Kristine Miller

Biography

Dr. Kristine Miller is a professor of English and Executive Director of the USU Honors Program. She is a graduate of the Honors Program at the University of Michigan, where she also earned her M.A. (1989) and Ph.D. (1995) in English. Her research and teaching focus on twentieth- and twenty-first-century British and American literature. She is particularly interested in war and has written a book, British Literature of the Blitz: Fighting the People’s War (2009), that examines fiction and films focused on the bombed London home front during World War II. Her recent research concerns post-9/11 literature and culture, as well as Honors education. She has published articles on the trauma of NYPD police officers in Jess Walter’s novel The Zero and RAF fighter pilots in A. L. Kennedy’s novel Day. She has also edited two collections of essays—Transatlantic Literature and Culture After 9/11: The Wrong Side of Paradise (2014) and Building Honors Contracts: Insights and Oversights (2020)—and published essays on The 9/11 Report, 9/11 memorials and museums, and the place of curiosity in institutional values. One of her favorite parts of reading about war with students is helping them to recognize the beauty and hope of the mind’s creative response to the destructive power of violence and trauma.