02/16/2022
By Paula Haines
The Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching is pleased to announce that Marlowe Miller, Professor of English in the College of Fine Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, has been named CELT’s inaugural Faculty-in-Residence, effective May 2022.
Long-serving member and former chair of the Faculty Development Committee, Marlowe Miller is known in her own department and beyond for her efforts to create community and for thoughtful reflection on teaching and learning. She has co-edited a special edition of Across the Disciplines: A Journal of Language, Learning and Academic Writing on “Contemplative Writing Across the Disciplines” and serves on the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Assembly for Expanded Practices on Learning, which has its own Journal.
Miller has worked with faculty from many Massachusetts public institutions of higher education and from area high schools on “Partnerships for Readiness in Math and English,” a successful, federally funded grant project focused on faculty development. As part of that work, she has produced original pedagogical materials, and presented the model and its outcomes at national conferences. A Research Associate at the UMass Lowell Center for Women and Work, Miller has participated in the Center’s Emerging Scholars Program, collaborating with a student scholar to investigate the role of domestic space in the novels of several modernist women writers. A former chair of the English Department, she has published articles on the British pageant tradition in Virginia Woolf’s last novel, on narrative constructions of identity in a post-totalitarian state, and on pedagogy in the university classroom. She is the author of Masterpieces of British Literature (2007), an introductory critical text for students.
CELT’s Strategy Team and faculty Advisory Working Group are excited that Professor Miller has agreed to take on this critical position. Her perspectives, scholarly accomplishments and passion for inclusion and education will help elevate CELT and position our faculty for greater academic distinction and success. Please join us in welcoming Marlowe Miller as she assumes her new role. For more on CELT and to meet our team, please visit www.uml.edu/CELT.