Dr Gavin Miller

Reader in Contemporary Literature and Medical Humanities (English Literature)

telephone: 0141 330 2435
email: Gavin.Miller@glasgow.ac.uk

Critical Studies - English Lit, Room 504, 2 The Square, Glasgow G12 8QQ

Biography

Prior to joining the University of Glasgow in 2011, I worked at Edinburgh University and at Manchester Metropolitan University. My undergraduate and PhD degrees are in English Literature (both from Edinburgh University), and so I have mainly worked in Literature departments. But I was from 2010-11 employed within the School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh, as part of the AHRC-funded Theology and Therapy Project. As my career has developed, so have my research interests changed. My PhD was on the work of the Glaswegian author Alasdair Gray, but since then I have greatly diversified my research interests, moving far beyond contemporary Scottish Literature!

Research interests

Research Interests

Cultural History of UFOs; Critical Management Studies; Contemporary Book History; Medical Humanities; Science Fiction; Contemporary Fiction; Literature And Medicine; History Of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, Psychotherapy and Psychology; Contemporary Religious Studies.

Current Research

I have a long-standing interest in the overlap between science fiction studies and the medical humanities, often in collaboration with my colleague Dr Anna McFarlane. This has resulted in our 200,000 word co-edited collection The Edinburgh Companion to Science Fiction and the Medical Humanities. This research parallels my work on the intersection between science fiction and psychology, published in my 2020 Liverpool monograph Science Fiction and Psychology. The book was very positively reviewed by leading journals in science fiction studies, where it was characterised as 'rich, densely argued', 'a unique synthesis', and praised for 'the far-reaching, multifaceted importance' of its scholarship.

I have also for many years worked on the media and publishing history of the psy disciplines in the United Kingdom. This has involved extensive work in the BBC Written Archives Centre and in the Penguin Archive at Bristol University. I am currently working on a minigraph Penguins on the Couch: Penguin Books and the Psychologization of Britain, c.1935-1985 for the series Cambridge Elements in Publishing and Book Culture. This work, and my wider interest in the history of psychotherapy and psychiatry, underpins my standing as Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. My main historical output is my 2020 Edinburgh monograph, Miracles of Healing: Psychotherapy and Religion in Twentieth-Century Scotland, praised in reviews as 'meticulously researched' and as 'truly compelling and a valued asset to anyone involved in religious studies, theology, pastoral counselling or cultural anthropology'.

More recently, I have been conducting RSE-funded work on the cultural history of UFOs in Scotland. You can find out more on my project blog. My book proposal on this topic is in progress.

A further new interest is in the relationship between business guru doctrine and the medical humanities, leading to a well-received article in BMJ Medical Humanities. You can also find shorter blogs piece on this research for WonkHE, The Polyphony, and HEPI.

Research community

I directed the Glasgow Medical Humanities Research Centre (2017-2024) and the Wellcome Trust funded Glasgow Medical Humanities Network (2020-2023), and was also a Steering Group member for the Wellcome funded Northern Network for Medical Humanities

I am lead Editor for the book series Contemporary Cultural Studies of Illness, Health and Medicine (Edinburgh University Press), an Associate Editor for the journal Palgrave Communications, an Editorial Board member for Journal of Posthumanism, and a member of the Comité de lecture for Études écossaises.

I review funding and do panel work for a variety of organisations. I am a member of both the AHRC Peer Review College (third term) and the UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship Peer Review College, and I was an expert reviewer for the AHRC COVID-19 scheme among other specialist UKRI/AHRC calls. I have also reviewed for various other UK organisations -- including the MRC, ESRC, Wellcome Trust and Carnegie Trust -- and was a reviewer for several years for the Scottish Graduate School in the Arts and Humanities.

I have reviewed internationally for the DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft), the National Science Centre, Poland, the Collaboration of Humanities and Social Sciences in Europe and the Trans-Atlantic Partnership.

I have peer-reviewed for a wide range of journals across medical humanities, contemporary literature, religious studies, Scottish literature, psychiatry and psychotherapy, and history of the psy disciplines. I have peer-reviewed monographs and collections for various publishers, including Routledge, Peter Lang, Palgrave MacMillan, Bloomsbury, and UCL Press.

