seed's Ceremonies
of Possession.
William and Mary Quarterly, October 1996.
Book Review of Sylvia Harcstark Myers' The Bluestocking Circle:
Women, Friendship,
and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England, ELN
29, 3 (March 1992): 96.
Book Review of Ellen Pollak's The Poetics of Sexual Myth:
Gender and Ideology in the
Verse of Swift and Pope, Style 21 (1987): 314-318.
WORK-IN-PROGRESS
Book Project, "Engendering the Fall: John Milton and Seventeenth-Century Women Writers."
Edited Collection, "Disciplining Discourse: Linguistic and
Social Regulation in the Early
Enlightenment"
PRESENTATIONS
"The Rhetoric of Political Efficacy in Eleanor Daviesí Petitions."
Renaissance Society of
America, Phoenix, AZ, April 1-3, 2002
Organizer, "Human History versus Divine Knowledge." Renaissance
Society of
America, Phoenix, AZ, April 1-3, 2002
"Dissecting Mary Wrothís Urania." Modern Language Association
Meeting, New
Orleans, December 27-30, 2001.
"Imagining through Metaphor: Creating the Political and
Social Economy, 1600-1650."
Modern Language Association Meeting, Chicago, December 27-30,
1999.
"Aphra Behnís Oronooko and the Construction of English Colonial
Idenity." North American
Conference on British Studies, Boston, November 19-21, 1999.
"Writing Violence/Writing Romance: Textual Strategies in
Mary Wrothís Urania."
Medieval/Renaissance Colloquim, University of Delaware, April
21, 1999.
""My sex pleads pardon, pardon then afford": Theatrical
and Legal Discourse in Cary's Tragedy of Mariam.
Shakespeare Association of America Meeting, San Francisco,
April 1-3, 1999.
"In the Loop: Patronage and the Production of Cultural Forces."
Modern Language Association
Meeting, San Francisco, December 27-30, 1998.
Chair and Organizer, "Imitation and Cultural Practice: New
Models for Early Modern Literary
Studies," Modern Language Association Meeting, San Francisco,
December 27-30, 1998.
"Textual and Cultural Violence in Mary Wroth's Urania."
Northern California Renaissance
Conference, University of California at Berkeley, April
25, 1998.
"Working in the Garden: Retelling History in Lucy Hutchinson's
The Life." American Society
for Eighteenth-Century Studies, University of Notre Dame, South
Bend, IL, March 19-21, 1998.
"Wounding the Renaissance Body: Mary Sidney, Mary Wroth,
and Strategies of Medieval Mysticism."
Renaissance Society of America, University of British Columbia,
Vancouver, April 3-6, 1997.
"Writing the Female Body: William Shakespeare and Female
Contemporaries."
Shakespeare Association of America, Washington D.C., March 26-28,
1997.
"'Mirrours More Then One': Edmund Spenser and Female Authority
in the Seventeenth Century."
The Faerie Queene in the World, 1596-1996. Yale Center
for British Art. September 26-28, 1996.
"Producing the New World, or Reproducing the Old? Humphrey
Gilbert's 1583 Newfoundland
Project." De-centring the Renaissance: Canada and
Europe in Multi-Disciplinary Perspective,
1350-1700, University of Toronto, March 7-10, 1996
"'That you may see that I am not alwaies ydle as yee thinke':
English National Identity and
the Discourse of New World 'Idleness.'" Shakespeare Association
of America,
Chicago, IL, March 23-26, 1995
"Coming Home to Ireland: Colin Clouts Come Home Againe
and English Colonization"
Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, St. Louis, MO, December
9-12, 1993.
"Constituting Home: The Raleigh Circle in Ireland"
Renaissance Studies Association, University of Missouri, Kansas
City, April 15-17, 1993.
"Invested With Meaning: Engendering Virginia"
Modern Language Association Meeting, New York City, December
27-30, 1992.
"Trading for Guiana: Exchange and Prostitution in Raleigh's
1595 Project."
Renaissance Studies Program, Brown University, November 19,
1992.
"Patronizing the New World: Sir Walter Raleigh and Other
New World Explorers."
John Carter Brown Library, Brown University, October 21, 1992.
"'That you may see that I am not alwaies ydle as yee thinke':
Edmund Spenser and the Discourse
of New World Idleness." Spenser at Kalamazoo, International
Congress on Medieval
Studies, May 7-10, 1992.
