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Dr Alyson Miller

STAFF PROFILE

Position

Senior Lecturer

Faculty

Faculty of Arts and Education

Department

School of Comm & Creative Arts

Campus

Melbourne Burwood Campus

Contact

alyson.miller@deakin.edu.au
+61 3 524 79315

Research interests

  • Scandalous literature
  • Prose poetry
  • Gender and feminism
  • Dystopian literature
  • Post-atomic memorialisation
  • Creative writing

Units taught

Alyson teaches in the Literary Studies and Creative Writing majors.

    Publications

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    2024

    "Job Done, History's Safe": Doctor Who and the Wibbly Wobbly Lessons of the Past

    Alyson Miller, Ellie Gardner

    (2024), pp. 115-136, Time Travel in World Literature and Cinema, London, Eng., B1

    book chapter
    2023

    'Chasing the Dragon': The Anxieties of Family in the Fiction of Melvin Burgess

    A Miller, A Miller

    (2023), pp. 159-170, Family in Children’s and Young Adult Literature, London, Eng., B1

    book chapter

    "Agents of Chaos: The Monstrous Feminine in Killing Eve

    A Miller, C Atherton, P Hetherington

    (2023), Vol. 23, pp. 1802-1818, Feminist Media Studies, London, Eng., C1

    journal article

    Amuse-Bouche: Prose, Poetry and Food

    Cassandra Atherton, Paul Hetherington, Alyson Miller

    (2023), Vol. 9, pp. 32-46, Writing in Practice: The Journal of Creative Writing Research, York, Eng., C1

    journal article

    Joy

    Alyson Miller

    (2023), pp. 1-1, foam:e it's poetry, Brisbane, Qld., JO3

    Non-Traditional Research Output

    Bunny, Love

    Alyson Miller

    (2023), pp. 178-178, Dreaming Awake: New Contemporary Prose Poetry from the United States, Australia, and the United Kingdom, Cheshire, Massachussetts, JO3

    Non-Traditional Research Output

    Dislocation

    Alyson Miller

    (2023), pp. 179-179, Dreaming Awake: New Contemporary Prose Poetry from the United States, Australia, and the United Kingdom, Cheshire, Massachusetts, JO3

    Non-Traditional Research Output

    Glue Tragedy

    Alyson Miller

    (2023), pp. 180-180, Dreaming Awake: New Contemporary Prose Poetry from the United States, Australia, and the United Kingdom, Cheshire, Massachusetts, JO3

    Non-Traditional Research Output

    Rice Baby

    Alyson Miller

    (2023), pp. 181-181, Dreaming Awake: New Contemporary Prose Poetry from the United States, Australia, and the United Kingdom, Cheshire, Massachusetts, JO3

    Non-Traditional Research Output

    Seasonal

    Alyson Miller

    (2023), Vol. 11, pp. 131-131, Meniscus, Canberra, A.C.T., JO3

    Non-Traditional Research Output
    2022

    '"So, it is over": An Ecopoetics of Travel in the Poetry of Carolyn Forché and Etel Adnan

    Alyson Miller

    (2022), Vol. 12, pp. 1-11, Axon: Creative Explorations, Canberra, A.C.T., C1

    journal article

    'the bones / say what / cannot be give / voice': Archival Untelling in M. NourbeSe Philip's Zong!

    Alyson Miller

    (2022), Vol. 12, pp. 1-10, Axon: Creative Explorations, Canberra, C1

    journal article

    Void Thoughts

    Alyson Miller

    (2022), pp. 109-109, Travel: An Anthology of Microlit, Strawberry Hills, N.S.W., JO3

    Non-Traditional Research Output

    That

    Alyson Miller

    (2022), Vol. 68, pp. 1-1, New York Quarterly Magazine, New York, N.Y., JO3

    Non-Traditional Research Output

    Forgotten

    Alyson Miller

    (2022), Alcatraz, Summer Hill, New South Wales, JO3

    Non-Traditional Research Output
    2021

    An Interruption of Boundaries: On Gender and the Prose Poem

    Alyson Miller

    (2021), pp. 197-212, The Edinburgh Companion to the Prose Poem, Edinburgh, Scotland, B1

    book chapter

    'The Talented Mr. Mallory': literary scammers, pain-for-profit, and selves made of others

    A Miller

    (2021), Vol. 18, pp. 197-212, New Writing, C1

    journal article

    Writing the Otherworld Revolution: The Transgressive Imaginings of Speculative Poetics

