Dr. 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. Her book manuscript, titled Offending Women: Gender and the Construction of Criminality in Silent Film, considers women's offenses against legal structures and aesthetic conventions as represented in film, literature, the popular press, 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. She has published articles on contemporary Canadian horror films, women's roles in the early film industry, and the cult of the criminal celebrity.
April Miller joined the Film Studies program at UNC in Fall 2007. Dr. Miller currently teaches a variety of film and literature courses, including Introduction to Film, Film History, and special topics courses in film and literature. In Fall 2008, Dr. Miller taught an advanced cultural studies course, English 495: Mongrel Modernism, that examined the intersections between modernist literature, film, art, journalism, and science. In Spring 2009, Professor Miller taught a graduate studies course in Film Theory & Criticism. She also teaches FILM 210: History of Film I and FILM 320: Criminal Minds. In Fall 2009, students can look for a reprisal of FILM 30: "Monsters and Madmen," a course that examines the Horror Film in American and international contexts. In Spring 2010, Miller will teach a new Film Minor requirement: FILM 310: Criticism and Theory. April Miller is also the co-faculty advisor, along with Kenneth Chan, for the International Film Series.
Courses Taught:
FILM 120: Introduction to Film Studies
FILM 210: Film History I: 1890-1945
FILM 330: Monsters & Madmen: The Horror Film
FILM 330: Criminal Minds: The Crime Film
FILM 310: Film Theory
ENG 495: Mongrel Modernism
ENG 642: Film Theory and Criticism: Gender, Genre, and Film Theory
Contact:
Dr. April Miller
Assistant Professor & Director of Film Studies
School of English Language & Literature
University of Northern Colorado
Campus Box 109
Greeley, CO 80639
Telephone: (970) 351-2851
Office: Ross Hall 1180D