JACQUELINE T. MILLER Department of English Rutgers University New Brunswick, N.J. 08901 (732) 932-8193 Education Ph.D. The Johns Hopkins University, 1980 M.A., The Johns Hopkins University, 1976 B.A., University of Rochester, 1974 Employment Associate Professor of English, Rutgers University, 1986-present Assistant Professor of English, Rutgers University, 1980-86 Assistant Professor of English, Emory University, 1979-80 Instructor of Composition, The Johns Hopkins University, 1978-79 Academic Awards Isabel MacCaffrey Award (annual Spenser Society Award for article and Honors published on Spenser), 1986 ACLS (American Council of Learned Societies) Fellowship, 1983-84 Research Accomplishments Books Poetic License: Authority and Authorship in Medieval and Renaissance Contexts, Oxford University Press, 1986. Articles/Essays Telling Tales: Locating Female Nurture and Narrative in The Faerie Queene, in Oral Traditions and Gender in Early Modern Literary Texts, ed. Karen Bamford and Mary Ellen Lamb (Ashgate, 2008), pp. 3-13. Ladies of the Oddest Passion: Early Modern Women and the Arts of Discretion, Modern Philology, 103 (2006), 453-473.
"The Passion Signified: The Construction of Emotions in Sidney and Wroth," Criticism, 43 (2001), 407-21. "Lady Mary Wroth in the House of Busirane" in Worldmaking Spenser: Explorations in the Early Modern Age, ed. Patrick Cheney and Lauren Silberman (University Press of Kentucky, 2000), pp. 115-124. "Mother Tongues: Language and Lactation in Early Modern Literature," English Literary Renaissance, 27 (1997), 177-96. "The Courtly Figure: Spenser's Anatomy of Allegory," SEL: Studies in English Literature, 31 (1991), 51-69. "The Omission in Red Cross Knight's Story: Narrative Inconsistencies in The Faerie Queene, ELH, 53 (1986), 279-88. Articles on "Jove," "Juno," and Cynthia" in The Spenser Encyclopedia, gen. ed. A.C. Hamilton (Univ. of Toronto Press). "The Status of Faeryland: Spenser's 'Vniust Possession,'" in Spenser Studies: A Renaissance Poetry Annual, Vol. 5 (1985), pp. 31-44. 1986 Isabel MacCaffrey Award essay. "'What may words say': The Limits of Language in Astrophil and Stella," in Sir Philip Sidney and the Interpretation of Renaissance Culture, ed. Gary Waller and Michael Moore (London: Croom Helm, 1984), pp. 95-109. "The Writing on the Wall: Authority and Authorship in Chaucer's House of Fame," Chaucer Review, 17 (1982), 95-115. "'Love doth hold my hand': Writing and Wooing in the Sonnets of Sidney and Spenser," ELH, 46 (1979), 541-58. "The Imperfect Tale: Articulation, Rhetoric, and Self in Caleb Williams, Criticism, 20 (1978), 366-82. Reviews Review of Dorothy Stephens' The Limits of Eroticism in Post-Petrarchan Narrative: Conditional Pleasure from Spenser to Marvell, in Spenser Newsletter, 30 (1999), 17-19. Review of John D. Bernard s Ceremonies of Innocence: Pastoralism in the Poetry of Edmund Spenser, in Renaissance Quarterly, 44 (1991), 619-20. Review of Kathleen Swaim's Before and After the Fall: Contrasting Modes in Paradise Lost, in Renaissance Quarterly, 42 (1989), 365-67.
