Summary
Katie Miller is a teaching associate professor of English at the University of Nevada, Reno. She teaches a wide range of courses, including first-year composition, advanced composition, introduction to argument, and fanfiction studies. As the 2023–2025 David H. Fenimore Distinguished Teaching Fellow of English, she developed educational technology resources for the Core Writing Program. She has also served in multiple leadership roles in the Core Writing Program, including Interim Director from 2024-2025
Her research interests include writing program administration, writing assessment, and queer rhetorics. Currently, she is researching how narrative and performance enable alterhuman communities to challenge normative scripts of selfhood and create queer kinship. She has also led faculty workshops on AI in the classroom and critical AI literacy.
Research interests
- Writing program administration and faculty development
- Writing assessment and pedagogy
- Critical AI literacy in writing instruction
- Queer rhetorics
Courses taught
- ENG 100I: Composition Intensive
- ENG 101: Composition I
- ENG 102: Composition II
- ENG 301: Understanding Arguments
- ENG 321: Writing in the Disciplines and Professions
- ENG 400A: Topics in Writing (Fanfiction Studies)
- ENG 737: Teaching College Composition
Selected publications
- Miller, K. (2020). Review of Re/Orienting Writing Studies: Queer Methods, Queer Projects, ed. W. P. Banks, M. B. Cox & C. Dadas. Composition Studies, 48(1), 136–140.
- Miller, K. (2017). Legislating first-year writing placement: Implications for Pennsylvania and across the country (with B. Siegel Finer & E. Wender). Journal of Writing Assessment, 10(1).
- Miller, Katrina. “Slow Striking: A New Faculty Member’s Reflection.” Works & Days, vol. 69, no. 25. 2017, pp. 121-125.
- Miller, K. (2016). Thinking ecologically and ethically about assessment [Review of Very Like a Whale by E. M. White, N. Elliot & I. Peckham; Assessing the Teaching of Writing, ed. A. E. Dayton; and Antiracist Writing Assessment Ecologies by A. B. Inoue]. WPA: Writing Program Administration, 40(1), 166–180.
- Goodwin, P., Chaput, C., & Miller, K. (2016). Accountable to whom? The rhetorical circulation of neoliberalism and the discourse on higher education. In K. H. Nguyen (Ed.), Rhetoric in neoliberalism (pp. 15–37). Palgrave Macmillan.
- Miller, Katrina. “Working Against Racism.” Rev. Antiracist Writing Assessment Ecologies by Asao Inoue. Journal of Writing Assessment Reading List. 12 Jan. 2016.
- Miller, Katrina. Rev. of Assessing the Teaching of Writing: Twenty-First Century Trends and Technologies, ed. by Amy E. Dayton. Assessing Writing, vol. 26, 2015, pp. 80-81.
- Keith, W., & Mountford, R. (2014). The Mt. Oread manifesto on rhetorical education [with contributions from K. Miller et al.]. Rhetoric Society Quarterly, 44(1), 1–5.
- Miller, K. (2012). What will they call you? Rhetorically listening to lesbian maternal narratives. International Journal of Listening, 26(3), 134–145.
Education
- Ph.D., English, University of Nevada, Reno, 2016
- M.A., English, Sacramento State University, 2010
- B.A., English, Sacramento State University, 2007