David Lee Miller (academic)

Miller was educated at Yale University, where he earned a B.A. in 1973, and the University of California, Irvine, where he completed his PhD in 1979. the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. == Teaching and pedagogy ==

Miller has focused on digital pedagogy and "flipped classroom" models in the humanities. At the University of South Carolina, he developed an "anti-lecture" format for literature courses, moving traditional lectures to an online video format to facilitate active classroom discussion. He maintains a YouTube channel featuring over sixty "minilectures" on classic works of British and American literature. In 2009, he was named Teacher of the Year by the University of South Carolina's Department of English. == Scholarship ==

Miller's first book, ''The Poem's Two Bodies: The Poetics of the 1590 "Faerie Queene"'' (1988), analyzes the relationship between Spenser's aesthetic structure and the political ideology of the Tudor period. His 2003 work, Dreams of the Burning Child, examines the theme of filial sacrifice across works by Virgil, Shakespeare, and Charles Dickens. In a 2018 article in the Stanford Humanities Center's Arcade, scholar Roland Greene characterized Miller's critical approach as a "criticism of costs," noting its ethical attention to the religious and historical dimensions of social order. He is a General Editor of The Collected Works of Edmund Spenser, which is under contract to be published by Oxford University Press. He served as the editor of The Spenser Review from 2012 to 2017. == Selected works ==

• ''The Poem's Two Bodies: The Poetics of the 1590 "Faerie Queene"'' (Princeton University Press, 1988) • ''Dreams of the Burning Child: Sacrificial Sons and the Father's Witness'' (Cornell University Press, 2003) • The Production of English Renaissance Culture (Cornell University Press, 1994) – co-edited with Sharon O'Dair and Harold Weber • ''Approaches to Teaching Spenser's Faerie Queene'' (Modern Language Association, 1994) – co-edited with Alexander Dunlop == References ==