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.

Publication Spotlight:

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

"By situating the New Woman criminal in the context of new genres that emerged in response to, and registered the shock of, changing social norms and technological modes at the fin de siècle, Miller is able to isolate and meticulously contextualize both the ways that visuality and femininity were connected in new ways at the end of the Victorian era and to productively engage neglected visual texts including magazine illustration and film." -- Review by Kristen Guest, Journal of British Studies (October 2009): 1033-34.

"Framed: The New Woman Criminal in British Culture at the Fin de Siècle is remarkable for its wide-ranging scholarship and the breadth of its author’s thinking. Miller has produced a valuable, highly readable study that will change the way we think about the New Woman and her political and social agency." "She also does more than any critic to date to outline the dialogue between page and screen that was emerging at the fin de siècle, drawing attention to the similarities of the two genres and forcing us to discard our modern-day distinctions between fiction and film." -- Review by Grace Moore, Nineteenth Century Literature (December 2009): 426-29.

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 in the United States, 2007
• Public Goods Council Mellon Junior Fellowship, University of Michigan, 2004-2006