School of Critical Studies

Dr Gavin Miller

  • Reader/Senior Lecturer in Medical Humanities (English Literature)

email: Gavin.Miller@glasgow.ac.uk


Research interests

  • Medical humanities
  • Literary theory
  • Contemporary fiction
  • Science fiction
  • Scottish literature
  • History and theory of psychiatry and psychoanalysis
  • Psychotherapy and theology/religious studies

Biography

Gavin Miller is a graduate of Edinburgh University, where he took his MA Hons and PhD. Prior to joining the University of Glasgow in 2011, he worked at Edinburgh University and Manchester Metropolitan University. He has mainly worked in literature departments, but was from 2010-11 employed within the School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh.

Gavin has a particular interest in the medical humanities - those areas of the humanities that complement, contextualise and critique biomedical accounts of human nature, health and well-being. He also researches in literary theory (particularly psychoanalytic theory), in contemporary fiction (particularly science fiction), and in Scottish literature. He is also a historian of psychiatry and psychoanalysis in Scotland, specialising in the work of R.D. Laing and in object relations theory (Suttie, Fairbairn, etc.). He was recently employed upon the Theology and Therapy Project, where he investigated the overlap of psychotherapy, Christianity, and spirituality in post-war Scotland and England.

Supervision

Gavin is interested in supervising postgraduate research in the medical humanities with a relation to literature, theology, and/or the history of psychiatry and psychotherapy. He is also interested in supervising postgraduate work on contemporary fiction, science fiction, Scottish literature, and literary theory.

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Number of items: 53.

2013

Miller, G. (2013) Crossing the border: pastoral theology and psychotherapy. Expository Times, 124 (4). pp. 157-165. ISSN 0014-5246 (doi:10.1177/0014524612464317)

Miller, G. (2013) Resisting self-spirituality: counselling as spirituality in the dialogues of Hans Schauder and Marcus Lefébure. Journal of Contemporary Religion, 28 (1). pp. 125-140. ISSN 1353-7903 (doi:10.1080/13537903.2013.750850)

2012

Miller, G. (2012) R.D. Laing's theological hinterland: the contrast between mysticism and communion. History of Psychiatry, 23 (2). pp. 139-155. ISSN 0957-154X (doi:10.1177/0957154X11401181)

2011

Miller, G. (2011) Between enlightenment and the end of history: Ken MacLeod's Engines of light. In: McCracken-Flesher, C. (ed.) Scotland as Science Fiction. Bucknell University Press, Lewisburg, PA, pp. 67-83. ISBN 9781611483741

2010

Miller, Gavin (2010) The apathetic fallacy. Philosophy and Literature, 34 (1). pp. 48-64. ISSN 0190-0013 (doi:10.1353/phl.0.0080)

Miller, G. (2010) Irvine Welsh. In: Parini, J. (ed.) British Writers Supplement XVII. Charles Scribner's Sons, Detroit, USA. ISBN 9780684315973

Miller, G. (2010) Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower : the Third World as topos for a U.S. utopia. In: Hoagland, E. and Sarwal, R. (eds.) Science Fiction, Imperialism and the Third World: Essays on Postcolonial Literature and Film. McFarland, Jefferson, NC, pp. 202-212. ISBN 9780786447893

Miller, G. (2010) Scottish studies profile: Dr Gavin Miller. Bottle Imp (8).

Miller, G. (2010) Welsh and identity politics. In: Schoene, Berthold (ed.) Edinburgh Companion to Irvine Welsh. Series: Edinburgh companions to Scottish literature . Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, pp. 89-99. ISBN 9780748639175

2009

Miller, G. (2009) How Scottish was R.D. Laing? History of Psychiatry, 20 (2). pp. 226-232. ISSN 0957-154X (doi:10.1177/0957154X08101223)

Miller, G. (2009) R.D. Laing and theology: the influence of Christian existentialism on The Divided Self. History of the Human Sciences, 22 (2). pp. 1-21. ISSN 0952-6951 (doi:10.1177/0952695108101284)

Miller, G. (2009) Scotland’s authentic plurality: the new essentialism in Scottish Studies. Scottish Literary Review, 1 (1). pp. 157-174. ISSN 1756-5634

Miller, G. (2009) Scottish science fiction: writing Scottish literature back into history. Etudes Ecossaises, 12 . pp. 121-133. ISSN 1240-1439

2008

Miller, G. (2008) Animals, empathy, and care in Naomi Mitchison's 'Memoirs of a Spacewoman'. Science Fiction Studies, 105 . ISSN 0091-7729

Miller, G. (2008) Beyond the secure base: why the maternal matters. Studies in the Maternal, 1 (1).

