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CURRICULUM VITAE OF DAVID C. MILLER

ADDRESS

608 Chestnut Street Dept. of English
Meadville, PA 16335 Allegheny College
(814) 724-4510 Meadville, PA 16335
(814) 332-4323

EDUCATION

1982 Ph.D. in American Civilization, Brown University
Dissertation: "'Desert Places': The Meaning of Swamp,
Jungle, and Marsh Images in 19th Century America"
Director: Barton L. St. Armand
1976 M.A. in American Civilization, Brown University
1974 B.A. in American Studies with Honors, Stanford University

HONORS AND AWARDS

2003 NEH Summer Seminar, Boston Athenaeum
2001-2002 Humanities Division Teacher-Scholar Appointment, Allegheny College
1993 NEH Summer Institute, Vassar College
1986-88 Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities, Stanford University
1975 University Fellowship in American Civilization, Brown University
1974 "Historic Deerfield Summer Fellowship," Deerfield, Massachusetts

TEACHING

I currently hold a full-time position as Associate Professor in the English Department at Allegheny College. I was tenured in December of 1992.

1988-2005 Allegheny College, Assistant and Associate Professor, Department of English
1986-88 Stanford University, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of English
(half-time teaching)
1985-86 Allegheny College, Assistant Professor, Department of English
1984-85 Reed College, Assistant Professor (one-year replacement), Department of
English
1982-84 Harvard University, Tutor, History and Literature Program
1981-82 Bennington College, Instructor (one-year replacement), Division of Literature
and Languages
1977-79 Brown University, Graduate Student and Teaching Assistant

PUBLICATIONS

Books
"Beyond the Sister Arts Idea: The Interaction of Word and Image in Nineteenth-Century New England"; book-length manuscript now nearing completion.

Editor, American Iconology: New Approaches to Nineteenth-Century Art and Literature (New Haven:
Yale University Press, 1993); includes Introduction and Afterword by me as well as my essay, "The Iconology of Wrecked or Stranded Boats in Mid to Late Nineteenth-Century American Culture."

Dark Eden: The Swamp in Nineteenth-Century American Culture (Cambridge, England:
Cambridge University Press, 1989.)

Articles
"Swamp and Jungle Images and the Modernizing of American Culture" in The Swamp: On the Edge of
Eden (Exhibition Catalogue, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, 2000).

"Washington Allston and the Sister Arts Tradition in America," European Romantic Review 5
(Summer 1994), pp. 49-72.

"Infection and Imagination: Atmospheric Agency and the Problem of Romanticism in America,"
Prospects: An Annual of American Cultural Studies, 13 (1988), pp. 37-60.

"'Kindred Spirits': Martin Johnson Heade, Painter; Frederick Goddard Tuckerman, Poet; and the
Identification with 'Desert' Places," American Quarterly, 32 (Summer 1980), pp. 167-185.

Reviews
Review of Pamela J. Belanger, Inventing Acadia: Artists and Tourists at Mount Desert, The New England
Quarterly 73 (March 2000), pp. 159-161.

Review of Susan S. Williams, Confounding Images: Photography and Portraiture in
Antebellum American Fiction, American Literature (Summer 1999).

Review of Charles Colbert, A Measure of Perfection: Phrenology and the Fine Arts in America,
Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (January/April 1999), pp. 115-117.

Review of Kathleen Pyne, Art and the Higher Life: Painting and Evolutionary Thought in Late
Nineteenth-Century America, New England Quarterly 70 (September 1997), pp. 501-503.

Review of David M. Lubin, Picturing a Nation: Art and Social Change in 19th-Century
America, New England Quarterly 68 (June 1995), pp. 321-324.

Review of Robert K. Wallace, Melville & Turner: Spheres of Love and Fright, Journal of the Early
Republic, (Fall 1994), pp. 434-436.

Review of The Correspondence of Washington Allston ed. Nathalia Wright, New England
Quarterly 67 (June 1994), pp. 329-331.

Review of Sally Webster, William Morris Hunt, 1824-1879, New England Quarterly, 66 (June 1993), pp.
321-324.

"Sublimity and the Civilizing Process," review of Elizabeth McKinsey, Niagara Falls: Icon of the
American Sublime, American Quarterly 38 (Winter 1986), pp. 854-859.

Review of Bryan Jay Wolf, Romantic Re-Vision: Culture and Consciousness in Nineteenth-
Century American Painting and Literature, Modern Language Studies 16 (Fall 1984).

CONFERENCES AND LECTURES

Lecture on the Image of the Swamp in Nineteenth-Century America, Cummer Museum of Art,
Jacksonville, Florida (February, 2000).

