Associate Professor
Office Location: HE 439
Phone Number: (262) 472-5058
Email Address: millerjs@uww.edu

Degrees:                                                                                                                                                                                             B.A., Pomona College; Ph. D. 1998 UW-Madison

Areas of Teaching:                                                                                                                                                                           20th Century American Literature and Culture, Freshman English/Honors

Courses Taught:                                                                                                                                                                              American Literature Survey, American Literature in a Postmodern Age, Contemporary Novel, Introduction to English, Critical Writing

Publications:                                                                                                                                                                                       Books:                                                                                                                                                                                                  Acting Out Culture (Bedford/St. Martins Press, 2008)                                                                                                                        Managerial Memory: History, Heritage and the Invention of White-Collar Roots (University of Michigan Press, forthcoming)

Selected Articles:                                                                                                                                                                                 "Zoning the Past: Babbitts, Brokers and the Memory Work of Commercial Real Estate" Journal of American Studies (April 2008)  "Mapping the Boosterist Imaginary: Colonial Williamsburg and the Performance of White-Collar Memory" Public Historian (Winter 2007)                                                                                                                                                                                                    "White-Collar Excavations: Fortune Magazine and the Invention of the Industrial Folk" Journal of American Folklore (Fall 2004)    "Manufacturing the Past: Fortune Magazine and the Production of Managerial Memory" American Periodicals 13 (Fall 2003)        "Hard-boiled Masculinity, Middlebrow Culture and the Invention of Tough Authorship" American Studies (Fall 2002)                      "The Right and Lucky Man: Hard-boiled Masculinity, Mass Culture and the Myth of Tough Writing in Raymond Chandler" Studies in American Culture 25.2 (October 2002)