    Alyson Miller

    (2021), Vol. 11, pp. 1-13, Axon: Creative Explorations, Canberra, A.C.T., C1

    journal article

    A Digital Revolution? Insiders, Outsiders, and the "disruptive Potential" of Instapoetry

    A Miller

    (2021), Vol. 56, pp. 161-182, Arcadia, Berlin, Germany, C1

    journal article

    Ideas, language, action: The protest poetry of #MeToo and Black Lives Matter

    Alyson Miller

    (2021), Text and Performance Quarterly, Gold Coast, Qld., C1

    journal article
    2020

    "Day of the girls": Reading gender, power, and violence in naomi alderman's the power

    A Miller

    (2020), Vol. 47, pp. 398-433, College Literature, C1

    journal article

    Ramshackle girls and sleuthing gatekeepers: poetry, plagiarism, and the critical art of theft

    Alyson Miller

    (2020), Vol. 10, pp. 1-1, Axon: creative explorations, Canberra, A.C.T., C1

    journal article

    'The Chernobyl Hibakusha': dark poetry, the ineffable and abject realities'

    Cassandra Atherton, Alyson Miller

    (2020), Vol. 24, pp. 1-19, Text journal of writing and writing courses, Nathan, Qld., C1

    journal article

    Contrails

    Alyson Miller

    (2020), pp. 95-95, Scars : an anthology of microlit, Strawberry Hills, NSW, JO3

    Non-Traditional Research Output

    Black Easter

    Alyson Miller

    (2020), pp. 24-24, No News: 90 Poets Reflect on a Unique BBC Newscast, Canberra, A.C.T., JO3

    Non-Traditional Research Output

    Conspiracy

    Alyson Miller

    (2020), Vol. 58, pp. 86-86, TEXT: Journal of writing and writing courses, Gold Coast, Qld., JO3

    Non-Traditional Research Output

    Unprecedented / Or

    Alyson Miller

    (2020), Vol. 58, pp. 86-86, TEXT: Journal of Writing and Writing Course, Gold Coast, Qld., JO3

    Non-Traditional Research Output

    Skogskyrkogården

    Alyson Miller

    (2020), pp. 130-130, The Anthology of Australian Prose Poetry, Melbourne, Vic., JO3

    Non-Traditional Research Output

    Clocked

    Alyson Miller

    (2020), Vol. 5, pp. 157-157, 9000 Miles Away: Romanian/Australian Anthology of Contemporary Poetry and Prose, Braila, JO3

    Non-Traditional Research Output

    On Mountains

    Alyson Miller

    (2020), Vol. 5, pp. 156-157, 9000 Miles Away: Romanian/Australian Anthology of Contemporary Poetry and Prose, Braila, JO3

    Non-Traditional Research Output

    Conspiracy

    Alyson Miller

    (2020), pp. 87-88, The Incompleteness Book, Canberra, A.C.T., JO3

    Non-Traditional Research Output

    Unprecedented / Or

    Alyson Miller

    (2020), pp. 87-87, The Incompleteness Book, Canberra, ACT, JO3

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    2019

    "Emissaries of death and destruction": reading the child-as-killer in we need to talk about Kevin and sharp objects

    A Miller

    (2019), Vol. 60, pp. 487-500, Critique - studies in contemporary fiction, Abingdon, Eng., C1

    journal article

    'Poetry's Beyoncé': on Rupi Kaur and the commodifying effects of instapoetics

    Alyson Miller

    (2019), Vol. 9, Axon: creative explorations, Canberra, A.C.T., C1

    journal article

    Strange Creatures

    Alyson Miller

    (2019), Canberra, A.C.T., J1

    Non-Traditional Research Output
    2018

    Atomic-bomb literature for children: Kodama Tatsuharu's The lunch box and shin's tricycle

    A Miller

    (2018), pp. 65-82, Unfinished atomic bomb: shadows and reflections, Lanham, Md., B1

    book chapter

    Introduction : an unfinished atomic bomb

    D Lowe, C Atherton, A Miller

    (2018), pp. ix-xviii, The unfinished atomic bomb : shadows and reflections, Lanham, Md., B1

    book chapter

    "Reopening the grave": reading trauma and abjection in hibakusha poetry

    A Miller

    (2018), Vol. 53, pp. 379-396, Arcadia, Berlin, Germany, C1

    journal article

    The unfinished atomic bomb: shadows and reflections

    D Lowe, C Atherton, A Miller

    (2018), Lanham, Md., A7

    edited book

    Dissection (ii)

