Nicholas E. Miller

Hello! I'm Nick!

I am a dynamic educator with specialized training in literature, writing, and cultural studies. I am also a scholar of comics and media studies, and I use popular culture to develop media literacy skills and to foreground multimodal writing in my classes. When I am not busy teaching or writing, I am either playing with pixels on my laptop, parked in front of a television screen with one of my children, or taking a walk through the neighborhood with my music turned up just a bit too loud.

EXPERIENCE

2018 to Present

Assistant Professor

VALDOSTA STATE UNIVERSITY

Duties have included teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in American and world literature. Courses have included first-year seminars, surveys, and upper-level electives, and have been cross-listed regularly with African American Studies.

2016 to 2018

Visiting Assistant Professor

HOLLINS UNIVERSITY

Responsibilities included teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in American and British literatures. Also taught several interdisciplinary electives on comics and social media, and served as Summer Writing Coordinator for the MFA Dance program.

2015 to 2016

Postdoctoral Fellow

2010 to 2014

Graduate Instructor

WASHINGTON U. IN ST. LOUIS

Responsibilities included teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in literature, writing, and cultural studies. Worked with colleagues across campus to develop interdisciplinary seminars for first-year students and to launch a medical humanities minor.

EDUCATION

December 2014

Doctor of Philosophy

WASHINGTON U. IN ST. LOUIS

English and American Literature

Lynne Cooper Harvey Fellow

in American Culture Studies

December 2008

Master of Arts

WASHINGTON U. IN ST. LOUIS

English and American Literature

Lynne Cooper Harvey Fellow

in American Culture Studies

December 2006

Bachelor of Arts

MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY

English Languages and Literatures

Concentration in Creative Writing

WRITING

SKILLS

TESTIMONIALS

FORMER STUDENT

"I walked away from your class not just having gained knowledge, but passion. You don't just share the 'what'—you share the 'how' and the 'why' and all that fun stuff. There's a big different between inspiring someone to think and inspiring someone to be an inspirer themselves. And you make your students want to be inspirers."

FACULTY COLLEAGUE

"His pedagogical approach, his knowledge of the discipline, and his interaction with students all reinforce what I already knew about his teaching as I walked into the class: that his students, his department, and the university all benefit greatly from having him around. I want to learn from him so that I can be a better teacher myself."

AWARDS COMMITTEE

"The review committee for the article prize enthusiastically praised your essay, calling it 'delightful and innovative,' and stating that 'in its careful consideration of constructions and expressions of feminism in various forms of Archie narratives and paratexts, it serves as an excellent model of how to do transmedia studies.'"