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Joseph Hillis Miller Jr. (March 5, 1928 – February 7, 2021) [1] [2] was an American literary critic and scholar who advanced theories of literary deconstruction.He was part of the Yale School along with scholars including Paul de Man, Jacques Derrida, and Geoffrey Hartman, who advocated deconstruction as an analytical means by which the relationship between literary text and the associated ...
J. Hillis Miller Sr. (August 29, 1899 – November 14, 1953) was an American university professor, education administrator and university president. Miller was a native of Virginia , and earned bachelor's, master's and doctorate degrees before embarking on an academic career.
Our Mutual Friend, published in 1864–1865, is the last novel completed by English author Charles Dickens and is one of his most sophisticated works, combining savage satire with social analysis. It centres on, in the words of critic J. Hillis Miller, quoting the book's character Bella Wilfer, "money, money, money, and what money can make of ...
Derrida and Hillis Miller were subsequently affiliated with the University of California, Irvine. [49] Miller has described deconstruction this way: "Deconstruction is not a dismantling of the structure of a text, but a demonstration that it has already dismantled itself. Its apparently solid ground is no rock, but thin air." [50]
Nell Critzer Miller was the wife of J. Hillis Miller, Sr., the fourth president of the University of Florida, and served as the university's first lady for six years from 1947 to 1953. She was also an English teacher, the assistant director for the Wesley Foundation, and the head of the Office of Patient Services at the J. Hillis Miller Health ...
After teaching at Yale from 1972 to 1986, J. Hillis Miller left for the University of California, Irvine, where he was the Distinguished Research Professor of English and Comparative Literature. He died in 2021. Shortly after J. Hillis Miller's arrival at UC Irvine in 1986, Derrida himself became Professor of the Humanities at UCI.
Deborah Vandell – founding dean of the School of Education, expert on child care and after-school programs; Frederic Wan – professor emeritus of Applied Mathematics; Martin Wattenberg – political scientist; Douglas R. White – social anthropologist and network sociologist, author of Network Analysis and Ethnographic Problems
The facility was named after the fourth president of the University of Florida, J. Hillis Miller Sr., who served from 1947 to 1953. Miller spearheaded the effort to fund and build the university's College of Medicine and its teaching hospital, which were incorporated into the Health Science Center.