Impact

Penguins on the Mind: Using book history to illuminate the risks and opportunities of media work by psychological professionals, this physical exhibition and online exhibition curated Penguin titles on the 'psy' disciplines, c.1940–1980. An article ‘Behind the scenes of the paperback revolution’ was published in print and online in the BPS magazine, The Psychologist. ‘I went behind the scenes of Penguin’s psychiatric titles – what I found was women’s hidden labour’ was published in The Conversation. I'm developed an expanded exhibition for the Royal College of Psychiatrists following publication of ‘Beyond a literacy model for psychiatry in the mass media’ in BJPsych Bulletin.

Scottish UFOs: I have given talks to a general audience on this topic for Edinburgh Skeptics, Glasgow Skeptics, the Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, and the Scottish Society for Psychical Research. I have further talks pending, and I am currently working with Falkirk Library service on a Knowledge Exchange and Public Engagement project on the 1990/2000s Bonnybridge (or Falkirk) UFO triangle.

External Examining

I welcome invitations to externally examine, including at undergraduate and taught postgraduate level.

I am External Examiner for Birkbeck's MA Medical Humanities: Bodies, Cultures and Ideas (2023-2027).

I have externally examined PhDs in contemporary and modern literature, and medical humanities, for University of Aberdeen, University of Bristol, Monash University, University of Stirling, King's College London, University of Kent, University of Santiago de Compostela, and University College London.

Research groups

Modernities

Publications

List by: Type | Date

Jump to: 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2020 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 | 1999

Number of items: 142.

2025

Bates, Gordon David Lyle and Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2025) Psychiatrists, penguins and pelicans: media psychiatrists and psychiatrists in the media. BJPsych Bulletin, (Accepted for Publication)

Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2025) Disruption, transformation and silos: medical humanities and the management gurus. Medical Humanities, 51(2), pp. 218-227. (doi: 10.1136/medhum-2024-012928) (PMID:38991756)

Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2025) Next steps: oral presentation. Modern History Review, 27(4), p. 34.

Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233, Mcfarlane, Anna ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1100-8959 and McCormack, Donna (Eds.) (2025) The Edinburgh Companion to Science Fiction and the Medical Humanities. Series: Edinburgh companions to literature and the humanities. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh. ISBN 9781474485074

Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2025) Taking stock of Future Shock: the medicalised rebirth of ‘cultural lag’. In: Miller, Gavin, Mcfarlane, Anna and McCormack, Donna (eds.) Edinburgh Companion to Science Fiction and the Medical Humanities. Series: Edinburgh companions to literature and the humanities. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, pp. 19-30. ISBN 9781474485074

Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 and Mcfarlane, Anna ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1100-8959 (2025) Science fiction studies and the medical humanities: interdisciplinary futures. In: Miller, Gavin, Mcfarlane, Anna and McCormack, Donna (eds.) The Edinburgh Companion to Science Fiction and the Medical Humanities. Series: Edinburgh companions to literature and the humanities. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, xv-xli. ISBN 9781474485074

2024

Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2024) The UFO Is Dead—Long Live the UFO!: Greg Eghigian. After the Flying Saucers Came: A Global History of the UFO Phenomenon. Oxford UP, 2024. xii+ 388 pp. $29.99 hc & ebk. Science Fiction Studies, 51(3), pp. 489-493. [Book Review]

Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2024) Let’s replace talk of ‘disruptive’ research with something better. [Website]

Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2024) Review: Samuel W. Franklin, The Cult of Creativity: A Surprisingly Recent History (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023). History of the Human Sciences, [Book Review]

Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2024) Beyond a literacy model for psychiatry in the mass media. BJPsych Bulletin, 48(4), pp. 250-253. (doi: 10.1192/bjb.2023.63) (PMID:37519270)

Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2024) Let’s stop talking about ‘disruptive’ research. Wonkhe, 11 July.

Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 and Introna, Arianna (Eds.) (2024) Recovering Imaginaries of Illness and Disability in Scottish Literature and Culture: Sources, Contexts, Theory. Etudes Ecossaises. 23 [Edited Journal]

McFarlane, Anna ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1100-8959 and Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2024) Medical humanities. In: Bould, Mark, Butler, Andrew M. and Vint, Sherryl (eds.) The New Routledge Companion to Science Fiction. Series: Routledge literature companions. Routledge: Abingdon, pp. 422-429. ISBN 9780367690533

Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 and Introna, Arianna (2024) Foreword. Etudes Ecossaises, 23, (doi: 10.4000/etudesecossaises.4430)

2023

Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2023) The book history of Rona M. Fields’s A Society on the Run (1973): a case study in the alleged suppression of psychological research on Northern Ireland. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 59(4), pp. 433-450. (doi: 10.1002/jhbs.22262) (PMID:37178453)

Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2023) Book Review: Automatic: Literary Modernism and the Politics of Reflex by Timothy Wientzen. Literature and History, 32(1), pp. 91-93. (doi: 10.1177/03061973231186640)[Book Review]

Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2023) I went behind the scenes of Penguin’s psychiatric titles – what I found was women’s hidden labour. Conversation, 4 Apr.

2022

Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2022) ‘Science fiction without gadgets’ and the normalization of cognitive impairment: Reassessing Charly (1968). Science Fiction Film and Television, 15(2), pp. 145-168. (doi: 10.3828/sfftv.2022.13)

Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2022) Behind the scenes of the paperback revolution. Psychologist, pp. 62-63.

2020

White, Ross ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4026-6439, McGeachan, Cheryl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7476-6218, Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 and Xenofontos, Sophia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5766-7565 (Eds.) (2020) Special Issue: "Other Psychotherapies” – Healing Interactions Across Time, Geography and Culture [Guest Editors]. Transcultural Psychiatry, 57(6). SAGE Publications.

White, Ross G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4026-6439, McGeachan, Cheryl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7476-6218, Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 and Xenophontos, Sofia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5766-7565 (2020) "Other Psychotherapies” – healing interactions across time, geography and culture. Transcultural Psychiatry, 57(6), pp. 727-740. (doi: 10.1177/1363461520948997)

Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2020) Science Fiction and Psychology: which utopia, whose future? Psychologist, 33, pp. 108-111.

Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2020) Miracles of Healing: Psychotherapy and Religion in Twentieth-Century Scotland. Series: Scottish religious cultures. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh. ISBN 9781474446969

Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2020) Fan of sci-fi? Psychologists have you in their sights. Conversation, 18 Feb.

Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2020) Science Fiction and Psychology. Series: Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies, 62. Liverpool University Press. ISBN 9781789620603 (doi: 10.3828/liverpool/9781789620603.001.0001)

2018

Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2018) Madness decolonized?: Madness as transnational identity in Gail Hornstein’s Agnes’s Jacket. Journal of Medical Humanities, 39(3), pp. 303-323. (doi: 10.1007/s10912-017-9434-8) (PMID:28194547)

Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2018) Why Altered Carbon is not about the future – and nor is any other science fiction. Conversation, 20 Feb.

Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2018) Inferiority and bereavement: implicit psychological commitments in the cultural history of Scottish psychotherapy. European Journal of Psychotherapy and Counselling, 20(1), pp. 76-87. (doi: 10.1080/13642537.2017.1421983)

2017

Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2017) Does sci-fi predict future tech? Medicine Maker, 1017, 406.

Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2017) Valid ethics versus probable histories. Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology, 24(3), pp. 219-221. (doi: 10.1353/ppp.2017.0029)

Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2017) Daniel Burston, A Forgotten Freudian: The Passion of Karl Stern. History of Psychiatry, 28(2), pp. 242-243. (doi: 10.1177/0957154X17691868)[Book Review]

Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2017) David Stafford-Clark (1916-1999): seeing through a celebrity psychiatrist. Wellcome Open Research, 2, 30. (doi: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.11411.1) (PMID:28503668) (PMCID:PMC5426535)

Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2017) Reflecting on science fiction. MOSF Journal of Science Fiction, 1(3), p. 7.

Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 and Mcfarlane, Anna ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1100-8959 (Eds.) (2017) A Practical Guide to the Resurrected: 21 Short Stories of Science Fiction and Medicine. Freight Books. ISBN 9781911332503

Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2017) Reflecting on the medicalization of distress. In: White, Ross, Jain, Sumeet, Read, Ursula and Orr, David (eds.) The Palgrave Handbook of Global Mental Health: Sociocultural Perspectives. Palgrave MacMillan: Basingstoke. ISBN 9781137395092

2016

Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 and McFarlane, Anna ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1100-8959 (2016) Science fiction and the medical humanities. Medical Humanities, 42(4), pp. 213-218. (doi: 10.1136/medhum-2016-011144) (PMID:27885035)

Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 and McFarlane, Anna ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1100-8959 (2016) Science Fiction and the Medical Humanities [Guest Editors]. Medical Humanities, 42(4),

Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2016) E. M. Jones and E. M. Tansey (eds), The Development of Narrative Practices in Medicine c.1960-c.2000. Social History of Medicine, 29(1), pp. 195-196. (doi: 10.1093/shm/hkv117)[Book Review]

Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2016) Different strokes, smokes, for different folks: Naomi Mitchison's solution three. Bottle Imp(19),

2015

Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2015) Psychiatric penguins: writing on psychiatry for Penguin Books Ltd, c.1950-c.1980. History of the Human Sciences, 28(4), pp. 76-101. (doi: 10.1177/0952695115586121)

Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2015) Winifred Rushforth and the Davidson Clinic for Medical Psychotherapy: a case study in the overlap of psychotherapy, Christianity, and New Age spirituality. History of Psychiatry, 26(3), pp. 303-317. (doi: 10.1177/0957154X14554374)

Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2015) Testimony of experience: docta ignorantia and the Philadelphia association communities. European Journal of Psychotherapy and Counselling, 17(2), pp. 219-220. (doi: 10.1080/13642537.2015.1034469)[Book Review]

2014

Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2014) Is the agenda for global mental health a form of cultural imperialism? Medical Humanities, 40(2), pp. 131-134. (doi: 10.1136/medhum-2013-010471) (PMID:24625368)

Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2014) Review of: Theodor Itten and Courtenay Young (eds), R.D. Laing: 50 Years Since The Divided Self. History of Psychiatry, 25(3), pp. 383-384. (doi: 10.1177/0957154X14529479d)[Book Review]

Willis, Alette, Bondi, Liz, Burgess, MaryCatherine, Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 and Fergusson, David (2014) Engaging with a history of counselling, spirituality and faith in Scotland: a readers' theatre script. British Journal of Guidance and Counselling, 42(5), pp. 525-543. (doi: 10.1080/03069885.2014.928667)

Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2014) Review of: Jonathan Toms, Mental Hygiene and Psychiatry in Modern Britain. Social History of Medicine, 27(2), pp. 410-411. (doi: 10.1093/shm/hkt117)[Book Review]

Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2014) Sick of Scottish Literature. Bottle Imp(15),

Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2014) Review of: Nancy Easterlin, A Biocultural Approach to Literary Theory and Interpretation. Modern Language Review, 109(1), pp. 239-240. (doi: 10.5699/modelangrevi.109.1.0239)[Book Review]

Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2014) Making Fairbairn’s psychoanalysis thinkable: Henry Drummond’s natural laws of the spiritual world. In: Clarke, Graham S. and Scharff, David E. (eds.) Fairbairn and the Object Relations Tradition. Karnac Books: London, pp. 41-48. ISBN 9781780490823

Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2014) Review of: Alasdair Gray, Of Me and Others. Bottle Imp(16), [Book Review]

2013

Miller, G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2013) Crossing the border: pastoral theology and psychotherapy. Expository Times, 124(4), pp. 157-165. (doi: 10.1177/0014524612464317)

Miller, G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (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. (doi: 10.1080/13537903.2013.750850)

2012

Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2012) Review of: Mary Bergstein, Mirrors of Memory: Freud, Photography, and the History of Art. History of Psychiatry, 23(4), pp. 506-507. (doi: 10.1177/0957154X12464325c)[Book Review]

Miller, G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2012) R.D. Laing's theological hinterland: the contrast between mysticism and communion. History of Psychiatry, 23(2), pp. 139-155. (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 ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2010) The apathetic fallacy. Philosophy and Literature, 34(1), pp. 48-64. (doi: 10.1353/phl.0.0080)

Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2010) Review of: Cairns Craig, Intending Scotland: Explorations of Scottish Culture since the Enlightenment. Scottish Affairs(70), pp. 114-117. [Book Review]

Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2010) Review of: Nina Cornyetz and J. Keith Vincent (eds), Perversion and Modern Japan: Psychoanalysis, Literature, Culture. Social History of Medicine, 23(3), pp. 680-682. (doi: 10.1093/shm/hkq065)[Book Review]

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, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2009) Review of: Richard A. Skues, Sigmund Freud and the History of Anna O.: Reopening a Closed Case. History of Psychiatry, 20(4), pp. 509-510. (doi: 10.1177/0957154X090200040205)[Book Review]

Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2009) Review of: Isobel Hunter-Brown. R.D. Laing and Psycho-dynamic Psychiatry in 1950s Glasgow: A Reappraisal. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 45(2), pp. 171-172. (doi: 10.1002/jhbs.20370)[Book Review]

Miller, G. (2009) How Scottish was R.D. Laing? History of Psychiatry, 20(2), pp. 226-232. (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. (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.

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

2008

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

Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2008) Review of: Jill and David Scharff (eds), The Legacy of Fairbairn and Sutherland: Psychotherapeutic Applications. American Imago, 64(4), pp. 575-581. (doi: 10.1353/aim.2008.0001)[Book Review]

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. (doi: 10.1111/j.1745-8315.2008.00051-04.x)[Book Review]

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. (doi: 10.1177/0022167806295186)

Miller, G. (2008) Scottish psychoanalysis: a rational religion. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 44(1), pp. 38-58. (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. (doi: 10.3828/jlcds.2.1.4)

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

2007

Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2007) Review of: Alan Freeman, Imagined Worlds: Fiction by Scottish Women 1900–1935. International Fiction Review, 34(1-2), pp. 162-164. [Book Review]

Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2007) Review of: Duncan Petrie, Contemporary Scottish Fictions: Film, Television and the Novel. International Fiction Review, 34(1-2), pp. 157-158. [Book Review]

Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2007) Review of: Michael Gardiner, From Trocchi to Trainspotting: Scottish Critical Theory Since 1960. Scottish Affairs(60), pp. 161-165. [Book Review]

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.

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

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

2006

Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2006) Review of: Shakespeare and Scotland by Willy Maley and Andrew Murphy (eds). Scottish Affairs, 54, pp. 113-116. (doi: 10.3366/scot.2006.0008)[Book Review]

Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2006) Review of: Alan Riach, Representing Scotland in Literature, Popular Culture and Iconography. Scottish Affairs(55), pp. 125-128. [Book Review]

Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2006) Review of: H. Gustav Klaus and Stephen Knight (eds), 'To Hell with Culture': Anarchism and Twentieth-Century British Literature. Forum for Modern Language Studies, 42(3), pp. 328-329. (doi: 10.1093/fmls/cql065)[Book Review]

Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2006) Review of: R.D. Laing: Contemporary Perspectives. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 42(3), pp. 294-295. (doi: 10.1002/jhbs.20182)[Book Review]

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

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

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, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2005) Review of: Elizabeth Klaver (ed.), Images of the Corpse: From the Renaissance to Cyberspace. Forum for Modern Language Studies, 41(4), pp. 455-456. (doi: 10.1093/fmls/cqi317)[Book Review]

Burston, Daniel and Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2005) The voice of experience. Literary Encyclopedia,

Burston, Daniel and Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2005) Wisdom, madness and folly. Literary Encyclopedia,

Burston, Daniel and Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2005) Conversations with children. Literary Encyclopedia,

Burston, Daniel and Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2005) The divided self. Literary Encyclopedia,

Burston, Daniel and Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2005) Do you love me?: an entertainment in conversation and verse. Literary Encyclopedia,

Burston, Daniel and Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2005) The facts of life. Literary Encyclopedia,

Burston, Daniel and Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2005) Interpersonal perception. Literary Encyclopedia,

Burston, Daniel and Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2005) Knots. Literary Encyclopedia,

Burston, Daniel and Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2005) The politics of experience and the bird of paradise. Literary Encyclopedia,

Burston, Daniel and Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2005) The politics of the family. Literary Encyclopedia,

Burston, Daniel and Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2005) Sanity, madness and the family. Literary Encyclopedia,

