Angela L. Miller
			Director of Graduate Studies Ph.D. Yale University, American Studies, 1985
		Professor Miller's teaching and research interests are the cultural history of 19th and 20th century American arts. More specialized areas of research and teaching include 19th/20th century visual culture (histories of panoramas, animation, cartoons, photography and graphic design); gender and sexuality in the Gilded Age and fin-de-siècle; visual constructions of nationhood; the Atlantic world during the period of first European encounters; early American modernism, and the cultural histories of arts between the two world wars. Publications: Empire of the Eye: Landscape Representation and American Cultural Politics, 1825-1875, published by Cornell University Press in 1993, was the winner of the John Hope Franklin Prize from the American Studies Association (1994) and the Charles Eldredge Prize from the Smithsonian (1995). Recent work (selective): ’With Eyes Wide Open’: The Americanization of Surrealism,” in Sabine Eckmann and Lutz Koepnick, eds., Caught by Politics: Hitler Exiles and American Visual Culture in the 1930s and 1940s (forthcoming: Palgrave); and American Encounters: The Arts and Cultural Identity, from the Beginning to the Present (lead author, team of six; forthcoming, Prentice-Hall). Published articles and review essays in American Art, Oxford Art Journal, Art in America, American Quarterly, New England Quarterly, Winterthur Portfolio, Prospects, and American Literary History. Work in recent and forthcoming anthologies of essays on American art and culture: American Wilderness (forthcoming); A Keener Perception (forthcoming); Critical Issues in American Art (1998); The Material Culture of Gender (1997); and American Iconology (1993). In recent years, I have undertaken advising in the area of Latin American arts, a field of developing interest. Recent service in American Studies and Art History: Chair, John Hope Franklin Prize Committee for best book in American Studies. American Studies Association, 2004. Consultant, Andrew Mellon Foundation, to assist in development of ArtStor, a digital archive of Art History and visual culture. Senior Scholar, Musee D’Art Americain (Terra Foundation), Giverny, France. July 2002. Editorial Board, American Quarterly. Two three-year terms (1996-2001). Courses include: Fin-de-siécle United States Art and cultural criticism of the 1920s Culture and politics in the 1930s The arts of cultural encounter in the American West Gender and American art: images and issues American modernisms Gilded Age U.S. American art to 1900 American art, 1900-1950 The city in American arts and popular culture, 1910-1940 Recent and ongoing M.A./ Ph.D. titles: “Binding Frankenstein : Reclaiming the Self in the Visual Culture of the Machine Age” (Ph.D.) “White Collared: Fashioning Masculinity in American Visual Culture” (Ph.D.) “Modern Eremites: Art and the Vocation of Withdrawal in Gilded Age America.” (Ph.D.) “Action as Reaction: The New York School and the Formulation of an American Avant-Garde.” (M.A.) “The Iconographic Tradition of the Calavera: Nationalism and International Modernism in the Representation of Mexican Folk Culture.” (M.A.) Professor Miller can be contacted at almiller@artsci.wustl.edu.