John D. Miles, Graduate Student
Office Phone: (518) 485-3774
Email Address: jdm25@duke.edu
Specialties:
American Literature
18th Century Literature
19th Century Literature
Other
Education:
PhD (expected), Duke University, 2009
MA, University of Arizona, 2002
BA, Trinity University, 1998
Current projects: Dissertation: "The Afterlives of King Philip’s War: Negotiating War and Identity in Early America"
Areas of Interest:
Colonial American Literature
Transatlantic Seventeenth Century
Nineteenth Century American Literature
Literature and History
War and Politics in Literature
Print Culture
Typical Courses Taught:
- English 51, Representative american writers: building a national history
- English 151, American literature to 1820 (and after)
- English 26, Travelin’ light: revolution on the road in american literature
- Writing 20, Academic writing: reading in/reading out
Recent Publications
- J.D. Miles, Review of Lucy Maddox Review of Lucy Maddox, Citizen Indians: Native American Intellectuals, and W. C. Harris E Pluribus Unum: Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Constitutional Paradox, American Literature (2008) (forthcoming in the December 2008 issue.) .
- with Lauren Coats, Matt Cohen, Kinohi Nishikawa, Rebecca Walsh, Those We Don’t Speak Of: Indians in The Village, PMLA (2008) (Forthcoming.) [abs].
- with Matt Cohen, Review of Wil Verhoeven, ed., Revolutionary Histories: Transatlantic Cultural Nationalism; Susan Manning, Fragments of Union: Making Connections in Scottish & American Writing; Colin Wells, The Devil & Doctor Dwight: Satire & Theology in the Early Republic. American Literature, American Literature, vol. 75 no. 3 (September, 2003) .