Marilyn Miller has written on both Henry David Thoreau and Vaclav Havel and is currently working on a collection of travel essays and stories for herself and a grammar tutorial for students. Prior to teaching she labored as a paralegal, law office manager, day trader, and restaurant owner. She still enjoys preparing haute cuisine evenings before selecting reading, listening, or viewing material from her collection. She is inspired by ruminative walking, contemplative gardening (her version of Thoreau's bean-hoeing), and reflective musing over the seasonal play of birds, squirrels, sunlight, and southwesterly breezes as they move among branches of dogwood, oak, and pine.

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

Primary Areas of Research/Teaching
Thoreau
Travel Literature
Transcendentalism
Women's Literature
Environmental Literature
Contemporary Literary Novels
American Sociopolitical Movements
Central European Cultural and Political Studies

Courses Taught
2730: Functional Grammar
1200: Composition
1100: Composition