Nancy K. Miller

Nancy K. Miller is Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the Graduate Center, CUNY. That title represents the end point of an academic journey from the French department at Columbia to Women’s Studies at Barnard to English at Lehman College and the Graduate Center, and since 1999, English and Comparative Literature at the Graduate Center. The subjects of her books follow that trajectory from The Heroine’s Text: Readings in the French and English Novel, Subject to Change: Reading Feminist Writing, and the edited Poetics of Gender, to her most recent books, But Enough About Me: Why We Read Other People’s Lives, and the co-edited collection, Extremities: Trauma, Testimony, and Community. The memoir “Out of Breath” is the prequel to all of the above.