Quentin Miller, Associate Professor
D. Quentin Miller
Associate Professor of English
Director, Seminar for Freshmen
41 Temple Street
Department of English
Suffolk University
Boston, MA 02114
Office: Fenton 334
Telephone: (617) 573-8289
E-mail: qmiller@suffolk.edu
Degrees
Ph.D. University of Connecticut, 1996
M.A. College of William and Mary, 1990
B.A. Boston College, 1989
Publications
Prose and Cons: Essays on Prison Literature in the United States. (edited collection of essays) McFarland, 2005.
Drawing the Iron Curtain: John Updike and the Cold War. University of Missouri Press, 2001.
Re-Viewing James Baldwin: Things Not Seen (edited collection of essays). Temple University Press, 2000.
The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Fifth Edition, (Co-edited, with Paul Lauter, et al). Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2006. Concise Edition (2005).
The Generation of Ideas: A Thematic Reader. Boston: Thomson/Wadsworth, 2005.
The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Concise Edition, (Co-edited, with Paul Lauter, et al). Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2004.
Connections: Critical Explorations of Vice, Virtue, and Human Nature. (Co-edited, with Julie Nash). Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2008. (forthcoming)
“Playing a Mean Guitar: The Legacy of Staggerlee in Baldwin and Morrison.” In James Baldwin and Toni Morrison: Comparative Critical and Theoretical Essays, Lynn Orilla Scott and Lovalerie King, eds. New York: Palgrave/Macmillan: 2006 (121-148).
“Updike, Middles, and the Spell of ‘Subjective Geography.’” The Cambridge Companion to John Updike. Stacey Olster, ed. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2006 (15-28).
“Deeper Blues, Or the Posthuman Prometheus: Cybernetic Renewal and the Late-Twentieth Century American Novel.” American Literature. (77.2: June, 2005: 379-407).
“‘On the Outside Looking In’: White Readers of Nonwhite Prison Narratives.” In Prose and Cons, 15-32.
“‘A Tyrannically Democratic Force’: The Symbolic and Cultural Function of Clothing in Catherine Maria Sedgwick’s Hope Leslie”. Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers. (19.2: Spring, 2002: 121-136).
“Introduction” and “James Baldwin, Poet” in Re-Viewing James Baldwin: Things Not Seen. 1-11, 233-255.
“‘Making a Place for Fear’: Toni Morrison’s First Redefinition of Dante’s Hell in Sula.” English Language Notes XXXVII, 3: March, 2000: 68-76.
“Updike’s Rabbit Novels and the Tragedy of Parenthood.” Family Matters in the British and American Novel. Andrea Herrera, Elizabeth Nollen, Sheila Foor, eds. Bowling Green, OH: Popular Press, 1997, 281-312.
“‘A Barrier of Words’: Narrative Voice and Vision in the Writings of Edith Wharton.” American Literary Realism 1870-1910. Fall, 1994: 11-23.
“‘In the Late Summer of That Year’: The Problem of Time in A Farewell to Arms.” The Hemingway Review. Spring, 1991: 61-65.
Courses Taught
Seminar for Freshmen 139: “From Walden to Woodstock: Edens, Utopias, and Paradises in American Culture.”
Eng 101 and Eng 102 (First-year Composition)
Eng 215 (American Literature)
Eng 216 (World Literature in English)
Eng 361 (Contemporary American Fiction)
Eng 370 and Eng 470 (Fiction Writing Workshop I & II)
Eng 385 (U.S. Prison Literature)
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