Cristanne Miller

SUNY Distinguished Professor of English and Edward H. Butler Professor of Literature, SUNY at Buffalo Fulbright-Tocqueville Distinguished Chair in American Studies, Université de Paris Diderot

Fall 2013

Cristanne Miller is SUNY Distinguished Professor of English and Edward H. Butler Professor of Literature at the University at Buffalo. Since 2006 she has also served as the chair of the English Department at the University at Buffalo, SUNY. Her research interests include comparative modernist poetry, nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American poetry and the effects of the Civil War on U.S. poetry as a genre as well as gender and language issues. Professor Miller focuses mainly on , Mina Loy, Else Lasker-Schüler, , Civil War poetry, and the cities of and between 1900 and 1930. Among her publications are Cultures of Modernism: Marianne Moore, Mina Loy, Else Lasker-Schüler. Gender and Literary Community in New York and Berlin (2005), and Marianne Moore: Questions of Authority (1995). In 1993, she co-authored, with Suzanne Juhasz and Martha Nell Smith, Comic Power in Emily Dickinson. Her book Emily Dickinson: A Poet´s Grammar (1987) received outstanding reviews. Professor Miller also co-edited, amongst others, The Emily Dickinson Handbook (1998), with Roland Hagenbüchle and Gudrun Grabher, and “Words for the Hour”: A New Anthology of American Civil War Poetry (2005) with Faith Barrett. She is currently working on Emily Dickinson’s Poems and Poetry After Gettysburg. Since 2005, Professor Miller has edited The Emily Dickinson Journal. In addition, she is a member of The Emily Dickinson International Society, The Modern Language Association, and The American Literature Association, among others.

Professor Miller received her doctorate from the . Before coming to the SUNY Buffalo, she held the W.M. Keck Distinguished Professorship at Pomona College for several years.

October 24, 2013, 6:15 p.m. “All the Slain Soldiers”: Poetry and the American Civil War Location: HCA, Curt and Heidemarie Engelhorn Palais, Hauptstraße 120, Heidelberg

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