Burston, Daniel and Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2005) Self and others. Literary Encyclopedia,

Burston, Daniel and Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2005) Sonnets. Literary Encyclopedia,

Burston, Daniel and Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2005) R.D. Laing. Literary Encyclopedia,

Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2005) Review of: Andrew Duncan, Centre and Periphery in Modern British Poetry. Forum for Modern Language Studies, 41(3), p. 345. (doi: 10.1093/fmls/cqi196)[Book Review]

Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2005) Review of: Eleanor Bell, Questioning Scotland. Scottish Studies Review, 6(1), pp. 118-120. [Book Review]

Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2005) Review of: Luis de Juan, Postmodernist Strategies in Alasdair Gray’s Lanark. Scottish Studies Review, 6(2), pp. 122-124. [Book Review]

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

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

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

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, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2004) Review of: Phil Moores (ed.), Alasdair Gray: Critical Appreciations and a Bibliography. Edinburgh Review(113), pp. 83-85. [Book Review]

Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2004) Review of: Richard Doyle, Wetwares: Experiments in Post-Vital Living. Janus Head, 7(2), pp. 507-509. [Book Review]

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.

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, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2001) Review of: Stephen Bernstein, Alasdair Gray. Edinburgh Review(106), pp. 119-120. [Book Review]

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

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. (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.

Miller, Gavin (2001) Cognition and community: the Scottish philosophical context of the ‘divided self’. Janus Head, 4(1), pp. 104-129.

2000

Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2000) Review of: Derrick J. McClure, Language, Poetry and Nationhood: Scots as a Poetic Language from 1878 to the Present. Edinburgh Review(105), pp. 193-195. [Book Review]

Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2000) Review of: Frances Williams, Wild Blue. Edinburgh Review, 104, pp. 153-154. [Book Review]

Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2000) Review of: John Seabrook, Nobrow: The Culture of Marketing; The Marketing of Culture. Edinburgh Review(104), pp. 140-141. [Book Review]

Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2000) Review of: Magi Gibson, Wild Women of a Certain Age; Janet Paisley, Ye Cannae Win. Edinburgh Review(105), pp. 195-197. [Book Review]

Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2000) Review of: Raymond Friel and Richard Price, Renfrewshire in Old Photographs. Edinburgh Review(104), pp. 149-150. [Book Review]

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

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

This list was generated on Fri Jun 20 14:10:33 2025 BST.

Number of items: 142.

Articles

Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2025) Next steps: oral presentation. Modern History Review, 27(4), p. 34.

Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2024) Let’s stop talking about ‘disruptive’ research. Wonkhe, 11 July.

Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 and Introna, Arianna (2024) Foreword. Etudes Ecossaises, 23, (doi: 10.4000/etudesecossaises.4430)

Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2023) I went behind the scenes of Penguin’s psychiatric titles – what I found was women’s hidden labour. Conversation, 4 Apr.

Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2022) Behind the scenes of the paperback revolution. Psychologist, pp. 62-63.

Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2020) Science Fiction and Psychology: which utopia, whose future? Psychologist, 33, pp. 108-111.

Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2020) Fan of sci-fi? Psychologists have you in their sights. Conversation, 18 Feb.

Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2018) Why Altered Carbon is not about the future – and nor is any other science fiction. Conversation, 20 Feb.

Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2017) Does sci-fi predict future tech? Medicine Maker, 1017, 406.

Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2017) Valid ethics versus probable histories. Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology, 24(3), pp. 219-221. (doi: 10.1353/ppp.2017.0029)

Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2017) Reflecting on science fiction. MOSF Journal of Science Fiction, 1(3), p. 7.

Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2016) Different strokes, smokes, for different folks: Naomi Mitchison's solution three. Bottle Imp(19),

Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2014) Sick of Scottish Literature. Bottle Imp(15),

Miller, G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2013) Crossing the border: pastoral theology and psychotherapy. Expository Times, 124(4), pp. 157-165. (doi: 10.1177/0014524612464317)

Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2010) The apathetic fallacy. Philosophy and Literature, 34(1), pp. 48-64. (doi: 10.1353/phl.0.0080)

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

Miller, G. (2009) How Scottish was R.D. Laing? History of Psychiatry, 20(2), pp. 226-232. (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. (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.

