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J. Hillis Miller Papers MS.C.013 http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt1z09r9q4 No online items Guide to the J. Hillis Miller Papers MS.C.013 Finding aid prepared by Alexandra Bisio Special Collections and Archives, University of California, Irvine Libraries The UCI Libraries P.O. Box 19557 University of California, Irvine Irvine, California, 92623-9557 949-824-3947 [email protected] © 2014 Guide to the J. Hillis Miller Papers MS.C.013 1 MS.C.013 Title: J. Hillis Miller papers Identifier/Call Number: MS.C.013 Contributing Institution: Special Collections and Archives, University of California, Irvine Libraries Language of Material: English Physical Description: 73.2 linear feet(77 Boxes) and 11.8 GB of unprocessed digital material Date (inclusive): 1930-2011 Date (bulk): Bulk, 1970-2011 Language of Collection Materials: Collection materials are primarily in English, with some French, Chinese, Italian, Russian, and German. Abstract: This collection consists of scholarly and personal papers of J. Hillis Miller (1928 - ), literary critic and Professor of Comparative Literature and English at the University of California, Irvine. The collection best documents Miller's intellectual life as a specialist in Victorian and Modern British and American literature, a Derridean deconstructionist, and a university educator. Some personal material, such as family papers, photographs, and awards, are also included. Creator: Miller, J. Hillis (Joseph Hillis), 1928- Access The collection is open for research. General correspondence, including email, is restricted for 25 years from date of creation. This restriction may be lifted with permission from the donor. All student and employee records are restricted for 75 years due to third party privacy issues. Boxes 66 though 72 of this collection contain correspondence restricted for 25 years from date of creation, and boxes 76 and 77 contain letters of recommendation restricted for 75 years. Publication Rights Property rights reside with the University of California. Copyrights are generally retained by the creators of the records and their heirs, unless transferred to the University of California. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where the UC Regents do not hold the copyright. For information on use, copyright, and attribution, please visit: http://special.lib.uci.edu/using/publishing.html Acquisition Information Gifts of J. Hillis Miller, 2000, 2002, 2010, 2011. Preferred Citation J. Hillis Miller Papers. MS-C013. Special Collections and Archives, The UC Irvine Libraries, Irvine, California. Date accessed. For the benefit of current and future researchers, please cite any additional information about sources consulted in this collection, including permanent URLs, item or folder descriptions, and box/folder locations. Processing History Processed by Alexandra M. Bisio and Sara Hrachovy, 2013-2014. Biographical note J. Hillis Miller is a Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and English at the University of California, Irvine. He is an internationally recognized scholar in the field of nineteenth and twentieth century English and American literature and in literary theory. Miller was born in Newport News, Virginia on March 5, 1928. He spent much of his childhood on college and university campuses in New York as his father, J. Hillis Miller, Sr., served as both President of Keuka College and as Associate Commissioner of Higher and Professional Education for New York State. In 1944, at the age of sixteen, Miller entered Oberlin College intending to study physics. In his sophomore year, with encouragement from his future wife, Dorothy James, he changed his course of study to literature. Following his graduation from Oberlin in January of 1948, Miller entered the graduate program in English at Harvard University receiving his Master’s degree in 1949 and his Ph.D. in 1952. While at Harvard, Miller studied under many prominent scholars including Hyder Rollins, George Sherburn, Archibald MacLeish, Walter Jackson Bate, and Douglas Bush, but found himself drawn away from traditional literary study and toward works on literary theory and criticism. His unpublished dissertation, directed by Douglas Bush and entitled “The Symbolic Imagery of Charles Dickens,” was strongly influenced by the theories of Kenneth Burke. In 1953, after a year as an Instructor in English at Williams College, Miller was appointed Assistant Professor of English at Johns Hopkins University. He remained at Johns Hopkins for nineteen years, reaching the rank of Professor, serving as chair of the department, and holding a joint appointment in the Humanities Center. In Baltimore, Miller came into contact with Guide to the J. Hillis Miller Papers