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 Dr.
Greg Miller, Associate Professor of English at Millsaps
College, has been named this year's recipient of the
Millsaps Distinguished Professor Award. The award is
one of the highest honors that the college can bestow
upon one of its faculty members.
"As
chair of the English department, Dr. Miller has been
a versatile member of our faculty, teaching creative
writing, poetry, American literature and Shakespeare
with intelligence and enthusiasm," said Dr. Richard
Smith, Vice President and Dean of the College. "He is
a caring but challenging professor who asks for the
best from his students."
The
recipient of a Mississippi Humanities Teacher Award
in 1998, Miller served as the president and driving
force behind the 1999 Southern Literary Festival, which
brought poet laureate Robert Pinsky to Mississippi.
Miller has also enjoyed residencies at the MacDowell
Colony, the Yaddo Colony and the Fine Arts Work Center.
His poems have appeared in such prestigious publications
as The Paris Review, Open City, The San Francisco
Sentinel, The Vanderbilt Poetry Review, The Chicago
Review, Tikkun, and The Threepenny Review,
and he has been honored with the Academy of American
Poets Prize.
Miller
is the author of Iron Wheel (1998) and Rib
Cage (2001), both published by the University of
Chicago Press. Both volumes of poetry have received
nominations for National Book Awards and Pulitzer Prizes.
"Being named distinguished professor at Millsaps College
is a singular honor, particularly because of the excellence
of my colleagues and the emphasis that our community
places on innovative teaching and scholarship," said
Miller, who resides in Jackson.
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