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

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

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

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

Miller, G. (2008) Scottish psychoanalysis: a rational religion. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 44(1), pp. 38-58. (doi: 10.1002/jhbs.20281)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Burston, Daniel and Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2005) The voice of experience. Literary Encyclopedia,

Burston, Daniel and Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2005) Wisdom, madness and folly. Literary Encyclopedia,

Burston, Daniel and Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2005) Conversations with children. Literary Encyclopedia,

Burston, Daniel and Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2005) The divided self. Literary Encyclopedia,

Burston, Daniel and Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2005) Do you love me?: an entertainment in conversation and verse. Literary Encyclopedia,

Burston, Daniel and Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2005) The facts of life. Literary Encyclopedia,

Burston, Daniel and Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2005) Interpersonal perception. Literary Encyclopedia,

Burston, Daniel and Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2005) Knots. Literary Encyclopedia,

Burston, Daniel and Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2005) The politics of experience and the bird of paradise. Literary Encyclopedia,

Burston, Daniel and Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2005) The politics of the family. Literary Encyclopedia,

Burston, Daniel and Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2005) Sanity, madness and the family. Literary Encyclopedia,

Burston, Daniel and Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2005) Self and others. Literary Encyclopedia,

Burston, Daniel and Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2005) Sonnets. Literary Encyclopedia,

Burston, Daniel and Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2005) R.D. Laing. Literary Encyclopedia,

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

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

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

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

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

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,

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

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. (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.

Miller, Gavin (2001) Cognition and community: the Scottish philosophical context of the ‘divided self’. Janus Head, 4(1), pp. 104-129.

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

Books

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

Book Sections

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

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

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

Book Reviews

Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2014) Review of: Alasdair Gray, Of Me and Others. Bottle Imp(16), [Book Review]

Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2005) Review of: Eleanor Bell, Questioning Scotland. Scottish Studies Review, 6(1), pp. 118-120. [Book Review]

Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2004) Review of: Richard Doyle, Wetwares: Experiments in Post-Vital Living. Janus Head, 7(2), pp. 507-509. [Book Review]

Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2001) Review of: Stephen Bernstein, Alasdair Gray. Edinburgh Review(106), pp. 119-120. [Book Review]

Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2000) Review of: Frances Williams, Wild Blue. Edinburgh Review, 104, pp. 153-154. [Book Review]

Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2000) Review of: Raymond Friel and Richard Price, Renfrewshire in Old Photographs. Edinburgh Review(104), pp. 149-150. [Book Review]

Edited Books

Edited Journals

Website

Miller, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-8233 (2024) Let’s replace talk of ‘disruptive’ research with something better. [Website]

This list was generated on Fri Jun 20 14:10:33 2025 BST.

Grants

Royal Society of Edinburgh Small Research Grant. "The narrative history of UFO practice in Scotland: a pathfinding study". August 2023-July 2024. £3 776. Principal Investigator.

Wellcome Trust Humanities and Social Science Small Grant. "Glasgow Medical Humanities Network". January 2019-December 2021. £50 083. Principal Investigator.

British Academy Small Research Grant. "Penguins on the Couch: Penguin publishing on psychoanalysis and psychotherapy c.1935-1990". April 2017 - September 2018. £3 460. Principal Investigator.

Wellcome Trust Medical Humanities Small Grant. “Other Psychotherapies – Across Time, Space and Cultures”. March 2016 – August 2017. £5 000. Principal Investigator.

Wellcome Trust Medical Humanities Seed Award. "Science Fiction and the Medical Humanities". July 2015 - June 2016. £39 614. Principal Investigator

Wellcome Trust Medical Humanities Small Grant. "David Stafford-Clark (1916-1999): Portrait of a Media Psychiatrist". £2 208. Principal Investigator.

Royal Society of Edinburgh Arts & Humanities Small Grants. “DSM-5 and the Future of Psychiatric Diagnosis: Perspectives from Medical Humanities”. July 2014. £668. Principal Investigator.

Carnegie Trust Research Grant. “Psychiatry in the book market: writing on psychiatry and mental health for Penguin (1945-1985)”. July 2013. £551. Principal Investigator.

