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EDWARD D. MILLER is one of the leading scholars in the burgeoning field of radio/audio studies. His book Emergency Broadcasting and 1930s American Radio 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 former Chair of the recently-formed Department of Media Culture at the College of Staten Island (part of the City University of New York) and also teaches at the Film Studies Certificate Program at the Graduate Center. 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. He is currently a contributor to the online publication BorderTalks. 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 on the World Wide Web. Miller is also a sound artist and a poet and he has worked extensively in downtown New York theatre. Before his career in academia, Miller worked in magazine publishing and non-profit management.

Miller is currently completing the book Episodes of Reality which examines the rise of nonfictionality in American popular culture in the early 1970s. He has begun researching a new major study of the iPod entitled "The Soundtrack for Everyday Life."

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/

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Edward D. Miller, PhD
151 !st Avenue #117
New York, NY 10003
917-373-5344
gnedward@gmail.com

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
Radio and Audio Studies, Nonfiction Film, Media and Performance

EXPERIENCE
TEACHING
Institution Dates Rank Department Tenure
College of Staten Island 2004 Associate Professor Media Culture Yes
College of Staten Island 2001-2003 Assistant Professor Media Culture No
College of Staten Island 1998-2001 Assistant Professor Performing & No
Creative Arts
College of Staten Island 1997-98 Substitute Instructor PCA No
New School 1996-98 Adjunct Media Studies
College of Staten Island 1996-97 Adjunct PCA
New York University 1995 Teaching Assistant Performance
Studies
PUBLISHING AND ADMINISTRATIVE
6/03-6/06 Chair of the Department of Media Culture, The College of Staten Island/

The City University of New York. Accomplishments include:
-Increased majors 50%
-Increased faculty 25%
-Coproduced a variety of lectures, screenings, art shows, symposia, and and conferences (including a film series at Lincoln Center and a conference on 100 Years of Chinese Cinema).
-Digitalized and integrated media labs

6/02-5/03 Acting Chair of the Department of Media Culture, The College of Staten Island/CUNY.

8/94-4/96 Cambridge University Press, New York, NY
Publication Coordinator for Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS), quarterly journal serving the psychology and cognitive sciences community.

8/91-6/94 NYU/Tisch School of the Arts, New York, NY.
Acting Associate Editor for TDR, the journal of performance studies published by MIT Press (promoted from Managing Editor 12/93 and Assistant Editor in 9/92)

1989-91 U.S. Servas Committee, Inc. New York, NY.
Administrator for 5,000 member chapter of an international peace and travel organization.

1988-89 Lower East Side Tenement Museum, New York, NY.
Manager/researcher for living history museum depicting immigrant and working class experience.

PUBLICATIONS
REFEREED BOOK
2003 Emergency Broadcasting and 1930s American Radio, 256-page book published by Temple University Press. The book was discussed in articles on radio in The New Yorker (14 April 2003) and The Chronicle of Higher Education (5 May 2004). It was reviewed in Communication Booknotes Quarterly (Winter 2003), Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries (September 2003), Journalism and Mass Communication Educator (Winter 2004), and the Journal of American History (June 2004) as well as other academic journals. It has been included in numerous syllabi and cited by many other writers.

REFEREED ARTICLES (PRINT)
1995 “The Switchboards of Desire: Storytelling on Phone Sex Lines" in Beyond the Lavender Lexicon, published by Gordon and Breach Publishers, pp. 3-18.

1994 "The Invention of the Irish and the Paranoid English State" in Found Object Issue 3, Spring 94, pp. 113-22.

REFEREED ARTICLES (ONLINE)
2003 “The Nonsensical Truth of the Falsetto Voice: Listening to Sigur Rós” in Popular Musicology Online. 8 October. http://www.popular-musicology-online.com/
papers/2003/miller.html.

2002 "Why Does Love Tear Us Apart: Love Songs and Psychoanalytic Narratives of Loss," M/C - A Journal of Media and Culture, Volume 5, Issue 6, November. http://www.media-culture.org.au/.

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
2005 “An Interview with Edward Miller by Sarah Lippek.” In Audio Dispatch 28, edited by Galen Joseph-Hunter and free 103point9’s Radio Lab. Wave Farm, NY: Free103point9.com. This is a textbook devised both for classroom and for individuals interested in alternative histories of radio and new media. Also available online at: http://www.free103point9.org/pdf/05.lippek miller.pdf.

