M.A. Miller

Biography

M.A. Miller is an Assistant Professor of Gender, Race, and Health in the department of Women’s, Gender, Sexuality Studies at Washington State University. They have recent and forthcoming publications in Victorian Studies, Nineteenth-Century Literature, MELUS, a special issue on “Transing Romanticism” in European Romantic Review, Unsettling Sexuality: Eighteenth-Century Queer Horizons, The Edinburgh University Press Companion to Queer Reading, The Routledge Handbook of Trans Literature, and Trans Ecocriticism: Animality, Embodiment, and Environment in Transgender Literature. They are currently working on two academic monographs, “Trans*-imperial Ecologies: Empires’ Cultivation of the Ideal Trans Subject” and “Gender Unconformities: Deep Time’s Racial Matters” as well as a hybrid-memoir: “Life/Forms/At/Boundaries: A Trans*- Ecology.”

Research Interests

• Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-century Global Anglophone Literature
• Environmental Humanities
• Queer and Trans Ecologies
• Studies of Empire and Settler Colonialism
• Caribbean Studies
• Postcolonial Studies of Diaspora and the Global South (including India, Iran, Jordan, and South Africa)
• Queer/Trans and Feminist Theory
• Gender and Sexuality Studies
• Film Studies

Selected Publications

• “Matters of Intimacy: The Sugar-Cane’s Asexual Ecologies.” Unsettling Sexuality: Eighteenth-Century Queer Horizons. Edited by Jeremy Chow and Shelby Johnson. University of Delaware Press, forthcoming.
• “The Anthropocene and Trans Literature.” The Routledge Handbook of TransLiterature. Edited by Douglas Vakoch. Routledge, forthcoming.
• “‘against the order of nature’: Trans Taxa in Colonial India and Bengal,” The Edinburgh University Press Companion to Queer Reading. Edited by Jeremy Chow and Declan Kavanagh. Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming.
• “Cultivating Colonial Sexualities: Queer Extinction in Anglo-Persia, the Qajar Dynasty to Post   Revolutionary Iran,” Routledge Companion to Global Victorian Literature and Culture. Edited by Sukanya Banerjee and Fariha Shaikh. Routledge, forthcoming.
• “‘F*ck Anyone Who’s Not a Sea Blob’: Trans Bildung and the Intertidal Invertebrate,” Trans Ecocriticism: Animality, Embodiment, and Environment in Transgender Literature. Edited by Douglas Vakoch, forthcoming.
• “Doesn’t matter if it’s crack or…pesticides, AIDS, it’s all the same shit’: Body-Land Metonymies in Cherríe Moraga’s Heroes and Saints,” Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, forthcoming.
• “Transing Unconformities in an Era of Environmental Transition,” European Romantic Review, Special Issue: “Transing Romanticism,” forthcoming.
• “The Costs of Passing in the Transvaal,” Victorian Studies 64.4 (Summer 2022): pp. 611-23.
• Published as Margaret A. Miller, “George Eliot’s Wetland Form,” Nineteenth-Century Literature 76.3 (December 2021): pp. 291-320.
• Published as Margaret A. Miller, “Making Room: Queer Domesticity in Jane Austen’s Emma and the Anne Lister Diaries.” At Home in the Eighteenth Century: Interrogating Domestic Space. Edited by Karen Lipsedge and Stephen Hague. Routledge, 2021, pp. 225-244.  
• Published as Margaret A. Miller, “Navigating Wonder: The Medieval Geographies of Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant,” Co-authored with Matthew Vernon, Arthuriana 28.4 (Winter 2018), 68-89.