Department of Philosophy & Religion
Rowan University
Glassboro, NJ 08028
Office: Bunce Hall
Office Phone:  856-256-4835
E-mail:  millere@rowan.edu

Who's Who Among American Teachers, 2004

Thesis Nominated for York University Dissertation Award, 2001

Phi Beta Kappa National Honor Society, Rutgers University Chapter

York University International Student Scholarship, 1993-2000

Ruth M. Adams Fellowship, Rutgers University, Douglass College Alumnae Association, 1999

York University Philosophy Department Scholarship, 1998

York University, Graduate Philosophy Department Entrance Scholarship, 1993-94

Golden Key National Honor Society

Rutgers University, Douglass College Alumnae Association Fellowship, 1993

Rutgers University Philosophy Department Award and Scholarship, 1993

Edna N. Herzberg Creative Writing Award for Poetry, Rutgers University, First Prize, 1991 and 1993
 
PUBLICATIONS

Books

Releasing Philosophy, Thinking Art: A Bodily Hermeneutic of Four Poems by Sylvia Plath, Under Contract with the Davies Group Publishers, expected publication date Winter 2008.

Articles

“Sylvia Plath and White Ignorance: Race and Gender in “The Arrival of the Bee Box,” Janus Head: Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature, Continental Philosophy, Phenomenological Psychology, and the Arts, Volume 10.1 Summer/Fall 2007. www.janushead.org

“South Park on Feminist Ethics, Obscenity, and Gender Roles, South Park and Philosophy, The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series, Blackwell Publishers, 2006.

"Using the F-word in Philosophy Classes," Philosophy Now, Issue 39, December 2002/January 2003.

"Philosophizing with Sylvia Plath: An Embodied Hermeneutic of Color in Ariel,"  Philosophy Today, Volume 46, Issue 2, 2002.

"Philosophizing with Sylvia Plath: An Embodied Interpretation of Ariel," Poiesis: A Journal of the Arts and Communication, Volume Three, 2001.

"Review of Hélène Cixous, Stigmata," Canadian Woman Studies, Volume 20, Number 1, Spring 2000

"Teaching and Learning With Different Voices," in Core Issues, Volume 8, No. 3, March 1998

"Review of James H. Olthius, ed., Knowing Other-wise: Philosophy at the Threshold of Spirituality," Philosophy in Review 18 (5), October 1998: 369-70
 
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

“Dreams in Motion: A Phenomenological Analysis of Masculinity, Sexuality and Class in Dance Films,” (refereed) Mid-Atlantic Women's Studies Association, Penn State University, March 28-29, 2008.

“Dreams in Motion: A Phenomenological Analysis of Masculinity, Sexuality and Class in Dance Films,” (refereed) International Association for Philosophy and Literature, Freiburg, Germany, June 5-10, 2006.

“Teaching Ethics University-Wide,” Values and Leadership Conference,Rock Institute of Ethics, Penn State University, October, 2005.

“Dreams in Motion: A Phenomenological Analysis of Masculinity, Sexuality and Class in Dance Films,” (refereed) Dream Writing Conference, University of Kent, England, forthcoming, October, 2005.

“Heidegger and Irigaray on Metaphysics and the Divine,” (refereed) New Jersey Regional Philosophical Association, April 29, 2005.

“Reply to Fritz McDonald, Does Moral Discourse Require Robust Truth,” New Jersey Regional Philosophical Association, April 29, 2005.

“A Phenomenological Approach to Racism in Sylvia Plath’s Poetry”, Rowan University, Women’s Studies Lecture Series, December 2004.

“Re-covering Whiteness in Plath: Race, Colors and Gender in The Arrival of the Bee Box,” Rowan University, Department of Philosophy and Religion, October 2004.