2001 “Millennial Media and the Secrets of Disaster” In Mass Communication, Mixing Views, edited by Jabbar Al-Obaidi, pp 111-39. Published by Hi Tech Graphic Design & Publishing (Detroit, MI),

NON-REFEREED ARTICLES, AND PROCEEDINGS
2006 Various performance and media entries for Queer Culture: The Routledge Encyclopedia of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Contemporary International Cultures.

2001 "Broadcasting" and “De-Regulation” essay in Dictionary of Film and Television, edited by Roberta Pearson and Peter Simpson, published by Routledge (London).

Over 40 entries on major figures or concepts in American popular culture in Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Culture (including entries on “Bars,” “Stars and sex symbols,” “Johnny Cash,” “Jukeboxes,” “Automats,” “AT&T,” “Time Warner,” “Ted Turner,” “Microsoft and Bill Gates”) edited by Robert Gregg, Gary McDonogh, and Cindy H. Wong and published by Routledge.

“Millennial Media and the Secrets of Disaster” In Mass Communication, Mixing Views, edited by Jabbar Al-Obaidi, pp 111-39. Published by Hi Tech Graphic Design & Publishing (Detroit, MI).

2000 “Fantasies of Reality: Surviving Reality-Based Television.” Social Policy 31, 1 (Fall 2000), pp. 3-12. This essay is suggested as further reading on the BBC’s web site (http://www.bbc.co.uk/history) and has been widely cited elsewhere.

“Millennial Media” in Proceedings of the Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery’s “The Imagery of the 20th Century” conference. Held in Colorado Springs, Will Wright and Steve Kaplan, editors, pp. 28-33.

“The Matrix and the Medium’s Message.” In Social Policy Vol. 30, No. 4 (Summer), pp. 59-62.
(The essay is also available on BRC-News, http://www.mail-archive.com/marxism@lists.panix.com/msg11341.html. Also recommended reading at http://www-libraries.colorado.edu/ref/sasc/media.htm)

1994 "Mourning and Performativity," in Women and Performance 7, 4 (Issue 13), pp. 158‑164.

1989 “Why America Still Goes to the Movies," in Search (April), published by Scholastic, Inc, pp. 23-25.

BOOK REVIEW
1994 "A Review of Queering the Pitch," book review in TDR 37, 4 (Fall), pp. 191‑194.

ONLINE FILM AND MEDIA REVIEWS
2006 “Profile of Peter Wing-Healey” (with photography by Annie Leibovitz) in Papotage. 15 May. http://papotage.com/may06/peter.html.

2004 “Theory is Passé, but Philosophy is Back in Style” in M/C Reviews. 12 July.
http://reviews.media-culture.org.au/article.php?sid=953

“Capturing the Beauty of the Beast: Aileen Wuornos, Charlize Theron, and Monster” in Bright Lights Film Journal, issue number 43 (March). http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/43/monster.htm. Earlier version of article also published in M/C Reviews.

“Pledging Allegiance to a Performative” in M/C Reviews. 3 February.
http://reviews.media-culture.org.au/article.php?sid=877

2003 “The Cyborg Candidate: The Terminator Campaign” in M/C Reviews. 14 September. http://reviews.media-culture.org.au/article.php?sid=775

“Regarding the Spectacle of Others: That French Specialty in Abdicating Reality” in M/C Reviews. 1 July. http://reviews.media-culture.org.au/article.php?sid=717

MEDIA PROGRAM
2003 Program for the Media Culture Faculty Art Show, commenting on the role of media in ontemporary art-making practices. Show opened 28 April.

WEB SITES MAINTAINED
Pretentious Thoughts of a PostTheorist at http://nedward.blogspot.com (web log and collected writings)
Adventures in and out of Mainstream Media at http://milleremedia.blogspot.com (media and art reviews)
Currriculum Vita for Dr. Edward Miller at http://edwarddmillercv.blogspot.com (cv and links to online writings)
Sound collages/songs on http://www.myspace.com/acousmetre

IN PREPARATION
"Episodes of Reality: Gender and Media in the Early 1970s” This book re-imagines American media and culture in the early 1970s. Date of completion: 5/2008.

“WEVD and the Public Sphere.” Essay on socialist radio station WEVD in the 20s and 30s to be submitted to The Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast and Audio Media upon the request of a Contributing Editor.