Keynote speaker, Northeast American Studies Association meeting, "What the Environmental Movement
Can Learn from the 19th Century American Landscape Tradition" (March, 1999).

Participant in a Roundtable: "Visual Cultures--Current Methods and Frameworks," American
Studies Association National Conference, Seattle (November 1997).

Respondent, Panel on Antebellum Southern Art, American Studies Association National
Conference, Washington, D.C. (November 1996).

Lectures on the Swamp in American Culture and on Sarah Orne Jewett's Tonalist Vision, University of
Missouri, Rollo (1996).

"Painting and Poetry: The Tonalist Vision of Sarah Orne Jewett's White Heron," University of
Buffalo Sesquicentennial Event: Department of History Symposium on Landscape Culture and Society
(November 1996) [with Norman Bryson, Harvard University and Laura Meixner, Cornell University].

"The Sister Arts Idea in American Culture: The Case of Washington Allston," Colgate
University Colloquium Series, "Situating The Image: The Visual Arts in 19th Century American
Culture" (April 1996) [with Angela Miller, Washington University and David Lubin, Colby College].

"Stranded Boats and Luminist Vision," New York Maritime Museum, Panel on American Art (March
1995) (March 1995) [with Bryan Wolf, Yale University, John Wilmerding, Princeton University and
Roger Stein, University of Virginia].

Chair for a Panel entitled, "Situating the Image: New Approaches to the Relation Between Art and Culture
in 19th Century America," American Studies Association National Conference, Boston (November,
1993).

"Daniel Webster's Bunker Hill Monument: Assimilating the Verbal to the Visual in
Conservative Whig Political Culture," American Studies Association National Conference, Baltimore
(November, 1992).

Guest Participant in a Conference on "The Arts and Material Culture," University of California at Los
Angeles (April, 1990).

"Washington Allston and the Sister Arts Idea in America," Northeast Modern Language
Association, Toronto (April, l990).

Chair and Respondent for a Panel entitled, "Art and Commerce in 19th Century America"
American Studies Association National Conference, Toronto (November, l989).

"The Problematics of American Landscape: Exhibitions and Interpretation" (with Angela Miller,
Washington University) College Art Association, San Francisco (February, l989).

"Regionalism and the Southern Landscape Before and After the Civil War," American Studies
Association National Conference, Miami (October, 1988).

"'That most gorgeous of improprieties!': The Image of the Swamp in 19th Century America,"
Stanford University Art Department (April, l987).




