Nancy K. Miller is the author or editor of more than a dozen books, most recently What They Saved: Pieces of a Jewish Past, winner of the Jewish Journal Prize for 2012, and the story of a quest to recreate her family’s lost history. A well-known feminist scholar, Miller has published family memoirs, personal essays, and literary criticism. She is a Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the Graduate Center, CUNY, where she teaches classes in memoir, graphic novel, and women’s studies.
Nancy K. Miller
Articles by Nancy K. Miller
Monday October 7
The PEN Ten with Nancy K. Miller
I think constantly about aging and dying. Given my age and illness, this is in no way surprising, but the specter of a horrible death hovers over my waking and dreaming life. At the end of his self-portrait, Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes, Barthes handwrites the following: “And afterward? What to write now? Can you still write anything? One writes with one’s desire, and I am not through desiring.”