“The iPod, the Playlist, and the Soundtrack for Everyday Life.” Book manuscript under development.

HIGHER EDUCATION
DEGREES
Institution Dates Degree and Major Date Conferred
New York University 1993-98 PhD/Performance Studies 1998
New York University 1990-92 MA/Performance Studies 1993
Univ. of Mass/Amherst 1980-83 BA/Comparative Literature 1983

ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL HONORS
2006 Presidential Fellowship in support of research awarded by the President of The
College of Staten Island

2005-06 Ford Foundation Fellow at CUNY’s Center for Place, Culture, and Politics. Year long seminar discussing American democracy, presenting and discussing original research.

2002 Dean's Award for Reassigned Time, Office of the Dean of Humanities and
Social Sciences and Dean of Science and Technology. The College of Staten Island/CUNY.

Summer Research Stipend for Undergraduates (awarded to my student Laura LaBega), Office of the Dean of Humanities.

2001 Summer Research Stipend, Office of the Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Summer Research Stipend for Undergraduates (awarded to my student Natalie Baginski), Office of the Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences.

1993 "Theatre of War," winner of an essay competition managed by the Association for
Theatre in Higher Education, at the ATHE Conference, Philadelphia, PA, August 1993.

1991-1997 Graduate Assistantship in the Department of Performance Studies, New York University, New York, NY.

INVITED LECTURES AND FILM INTRODUCTIONS
2008 Moderator for the Keynote Panel, “Framed Reality: A Discussion of Documentary,” part of the conference entitled “Framed: Delimiting the Filmed Image,” at the Graduate Center, 10 April.

2007 Introduction to a screening of The Exorcist, sponsored by the Graduate Center’s
Cinema Studies Group. 26 September.

2005 “Research into Radio” presentation at “Experimental Radio Practices” panel sponsored by Eyebeam arts organization, NYC. 25 February.

2003 “The Commercialization and Popularization of the Internet: Lessons from FM Radio.” October. Lecture sponsored by The College of Staten Island alumni association.

“The Exorcist, the Oil Embargo, and Perceptions of Evil” Part of a teach-in on the War in Iraq. May. Lecture sponsored by the Provost’s office. The College of Staten Island.

2002 “New Developments in English Television Programming," October 2002.
Part of the World on Wednesday lecture series, The College of Staten Island.

"Regimes of Gendered Reality: An American Family and Televisuality," part of the Men and Gender Studies panel at the Feminism and Feminist Studies in the
Twentieth-First Century, a workshop sponsored by the Women's Studies Program,
The College of Staten Island, 12 May.

2000 “Radio, the Internet, and the Desire for Community,” talk given as part of
“Communities of Communication: Radio and the Internet, Technology at the Turn of Two Centuries,” sponsored by the Department of Theatre at Brooklyn College/CUNY, May.

“Mediated Sounds and Noisy Performances,” guest lecture given at Stanford University, as part of Richard Green’s course on History of Dance, in the Drama Department, Palo Alto, CA. 27 April.

PAPERS PRESENTED AT CONFERENCES (abbreviated)
2007 “Anger on the Ether: Randi Rhodes and the Heating up of Air America.” Part of the Panel “Radio IX: Radical Airwaves: Inner-City Radio, Futuristic Underground, & Air America's Randi Rhodes,” presented at the Popular Culture Association conference, Boston April 6.

2001 “Civic Voices: The Case of the Socialist Radio Station, WEVD.” Essay on progressive American radio, part of the panel, “Civic Voices of the Air: Nation, Immigration and Labor in American and Mexican Radio, 1925-1955, presented at the American Studies Association, Washington, DC, 19 November.

"Resistance is Stylish: Fashion, Rebelliousness, and Race in The Matrix," at 31st Popular Culture Association and 23rd American Culture Association Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA, 13 April.

2000 “Fantasies of Survival: Reality-Based Television,” at 100 Years of Mass Culture conference sponsored by Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 29 September-1 October.

"Millennial Media and 20th Century Images of Disaster," presented at "The Image of the 20th Century," sponsored by the Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery and the University of Southern Colorado, Colorado Springs, CO, 9 March.

Panel Chair and Presenter, “The Anxiety of Inter-disciplinarity,” sponsored by The Office of Academic Affairs, College of Staten Island/CUNY, 15 February.