    A Miller

    (2018), Vol. 1, pp. 1-1, Speculative city, [unknown], J3

    Non-Traditional Research Output

    Pika-don

    C Atherton, A Miller, P Day

    (2018), Melbourne, Vic., JO3

    Non-Traditional Research Output

    Choke

    A Miller

    (2018), pp. 8-8, antiBODY: an anthology of poetry and medicine, [Chapel Hill, N.C.], J3

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    The slap

    A Miller

    (2018), pp. 1-1, UCity review, University City, Mo., J3

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    Wings

    A Miller

    (2018), pp. 1-1, UCity review, [University City, Mo.], J3

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    On love

    A Miller

    (2018), pp. 1-1, Otoliths: a magazine of many e-things, Rockhampton, Qld., J3

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    Chestnuts

    A Miller

    (2018), pp. 1-1, Otoliths, Rockhampton, Qld., J3

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    2017

    Dead funny? The ideological use of humour and comedy in Saci Lloyd's The Carbon Diaries 2015 and 2017

    A Miller, R Hutton, E Braithwaite

    (2017), Vol. 25, pp. 51-72, Papers: explorations into children's literature, Victoria Park, W.A., C1

    journal article

    'words about words make sure self': Ania Walwicz and a politics of prose poetry

    A Miller

    (2017), Vol. Special issue: prose poetry, pp. 1-11, TEXT: journal of writing and writing programs, Nathan, Qld., C1

    journal article

    'Monster in the sky': hibakusha poetry and the nuclear sublime

    A Miller, C Atherton

    (2017), Vol. 41, pp. 1-12, TEXT: journal of writing and writing programs, Nathan, Qld., C1

    journal article

    Gift

    A Miller

    (2017), Vol. 4, pp. 1-1, Jazz cigarette, Edmond, Okla., J3

    Non-Traditional Research Output

    Pikadon

    A Miller

    (2017), Vol. 4, pp. 1-1, Jazz cigarette, Edmond, Oklahoma, J3

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    Flight

    A Miller

    (2017), pp. 36-36, Jet fuel review, Romeoville, Ill., J3

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    Plums

    A Miller

    (2017), pp. 37-37, Jet fuel review, Romeoville, Ill., J3

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    Rush

    A Miller

    (2017), pp. 38-38, Jet fuel review, Romeoville, Ill., J3

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    Bypass

    A Miller

    (2017), Vol. 5, pp. 75-75, Meniscus, Canberra, A.C.T., J3

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    On Water

    A Miller

    (2017), Vol. 1, pp. 21-21, Malevolent Soap, Melbourne, Vic., J3

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    Dissection (i)

    A Miller

    (2017), Vol. 1, pp. 22-22, Malevolent Soap, Melbourne, Vic., J3

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    Rumours

    A Miller

    (2017), Vol. 1, pp. 23-23, Malevolent Soap, Melbourne, Vic., J3

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    Southerly

    A Miller

    (2017), Vol. 7, pp. 14-14, Australian Poetry Journal, Melbourne, Vic., J3

    Non-Traditional Research Output
    2016

    Outhouse

    A Miller

    (2016), pp. 1-1, Softblow, Singapore, J3

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    Tooth

    A Miller

    (2016), pp. 1-1, Softblow, Singapore, J3

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    Treasure

    A Miller

    (2016), pp. 1-1, Softblow, Singapore, J3

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    The twelve dancing princesses

    A Miller

    (2016), pp. 1-1, Softblow, Singapore, J3

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    Heterocera

    A Miller

    (2016), Vol. 11, pp. 1-1, Deletion, Melbourne, Vic., J3

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    Incubation

    A Miller

    (2016), Vol. 11, pp. 1-1, Deletion, Melbourne, VIC., J3

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    Tea cup

    A Miller

    (2016), Vol. 4, pp. 16-16, Vagabonds: anthology of the mad ones, Houston, Tex., J3

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    The worn-out dancing shoes

    A Miller

    (2016), Vol. 1, pp. 1-1, Picaroon poetry, [online], J3

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    Lake Traunsee

    A Miller

    (2016), pp. 31-31, Sonic boom, [Bangalore, India], J3

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    Possessed

    A Miller

    (2016), pp. 1-1, Duende, Plainfield, Ver., J3

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    Cuckoos

    A Miller

    (2016), Vol. 19, pp. 34-34, Rabbit: a journal for nonfiction poetry, Parkville, Vic., J3

