The University of St. Thomas

College of Arts & Sciences | Department of English

Leslie Miller

Leslie Miller

Leslie Miller

Professor of English

lamiller@stthomas.edu
Phone: (651) 962-5604

Office Location: JRC 352
Office Hours: N/A--Dr. Miller is on sabbatical in 2011-2012

Faculty Website

Courses taught in Fall 2012
ENGL 121-22
41749
Critical Thinking: Lit/Writing 1335-1510 M W JRC 301

4 Credit Hours

Students will read and write about literary texts critically and closely. The course emphasizes recursive reading and writing processes that encourage students to discover, explain, question and clarify ideas. To this end, students will study a variety of genres as well as terms and concepts helpful to close analysis of those genres. They will practice various forms of writing for specific audiences and purposes. Students will reflect on and develop critical awareness of their own strengths and weaknesses as readers and writers.

ENGL 121-24
41751
Critical Thinking: Lit/Writing 1525-1700 M W JRC 301

4 Credit Hours

Students will read and write about literary texts critically and closely. The course emphasizes recursive reading and writing processes that encourage students to discover, explain, question and clarify ideas. To this end, students will study a variety of genres as well as terms and concepts helpful to close analysis of those genres. They will practice various forms of writing for specific audiences and purposes. Students will reflect on and develop critical awareness of their own strengths and weaknesses as readers and writers.

GENG 649-01
42482
Modern/Contemp American Poetry 1800-2100 T TBD

3 Credit Hours

Potential topics may include such figures as Edith Wharton, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, and Willa Cather. Potential topics may include the rise of the American Theater, the Beats, and contemporary American literature. Credit may be earned more than once under this number for different emphases. Prerequisite: GENG 513 or permission of instructor

Academic History

Ph.D., University of Houston
M.F.A., University of Iowa
M.A., University of Missouri
B.A., Stephens College
At St. Thomas since 1991

Expertise/Specialties

Contemporary American Poetry
Creative Writing

Book Publications

Y, poems, Graywolf Press, forthcoming 2012

The Resurrection Trade, poems, Graywolf Press, 2007

Eat Quite Everything You See, poems, Graywolf Press, 2002

Yesterday Had a Man In It, poems, Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1998

Ungodliness, poems, Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1994

Staying Up for Love, poems, Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1990

No River, a chapbook of poems selected by William Stafford for the 1987 Stanley Hanks Chapbook Award, St. Louis Poetry Center

Hanging on the Sunburned Arm of Some Homeboy, a chapbook of poems co-written with Matthew Graham, from Domino Impressions Press, Iowa City, 1982

A complete listing of Leslie Adrienne Miller's published poems can be found on her Web site, located at www.leslieadriennemillerpoet.com

Selected Awards, Grants, and Fellowships

The Edward Stanley Award from Prairie Schooner Magazine

Loft McKnight Award of Distinction, judged by Alice Fulton

Loft Minnesota Writers Career Initiative Grant

Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Assistance Fellowships

Nebraska Review Poetry Award judged by Pamela Stewart

Arts International Travel Grant, Indonesia, United States International Education Program

Loft-McKnight Award in Poetry

The Strousse Award from Prairie Schooner Magazine

National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowship

Billee Murray Denny Poetry Award

Stanley Young Fellowship in Poetry, Breadloaf Writers' Conference

Pen Southwest Discovery Award, judged by Phil Levine

Ann Stanford Poetry Prize from Southern California Anthology judged by William Matthews

Pushcart Prize

Writers at Work Poetry Fellowship, sponsored by Quarterly West, judged by Marvin Bell

Stanley Hanks Poetry Chapbook Award, St. Louis Poetry Center, selected by William Stafford

Writers at Work Poetry Fellowship, judged by Stephen Dunn

Stephens College Excellence in Teaching Award, selected by the faculty of Stephens College

President's Award from Ohio Journal, judged by David Citino

Artists' Residencies

Anderson Center For Interdisciplinary Studies, Artist's Residency

Le Chateau de Lavigny, Maison d'ecrivains, Foundation Ledig-Rowoholt, Lavigny, Switzerland, Artist's Residency

Fundacion Valparaiso, Almeria, Spain, Artist's Residency

Hawthornden Castle International Writers Retreat Fellowship, Scotland, Artist's Residency

N.A.L.L. Artists Colony, Vence, France, Artist's Residency

Goethe-Institut Cultural Exchange Fellowship in Berlin, Germany in cooperation with Chicago's Guild Complex, TriQuarterly Magazine, the Berlin Senate and Literarisches Colloquium Berlin