Thomas P Miller

Interests

Research

Leadership, faculty development, teaching writing, literacy studies, theories and histories of rhetoric and higher education, leadership, writing program administration, assessment, and the history and political economy of college English studies

Teaching

Leadership, writing, teaching of writing, English education, histories and theories of rhetoric, and political rhetoric

Courses

Scholarly Contributions

Books

• Miller, T. P. (2015). Selected Writings of John Witherspoon. Carbondale, Illiniois: Southern Illinois University Press.
• Miller, T. P. (2011). The Evolution of College English: Literacy Studies from the Puritans to the Postmoderns. Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh University Press.
• Miller, T. P. (2009). Renewing Rhetoric: Essays in Honor of Theresa Enos. New York: Routledge.
• Miller, T. P. (2003). The University Book: An Anthology of Writings from the University of Arizona. Needham Heights, MA: Simon & Schuster.
• Miller, T. P. (1997). The Formation of College English: Rhetoric and Belles Lettres in the British Cultural Provinces. Carbondale, Illinois: Southern Illinois UP.

Chapters

• Miller, T. P. (2015). Positioning Rhetoric at the Heart of the Matter: Engaging Faculty, Engaging Students. In Rhetoric across Borders(pp 254-61). Anderson, SC: Parlor Press.
• Miller, T. P. (2010). Mediating Differences. In The Public Work of Rhetoric Citizen Scholars and Civic Engagement. Columbia, SC: U of South Carolina P.
• Miller, T. P. (2010). The Progressive Education Movement: A Case Study in Coalition Politics. In Active Voices: Composing a Rhetoric of Social Movements(pp 93-115). Albany, NY: SUNY.
• Miller, T. P. (2009). The Pragmatics of Professionalism. In The Writing Program Interrupted: Creating a Space for Critical Discourse(pp 126-37). Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann Boynton Cook.
• Miller, T. P. (2008). Portraits of a Field. In The Promise and Peril of WPA Work for Faculty. Anderson, SC: Parlor Press.
• Miller, T. P. (2006). At Work in the Field. In Culture Shock and the Practice of Profession(p. 2870308). Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.
• Miller, T. P. (2005). Civic Humanism: A Postmortem. In The Viability of the Rhetorical Tradition(pp 141-58). Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP.
• Miller, T. P. (2005). Off-Center Collaborations. In Centers for Learning: Writing Centers and Libraries in Collaboration. Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraries.
• Miller, T. P. (2004). Foreword. In Rescuing the Subject, A Critical Introduction to Rhetoric and Composition. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois UP.
• Miller, T. P. (2004). Lest We Go the Way of the Classics: Toward a Rhetorical Future for English Departments. In Rhetorical Education in America(pp 18-35). Tuscaloosa, AL: U of Alabama P.
• Miller, T. P. (2003). Changing the Subject. In Realms of Rhetoric: Inquiries into the Prospects for Rhetoric Education. Albany: SUNY.
• Miller, T. P. (2002). Managing to Make a Difference. In Field of Dreams: Independent Writing Programs and the Future of Composition Studies(pp 233-67). Logan, Utah: Utah State UP.
• Miller, T. P. (2001). Eighteenth-Century Rhetoric. In Oxford Encyclopedia of Rhetoric(pp 227-37). Oxford: Oxford UP.
• Miller, T. P. (2001). Making Learning Visible: A Rhetorical Stance on General Education. In Writing Program Administrators Handbook(pp 203-19). Mahwah, NJ: Oxford UP.
• Miller, T. P. (2000). Rhetoric within and without Composition: Reimagining the Civic. In Coming of Age: Rhetoric and Writing in the English Major(pp 32-41). Portsmouth, NH: Boynton-Cook/Heinemann.
• Miller, T. P. (1995). Francis Hutcheson and the Civic Humanist Tradition. In Glasgow and the Enlightenment(pp 40-56). Edinburgh: Mercat.
• Miller, T. P. (1994). John Witherspoon. In Eighteenth-Century British and American Rhetoric and Rhetoricans(pp 268-80). Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing.
• Miller, T. P. (1993). Reinventing Rhetorical Traditions. In Learning from the Rhetorics of History(pp 26-41). Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois UP.
• Miller, T. P. (1990). Blair, Witherspoon and the Rhetoric of Civic Humanism. In Scotland and American in the Age of Enlightenment(pp 100-14). Princeton: Princeton UP.