		CURRICULUM VITAE OF DAVID C. MILLER ADDRESS 608 Chestnut Street Dept. of English Meadville, PA 16335 Allegheny College (814) 724-4510 Meadville, PA 16335 (814) 332-4323 EDUCATION 1982 Ph.D. in American Civilization, Brown University Dissertation: "'Desert Places': The Meaning of Swamp, Jungle, and Marsh Images in 19th Century America" Director: Barton L. St. Armand 1976 M.A. in American Civilization, Brown University 1974 B.A. in American Studies with Honors, Stanford University HONORS AND AWARDS 2003 NEH Summer Seminar, Boston Athenaeum 2001-2002 Humanities Division Teacher-Scholar Appointment, Allegheny College 1993 NEH Summer Institute, Vassar College 1986-88 Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities, Stanford University 1975 University Fellowship in American Civilization, Brown University 1974 "Historic Deerfield Summer Fellowship," Deerfield, Massachusetts TEACHING I currently hold a full-time position as Associate Professor in the English Department at Allegheny College. I was tenured in December of 1992. 1988-2005 Allegheny College, Assistant and Associate Professor, Department of English 1986-88 Stanford University, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of English (half-time teaching) 1985-86 Allegheny College, Assistant Professor, Department of English 1984-85 Reed College, Assistant Professor (one-year replacement), Department of English 1982-84 Harvard University, Tutor, History and Literature Program 1981-82 Bennington College, Instructor (one-year replacement), Division of Literature and Languages 1977-79 Brown University, Graduate Student and Teaching Assistant PUBLICATIONS Books "Beyond the Sister Arts Idea: The Interaction of Word and Image in Nineteenth-Century New England"; book-length manuscript now nearing completion. Editor, American Iconology: New Approaches to Nineteenth-Century Art and Literature (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993); includes Introduction and Afterword by me as well as my essay, "The Iconology of Wrecked or Stranded Boats in Mid to Late Nineteenth-Century American Culture." Dark Eden: The Swamp in Nineteenth-Century American Culture (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1989.) Articles "Swamp and Jungle Images and the Modernizing of American Culture" in The Swamp: On the Edge of Eden (Exhibition Catalogue, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, 2000). "Washington Allston and the Sister Arts Tradition in America," European Romantic Review 5 (Summer 1994), pp. 49-72. "Infection and Imagination: Atmospheric Agency and the Problem of Romanticism in America," Prospects: An Annual of American Cultural Studies, 13 (1988), pp. 37-60. "'Kindred Spirits': Martin Johnson Heade, Painter; Frederick Goddard Tuckerman, Poet; and the Identification with 'Desert' Places," American Quarterly, 32 (Summer 1980), pp. 167-185. Reviews Review of Pamela J. Belanger, Inventing Acadia: Artists and Tourists at Mount Desert, The New England Quarterly 73 (March 2000), pp. 159-161. Review of Susan S. Williams, Confounding Images: Photography and Portraiture in Antebellum American Fiction, American Literature (Summer 1999). Review of Charles Colbert, A Measure of Perfection: Phrenology and the Fine Arts in America, Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (January/April 1999), pp. 115-117. Review of Kathleen Pyne, Art and the Higher Life: Painting and Evolutionary Thought in Late Nineteenth-Century America, New England Quarterly 70 (September 1997), pp. 501-503. Review of David M. Lubin, Picturing a Nation: Art and Social Change in 19th-Century America, New England Quarterly 68 (June 1995), pp. 321-324. Review of Robert K. Wallace, Melville & Turner: Spheres of Love and Fright, Journal of the Early Republic, (Fall 1994), pp. 434-436. Review of The Correspondence of Washington Allston ed. Nathalia Wright, New England Quarterly 67 (June 1994), pp. 329-331. Review of Sally Webster, William Morris Hunt, 1824-1879, New England Quarterly, 66 (June 1993), pp. 321-324. "Sublimity and the Civilizing Process," review of Elizabeth McKinsey, Niagara Falls: Icon of the American Sublime, American Quarterly 38 (Winter 1986), pp. 854-859. Review of Bryan Jay Wolf, Romantic Re-Vision: Culture and Consciousness in Nineteenth- Century American Painting and Literature, Modern Language Studies 16 (Fall 1984). CONFERENCES AND LECTURES Lecture on the Image of the Swamp in Nineteenth-Century America, Cummer Museum of Art, Jacksonville, Florida (February, 2000). Keynote speaker, Northeast American Studies Association meeting, "What the Environmental Movement Can Learn from the 19th Century American Landscape Tradition" (March, 1999). Participant in a Roundtable: "Visual Cultures--Current Methods and Frameworks," American Studies Association National Conference, Seattle (November 1997). Respondent, Panel on Antebellum Southern Art, American Studies Association National Conference, Washington, D.C. (November 1996). Lectures on the Swamp in American Culture and on Sarah Orne Jewett's Tonalist Vision, University of Missouri, Rollo (1996). "Painting and Poetry: The Tonalist Vision of Sarah Orne Jewett's White Heron," University of Buffalo Sesquicentennial Event: Department of History Symposium on Landscape Culture and Society (November 1996) [with Norman Bryson, Harvard University and Laura Meixner, Cornell University]. "The Sister Arts Idea in American Culture: The Case of Washington Allston," Colgate University Colloquium Series, "Situating The Image: The Visual Arts in 19th Century American Culture" (April 1996) [with Angela Miller, Washington University and David Lubin, Colby College]. "Stranded Boats and Luminist Vision," New York Maritime Museum, Panel on American Art (March 1995) (March 1995) [with Bryan Wolf, Yale University, John Wilmerding, Princeton University and Roger Stein, University of Virginia]. Chair for a Panel entitled, "Situating the Image: New Approaches to the Relation Between Art and Culture in 19th Century America," American Studies Association National Conference, Boston (November, 1993). "Daniel Webster's Bunker Hill Monument: Assimilating the Verbal to the Visual in Conservative Whig Political Culture," American Studies Association National Conference, Baltimore (November, 1992). Guest Participant in a Conference on "The Arts and Material Culture," University of California at Los Angeles (April, 1990). "Washington Allston and the Sister Arts Idea in America," Northeast Modern Language Association, Toronto (April, l990). Chair and Respondent for a Panel entitled, "Art and Commerce in 19th Century America" American Studies Association National Conference, Toronto (November, l989). "The Problematics of American Landscape: Exhibitions and Interpretation" (with Angela Miller, Washington University) College Art Association, San Francisco (February, l989). "Regionalism and the Southern Landscape Before and After the Civil War," American Studies Association National Conference, Miami (October, 1988). "'That most gorgeous of improprieties!': The Image of the Swamp in 19th Century America," Stanford University Art Department (April, l987).