Title - Director of UA Press
Rank - Professor of English
Department - UA Press
Received his Ph.D. in English from The University of Iowa in 2000 with a dissertation on the literary history of temperance and prohibition in America before the Civil War. His B.A. with Honors was awarded from The University of Delaware in 1992. He has been at the University of Akron since the Fall of 2000; in 2002 he won a Favorite Faculty Award from National Residence Hall Honorary. He was an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow at The Library Company of Philadelphia in 1999 to conduct research on his scholarly edition of T. S. Arthur's Ten Nights in a Bar-Room, an important antebellum novel, which was published by Copley Publishing in 2002. His scholarship focuses on major and minor works of American literature and their historical context. He also focuses on scholarly editing and the preparation of new editions of antebellum literary works for scholars, students, and general readers. In 1999 and 2000, he served as Managing Editor of The Walt Whitman Quarterly Review. From 2000 to 2006, he edited The Social History of Alcohol Review and The Social History of Alcohol and Drugs. With David Fahey, he is currently editing an encyclopedia on the history of alcohol and drugs in North America for ABC-CLIO. He published an edition of Nathaniel Parker Willis's short stories, with significant contributions by University of Akron graduate students in English, as Sketches at Home and Abroad (2010). He is currently preparing a series of new editions for The University of Akron Press; the next forthcoming title will be a critical edition of a very rare and important early Western ladies' magazine, The Akron Offering, which was first published in 1849. In addition to these scholarly and critical editions, Jon Miller has also published scholarly articles on Walt Whitman, Petroleum Vesuvius Nasby, the teaching of scholarly editing, late nineteenth-century Akron, and the literary history of drinking and temperance in world literature. In the Spring of 2008 he became Assistant Chair and Undergraduate Advisor for the English Department.
