Elizabeth Carolyn Miller joined the UC Davis English department in 2008. Her scholarly interests include nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century British literature and culture, gender studies, film and visuality, and print culture and politics. Her book Framed: The New Woman Criminal in British Culture at the Fin de Siècle was published in November 2008. She is currently working on a book-length project tentatively titled The Birth of Slow Print: Literary Radicalism and Late-Victorian Print Culture. Before coming to Davis, she taught at Ohio University and University of Oklahoma, and held a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Michigan.

Publication Spotlight:

Framed: The New Woman Criminal in British Culture at the Fin de Siècle
by Elizabeth Carolyn Miller

Framed uses fin de siècle British crime narrative to pose a highly interesting question: why do female criminal characters tend to be alluring and appealing while fictional male criminals of the era are unsympathetic or even grotesque? In this elegantly argued study, Elizabeth Carolyn Miller addresses this question, examining popular literary and cinematic culture from roughly 1880 to 1914 to shed light on an otherwise overlooked social and cultural type: the conspicuously glamorous New Woman criminal. Drawing on a rich body of archival material, Miller argues that the New Woman Criminal exploited iconic elements of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century commodity culture, including cosmetics and clothing, to fashion an illicit identity that enabled her to subvert legal authority via image and consumption.

Selected Publications:

• Framed: The New Woman Criminal in British Culture at the Fin de Siècle. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, November 2008.
  

• "Body, Spirit, Print: The Radical Autobiographies of Annie Besant and Helen and Olivia Rossetti." Feminist Studies 35.2 (Summer 2009): 1-28.
  
• "William Morris, Print Culture, and the Politics of Aestheticism." Modernism/Modernity 15.3 (September 2008): 477-502.
  

• "Collections and Collectivity: William Morris in the Rare Book Room." Journal of William Morris Studies. 17.2 (Summer 2007): 73-88.
  

• "'At a Distance from the Scene of the Atrocity': Death and Detachment in Poe's 'The Mystery of Marie Rogêt.'" Representations of Death in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Writing and Culture. Ed. Lucy E. Frank. Aldershot: Ashgate Press, 2007. 173-188.
  

• "'Shrewd Women of Business': Madame Rachel, Victorian Consumerism, and The Sorceress of the Strand." Victorian Literature and Culture 34.1 (Spring 2006): 311-332.
  

• "Trouble with She-Dicks: Private Eyes and Public Women in The Adventures of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective." Victorian Literature and Culture 33.1 (Spring 2005): 47-65.
  

• "''The Inward Revolution'": Sexual Terrorism in The Princess Casamassima." The Henry James Review 24.2 (Spring 2003): 146-167.

Selected Awards

• Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellowship, American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), 2009-2010
• Curran Fellowship, Research Society for Victorian Periodicals, 2008
• Joseph R. Dunlap Memorial Fellowship, William Morris Society of the U.S., 2007
• Public Goods Council Mellon Junior Fellowship, University of Michigan, 2004-2006