Jeannie Miller

Jeannie Miller received her BA from Harvard University’s History and Literature program, studying early modern France and England.   She received her doctorate from NYU’s Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, in the field of classical Arabic literature.  Her dissertation analyzes the performative presentation of a new approach to matter and physicality in The Book of Animals by al-Jahiz (d. 868), a polymath who has been famously called the father of Arabic prose.  Her analysis falls between literary criticism and the history of science.  Her research interests also include the circulation of narrative in the pre-modern Mediterranean, particularly between Romance Hebrew and Arabic.

Jeannie will be an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto starting in January of 2013.