Personal profile
About
I have been a Lecturer and Adjunct Associate Professor on campus since 1992, teaching Collegiate Seminar, Jan Term, and developing writing curriculum. I also teach literature and writing courses for the University of California, Berkeley Fall Program for Freshmen. In addition to my teaching, I am a psychoanalytic literary scholar as well as a licensed psychotherapist (MFT), specializing in the conscious dilemmas and unconscious conflicts of writers.
Active Research Projects:
“Clinical Writing and Publishing: A Psychoanalytic Exploration of Writers at Work.”
(Investigates how productive writers enable themselves to begin, sustain, and complete writing projects. Explores the conscious and unconscious dimensions of establishing an authoritative voice. I am also examining the psychological dimensions of the writer-reader, student-teacher, author-editor relationship).
I also run writing groups for clinicians as well as reading groups for clinicians seeking to learn from model authors in their field.
Contact Information
Office: Sichel Hall - 104 A
Phone: (510) 526-6762
Related documents
Education/Academic qualification
MA Clinical Psychology, John F Kennedy University
BA English, Northwestern University
PhD English, University of California - Berkeley
Disciplines
- Liberal Studies
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Psychoanalytic Intersections: Selected Writing of the Austen Riggs Center Erikson Institute Visiting Scholar Program
Miller, E., 2024Research output: Book/Report › Book
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Empty Minds and Blank Pages: The Scholarly Writer at Work
Miller, E., Dec 2019, In: Women's Studies. 48Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Writing Under the Influence: The Scholarly Writer at Work
Miller, E., 2019, In: American Imago. 76Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Mourning and Melancholy: Literary Criticism by African American Women
Miller, E., Jan 1 2016, In: Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature. 35Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Clinical Writing and Publishing: A Psychoanalytic Exploration of Writers At Work
Miller, E., Apr 1 2015.Research output: Contribution to conference › Presentation