Name: Linda Patterson Miller
Rank: Professor of English
Office address: 329 Sutherland Phone Number: (215)881-7550
E-mail: lpm2@psu.edu
Iinstitution(s) where degrees were earned:
Hope College, BA
Ohio State University, MA
University of Delaware, PH.D
Names and numbers of courses taught:
English 3: The Great Traditions in American Literature
English 15: Rhetoric and Composition
English 133: Modern American Literature to World War II
English 140: Contemporary Literature
English 184: The Short Story
English 231: American Literature to 1865
English 232: American Literature from 1865
English 262: Reading Fiction
English 400: Fitzgerald, Hemingway and the Lost Generation
English 432: The American Novel to 1900
English 433: The American Novel: 1900-1945
English 435: The American Short Story
English 436: American Fiction Since 1945
English 487W Senior Seminar: With topics that have included American Autobiography, the American Short Story, and Ernest Hemingway
Short description of any research interests:
Dr. Miller publishes in all areas of American studies, but her specialty is early twentieth-century American literature and art. Her articles on American writers have appeared in such journals as Mosaic, Renascence, American Transcendental Quarterly, Journal of Modern Literature, North Dakota Quarterly, Studies in American Fiction and The Hemingway Review, and in several edited book collections. Dr. Miller's books include (with Randall M. Miller) The Book of American Diaries ( Avon, 1995) and Letters from the Lost Generation: Gerald and Sara Murphy and Friends (Rutgers University Press, 1991; paper 1993). Letters from the Lost Generation was recently published in a new and expanded edition (University Press of Florida, 2002). This book reexamines the circle surrounding famed expatriates Gerald and Sara Murphy that included such American writers as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos, Dorothy Parker, Archibald MacLeish and Philip Barry. Miller is presently completing another book on the American expatriate artists in France ( The Summer of '26) and Reading Hemingway: In Our Time (Kent State University Press, forthcoming). Miller is Chair of the Editorial Review Board for the Ernest Hemingway Complete Letters project, based at Penn State University, and she serves as a Board member of the Ernest Hemingway Foundation. Professor Miller has been both a Danforth Foundation Associate and a Lilly Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellow, and she has lectured nationally and internationally on modernist art as it relates to Hemingway and other American artists of the 1920s. She has been a regular speaker and book discussion leader for the Pennsylvania Humanities Council and the National Endowment for the Humanities, and she has served as a scholarly consultant (on expatriate American writers and artists) for American Playhouse, PBS, and for a projected documentary film on Maxwell Perkins (Editor at Scribners for Fitzgerald and Hemingway, among others). Prof. Miller's expertise in Hemingway studies led to her appearance as guest scholar for C-Span's two-hour show on Hemingway (aired live from Key West, Florida, on April 21, 2002 as part of C-Span's ongoing series American Writers: A Journey Through History). She presently serves as a consultant to the forthcoming multi-media art exhibit (“Sara and Gerald Murphy: Muses for the Avant-garde”, with venues to include, during 2007, The Williams College Museum of Art, The Dallas Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum in NYC).