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    Lunar

    A Miller

    (2016), Vol. 61, pp. 158-158, Westerly, Crawley, W.A., J3

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    Treasure

    A Miller

    (2016), pp. 1-1, Vagabonds: feature section, Houston, Tex., J2

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    2015

    Bath time

    A Miller

    (2015), Vol. 38, pp. 1-1, Otoliths, Rockhampton, Qld., J2

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    Butcher

    A Miller

    (2015), Vol. 38, pp. 1-1, Otoliths, Rockhampton, Qld., J2

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    Planarian worms

    A Miller

    (2015), Vol. 1, pp. 12-12, Atomic: A journal of short poetry, Austin, Tex., J3

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    Wolf

    A Miller

    (2015), pp. 83-83, The best Australian poems 2015, Collingwood, Vic., J3

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    Planarian worms

    A Miller

    (2015), Vol. 4, pp. 40-40, Australian poetry anthology, Melbourne, Vic., J3

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    2014

    Unsuited for age group : the scandals of children's literature

    A Miller

    (2014), Vol. 41, pp. 120-140, College literature : a journal of critical literary studies, Pennsylvania, United States, C1

    journal article

    Stylised configurations of trauma: faking identity in Holocaust memoirs

    A Miller

    (2014), Vol. 49, pp. 229-253, Arcadia, Berlin, Germany, C1

    journal article

    Nasdijj's fake magical realist memoir: re-visioning magical realism's relationship with fakery

    M Takolander, A Miller

    (2014), Vol. 9, pp. 1-17, Postcolonial text, Surrey, Canada, C1

    journal article

    Sleep

    A Miller

    (2014), Vol. Winter, pp. 5-5, The Bond Street Review, Rochester, NY, J3

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    Metals (I)

    A Miller

    (2014), Vol. Winter, pp. 6-6, The Bond Street Review, Rochester, NY, J3

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    Cicadas

    A Miller

    (2014), Vol. Winter, pp. 7-7, The Bond Street Review, Rochester, NY, J3

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    Skogskyrkogården

    A Miller

    (2014), Vol. February, pp. 34-34, Australian book review, Melbourne, Vic., J3

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    Shotgun

    A Miller

    (2014), Vol. 1, pp. 123-123, Sukhadia University Journal of English Literary Studies (SUJELS), Udaipur, India, J3

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    God is watching

    A Miller

    (2014), Vol. 1, pp. 123-124, Sukhadia University Journal of English Literary Studies, Udaipur, India, J3

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    Babushka

    A Miller

    (2014), Vol. 1, pp. 124-124, Sukhadia University Journal of English Literary Studies (SUJELS), Udaipur, India, J3

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    Animals

    A Miller

    (2014), Vol. 5, pp. 9-9, Tincture journal, Sydney, N. S. W., J3

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    Stilled

    A Miller

    (2014), pp. 35-35, Writing to the edge : prose poems and microfictions, Sydney, N. S. W., J3

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    Swallow

    A Miller

    (2014), Vol. 5, pp. 16-16, Bone bouquet, Brooklyn, NY, J3

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    Monster

    A Miller

    (2014), Vol. 5, pp. 17-17, Bone bouquet, Brooklyn, NY, J3

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    Skogskyrkogården

    A Miller

    (2014), pp. 181-181, Best Australian poems 2014, Melbourne, Vic., J3-1

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    Wings

    A Miller

    (2014), pp. 142-142, Grapple annual, Campbell, ACT, J3-1

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    Wolf

    A Miller

    (2014), pp. 142-142, Grapple annual, Campbell, ACT, J3-1

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    Thief

    A Miller

    (2014), Vol. 16, pp. 1-1, Mascara literary review, Wahroonga, A.C.T., J2

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    Dream Animals

    A Miller

    (2014), Chicago, U. S., J2-1

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    Jordgubbe

    A Miller

    (2014), Vol. 4, pp. 87-87, Apocrypha and abstraction literary journal: flash fiction musings for the literary minded, [Australia], J2-1

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    2013

    Haunted by words : scandalous texts

    A Miller

    (2013), Bern, Switzerland, A1

    book

    Scandalous women : gender and identity in top-notch smut

    A Miller

    (2013), Vol. 22, pp. 367-382, Journal of gender studies, Oxon, Eng., C1

    journal article

    Death at a conference

    A Miller

    (2013), Vol. 28, pp. 1-1, Otoliths, Rockhampton, Qld, J3

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    Eugenia

    A Miller

    (2013), Vol. 28, pp. 1-1, Otoliths, Rockhampton, Qld, J3

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    Metals (II)