Miller, G. (2008) Faith, Theology and Psychoanalysis by Trevor M. Dobbs, Psychoanalysis and Religion in the 21st Century edited by David M. Black. International Journal of Psychoanalysis , 89 (3). pp. 679-685. ISSN 0020-7578 (doi:10.1111/j.1745-8315.2008.00051-04.x)

Miller, G. (2008) George Mackay Brown. In: Alexander Malcolm, C. and Malcolm, D. (eds.) Companion to the British and Irish Short Story. Series: Blackwell companions to literature and culture (56). Blackwell, Oxford, pp. 472-479. ISBN 9781405145374

Miller, G. (2008) Political repression and sexual freedom in Brave New World and 1984. In: Izzo , D. G. and Kirkpatrick, K. (eds.) Huxley’s Brave New World: Essays. McFarland, Jefferson, NC, pp. 17-25. ISBN 9780786436835

Miller, G. (2008) Psychiatry as hermeneutics: R.D. Laing’s argument with natural science. Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 48 (1). pp. 42-60. ISSN 0022-1678 (doi:10.1177/0022167806295186 )

Miller, G. (2008) Scottish psychoanalysis: a rational religion. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 44 (1). pp. 38-59. ISSN 0022-5061 (doi:10.1002/jhbs.20281)

Miller, G. (2008) The Scottish short story (after 1945). In: Alexander Malcolm, C. and Malcolm, D. (eds.) Companion to the British and Irish Short Story. Series: Blackwell companions to literature and culture (56). Blackwell, Oxford, pp. 294-307. ISBN 9781405145374

Miller, G. (2008) Sympathy as cognitive impairment in Robin Jenkins’s The Cone-Gatherers: the limits of homo sacer. Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies , 2 (1). pp. 22-31. ISSN 1757-6458 (doi:10.3828/jlcds.2.1.4)

Miller, G. (2008) Why Scottish personal relations theory matters politically. Scottish Affairs (62). pp. 47-62. ISSN 0966-0356

2007

Miller, G. (2007) 7:84. In: Cody, G.H. and Sprinchorn, E. (eds.) Columbia Encyclopedia of Modern Drama. Columbia University Press, New York, USA, p. 1213. ISBN 9780231140324

Miller, G. (2007) The Admirable Crichton. In: Cody , G.H. and Sprinchorn, E. (eds.) Columbia Encyclopedia of Modern Drama. Columbia University Press, New York, USA, pp. 11-12. ISBN 9780231140324

Miller, G. (2007) Games without competition: Iain M. Banks’s ‘play ethic'. In: Mead, D. and Frelik, P. (eds.) Playing the Universe: Games and Gaming in Science Fiction. Maria Curie-Skłodowska University Press, Lublin, pp. 55-65. ISBN 9788322726563

Miller, G. (2007) Iain (M.) Banks: literature, nationalism, and the posthuman. In: Schoene-Harwood, B. (ed.) Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Literature. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, UK, pp. 202-209. ISBN 9780748623952

Miller, G. (2007) John Macmurray’s psychotherapeutic Christianity: the influence of Alfred Adler and Fritz Künkel. Journal of Scottish Thought . pp. 103-121. ISSN 1755-9928

Miller, G. (2007) A Reply to Robert R. Calder. Scottish Affairs (58). pp. 145-147. ISSN 0966-0356

Miller, G. (2007) A 'wall of ideas': the taboo on tenderness in theory and culture. New Literary History, 38 (4). pp. 667-681. ISSN 0028-6087 (doi:10.1353/nlh.2008.0010)

2006

Miller, G. (2006) Aesthetic depersonalization in Louise Welsh’s The Cutting Room. Journal of Narrative Theory, 36 (1). pp. 72-89. ISSN 1549-0815

Miller, G. (2006) Exorcising the demons: science and religion in communion. Discover NLS (3). pp. 21-23. ISSN 1751-5998

Miller, G. (2006) R.D. Laing's language of experience. PsyArt: A Hyperlink Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts .

