BACKGROUND

AREAS OF INTEREST

Medieval French, Italian and Occitan Literature, 16th Century French Literature, Authorship, Figure of the Vernacular Intellectual, Humanism, Gender Theory, Postcolonial Studies.

As a book-length project, she is currently exploring issues of representations and legitimacy for vernacular intellectuals at the end of the Middle Ages. Informed bynotions of Creolization and overall Francophone Postcolonial Theory, rather than Anglo-saxon, she addresses questions of boundaries, whether geographical, periodical or social as well as the vernacularization of intellectual discourse, notions of Nationhood and Cultural Identities.

Dr. Miller is also interested in the History of French (Vulgar latin to French Classicism), French and Occitan Linguistics and Phonology

Dr. Miller serves as Advisor and participates also in the Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program at East Carolina University.

PUBLICATIONS

“Mécénat féminin, co-écriture et autorité au seuil de la Renaissance in RIVALRY, COOPERATION, CONSPIRACY AND PATRONAGE: STUDIES IN THE DYNAMICS OF WOMEN'S INTERACTION IN FRENCH LITERATURE AND CULTURE. Special Issue of Women in French Studies.(Forthcoming)

Machaut and Pre-Humanism.” A Companion to Guillaume Machaut – An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Master. (Forthcoming 2010)

“Du Lieu de Plaisance à Paris: L’avanture politique du poète dans Le Songe du Vergier de 1378.” Le Moyen Français 59 (2006): 221-234.

“Rome et la dissociation poétique dans Songe de Joachim du Bellay: Phénomènes de construction et de destruction.”Romance Review XI (2001);: 67-77.

COURSES RECENTLY TAUGHT

French 1002-03: Elementary French
French 2330: Review of French Grammar
French 3550: Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance French Literature
Foreign Languages 2620: French Fairy Tales ( Fall 2009)