Matt Miller

Matt Miller is an Associate Professor of English and Chair of the English Department at Yeshiva University's Stern College for Women. He specializes in teaching American literature, creative writing, and rhetoric. Miller holds a Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Iowa and an MFA in Creative Writing from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.

His research focuses on 19th and 20th-century American literature, with a particular emphasis on Walt Whitman. Notable works include Collage of Myself: Walt Whitman and the Making of Leaves of Grass and co-editing Every Hour, Every Atom: Walt Whitman’s Early Notebooks and Fragments. He is a founding member of the Walt Whitman Initiative and serves on its board of directors.

Miller has received prestigious awards such as the University of Iowa Graduate Dean’s Distinguished Dissertation Award and the John Logan Poetry Prize. His articles and poetry have appeared in journals like Arizona Quarterly, Poets and Writers, and Iowa Review.

He teaches courses ranging from creative writing to American countercultures and has advised students on various literary projects. Miller actively contributes to digital scholarship and manuscript studies, exploring innovative approaches to literary analysis.

Recent courses include Literature of American Countercultures, Transcendentalism, and Freshman Honors Seminar. His current book project, You Will Hardly Know My Name: Whitman Traditions in American Poetics, examines Whitman’s enduring influence on contemporary poetry.