Tha茂s Miller, Ph.D.
Tha茂s Miller, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Creative Writing
Win Thompson Hall 335
Ph.D. in Literature with a Creative/Critical Writing Concentration from the University of California, Santa Cruz
M.A. in Individualized Study: Creative Writing for Social Activism from New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study
B.A. magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, with Honors in Literature and a Music Performance Minor from American University.
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Biography :
Tha茂s grew up in Los Angeles, surrounded by movie theater marquees. She enjoys traveling, and she studied and worked in聽Washington, DC, New York City, and San Francisco before arriving in Conway.She works at the intersection of literary and speculative fiction. She is the author of the dystopian novel聽Our Machinery聽(Brown Paper Publishing, 2008) and a collection of speculative feminist fiction,听The Subconscious Mutiny and Other Stories聽(Brown Paper Publishing, 2009).
Tha茂s聽believes in life-long learning, and her creative writing and critical research are intertwined. In her thirties, she learned Yiddish (her grandmother’s first language) to write a speculative novel called Fail Better Soon (Regal House Publishing, 2028)聽about a woman haunted by her grandmother’s ghost. Her creative and scholarly writing has been featured in聽狈补蝉丑颈尘,听Poetics Today,听Studies in Popular Culture,听Jewish Film and New Media,听The Common,听The Jewish Review of Books,听Entropy,听Nautilus,听The Los Angeles Review of Books,听CRAFT,听Vol. 1 Brooklyn, and聽So It Goes: The Literary Journal of the Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library, among other journals.听She is currently editing an anthology under contract with Bloomsbury called Reclaiming Creative Critical Writing Ancestors (2028).
She has over fifteen years of professional experience as an editor of multi-genre creative writing. She volunteered for the Center for Fiction and the Brooklyn-based magazine,听One Story, among other literary organizations. Her teaching is also informed by her film and media industry experience screening films and writing the digital catalogue for the Jewish Film Institute鈥檚 San Francisco Jewish Film Festivals as well as reviewing screenplays and short film submissions for Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas鈥檚 film production company American Zoetrope. Many of her in-class exercises are inspired by her prior work in digital advertising and new media, particularly her work as an interactive writer for a robotics company.
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