MS.C.013 2 MS.C.013 several scholars who influenced his work, notably Georges Poulet and “new critic” E.R. Wasserman. It was also at the famous Hopkins Symposium in 1966 that Miller first met Jacques Derrida, and Jacques Lacan. In 1972, Miller left Johns Hopkins for Yale University where he was first made Professor of English, and later Gray Professor of Rhetoric, Frederick W. Hilles Professor of English, and Frederick W. Hilles Professor of English and Comparative Literature. He also served as Chair of the Department of English, Director of Graduate Studies in Comparative Literature, and Director of the Literature Major. During this time, Miller became associated with a group of critics and theorists including Jacques Derrida, Geoffrey Hartman, and Harold Bloom. Members of this group were sometimes referred to as the “Yale School of Deconstruction.” After fourteen years at Yale, Miller left New Haven in 1986 to become Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at UC, Irvine. At Irvine, Miller served on the Advisory Committee of the Humanities Research Institute of the University of California, many graduate student examination and dissertation committees, and was an active member of the School of Humanities' Critical Theory Institute, for which he delivered the Wellek Library Lectures, “The Ethics of Reading,” in 1985. Miller has also taught as a visiting professor at a number of universities, including the University of Hawaii, Harvard, The University of Virginia, Princeton, the University of Washington, the University of Zurich, Emory, Tulane, the Autonomous University of Barcelona, the Irvine and Dartmouth Schools of Criticism and Theory, and the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminars. Over the course of his career, Miller has authored twenty-nine books, and published more than two hundred articles. He has been a member of editorial boards for twenty-three literary journals, including Victorian Studies, ELH, Studies in English Literature, Diacritics, and The Yale Journal of Criticism. Miller is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the recipient of two Guggenheim Fellowships. In 1986, he served as president of the Modern Language Association, and received the organization’s lifetime achievement award in 2005. In 1993, Miller received the Doctoris Honoris Causa at the University of Zaragoza, and in 1994, was made an honorary professor at the University of Peking. He received the UCI Medal in 2002 and has been a member of the American Philosophical Society since 2004. Now a Distinguished Professor emeritus, Miller currently resides on Deer Isle, Maine in the Penobscot Bay, where he is an avid sailor, and published his latest work in 2012. Sources J. Hillis Miller Papers. MS-C013. Special Collections and Archives, The UC Irvine Libraries, Irvine, California. 1928 Born March 5 in Newport News, VA 1948 B.A., Oberlin College Inducted into Phi Beta Kappa 1949 M.A., Harvard University Fellow of the Society for Religion in Higher Education (Kent Fellow) 1950-1952 Teaching Fellow in English, Harvard University 1952 Ph.D., Harvard University Instructor in English, Williams College, Williamstown, MA 1953-1967 Assistant, Associate, and Full Professor of English, John Hopkins University 1958 Charles Dickens: The World of His Novels 1959-1960 First Guggenheim Fellowship 1963 The Disappearance of God 1963-1967 Chairman, Humanities Group, John Hopkins University 1964-1967 Chairman, Department of English, Johns Hopkins University 1965 Poets of Reality 1967 Ward-Phillips Lecturer, Notre Dame University 1967-1972 Professor of English and Humanistic Studies, Johns Hopkins University 1968 E. Harris Harbison Award for Distinguished Teaching <title render="italic">The Form of Victorian Fiction</title> 1970 Thomas Hardy: Distance and Desire 1972 M.A. Privatim, Yale University 1972-1975 Professor of English, Yale University 1973-1974 Director of the Literature Major, Yale University 1975-1976 Gray Professor of Rhetoric, Yale University 1976-1979 Federick W. Hilles Professor of English, Yale University 1979-1986 Frederick W. Hilles Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Yale University 1980 Honorary Degree, Doctor of Letters, University of Florida, Gainesville Guide to the J. Hillis Miller Papers MS.C.013 3 MS.C.013 1980-1983 Director of the Literature Major, Yale University 1982 Fiction and Repetition 1986 UCI Distinguished Professor, University of California at Irvine <title render="italic">The Ethics of Reading</title> 1990 Fulbright Fellow, Autonomous University of Barcelona <title render="italic">Versions of Pygmalion</title> <title render="italic">Victorian Subjects</title> <title render="italic">Tropes, Parables, Performatives</title> <title
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