    A Miller

    (2013), Vol. 17, pp. 1-1, Snorkel, Sydney, N.S.W., J3

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    Dream babies

    A Miller

    (2013), Vol. 43.0, pp. 1-1, Cordite poetry review, Kirribilli, N.S.W., J3

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    Guppy

    A Miller

    (2013), pp. 1-1, ditch, the poetry that matters, Newfoundland, Canada, J3

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    Still birth

    A Miller

    (2013), pp. 1-1, Ditch, the poetry that matters, Newfoundland, Canada, J3

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    Explosion

    A Miller

    (2013), pp. 1-1, ditch, the poetry that matters, Newfoundland, Canada, J3

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    Bluebeard

    A Miller

    (2013), pp. 1-1, ditch, the poetry that matters, Newfoundland, Canada, J3

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    The girl who cried wolf

    A Miller

    (2013), Aker magazine, Melbourne, Australia, J3

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    Bodies

    A Miller

    (2013), pp. 1-1, Aker magazine, Melbourne, Vic., J3

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    Brothers Grimm

    A Miller

    (2013), pp. 1-1, Aker magazine, Melbourne, Australia, J3

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    Road Kill, Snowy Mountains Highway, New South Wales, 2009

    A Miller

    (2013), pp. 1-1, Stereo stories, Melbourne, Vic., J2

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    2012

    Family ties? Parent-child relationships in a selection of young adult critical dystopian texts

    E Braithwaite, R Hutton, A Miller

    (2012), Vol. 2012, pp. 93-108, Interjuli, [Berlin, Germany], C1

    journal article

    The pornography of trauma : faking identity in misery memoirs

    A Miller

    (2012), Vol. 39, pp. 90-103, LiNQ, Townsville, Qld., C1

    journal article

    Impossible

    A Miller

    (2012), pp. 85-85, Small wonders, Strawberry Hills, N.S.W., J3

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    Dream animals

    A Miller

    (2012), Vol. 44, pp. 1-1, Famous reporter, Hobart, Tas., J3

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    Aslyum (ii)

    A Miller

    (2012), pp. 33-33, Black and blue, London, England, J3

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    2011

    Asylum (i)

    A Miller

    (2011), Vol. 21, pp. 1-1, Eureka street, Richmond, Vic., J3-1

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    2009

    Phantasmagoria

    A Miller

    (2009), Vol. 24, pp. 55-60, Verandah, Melbourne, Vic., J2-1

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    2008

    Scandal, censorship and representation in the online world : an ethical conundrum

    G Pye, A Miller

    (2008), pp. 98-104, AiCE 2008 : Conference proceedings of AiCE 2008, Melbourne, 11 February, 2008 : fifth Australian Institute of Computer Ethics Conference, Melbourne, Victoria, E1

    conference

    Mimic

    A Miller

    (2008), Vol. 23, pp. 30-31, Verandah, Melbourne, Vic, J2-1

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    2007

    A wrinkle in ruby time

    A Miller

    (2007), Vol. 22, pp. 6-7, Verandah, Melbourne, Vic., J2-1

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    2006

    Shadow folk

    A Miller

    (2006), Vol. 5, pp. 40-42, Staples, Nottingham, England, J3-1

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    Winter trees

    A Miller

    (2006), pp. 262-262, Groundwork, Geelong, Vic, J3-1

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    Moon stories

    A Miller

    (2006), pp. 264-264, Groundwork, Geelong, Vic, J3-1

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    2005

    Transcience

    A Miller

    (2005), Vol. 20, pp. 138-144, Verandah, Melbourne, Vic., J1-1

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    Prose Poetry as Pressure Cooker: Examining Gendered Anxieties

    Alyson Miller

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    Prose Poetry, Subversion, and Taboo

    Alyson Miller

    (), JO3

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    Funded Projects at Deakin

    No Funded Projects at Deakin found

    Supervisions

    Principal Supervisor
    2021

    Eleanore Rose Gardner

    Thesis entitled: 'The quintessence of difficult': Examining the Disruptive Literary Antiheroine

    Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts

    Co-supervisor
    2022

    Heather Brown

    Thesis entitled: Interrogating Postfeminist Female Empowerment in Bestselling Post-millennial Young Adult Literature

    Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts

    2021

    David Ryan

    Thesis entitled: Be a Good Sport

    Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts

    Sophie (Zozie) Brown

    Thesis entitled: Malfunctioning Bots: Posthuman Identities in Young Adult Literature

    Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts

    Associate Supervisor
    2023

    Noah O'Connor

    Thesis entitled: Asexual Necropolitics: Slow Death and Death-Adjacency in Young Adult Fiction

    Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts