April Miller

Dr. April Miller holds a Ph.D. from The University of Rochester and a B.A., Honors, and M.A. from the University of Alberta. Currently working on a book project titled Offending Women: Gender and the Construction of Criminality in Silent Film, her research considers women's offenses against legal structures and aesthetic conventions as represented in film, literature, popular magazines and newspapers, and scientific writing of the Modernist period. In addition to her research on silent film, Miller has also published and presented work on horror films and theories of abjection and monstrosity.

While completing her graduate work at The University of Rochester, Dr. Miller received numerous fellowships and awards, including the Edward Peck Curtis Award for Teaching by a Graduate Student, the Raymond N. Ball Dissertation-Year Fellowship, the Gilman Memorial Prize for Literature, the Susan B. Anthony Dissertation Award, a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Doctoral Fellowship, several Susan B. Anthony Institute Research grants, and a Susan B. Anthony Institute Teaching Fellowship.

April Miller joined the Film Studies program at UNC in Fall 2007. Dr. Miller currently teaches a variety of film and literature courses at UNC, including Introduction to Film, Film History, and special topics courses in film and literature. In addition to teaching Introduction to Film, Dr. Miller is currently teaching a course on the Horror film, HUM 320: Monsters and Madmen. In Fall 2008, she will teach English 495: Mongrel Modernism, an interdisciplinary course that will consider the intersections between modernist literature, film, art, journalism, and science.

Telephone: (970) 351-2971
Office: Ross Hall 1180D

Snail mail:
Dr. April Miller
School of English Language & Literature
Campus Box 109
University of Northern Colorado
Greeley, CO 80639

For more information about the Film Studies program at the University of Northern Colorado, please contact April Miller

Office: Ross Hall 1180D Phone: (970) 351-2851

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