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Paul Allen Miller
Title: | Carolina Distinguished Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature Distinguished Guest Professor of English at Ewha Womans University in Seoul |
Department: | Languages, Literatures and Cultures College of Arts and Sciences |
Email: | pamiller@sc.edu |
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Paul Allen Miller is Carolina Distinguished Professor at the University of South Carolina.
He was Vice Provost for International Affairs from 2014 to 2020. He has held visiting
appointments at University of the Ruhr, Paris 13, and Beijing Language and Cultural
University.
His teaching and research interests are theory, Latin literature, ancient philosophy,
and classical reception. He is editor emeritus of Transactions of the American Philological Association. He is the author of Lyric Texts and Lyric Consciousness (1994), Latin Erotic Elegy (2002), Subjecting Verses (2004), Latin Verse Satire (2005), Postmodern Spiritual Practices (2007), Plato’s Apology of Socrates (2010) with Charles Platter, A Tibullus Reader (2013), Diotima at the Barricades: French Feminists Read Plato (2015), and Horace (2019). He has edited fifteen volumes of essays and has published or forthcoming
more than 100 articles on Latin, Greek, French, and English literature and philosophy.
His latest book is Foucault’s Seminars on Antiquity: Learning to Speak the Truth from Bloomsbury (2021).