Jeffrey S. Miller

Assistant Professor of English and Journalism

Office: Humanities 109

Phone: (605) 274-5431

E-mail: jeffrey.miller@augie.edu

Jeffrey Miller received his Ph.D. in American Studies from Michigan State University in 1997, after obtaining a B.A. from Grinnell College and an M.A. from the University of Iowa "some years earlier." At Augustana, he teaches editing, history and various writing courses in the journalism department, and composition, general literature, and modern American literature courses in the English department. He also is one of the instructors of the "Cinema, Character and Culture" Capstone course, and teaches an interim course on the appreciation and history of American film. You can read about his academic and personal obsession with television in his book Something Completely Different: British Television and American Culture (University of Minnesota Press, 2000) available at an amazon.com in your neighborhood. He is currently working on a project dealing with the notion of "quality" in media culture during the second half of the 20th century. When not absorbed in various cinematic and televisual "research projects," Dr. Miller serves on the board of the Mid-America American Studies Association, writes for the Sioux Falls magazine etc., participates fruitlessly in a fantasy baseball league, and occasionally humiliates himself playing golf. He and his wife Barb Ebeling, parish administrator for Calvary Episcopal Cathedral, live in Sioux Falls in a household ruled by their daughters Emma Lin Xianglan and Hannah Lu Chenguang, both natives of Jiangxi, China, and their Corgi Carey, at some point in his distant past a native of Pembrokeshire, Wales.