Review of Robert Entzminger's Divine Word: Milton and the Redemption of Language, in Renaissance Quarterly, 39 (1986), 567-69. Review Article: "New Readings of Sidney," review of Studies in the Literary Imagination, 15 (1982), volume devoted to Sidney, in Sidney Newsletter, 3 (1982),12-15. Conference Presentations Chair, session on Politics and Poetics of Form, Renaissance Society of America Annual Convention (March 2007) Samient s Story, International Spenser Society Conference on Spenser s Civilizations, University of Toronto, May 2006. Chair, Special Session on "The Laws and Ethics of Foreign Engagement in Renaissance England," MLA Convention, 1998. "Engendering Ending: Mary Wroth in the House of Busirane," Renaissance Society of America Annual Conference, 1998 "Lady Mary Wroth in the House of Busirane," International Conference on The Faerie Queene and the World, 1596-1996: An Interdisciplinary Symposium, Yale University, Sept. 1996 "Mother Tongues: Language and Lactation in Early Modern Literature," Renaissance Society of America Annual Conference, 1995. "The Courtly Figure: Spenser's Anatomy of Allegory," International Congress on Medieval Studies, 1989. Chair, Special Session on "Medieval or Renaissance: Reconstructing Traditions from Chaucer to Spenser," MLA Convention, 1988. Participant/Respondent, in session on "Silences and Silencing in Shakespeare," at Annual Meeting of the Shakespeare Association of America, Montreal, 1986. "The Omission in Red Cross Knight's Story: Tales, Tellers, and Readers in The Faerie Queene," MLA Convention, 1984. "The Status of Faeryland: Spenser's 'Unjust Possession,'" MLA Convention, 1982. "Creative Imitation in the Renaissance," at the Special Session on "Deconstructive Readings of Renaissance Texts," MLA Convention, 1981. "The Writing on Wall: Authority and Authorship in Chaucer's House of Fame," The Journal Club, The Johns Hopkins Univesity, May 1978.
Other Professional Activities RSA Council Representative for Rutgers Medieval-Renaissance Colloquium, 2006-09 Executive Committee, Spenser Society, 1989-93. Chair, Isabel MacCaffrey Award Committee, Spenser Society, 1992, 1993 Reader for Renaissance Quarterly, Mosaic, Chaucer Review, Spenser Encyclopedia, Modern Philology, Lehigh University Press, MLA. Advisor to editors of The Norton Anthology of Poetry, third edition (1983); fifth edition (2005) Member: Modern Language Association, Spenser Society, Sidney Society, Society for the Study of Early Modern Women (SSEMW), Renaissance Society of America. Editorial Assistant, ELH, 1976-79. Teaching Responsibilities Graduate Courses: The School of Donne Spenser and his Contemporaries/ Spenser and Renaissance Culture The Sixteenth-Century: Texts and Contexts Early Modern Women; The Writing of Renaissance Women Mary Wroth and Spenser (Independent Study: Renaissance Women Writers) Undergraduate Courses: Senior seminars: Spenser Senior Honors Seminar Renaissance Literature and Culture Milton Chaucer Issues/Problems in Renaissance Literature and Culture Renaissance Literature: The Sixteenth Century Seventeenth-Century Poetry Shakespeare Principles of Literary Studies Major British Writers (Honors and regular sections) Poems, Plays, and Fiction University Service 2009-2008 Executive Committee Graduate Executive Committee Graduate Placement Committee Ad Hoc Canvassing Committee for Election of Chair PEC Committee
