Laura Miller, Ph.D.

Professor of English
School of Humanities College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

678-839-4891
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Boyd Building - Room 321
Office Hours
MW 4-6 PM online
TuTh 930-11 AM online
All days: f2f or online by appointment

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Laura Miller, Ph.D.
Biography

Dr. Miller finished her Ph.D. in 2010 at the University of California, Santa Barbara and has been teaching at West Georgia since fall 2011. She studies the intersections of literature, media, and science during the eighteenth century. Her first book, Reading Popular Newtonianism: Print, the Principia, and the Dissemination of Newtonian Science, was published by the University of Virginia Press in 2018. Dr. Miller has held fellowships at the Houghton Library at Harvard University, the Library Company of Philadelphia, and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. She is currently working on her second book, Prescriptive Communities: Library Readers and the Origins of Public Health, as well as other projects related to library history, science, the digital humanities, and gender. She is currently co-investigator on a three-year AHRC-funded grant (£842,708), entitled Libraries, Reading Communities, and Cultural Formation in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic. Details to be found here: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FS007083%2F1 Please visit https://www.upress.virginia.edu/title/5100 to order her book.

Education / Degrees
  • B.A., English, Duke University, 1997
  • M.A., English, California State University, Northridge, 2004
  • Ph.D., English, UC Santa Barbara, 2010
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Other Information

Selected Publications

Editor. Special Issue, "Libraries and Booksellers in the Long Eighteenth Century." Library & Information History 2015; 31(3).

Sea: Transporting England. Broadside Ballads from the Pepys Collection: A Selection of Texts, Approaches, and Recordings. Ed. Patricia Fumerton. Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2012 (247-266).

Personal

Dr. Miller has lived in New York, North Carolina, and California before moving to Georgia. Her favorite things to do outside of academia include spending time with her family, cooking, reading, exercise, and travel.