D. A. Miller

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D. A. Miller is an American political and literary critic of narrative representation in the novel and in film whose work is centered on the Victorian era. He often takes a Foucaultian or Barthesian approach in his criticism, examining the subtleties of power dynamics and the construction of subjectivity.

He received his PhD in Comparative Literature from Yale University in 1977 and was a professor of English at Harvard University before joining the faculty of film studies at UC Berkeley. Among his many publications are Jane Austen, or the Secret of Style (Princeton University Press, 2003); Place for Us: Essay on the Broadway Musical (Harvard University Press, 1998); Bringing Out Roland Barthes (University of California Press, 1992); The Novel and the Police (University of California Press, 1988); "Visual Pleasure in 1959" October 81 (Summer 1997), 35-58, also printed in Out Takes: Essays on Queer Theory and Film, edited by Ellis Hanson (Duke University Press, 1998), 97-125; "Sontag's Urbanity" The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader (Routledge 1993); and "Anal Rope," Representations 32 (Fall 1990), 114-133, also printed in Inside/Out: Lesbian Theories, Gay Theories, edited by Diana Fuss (Routledge, 1991), 119-141. Miller's current projects involve Hitchcock, Fellini, and the postwar European art film.