Nancy K. Miller

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.


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.”