EDWARD D. MILLER's work focuses on media and performance, radio and audio, and nonfiction media. He is the author of the recently published Tomboys, Pretty Boys, and Outspoken Women: The Media Revolution of 1973 (University of Michigan Press, 2011). His previous book Emergency Broadcasting and 1930s American Radio (Temple University Press, 2003) was written about in The New Yorker and The Chronicle of Higher Education and reviewed enthusiastically in numerous academic journals including Communication Booknotes Quarterly, Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, Journalism and Mass Communication Educator, and the Journal of American History. He is the Coordinator for the Graduate Program in Cinema and Media Studies at the College of Staten Island. He also teaches at the Film Studies Certificate Program and the Theatre Program at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York Miller has been interviewed by journalists, radio show hosts, and filmmakers for his views on popular culture, radio, and nonfiction media.
Dr. Miller teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on American media history and theory. His approach is influenced by his training in the field of performance studies and an ongoing interest in critiques of Western philosophical and cultural traditions, but he writes and lectures in a style that does not rely upon academic jargon. Miller has served as a Contributing Editor to the Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Culture, the cultural editor for the journal Social Policy, and as Managing Editor and Associate Editor for TDR, a journal of performance studies. His work is widely available online. Before his career in academia, Miller worked in magazine publishing, theatre, and non-profit management.
Some of Edward D. Miller’s work is available on the Web:
Sound Experiments: Acousmetre
http://www.myspace.com/acousmetre
BorderTalks
http://bordertalksblog.com/
Media journal: Adventures in and out of Mainstream Media
http://milleremedia.blogspot.com/
Review of the film Tarnation
http://bad.eserver.org/reviews/2004/tarnation.html
Review of Terry Eagleton's After Theory
Theory is Passé, but Philosophy is Back in Style
Review of the film Monster
http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/43/monster.htm
Review of Susan Sontag's Regarding the Pain of Others
http://reviews.media-culture.org.au/article.php?sid=717
Review of myself reviewing others--Pretentious Thoughts
http://nedward.blogspot.com/