Tulane University

Contact Info
mgmiller@tulane.edu

Degrees

• B.A., Biola University, English, 1983
• M.A., University of Washington, English Literature, 1986
• M.A., University of Oregon, Comparative Literature, 1991
• Ph.D., University of Oregon, Comparative Literature, 1995

Academic Experience

• Associate Professor, Tulane, 2005-
• Assistant Professor, Tulane University, 2001-2005
• Visiting Assistant Professor, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, 2002
• Assistant Professor, Catholic University of America, 1997-2001
• Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Oregon, 1998

Research & Teaching Specializations: New World and Trans-Atlantic Studies; Colonial and Postcolonial Literatures; Race and Hybridity; Caribbean Discourse; Francophone and Anglophone Literature; Slavery and Text; African Diasporic Literatures and Poetics in the Americas; Translation Studies

Related Experience

• Chair, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Tulane University, 2009-
• Member of Editorial and Review Boards for “Comparative Literature,” “Revista de Estudios Hispánicos,” and “Latin American Music Review”
• Coordinator, Virtual Caribbeans Conference, Tulane University, 2008
• Co-coordinator for the symposium “Re/Viewing the Revolution: Fresh Perspectives on Cuba, 1959-2009,” Tulane University, 2009
• Director, Latin American and Latino Studies Program, Catholic University of America, 1997-2001

Distinctions

• Stone Center Summer Research Fellowship, 2012, 2013
• Lurcy Research Fellowships, 2008, 2009, 2013
• Yale University Library Research Fellowship, 2005
• Deep South Regional Humanities Center Research Grant, 2005
• NEH Summer Institute Participant, “The Invisible Giant: The Place of Brazil in Latin American Studies,” The Ohio State University, 2001
• NEH Summer Institute Participant, “Roots: The African Background of American Culture, through the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade,” University of Virginia, 1998

Languages: Spanish; Portuguese; French

Selected Publications

• 2014. Tango Lessons. Movement, Sound, Dance and Image in Contemporary Practice. Editor. Durham: Duke University Press.
• 2014. “Introduction: The Tango Continuum” and “Picturing Tango.” In Tango Lessons: Movement, Sound, Dance and Image in Contemporary Practice. Marilyn Miller, editor. Durham: Duke University Press.
• 2013. “Lives and Afterlives of José María Silva’s Gardel Portraits.” Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies 22(4): 417-435.
• 2010. “Reading Juan Francisco Manzano in the Wake of Alexander von Humboldt.” Atlantic Studies 7(2): 162-189. Special Issue, “Alexander von Humboldt’s Transatlantic Personae,” ed. Vera M. Kutzkinski.
• 2008. “‘The Soul Has No Color’ but the Skin Does: Angelitos negros and the Use of Blackface on the Mexican Silver Screen, ca. 1950.” In Global Soundscapes. Mark Slobin, ed. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press. 241-257.
• 2008. “‘Tengo de árabes noble descendencia’: orientalismo y el retorno al país natal en Zafira de Juan Francisco Manzano.” In Moros en la costa. Orientalismo en Latinoamérica. Silvia Nagy-Zekmi, ed. Madrid: Iberoamericana. 91-110.
• 2005. “Slavery, Cimarronaje and Poetic Refuge in Nancy Morejón.” Afro-Hispanic Review. 24 (2): 103-25.
• 2005. “Rebeldia narrativa, resistencia poetica y expresion ‘libre’ en Juan Francisco Manzano.” Revista Iberoamericana. LXXI (211).
• 2004. Rise and Fall of the Cosmic Race: The Cult of Mestizaje in Latin America. Austin: University of Texas Press.

Recently-Taught Latin American-Related Courses: Modern Readings in Spanish; Hispanic Cities: Buenos Aires; Rumba to Reggaeton; Caribbean Realisms; El Caribe a Flote

Number of Dissertations or Theses Supervised in the Past 5 Years: 8