Carol A Miller

Educational Background & Specialties

Educational Background

• Ph.D.: American Literature, University of Oklahoma, 1980.
• M.A.: American Literature, University of Oklahoma, none.
• B.A.: English, Education, Northeastern State University, none.

Curriculum Vitae

Specialties

• American Indian women's narratives
• American literatures
• intercultural studies
• multicultural pedagogy

Courses Taught

• AmIn 3201W - American Indian Literature
• AmSt 8201: Dissertation Seminar
• AmSt 1002: American Popular Arts and Public Life, 1940-Present
• AmIn 3402/5402: American Indians and the Cinema

Research & Professional Activities

Professional Activities

• Director of Graduate Studies: Program in American Studies , 1997 - 1998
• Principal investigator for Voice from the Gaps: electronic data base of information about minority women writers
• Interim Chair: Department of American Studies , 2003 - 2004
• Director of Graduate Studies: Master of Liberal Studies Program , 2002 - 2004

Research

• Twilight Exile: Family, Aging, and the Exile of Elders: book-length memoir
• Shifting Shapes: The Efficacious Literary Tradition of American Indian Women’s Fiction: book

Outreach

• Founder and Director: Voices from the Gaps web site, 1997 - 2004

Publications

• “Telling the Indian Urban: Representations in American Indian Fiction“. Miller, Carol, 2001.
• Better Than What People Told Me I Was: What Students of Color Tell Us About the Multicultural Composition Classroom. Miller, Carol, none.
• Mediation and Authority: The Native American Voices of Mourning Dove and Ella Cara Deloria.. Miller, Carol, 1996.
• Native Sons and the Good War: Retelling the Myth of Assimilation in Scott Momaday's House Made of Dawn and Leslie Silko's Ceremony. Miller, Carol, 1996.

Awards

• President's Outstanding Service Award, 2002
• Horace T. Morse Alumni Association Award for Contributions to Undergraduate Education, 1991
• President's Outstanding Service Award
• Morse Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor of American Studies and American Indian Studies, 1996 - Present
• Excellence in the Teaching of Writing Award, Center for Interdisciplinary Studies of Writing,, 1999