Marilyn Miller has written on both Henry David Thoreau and Vaclav Havel. She is currently working on a collection of travel essays, short stories, and poems with themes of nature and landscape. She takes inspiration from incessant reading, marital discourse, and ruminative walking. Influences on her teaching strategies include the writings of Ann Charters, Laurence Behrens, Michael Austin, and Martha Kolln.

Degrees
B.A. East Carolina University
M.A. East Carolina University

Primary Areas of Research/Teaching
Thoreau: Nature/Politics
Structure and Syntax
Essays: First-Year Writing in the Sciences and Humanities
Current Canonical Literature in the Survey Course
Transnational Novellas and Short Stories

Courses Taught
3420: Short Story
2730: Functional Grammar
1200: Composition
1100: Composition