Secrets of Disaster," presented at On the Edge of Time, the 25th Annual Conference of Literature and Film, sponsored by Florida State University, 29 January.

INTERVIEWS (abbreviated)
2007 Interviewed by John Schaeffer for Soundcheck’s show “Dude Sounds Like a Lady” on radio station WNYC, 3 March. Podcast and recording available at: http://www.wnyc.org/shows/soundcheck/episodes/2007/03/09

2003 Interviewed by Automat Pictures for the documentary Game Theory on the history and meaning of reality television. This film is included in the new DVD for the film The Running Man. Released September.

Interviewed by “About Books” on WVIK, Rock Island, IL, on radio history. Broadcast on 1 August.

Interviewed by “The Todd Mundt Show” of Michigan Public Radio on radio history. Heard on over 30 PBS stations. Broadcast on 29 April.

2002 Interviewed by Diane C. Lore, staff writer for the Staten Island Advance on extreme television game shows. Extensively quoted in article, "Playing on the Edge," March 10, pages D1, D5.

Interviewed by Valerie Tevere for her video installation "Palm Trees on Madison Avenue: A New York Mapping of Los Angeles, December 2001 - January 2002"
Video shown as part of the Mapping Los Angeles exhibit at the SCI-Arc Gallery,
Southern California Institute of Architecture, February 8-March 23.

CONSULTANCIES
2004-07 Evaluator for a Professional Staff Congress-CUNY grant applications.

2003 Outside evaluator of manuscripts for refereed journal, Media and Psychology. January.

2002-2004 Outside reviewer for tenure candidates, Brooklyn College’s Department of Television and Radio.

2001 Consultant (casting, locations) for Wall to Wall Productions (London, England), on a new reality-based program, Smallpox 2002 for BBC/The Discovery Channel. This company filmed 1900 House.

1999-2000 Culture Editor for Social Policy, quarterly journal exploring progressive politics
and policy initiatives.

2000 Outside Reader for Doctoral Dissertation, “Performing the Passions” by
Virginia Liberatore, Department of Performance Studies, New York University

1999-2000 Contributing Editor for Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Culture.

CURATORIAL
1989-90 Panelist for NY State Council on the Arts' Manhattan Decentralization Program.

1989-90 Judge for annual student poetry contest, Scholastic, Inc.

PERFORMANCES (abbreviated)
2008 Sound collages recorded and posted to http://www.myspace.com/acousmetre. Collages include soundtrack to an imagined “Film”, “Phone” conversations and “overheard” chatter in New York City. 13 January.

2007 Performed "The iPod and the Soundtrack for Everyday Life"on the Staten Island Ferry as part of the FM Ferry Experiment (also transmitted live on radio station WSIA), September 28. Podcast available at http://www.fmferryexperiment.net/.

2004 Performed on The Graham Norton Show (English talk/variety show), taping a New York City season, broadcasted on 13 February.

1998 Directed "Digits" for the Student Drama Society at the College of Staten Island, based on improvised work, December.

Featured performer in Carolyn Shapiro's "Toy Theater of the Crypt" at The Toy
Theater Festival, New York, November.

1996 Featured performer in "How Many Texts? Two Nights of Variety Showcase Entertainment" at Space XOXO (NYC), November.

1995 Reader and coproducer for a series of poetry readings at Space X0XO.

Featured performer in Voyage to Atlanthus, late night serialized play/soap opera, written by Gillian Gunther, staged at Workhouse Theater (NYC), August.

1994 Dramaturgy and staging, Sunset Salome: A Spectacle in Progress, performed at the Vineyard Theater (NYC), produced by T.W.E.E.D.S. and The Mesopotamian Opera Company as part of "Stonewall 25" festival, June 19-23.

1986-1989 Producing alternative cabaret nights at Cave Canem and Chameleon nightclubs, and poetry series at Neither/Nor and Intuflo, New York, NY.