"Re-covering Whiteness in Sylvia Plath: Colorings in "The Arrival of the Bee Box" (refereed) American Society of Aesthetics, Philadelphia, PA, April 2-3, 2004

"Re-covering Whiteness in Sylvia Plath: Colors, Race and Gender in "The Arrival of the Bee Box" (refereed) The Ethics and Epistemologies of Ignorance, Rock Institute of Ethics, Penn State University, March 26-28, 2004

"Philosophizing with Sylvia Plath" (refereed) International Association for Philosophy and Literature, Leeds, England, May 2003.

"Loving Hegel Through Feminism and Julian of Norwich," (refereed) American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, San Francisco. CA, March 28, 2003.

“Are Ethics Overrated?: Managing Morality in Public Life,” New Jersey Council of Election Officials Annual Conference, Key Note Speaker, Atlantic City, New Jersey, March 20, 2002

“The Ethics of Embodiment in Plath, Heidegger, and Merleau-Ponty,” Rowan University, Department of Philosophy and Religion, January 29, 2002

"Teaching Plato's Dialogues: Becoming Socrates in the Classroom," invited presentation to University of Tennessee faculty, Humanities Curriculum Workshop, May 2001

"Irigaray and Heidegger on the Feminine Divine," University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, February 2001

“A Hermeneutic Approach to Feminist Philosophy of Religion,” University of Detroit Mercy, Detroit, Michigan, Philosophy Department Colloquium, February 2000

"Between Aesthetics and Spirituality," Canisius College, Buffalo, NY, March 2000 

"Releasing Heideggerian Metaphysics to Feminist Religious Thought," (refereed) US Society for Women in Philosophy, Pacific Division, Cabrillo College, Aptos, California, October 16, 1999

"Releasing Heideggerian Metaphysics to Feminist Religious Thought," (refereed) Women and Society Conference, Marist College, Poughkeepsie, New York, June 11-13, 1999

"Releasing Heideggerian Metaphysics to Feminist Religious Thought," (refereed) American Academy of Religion, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, New York, April 23-24, 1999

"The Practical Concerns of Feminism and Hermeneutics." A commentary on Brigitte Sassen's paper, "The Feminist Knower as Hermeneutic Knower," Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, September 1997

"Erotic Voices From the Margins: Love as Fellowship in Feminisms, Hegel and Julian of Norwich," (refereed paper) Canadian Philosophical Association, Memorial University, Newfoundland, June, 1997

"Seeing Brancusi's First Cry A First Time Again" (refereed paper) University of Waterloo Philosophy Graduate Student Conference, March, 1997

"The Use of Dialogue in Plato's Lysis," (refereed paper) Ontario Philosophical Association, University of Windsor, October, 1995

The Use of Dialogue in Plato's Lysis," York University, September, 1995
 
TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
Ethics, Feminist Theory, Social and Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Art, Critical  Reasoning
     
 
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE AND VOLUNTEER WORK (Selected)
Professional Organizations

• Editorial Reviewer, APA Newsletter for Feminism and Philosophy
• Student Representative, Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy
• National Representative, Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy

Rowan University

• Representative, University Senate

• Ethics Across the Curriculum,

• American Studies Advisory Board

• Women’s Studies Advisory Board

• Advisor, Philosophy Minors

• Curriculum Committee

• Library Liaison Committee
• Evaluation and Standards Committee
• Advisor, American Studies
• Union Representative
• Search Committee Member

MEMBERSHIPS

American Philosophical Association

United States Society for Women in Philosophy

International Society for Environmental Ethics

International Association for Philosophy and Literature
 
 
POETRY PUBLICATIONS

"Blue,"  Poiesis: A Journal of Arts and Communication, 2001

"Agape" Room of One's Own, Vancouver, British Columbia, Volume 22:4

"The Reflected Other," Cacophony (Bristol, England), Spring 1991

"Agape," Anthologist (New Brunswick, NJ), Winter 1992 and Cacophony, Spring, 1991

"Madame Bovary," Ebb and Flow, Literary supplement to the Caellian Newspaper (New Brunswick, NJ) Spring, 1991