Faculty
Cristanne Miller
Edward H. Butler Professor of English and Chair of the Department
Office: Clemens 320
Phone number: 716-645-2575 x1023
E-mail address: ccmiller@buffalo.edu
Interests:
nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American poetry, gender and language issues, comparative modernist poetry, the effects of the Civil War on U.S. poetry as a genre. Concentrated work on Emily Dickinson, Marianne Moore, Mina Loy, Else Lasker-Schüler, the cities of New York and Berlin between 1900 and 1930, and on Civil War poetry.
Courses taught:
Reading and Writing the Civil War; Whitman and Dickinson; Modernist Poetry; Tale of 3 Modernisms; Language and the Self; Literary Editing.
Work in progress:
a book manuscript called “Poetry After Gettysburg”; an essay on Moore and Loy for a collection called “Mina Loy’s Circle”; an essay on aberration in Moore’s poetry; an essay on syntax and rhythm in Dickinson’s poetry.
Selected publications:
- Emily Dickinson: A Poet's Grammar. Harvard University Press, 1987. [Chapter reprinted in New Century Views of Emily Dickinson, ed. Judith Farr; Prentice-Hall, 1996.]
- Marianne Moore: Questions of Authority. Harvard University Press, 1995.
- Cultures of Modernism: Marianne Moore, Mina Loy, Else Lasker-Schüler. Gender and Literary Community in New York and Berlin. University of Michigan Press, 2005.
- Feminist Measures: Soundings in Poetry and Theory. Edited with Lynn Keller. University of Michigan Press, 1994.
- Selected Letters of Marianne Moore. Edited with Bonnie Costello and Celeste Goodridge. Knopf, 1997.
- The Emily Dickinson Handbook. Edited with Roland Hagenbüchle and Gudrun Grabher. University of Massachusetts Press, 1998; second printing 2004.
- “Words for the Hour”: A New Anthology of American Civil War Poetry. Edited with Faith Barrett. University of Massachusetts Press, 2005.
- Critics and Poets on Marianne Moore: “A right good salvo of barks”. Edited with Linda Leavell and Robin G. Schulze. Bucknell University Press, 2005.