2008-2007 Fall 07: on leave Spring 08: Graduate Bewley Prize committee 2007-2006 Graduate First-Year Advising Committee Graduate Student Review Committee Undergraduate Curriculum Committee FASIP (PEC) Committee Graduate Spencer Eddy prize committee Ernest Thomas Memorial undergraduate essay prize committee 2005-2006 Graduate Admissions Committee Executive Committee Coordinator, 219 (Fall) 2004-2005 Director, English Graduate Admissions Curriculum Committee FASIP/PEC Committee Coordinator, 219 2003-2004 Curriculum Committee Coordinator, 219 2002-2003 Associate Chair, English Department Personnel Committee Curriculum Committee Coordinator, 219 Renaissance Faculty Search Committee FASIP/PEC Committee Cantalupo Prize Committee 2001-2002 Associate Chair English Department Executive Committee Co-chair, 219-220 Committee FASIP Committee 2000-2001 Graduate Admissions Committee Co-chair, 219-220 Committee 1999-2000 Graduate Curriculum Committee Personnel Committee Co-chair, 219-220 Committee Co-chair, Graduate Catalog Revision Committee
1998-99 Graduate Placement Committee Graduate Curriculum Committee Graduate Advising Committee Victorian Poetry Faculty Search Committee Coordinator, Introductory Course for Majors (English 219: Principles of Literary Study) Peer Evaluation Committee Reader, Graduate Spencer L. Eddy Prize 1997-98 Personnel Committee Graduate Admissions Committee Graduate Advising Committee Coordinator, Introductory Course for Majors (English 219: Principles of Literary Study) Peer Evaluation Committee 1996-97 Personnel Committee Renaissance Faculty Search Committee (Co-chair) 1995-96 Coordinator, Introductory Course for Majors Teaching Development Committee Graduate Advising Committee Graduate Admissions Committee Rutgers Dialogue Grant Proposal Review Committee Catherine Moynahan Prize Reader 1994-95 Graduate English Admissions Committee Teaching Development Committee 1993-94 Member, Graduate English Placement Committee 1989-93 Associate Chair, FAS English Department Director, FAS English Dept. Honors Program 1988-89 Graduate English General Examination Committee 1987-88 Graduate English Admissions Committee 1986-87 Director, FAS English Dept. Honors Program English Dept. New Faculty Search Committee Graduate English General Examination Committee
Departmental Salary Adjustment Committee 1984-86 Member, FAS English Dept. Honors Committee 1981-83 1982-83 English Dept. Teaching Evaluation Committee 1981-82 English Dept. Faculty Services Committee 1980-82 Livingston College English Dept. Curriculum Committee Livingston College Educational Policy and Course of Study Committee. Graduate Orals Committees Scott Trudell (2009) Chair Darryl Ellison (2008) Colleen Rosenfeld (2007) (Chair) Steve Syrek (2006) Michael Masiello (2005) Ellorashree Maitra (2004) Regina Masiello (2004) Jay Kratz (2003) (Chair) Kirsten Tranter (2001) Daveena Tauber (2000) (Chair) Nancy Ulak (2000) Brian Walsh (2000) Nicole Nolan (1999) Julian Koslow (1998) Brian Kelley (1998) Chris Warley (1996) Dean Hembree (1996) Susan Arvay (1996) Brian Lockey (1996) David Myers (1995) Jane Bailey (1992) Joon-Soo Bong (1991) Cynthia Scheinberg (1990) Phoebe Davidson (1989) Rebecca Brittenham (1989) Peter Bowen (1988) Georgiana Bowley (1988) Graduate Dissertation Committees Steadman Mays
Amy Perkins Susan O'Hara Jane Bailey Brian Lockey (Director) Chris Warley Ann Brennan Horak Dean Hembree Brian Kelly Julian Koslow Daveena Tauber (Director) Ed Denault Kirsten Tranter Nika Hedges Jay Kratz (Director) Regina Masiello Ameer Sohrawardy (Co-Director) Michael Masiello Susan Nakely Colleen Rosenfeld (Director) Darryl Ellison Undergraduate Honors Advising 1986-87 Advisor, Pam Toplisky (English Honors) 1993-94 Advisor, Jennifer Bleming (English Honors) 1997 Reader, Jay Kratz (English Honors) 1998-99 Advisor, Michael Cohen (English Honors) Reader, John Hickey (English Honors) Spring 1999 Dept. Honors Symposium Moderator 1999 Reader, Celene Carillo (Henry Rutgers Thesis) 1999-00 Advisor, Regina Masiello (Henry Rutgers Thesis) 2002-03 Reader, Larry Lyons (English Honors) 2003-03 Reader, Lindsay Grabau (Henry Rutgers Honors) 2005: Reader, Rebecca Linton (English Honors) 2006-07: Advisor, Elizabeth Osaben (Mabel Smith Douglass Honors and English Honors)