Topic: “Searching for the Lost Generation“
Introduction/Moderator:
TBD/Katie O’Toole
Location: THE PENN STATER, PRESIDENT’S HALL
(formerly scheduled for the Nittany Lion Inn, Ballroom)
Bio: Linda Patterson Miller (B.A., Hope College; M.A., Ohio State University; Ph.D., University of Delaware) is Professor of English at Penn State Abington, where she has taught American literature since 1984, earning teaching awards including the Atherton Award for Excellence in Teaching (2004).
Miller publishes in all areas of American studies, but her specialty is early twentieth-century American literature and art. Her articles on American writers have appeared in such journals as Mosaic, Renascence, American Transcendental Quarterly, Journal of Modern Literature, North Dakota Quarterly, Studies in American Fiction, The Mailer Review, The F. Scott Fitzgerald Review, and The Hemingway Review, and in several edited book collections. Dr. Miller’s books include (with Randall M. Miller) The Book of American Diaries (Avon, 1995) and Letters from the Lost Generation: Gerald and Sara Murphy and Friends (Rutgers University Press, 1991; paper 1993). Letters from the Lost Generation, which reexamines the personal and literary relationships between F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos and Archibald MacLeish, among others, was published in an expanded edition (University Press of Florida, 2002).
Miller is presently completing another book on the American expatriate artists in France (The Summer of ’26), and her Reading Hemingway: In Our Time (Kent State University Press) is forthcoming. Professor Miller has lectured nationally and internationally on modernist art as it relates to American literature and art, and she is a popular speaker and book discussion leader for the Pennsylvania Humanities Council and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Prof. Miller served as guest scholar for C-Span’s two-hour show on Hemingway, aired live from Key West, Florida, as part of C-Span’s ongoing series American Writers: A Journey Through History.
Miller has been a Danforth Foundation Associate as well as a Lilly Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellow. She has served as a scholarly consultant on expatriate American writers and artists for American Playhouse, PBS, and most recently for a special exhibition (Making It New: The Art and Style of Sara and Gerald Murphy) at Williams College Museum of Art in 2007 followed by a selected national tour, including Yale University and The Dallas Museum of Art in 2008. She has long served as a Board member of the Ernest Hemingway Foundation, and she chairs the Editorial Review Board for The Cambridge Edition of the Letters of Ernest Hemingway, to be published as a multi-volume series by Cambridge University Press. Miller wrote the Foreword for Volume 1, forthcoming in 2011. Miller was most recently selected as the Penn State Humanities Laureate for 2011-12.