NICHOLAS E. MILLER

EDUCATION

PH.D. in English and American Literature, American Culture Studies (Expected 2013)
Washington University in St. Louis

DISSERTATION TITLE:
”Varieties of Untried Being: The Limits of the Human in Early American Literature”

DISSERTATION COMMITTEE:
Wolfram Schmidgen, Rafia Zafar, Dan Shea, Sarah Rivett, Iver Bernstein

M.A. in English and American Literature (2009)
Washington University in St. Louis

B.A. in English Languages and Literatures, Creative Writing (2006)
Michigan State University

ACADEMIC AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS

Lynne Cooper Harvey Fellow in American Culture Studies
Washington University in St. Louis

Senior Liberman Fellow, Liberman Graduate Center
Washington University in St. Louis

Alfred Weber Travel Award, “Weird America: Circum-Atlantic Cultures, 1790-1830”
Charles Brockden Brown Society

Mellon Interdisciplinary Seminar, “American Society in the Shadow of the Law”
Washington University in St. Louis

Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Washington University in St. Louis

First Prize in Humanities, Graduate Student Research Symposium
Washington University in St. Louis

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

American Culture Studies 336
Topics in American Culture Studies: Early American Masculinities

English Literature 415
The Savage and the Civilized

English Literature 423 (Guest Instructor)
Topics in American Literature: Early American Literature

English Literature 387
Early African American Literature: Origins of a Tradition

English Composition 100
Writing 1: Writing Culture

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Panel Chair, “Surrounded by Bodies”: Contact, Corporeality, and the Long Eighteenth Century
Annual Meeting, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Roundtable Presenter, “Rush and Weird Medicine”
Biennial Conference, Charles Brockden Brown Society
Presenter, “In Utter Fearlessness of the Reigning Disease”: Revolutionary Immunities and the Outbreak Narratives of Charles Brockden Brown
Annual Meeting, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Presenter, “Symptoms of Terror”: Charles Brockden Brown and the Politics of Contagion
Graduate Colloquium, Washington University in St. Louis

ORGANIZED CONFERENCES

“Religious Transformations in the Early Modern Americas” April 2009

Assistant to conference organizers Sarah Rivett and Stephanie Kirk

Washington University in St. Louis

ACADEMIC SERVICE

Graduate Student Caucus Co-Chair, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

Associate, Liberman Graduate Center November 2009 to present

Organizer, Interdisciplinary Americanist Reading Group October 2008 to present

Convener, Graduate Advisory Panel August 2009 to May 2010

Convener, Major Field Workshop August 2009 to May 2010

Peer Mentor, English Department August 2008 to May 2010

Member, Graduate Colloquium Committee October 2007 to May 2009

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS), Graduate Student Caucus
American Studies Association (ASA), Early American Matters Caucus
Charles Brockden Brown Society (CBBS)
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture (OIEAHC)
Society for Science, Literature, and the Arts (SLSA)
Society of Early Americanists (SEA)