"Discovering the Other in the Self: Sir Walter Raleigh and
the New World Enterprise."
"1492: Worlds in Collision," Albion College Symposium,
March 15-22, 1992.
"Constructing the Female Self: Architectural Structures
in Mary Wroth's Urania."
The Making of Renaissance Woman Conference, UCSB, April 20,
1991.
"Proving Poetic Authority: Raleigh, Spenser, and Redefining
Patronage."
Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, October 27-28, 1990.
"Exchanging the New World: Production and Reproduction in
Newfoundland."
UCLA, Southland Graduate Student Conference, May 18-19, 1990.
"Writing Guiana Anew: Aesthetics as Conquest in Raleigh's
New World Project."
Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Conference, April 27-28,
1990.
"Iconographic Power in the Virginia Enterprise."
UC Berkeley, Symposium on Visual Representation, March 3-4,
1990.
"Consuming Mothers in Cheapside: Economy, Carnival, and
Middleton."
Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, October 1988.
Also presented at the
Renaissance Conference of Southern California, April 1989.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Associate Professor, Temple University, Fall 1993-present
Renaissance Women Artists, Musicians, and Painters
Women and Violence in the Renaissance
Milton and Seventeenth Century Women Writers
Shakespeare
Milton
Literature of the Sixteenth Century
Medieval and Renaissance Women Writers
Renaissance Writers: Gender and Gendered Writing
Themes and Genres in Women's Literature: Creativity--From
Birth to Technology
British Literature Survey: Beowulf to Milton
Introduction to Literature
Intellectual Heritage, Part 1 (Sophocles to Shakespeare)
Assistant Professor, Albion College, Fall 1991-Spring 1993
Milton
Medieval and Renaissance Women Writers
Women and Violence in the Renaissance (16th and 17th century
literature)
British Literature Survey: Beowulf to Milton
Introduction to Literature
English Composition (course structured around quincentenary
of Columbus)
English Composition (course structured about cultural encounters
and colonization)
Teaching Associate, UC Santa Barbara, Summer 1990
Shakespeare: Early Plays and Poems
Teaching Assistant, UC Santa Barbara
Milton
Shakespeare: Early Plays and Poems
Medieval and Renaissance literature survey
World Literature of the Medieval and Renaissance periods
English Compositionófiction and non-fiction
English Compositionópoetry and drama
TEACHING INTERESTS
Shakespeare, Spenser, Milton
Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Poetry
Medieval and Renaissance Women's Writing
Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama
Chaucer
Restoration and Eighteenth Century
Literary and Cultural Theory
English Composition
COMMITTEE AND OTHER RELATED EXPERIENCE
Associate Director of Graduate Studies, English Department, Temple
University, 1998-2001
Secretary of the Faculty Senate, Temple University, 2000-2001
Member of Executive Committee, English Department, Temple University,
1995-1997; 1998-2000
Member, Personnel Committee, English Department, Temple University,
1999-2001
Chair, Lectures Committee, English Department, Temple University,
1995-1996
Member, Placement Committee, 1993-1998
Member, Committee on Graduate Examinations, Temple University,
1995-1996
Member, Graduate Executive Committee, Temple University, 1996-1998
Member of Merit Committee, Department of English, Temple University,
1994-1996; 1998-1999
Ad-hoc Committee to Revise College Promotion and Tenure Regulations,
Temple University, 1995, 2001
Member of Promotions and Tenure Committee, Department of English,
Temple University, 1994
Member of Lectures Committee, Department of English, Temple University,
1994-1995
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Session Leader, "Anatomizing the Renaissance," Shakespeare Society
of America, Miami 2001
Co-Designer of conference, "De-Professionalizing the Professoriate"
(original title),
Temple University, 2001
Outside Reader for Doctoral Committee, Rutgers University
Reader for Reformation
Reader for University of Pennsylvania Press
Reader for Signs
LANGUAGES
French, Italian, Latin
REFERENCES
Professor Robert Caserio, Chair, Department of English, Temple
University
Professor Patricia Fumerton, Department of English, UC Santa
Barbara
Professor Richard Helgerson, Department of English, UC Santa
Barbara
Professor Maureen Quilligan, Chair, Department of English, Duke
University
Professor Susan Stewart, Department of English, University of
Pennsylvania
Professor Evelyn Tribble, Department of English, Temple University