Journals/Publications

• Miller, T. (1990). The Formation of College English: A Survey of the Archives of Eighteenth-Century Rhetorical Theory and Practice. Rhetoric Society Quarterly, 20(3), pp. 261-286.
• Miller, T. (1994). Journal of Advanced Composition, 14(1), pp. 296-300.
• Miller, T. (2000). Rhetoric Society Quarterly, 30(4), pp. 111-114.
• Miller, T. (2001). Disciplinary Identifications/Public Identities: A Response to Mailloux, Leff, and Keith. Rhetoric Society Quarterly, 31(3), pp. 105-117.
• Miller, T. (2006). What Should College English Be... Doing?. College English, 69(2), pp. 150-155.
• Miller, T. P. (1989). Rhetoric Review, 7(2), pp. 387-391.
• Miller, T. P. (1990). Where Did College English Studies Come from?. Rhetoric Review, 9(1), pp. 50-69.
• Miller, T. P. (1991). Treating Professional Writing as Social Praxis. Journal of Advanced Composition, 11(1), pp. 57-72.
• Miller, T. P. (1992). John Witherspoon and Scottish Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy in America. Rhetorica: A Journal of the History of Rhetoric, 10(4), pp. 381-403.
• Miller, T. P. (1993). Teaching the Histories of Rhetoric as a Social Praxis. Rhetoric Review, 12(1), pp. 70-82.
• Miller, T. P. (1993). The Rhetoric of Belles Lettres: The Political Context of the Eighteenth-Century Transition from Classical to Modern Cultural Studies. Rhetoric Society Quarterly, 23(2), pp. 1-19.
• Miller, T. P. (2005). How Rhetorical Are English and Communications Majors?. Rhetoric Society Quarterly, 35(1), pp. 91-113.
• Miller, T. P. (2018). “Introduction to Special Issue on Literacy, Democracy, and Fake News: Making it Right in the Era of Fast and Slow Literacies”. Literacy in Composition Studies, 5(2), 10--23.
• Miller, T. P. (2018). “Symposium: What Will We Have Made of Literacy?”. College Composition and Communication, 69(3), 494--533.
• Miller, T. P., & Murray, J. (2017). English and Leadership Studies [Special Issue]. College English, 79(5).
• Miller, T. P., & Murray, J. (2017). Reimagining Leadership after the Public Turn. College English, 79(5).
• Miller, T. P. (2012). “Humanities as a Public Works Project”. academe, 98(6), 34--38.
• Agnew, L., Murphy, J. J., Glenn, C., Johnson, N., Swearingen, J., Enos, R. L., Neel, J., Ferreira-Buckley, L., Lauer, R. J., Atwill, J. M., & others, . (2011). Rhetorical Historiography and the Octalogs. Rhetoric Review, 30(3), 237--257.

Presentations

• Miller-Cochran, S., & Miller, T. P. (2020, January). Resisting Corporatization and Developing Well-Being through Collaborative Leadership. Conference on Writing and Well-Being. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Conference on Writing and Well-Being.
• Miller, T. P. (2019, March). Why Have Enrollments Dropped, and what should departments do?. Conference on College Composition and Communication. Pittsburgh: College Composition and Communication.
• Miller, T. P. (2019, March). “Writing and Literature in English Departments”. Conference on College Composition and Communication. Pittsburgh: College Composition and Communication.

Reviews

• Miller, T. P. (2015. Review of Literacy, Economy, and Power: Writing and Research after Literacy in American Lives. Literacy in Composition Studies.

Others

• Witherspoon, J. (2015). Selected Writings.