Miller, Robert Henry 1938- (R.H. Greene, Robert H. Greene)

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Miller, Robert Henry 1938- (R.H. Greene, Robert H. Greene)

PERSONAL:

Born August 10, 1938, in Defiance, OH; son of Richard C. and Elizabeth Miller; married Diane Partee, June 5, 1960; children: Rebecca, Rachel Haidari, Amy. Ethnicity: "Caucasian." Education: Bowling Green State University, B.A., 1960, M.A., 1961; Ohio State University, Ph.D., 1968.

ADDRESSES:

Home—Louisville, KY. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER:

Michigan Technological University, Houghton, instructor in humanities, 1961-64; University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, assistant professor, 1968-72, associate professor, 1972-77, professor of English, 1977-2004, professor emeritus, 2004—, research associate in theater arts, 1972—, chair of Division of Humanities, 1977-80, department chair, 1984-95.

MEMBER:

Modern Language Association of America, American Association of University Professors, Renaissance Society of America, College English Association, South Atlantic Modern Language Association.

WRITINGS:

(Under name Robert H. Miller) Graham Greene: A Descriptive Catalog, University Press of Kentucky (Lexington, KY), 1979.

(Editor) Sir John Harington: A Supplie to the Catalogue of Bishops, José Porrúa, 1979.

(Under name R.H. Miller) Handbook of Literary Research, Scarecrow Press (Metuchen, NJ), 1987, 2nd edition, University Press of America (Lanham, MD), 1995.

Understanding Graham Greene, University Press of Kentucky (Lexington, KY), 1990.

(Under name R.H. Miller) Deaf Hearing Boy: A Memoir, Gallaudet University Press (Washington, DC), 2004.

Contributor of articles and poetry to magazines, including Thinker, River City Review, English Literary Renaissance, Kentucky Poetry Review, Louisville Review, Wind, Angler's Journal, and Studies in Bibliography.

Most of Miller's papers are collected at the libraries of the University of Louisville, in Louisville, KY.

SIDELIGHTS:

Robert Henry Miller once told CA: "My writing is drawn from two sources: personal experience and literary tradition. I am interested in developing poetry and fiction that speak out of some mythic tradition and out of the past. I completed a group of eight autobiographical essays drawn from my trout fishing experiences in Michigan from 1961 to 1964. These are more in the tradition of R.L. Haig-Brown and Thomas McGuane. I then wrote a memoir of my adolescence in a blended household consisting of my hearing grandparents and my deaf parents. I have continued teaching and research in disability studies, an interest that I hope to continue to pursue.

"Much of what I am doing in poetry is influenced by myth criticism and structuralism. The images are greatly influenced by my interest in the history of photography and by movies. Of my scholarly writings, I am by training a textual critic and am thinking about a theory of textuality based on a concept of the publicly received text as the basis for textual authority, rather than on authorial intention."