Cristanne Miller
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Cristanne Miller | |
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| Born | 1953 (age 72–73) |
| Education | University of Chicago (PhD, 1980) |
| Occupations | Literary scholar, professor |
| Employer | University at Buffalo |
| Notable work | Emily Dickinson's Poems: As She Preserved Them (2016) Marianne Moore: Questions of Authority (1995) Cultures of Modernism (2005) |
| Title | SUNY Distinguished Professor and Edward H. Butler Professor of English |
| Awards | MLA Scholarly Edition Prize University at Buffalo President’s Medal (2018) Fulbright Tocqueville Distinguished Chair Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship |
Cristanne Miller (born 1953) received her PhD in 1980 from the University of Chicago, and was for many years the W.M. Keck Distinguished Service Professor at Pomona College. Since 2006 she has taught at the University at Buffalo in New York, where she is SUNY Distinguished Professor and Edward H. Butler Professor of English.[1] She is the author of a number of books whose subjects include Emily Dickinson, Marianne Moore, and modernism.
Emily Dickinson
Miller established herself as a scholar of Emily Dickinson with the publication in 1987 of Emily Dickinson: A Poet's Grammar.[2] This was reviewed positively in Nineteenth-Century Literature.[3] According to Tom Paulin's review in the London Review of Books, "Miller works from the assumption that Dickinson sees herself 'oppositionally, defining her position in the world negatively, by distance from some social construct or law'. And Miller shows how those negations have a constructive role."[4] Since 1987, Miller has published several other influential authored or edited books on Dickinson including Reading In Time: Dickinson in the Nineteenth Century (University of Massachusetts Press, 2012) and the monumental edition of Dickinson's poems, Emily Dickinson's Poems: As She Preserved Them (Harvard University Press, 2016).[5] She completed a new edition of Dickinson’s complete letters, co-edited with Domhnall Mitchell, published by Harvard University Press in April 2024.[6]
Modernism
Miller has also published on Marianne Moore and modernist poetry, including essays or books on Moore, Mina Loy, Else Lasker-Schuler, Elizabeth Bishop, modernism in New York and Berlin, and gender and modernism.[7]
In 1996 she published Marianne Moore: Questions of Authority, which was reviewed positively in the London Quarterly[8] and in American Literature.[9] The review in American Literature described it as "revisionary".[9] In 1997 Miller published Selected Letters of Marianne Moore (Knopf, 1997), which she co-edited with Bonnie Costello and Celeste Goodridge. This was listed by The New York Times as one of the notable books of 1997.[10] In 2007, she published Cultures of Modernism, which was reviewed positively in Modernism/modernity.[11]
In 2015, Miller founded the Marianne Moore Digital Archive, which is publishing in digitized, transcribed, and annotated facing-page format all 122 of Moore’s working notebooks, including notebooks she kept for reading, conversation, poetry drafts, lectures, concerts, and finances, along with miscellaneous manuscripts, tools, and publications contextualizing the notebooks. Miller continues as director of this archive.[12]
