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Professor Elizabeth (Liz) Miller, MFA

Professor, Communication Studies


Professor Elizabeth (Liz) Miller, MFA
Liz, a middle-aged white woman with short brown hair, is wearing a black turtleneck and smiling. The window and foliage in the background are slightly blurred.
Margot Miller
Office: L-CJ 4423  
Communication Studies and Journalism Building,
7141 Sherbrooke W.
Phone: (514) 848-2424 ext. 2540
Email: elizabeth.miller@concordia.ca
Website(s): Red Lizard Media
The Shore Line Project
Going Public
SwampScapes
WasteScapes
Availability: Best way to reach me is email

Education

MFA, Electronic Arts, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
BA, Social Thought & Political Economy, University of Massachusetts

Research interests

Environmental media, feminist media, place-based media, participatory media, augmented reality, virtual reality, interactive documentary, video advocacy, community media, documentary media, youth media, climate change, waste, water privatization, migration, refugees rights, refugee youth, Latin American film and media.

Courses

Coms 384 Moving Images II
Coms 569 Moving Images, Diploma
Coms 455 – Food, Media & Culture
Coms 506 – In the Field


Research activities

Novels

Down There By The Train, Shaye Areheart Books, Harmony/Random House, United States (December 2003). Bloomsbury (United Kingdom) (March 2001) and Knopf Publishers (Canada) (June 2001).

Thinking About Magritte, Harvill Press (United Kingdom), Pantheon (United States), HarperCollins (Canada), (March 1992).

Article (solicited)

“Come Into the Garden, Maud”, Queen’s Quarterly , Fall 2002 , pp. 411- 430.  This essay examines the way in which religion and science intersected in the creation of the physic (botanical) garden.

Review essays

“Africa and Her Prodigies”, Review of Don’t Let’s Go To the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller (Random House, 2001) and The Shadow of the Sun by Ryszard Kapuscinski (Knopf, 2001)), Queen’s Quarterly,  Spring 2002, pp. 86-93.

“ How Goodness Is”, Review of Unless by Carol Shields (Random House, 2002) , Queen’s Quarterly, Summer 2002, pp. 282-289 --This review essay was selected to appear in Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vol. 193 (CLC-193). Published by the Gale Group, 2004.2) Anthologies


Publications

Novels

Down There By The Train, Shaye Areheart Books, Harmony/Random House, United States (December 2003). Bloomsbury (United Kingdom) (March 2001) and Knopf Publishers (Canada) (June 2001).

Thinking About Magritte, Harvill Press (United Kingdom), Pantheon (United States), HarperCollins (Canada), (March 1992).

Article (solicited)

“Come Into the Garden, Maud”, Queen’s Quarterly , Fall 2002 , pp. 411- 430.  This essay examines the way in which religion and science intersected in the creation of the physic (botanical) garden.

Review essays

“Africa and Her Prodigies”, Review of Don’t Let’s Go To the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller (Random House, 2001) and The Shadow of the Sun by Ryszard Kapuscinski (Knopf, 2001)), Queen’s Quarterly,  Spring 2002, pp. 86-93.

“ How Goodness Is”, Review of Unless by Carol Shields (Random House, 2002) , Queen’s Quarterly, Summer 2002, pp. 282-289 --This review essay was selected to appear in Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vol. 193 (CLC-193). Published by the Gale Group, 2004.2) Anthologies

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