Dr. Laura Miller
Photos, from left to right: Alaska; Osaka, Japan, 1980; set of Dae Jang Geum (Jewel of the Palace), a Chosun Dynasty-era Korean TV drama series.
Professor
Loyola University of Chicago
Department of Anthropology
Lake Shore Campus, Damen Hall 808
6525 N. Sheridan
Chicago, Illinois 60626
(773) 508-3469
E-mail: lmille2@luc.edu
Laura Miller is a Californio* who received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles. She specializes in linguistic anthropology and Japan studies, and has carried out field research in Japan and in Russia. Her research interests include linguistic ideology, folk models, popular culture, and gender representations in media and language, and writing systems.
Dr. Miller is the Past President of the Society for East Asian Anthropology , American Anthropological Association. She also currently serves on the Northeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies. Dr. Miller is also a Career Mentor for the Committee on the Status of Women in Anthropology (COSWA), a project to establish better mentoring in the discipline to advance the careers of women in anthropology. For more information please visit the COSWA website.*For more on Dr. Miller's Californio ancestors, including poblador Luis Quintero and escort soldiers Roque de Cota, Eugenio Valdez, Francisco Sepulveda, and Jose Machado, go to: The Founders of Los Angeles.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS (2000 - 2009)
Dr. Miller is currently working on a book manuscript entitled Japanese Girl Stuff. A volume co-edited with Jan Bardsley, entitled Manners and Mischief: Gender and Power in Japanese Conduct Literature, is under contract with the University of California Press.
PDFs of some papers and chapters are found at: http://luc.academia.edu/LauraMiller
“Afterword: Japan-related linguistic intervention.” Forthcoming in Critical Asian Studies.
“Taking gender seriously in Cool Japan analysis.” Forthcoming in Japan Studies Review.
In press. “Beauties hybrids à Tokyo” (Hybrid beauty in Tokyo). In 100,000 Years of Beauty, edited by Dalibor Frioux. Paris: Les Editions Babylone.
2008 “Extreme Makeover for a Heian-Era Wizard.” Mechademia: An Annual Forum for Anime, Manga and the Fan Arts. Issue #3: Limits of the Human, pp. 30-45. University of Minnesota Press.
2008 “Korean TV Dramas and the Japan-Style Korean Wave.” PostScript: Essays in Film and the Humanities, vol. 27, no.3, pp. 17-24.
2008 “Japan’s Cinderella Motif: Beauty Industry and Mass Culture Interpretations of a Popular Icon” Asian Studies Review, vol. 32, pp. 393-409.
2007 “Youth fashion and changing beautification practices.” Republished in Modern Japanese Culture and Society, Four Volume Set, ed. by D. P. Martinez. Routledge, pp. 85-97.
2007 “Those Naughty Teenage Girls: Japanese Kogals, Slang, and Media Assessments.” Republished in Language & Gender: Modern Themes in English Studies, ed. S. Ehrlich. Routledge.
2006
Beauty Up: Exploring Contemporary Japanese Body Aesthetics. The University of California Press. http://www.ucpress.edu/books/
2005
Bad Girls of Japan, edited by Laura Miller and Jan Bardsley. Palgrave MacMillain Press. http:www.amazon.com/gp/product
2004
"Much ado about Nushu" Invited contribution to the weblog Keywords.oxusnet.net
2004
"Youth fashion and changing beautification practices." In Japan's Changing Generations; Are Young People Creating a New Society? edited by Gordon Matthews and Bruce White, Routledge/Curzon Press, pp. 83-97.
2004
["How do Japanese and Americans impart negative assessments to others in the workplace?"]. In
[Discourse Theories and Practice in Intercultural Understanding], pp. 113-133. Tokyo: Kenkyûsha..
2004
"No body is exempt: Beauty compulsion and resistance in Japan." In Storytelling Sociology: Narrative as Social Inquiry, edited by Ronald Berger and Richard Quinney, Lynne Rienner Publishers. .
2004.
"There's more than manga: Popular nonfiction books and magazines." In Companion to the Anthropology of Japan, edited by Jennifer Robertson, Blackwell Publishers.
2004
"You are doing burikko!:Censoring/scrutinizing artificers of cute femininity in Japanese." In Japanese Language, Gender, and Ideology: Cultural Models and Real People, edited by Janet Shibamoto Smith and Shigeko Okamoto, Oxford University Press. .
2004
"Those naughty teenage girls: Japanese Kogals, slang, and media assessments." Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 14, Number 2, 2004. http://www.anthrosource.net
2003
"Mammary mania in Japan." positions: east asia cultures critique, Fall, vol. 11 no. 2, pp. 271-300, 2003.
2003
"Consuming Japanese print media in Chicago." In Ethnolinguistic Chicago: Language and Literacy in Chicago's Neighborhoods, edited by Marcia Farr, Lawrence Erlbaum, pp. 357-380.
2003
"Grafitti photos: Expressive art in Japanese girls' culture." Harvard Asia Quarterly, Vol. 7 no. 3, pp. 31-42 http://www.fas.harvard.edu
2003
"Male beauty work in Japan." In Men and Masculinities in Contemporary Japan: Dislocating the Salaryman Doxa, edited by James Roberson and Nobue Suzuki, Routledge, pp. 37-58.
2001
Nu Shu: A Hidden Language of Women in China, film review. Asian Educational Media Service News and Reviews Vol. 4, No. 3, pp.6-7.
2000
"New fashions afoot." Image of the Month. Asian Educational Media Service. http://www.aems.uiuc.edu/HTML/highshoes.las
2000
"Media typifications and hip bijin." U-S Japan Women's Journal No. 19, p.176-205.
2000
"Introduction: Speculating on spin: Media models of women." Special theme issue, U-S Japan Women's Journal No. 19, pp. 3-6.
2000
"Negative assessments in Japanese-American workplace interaction." In Culturally Speaking: Managing Rapport Through Talk Across Cultures, edited by Helen Spencer-Oatey. London: Continuum Press, pp. 240-254
2000
(with Ralph Ginsberg) "What do they do? Activities of students during study abroad." In Language Policy and Pedagogy, edited by Richard D. Lambert and Elana Shohamy. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 237-260.
If you would like to contact Laura Miller please e-mail her: lmille2@.luc.edu
