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Dr. Shannon Miller serves as Dean of the College of Humanities and the Arts and Professor of English and Comparative Literature at San José State University, an urban institution serving 33,000 students. She oversees 500 faculty/staff across 8 academic departments, 2 schools, 3 centers, and the Hammer Theatre Center, managing a $24M annual budget while sponsoring 500+ cultural/intellectual events yearly.
Educational background:
- B.A. in English, Dartmouth College
- M.A. and Ph.D. (1991) in Renaissance Literature, UC Santa Barbara
Her research interrogates Renaissance English literary production through gendered frameworks, specializing in John Milton's theological constructions and marginalized voices of seventeenth-century women writers. This work critically examines how gender ideologies shaped textual authority in early modern England, revealing intersections between literary canon formation and patriarchal power structures.
Notable recognitions:
- Folger Shakespeare Library Fellowship
- Tanner Humanities Center Fellowship
- John Carter Brown Library Fellowship
- British Bibliographical Society Fellowship
Administratively, Miller pioneered project-based curriculum reforms and implemented Stretch English in First-Year Writing. She secured $4.8M for the Martha Heasley Cox Center for Steinbeck Studies and leads SJSU's Hammer Theatre Center collaboration with San José. Her leadership emphasizes humanities as essential infrastructure for technological ethics and social mobility.
The college's "Borderlands" and "Deep Humanities & Arts" initiatives under her direction integrate migration studies and digital ethics across disciplines, transforming classroom learning into community-engaged praxis through theater, philosophy, and visual arts.
