Womens Studies
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Dr. Gill Wright- Miller
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Dr. Gill Wright Miller , Gill Wright Miller is an Associate Professor in the Department of Dance. Her PhD (in Dance and Women's Studies) is from New York University where she was privileged to be advised by feminist philosopher Dr. Berenice Fisher, (faculty of Culture and Communication and author of "No Angels in the Classroom.") Her dissertation was titled "Meditations on Public Performance and Pregnancy" where she explored the notion of "the othered body" on stage: what response is generated in both the performer and her audience when women display their personal lives as central issues on public stages? Dr. Miller's areas of scholarly interest are most focused on reinterpreting traditional public/private divisions, especially as they apply to the performative. She enjoys playing with the swing-dance of the fractal distillations as the band plays the familiar tune "you'll never get there is you keep going only half-way." Dr. Miller has published extensively on the intersections of mothering as the subject of performing, and most recently on body-mind centering, postmodernism and the academy, revealing the acquisition of movement sophistication as a prototype for acquiring and developing research skills.
