Elizabeth Carolyn MillerView profile
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Elizabeth Carolyn Miller is a Professor of English at the University of California, Davis, specializing in 19th- and early-20th-century British literature and culture. She joined UC Davis in 2008 and served as Department Chair from 2013–2016. Prior to this, she taught at Ohio University, the University of Michigan, and the University of Oklahoma. Her research spans ecocriticism, gender studies, media studies, and radical politics, with a focus on intersections between print culture, environmentalism, and socialism. Education Ph.D., University of Wisconsin–Madison (2003) M.A., University of Wisconsin–Madison (1997) B.A., Marquette University (1996) Her scholarly work interrogates how Victorian-era environmental anxieties and radical political movements mirror contemporary ecological crises. She authored Slow Print: Literary Radicalism and Late Victorian Print Culture (2013), which explores alternative media practices, and Framed: The New Woman Criminal in British Culture at the Fin de Siècle (2008), a foundational text on gender and crime narratives. Her forthcoming monograph Extraction Ecologies and the Literature of the Long Exhaustion (2021) examines literary responses to resource depletion. Miller’s publications include essays on Victorian ecological realism, climate change in historical contexts, and the politics of replication in William Morris’s works. Her Google Scholar profile highlights recurring themes: British literature , ecocriticism , resource extraction , Victorian industrialization , gender dynamics , and socialist thought . Her research often synthesizes literary analysis with environmental and political theory, emphasizing the relevance of Victorian studies to modern climate challenges. Scientific Awards and Fellowships: Guggenheim Fellowship (2019) National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowship (2019) Visiting Fellowship, Clare Hall, Cambridge University (2017) Best Book of the Year (2013) from NAVSA Chancellor's Fellow, UC Davis (2013–2014) ACLS Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellowship (2009–2010)