CURRENT MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
American Studies Association
Popular Culture Association
Museum of Television and Radio--Researcher Status

RECORD OF COLLEGE SERVICE
COURSES TAUGHT
COM100: Introduction to Media (large lecture format with two teaching assistants)

COM150: Introduction to Communications
COM200: Media and Culture
COM201: History and Theory of Television
COM203: Theories of Communication
COM220: History of Broadcasting
COM241: Communications Design Workshop
COM290: Media Internship
COM312: Theories of Mass Media
COM370: New Communication Technologies
COM371: Minorities and the Media
COM374: Mass Media and Society
COM450: Senior Seminar
COM465: Writing for the Media
AMS241: Popular Culture and Mass Society (American Studies Program)
HSSH102: The American Experience: Social Science (Honor's College Program)
CIN407: Documentary Film
CMC743: Nonfiction Media (Graduate Course)
CMC714: Theories of Film and Media (Graduate Course)
FSCP81000:Documenting the Self: Performance in Nonfiction Film (at CUNY Graduate Center)
FSCP81000:Aesthetics of Film (at CUNY Graduate Center for the Fall 2008)

INDEPENDENT STUDIES SUPERVISED
Broadcast Journalism and Minority Issues
Radio History
Script Writing
Introduction to Design
Writing for the Media

SERVICE
City University of New York:
Participant in New Media Studies Seminar, organized to create a new PhD university-wide PhD program, 2004-05
Participated in university-wide meeting, advising Louise Mirrer, CUNY’s Executive Vice-Chancellor for Academic Affairs, on devising a graduate journalism program, January 2003.
Mentor, CUNY Baccalaureate Program, Fall 1998-Spring 1999.

The College of Staten Island:
Fellowship Committee for the Jeanette Watson Awards, Spring 2008
Proposal for a television program – part of the Staten Island Projects initiative.
Advisory Committee, WSIA Radio Station, Fall 2003-Spring 2004
Advisory Committee, CSI High School Initiative, Fall 2003
Proposal for a high school Media Literacy program – became part of the Staten Island Projects initiative.
Student Election Review Committee, Fall 2001-Spring 2002
Student Scholarship Committee 2001-2002
Faculty Representative, Hispanic Student Club, Fall 2001-Spring 2002
Divisional Academic Priorities Committee and member of the Technology, Communication and Commerce working group, Spring 2001- Spring 2002
Focus Group Presenter of the Communications Major for the Office of Academic Advisement, April 2001 and 2002
Work with Writing Fellow from the Graduate Center Fall 2001 and Spring 2002
Writing Across the Curriculum Study Group, Spring 2001
Presenter at the Symposium on Writing Across the Curriculum, May 2001
Focus Group Presenter of the Communications Major for the Office of Academic Advisement, April 2001
Presenter at the Conference for High School College Advisors, Sept. 2000
Workshop Presenter on New Media, Majors' Week, Spring 1998 and 1999
Representative, Middle States Review Committee, Fall 1999

Administrative Positions:
Chair, Department of Media Culture, Summer 2004-current
Acting Chair, Department of Media Culture, Summer 2002-Spring 2003
Deputy Chair, Department of Media of Culture, Spring/Fall 2001
Deputy Chair, PCA Dept., Fall 1999-Fall 2000
Communications Coordinator, Spring/Fall 2001, Spring/Fall 2000, Spring 1999

Search Committees:
Communications Position , Department of Media Culture, Spring 2008
Chair, Digital Media Position, Dept. of Media Culture, Spring 2004
Chair, Television Studies Position, Dept. of Media Culture, Spring 2004
Radio Station Manager, Student Life, Spring 2004
Communications Position, Dept. of Media Culture, Fall 2001-Spring 2002
Cinema Studies Position, Dept. of Media Culture, Fall 2001-Spring 2002
Journalism Position, English, Speech & World Literature Dept., Fall 1999-Spring 2000
Digital Imaging Position, PCA Dept., Fall 1999-Spring 2000
Drama Position, PCA Dept., Spring 2000
Journalism Position, English, Speech & World Literature Dept., Fall 1999-Spring 1999
Drama Position, PCA Dept., Spring 1999

Department of Media Culture:
College Council, Fall 2006-Spring 2008
Graduate Committee, Fall 2007-Spring 2008
Curriculum Committee, Fall 2002-Spring 2008
Appointments Committee, Fall 2002-Spring 2008
Speaker at Department Commencement Ceremonies, 2001-2004

Department of Performing and Creative Arts:
Appointments Committee, Spring/Fall 2001
Grants Team, PCA Dept., Spring 2000
Faculty Coordinator, Advisement, Fall 1999-Spring 2000
Coordinator, New York New Media Association Internship Program, Fall 1999

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