Miller, G. (2006) 'Words of truth and soberness'? R.D. Laing's self-portraiture. In: Hare, B. and Bielecka, P. (eds.) Divided Selves: The Scottish Self-Portrait from the 17th Century to the Present. Fleming-Wyfold Art Foundation, London, UK, pp. 55-59. ISBN 9780954513733

2005

Miller, G. (2005) Alasdair Gray. In: Malcolm, C.A. and Malcolm, D. (eds.) British and Irish Short-Fiction Writers 1945-2000. Series: Dictionary of literary biography (319). Thomson/Gale, Detroit, USA, pp. 90-98. ISBN 9780787681371

Miller, G. (2005) Alasdair Gray: The Fiction of Communion. Series: Scottish cultural review of language and literature (4). Rodopi, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. ISBN 9789042017573

Miller, G. (2005) How not to 'question Scotland'. Scottish Affairs, 52 . pp. 1-14. ISSN 0966-0356

Miller, G. (2005) Iain (M.) Banks. In: Parini, J. (ed.) British Writers: Supplement XI: Iain Banks to Alan Warner. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, USA, pp. 1-15. ISBN 9780684313139

Miller, G. (2005) R.D. Laing: the all-consuming life of an alcoholic psychiatrist. Scotsman Online .

Miller, G. (2005) The cult of the White Goddess in Alasdair Gray’s Lanark. Studies in Scottish Literature (33-34). pp. 291-307. ISSN 0039-3770

Miller, Gavin (2005) National Confessions: queer theory meets Scottish literature. Scottish Studies Review, 6 (2). pp. 60-71. ISSN 1475-7737

2004

Bell, E. and Miller, G., (Eds.) (2004) Scotland in Theory: Reflections on Culture and Literature. Series: Scottish cultural review of language and literature. Rodopi, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. ISBN 9789042010284

Miller, G. (2004) ‘Persuade without convincing… represent without reasoning’: the inferiorist mythology of the Scots language. In: Bell, E. and Miller, G. (eds.) Scotland in Theory: Reflections on Culture and Literature. Rodopi, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, pp. 197-209. ISBN 9789042010284

Miller, G. (2004) R.D. Laing. Series: Edinburgh review . Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, UK. ISBN 9781859332573

2003

Miller, G. (2003) Alasdair Gray. In: Parini, J. (ed.) British Writers Supplement IX. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, USA, pp. 79-94. ISBN 9780684312378

2002

Miller, G. (2002) R.D. Laing. Edinburgh Review, 110 . pp. 85-90. ISSN 0267-6672

Miller, G. (2002) 'We are all murderers and prostitutes': R.D. Laing and the work of Alasdair Gray. PsyArt: A Hyperlink Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts .

2001

Miller, G. (2001) Cognition and community: the Scottish philosophical context of the ‘divided self’. Janus Head: Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature, Continental Philosophy, Phenomenological Psychology and the Arts, 4 (1). pp. 104-129. ISSN 1524-2269

Miller, G. (2001) Literary narrative as soteriology in the work of Kurt Vonnegut and Alasdair Gray. Journal of Narrative Theory, 31 (3). pp. 299-323. ISSN 1549-0815 (doi:10.1353/jnt.2011.0055)

Miller, G. (2001) Robin Jenkins's 'Poor Angus': confessions of a justified artist. Edinburgh Review (106). pp. 33-38. ISSN 0267-6672

Miller, G. (2001) The democratic psyche: Scotland's philosophical psychiatry. Irish Review, 28 . pp. 108-124. ISSN 0790-7850

2000

Miller, G. (2000) Pure dead mental: Toni Davidson's 'Scar Culture'. Edinburgh Review (103). pp. 133-140. ISSN 0267-6672

1999

Miller, G. (1999) An introduction to the work of George Friel. In: Roy, K. (ed.) Dictionary of Scottish Biography: Volume One: 1971-75. Carrick Media, Irvine, UK, pp. 50-52. ISBN 9780946724413

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