Royal Society of Edinburgh Research Workshop Award. “Scottish Health Humanities Seminar and Masterclass Series”. March 2013 – February 2014. £4 150. Principal Investigator.

Wellcome Trust Medical History and Humanities Small Grant. ‘"Attentive Writers": Healthcare, Authorship, and Authority'. August 2013. £5 000. Co-Investigator.

AHRC Science in Culture theme Exploratory Award. “Debating the First Principles of Transcultural Psychiatry”. February 2012 – August 2012. £8 500. Principal Investigator.

Royal Society of Edinburgh Research Network Award. “Medical Humanities Research Network Scotland”. April 2011 – March 2013. £9 623. Co-Investigator with Dr David Shuttleton, English Literature, University of Glasgow.

University of Edinburgh Dean’s Fund (College of Humanities and Social Science). “Edinburgh University Medical Humanities Research Network”. January 2011. £750

Wellcome Trust Medical History and Humanities Fellowship. “R.D. Laing: the Medical Doctor as Public Intellectual (1960-1987)”. £168 292. [declined]

AHRC Religion and Society programme Large Grant. “Understanding the Encounter between Christianity, Psychotherapy and Spirituality in Scotland (1945-2000) in Theory and Practice”. Jan 2010 – December 2011. £251 000 [as named R.A. developing bid]

Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship. “Scottish Psychoanalytic Psychiatry 1880-1990”. Jan 2006 – December 2007. £43 086 + matching funding from host institution. Principal Investigator.

Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh. Postdoctoral Fellowship. October 2004 - September 2005. £5 000

Supervision

I welcome enquiries regarding postgraduate research supervision in my research areas as explained above. If you email me, please take time to check that your interests correspond with mine.

I currently supervise or co-supervise research postgraduates working on a wide variety of topics, and I often supervise across different subject areas and universities.

Rebecca Alexander, “Class, Health and Region: Narratives of Social Trauma in British Literature Since Thatcher”, PhD English Literature (College of Arts and Humanities Doctoral Scholarship).

Clare Moore, “Tolkien’s Representations of Disability in Middle Earth”. PhD English Literature.

Alicia Colas, “Science Fiction Threats and International Law Solutions to Peace”. PhD Law (external supervision with University of Picardie).

Grace Paizen, “Gendering of Artificial Intelligence in Literature”. PhD English Literature.

Eilidh Bowie, "Narratives of death in horror fiction, 1970-present". PhD English Literature (SGSAH funded; with End of Life Studies, Glasgow, and English, Stirling University)

Laura Donald, "Narrating chronic heart disease in contemporary British and American writing, 1980-present". PhD English Literature. (Wellcome Trust funded; with Science, Technology and Innovation Studies, Edinburgh University)

Deborah Molloy, The Sick Apple: A geocritical investigation into female mental illness in New York fiction set between 1925 and 1955. PhD English Literature.

Completed research degrees that I have supervised and co-supervised include:

Wansah Al-Shammari. “Staging Madness: Communicating Lived Experience of Psychosis in Contemporary British Drama from the 1980s to the Present”. PhD English Literature. University of Hail (Saudi Arabia) Scholarship.

Laura MacDonald. “Depictions of Illness-Related Indeterminacies in Twenty-First Century Scottish Novels”. MLitt Scottish Literature.

Kiation-Qatjon Lanos, “A Transhistorical Phenomenon of Literary Masochism: An Investigation of the Artistic, the Philosophical, and Sociocultural Plurality of the Genre of Literary Masochism”. PhD English Literature.

Oliver Langmead, “Writing at Earth Magnitude: Calypso and Terranauts”. DFA Creative Writing.

Joe Wood, "Cicely Saunders and the Legacies of ‘Total Pain’" PhD English Literature. (SGSAH funded; with End of Life Studies).

Charlotte Orr, Sir Ronald Ross (1857-1932): The literary self-fashioning of a colonial medico-scientific researcher. PhD Medical Humanities.

Kevin Smith, Erich Fromm's 'The Art of Loving': An existential, psychodynamic, and theological critiqueSGSAH funded; with Theology and Religious Studies). PhD Theology and Religious Studies.

Sarah Phelan, Reconstructing a twentieth-century Scottish psychiatrist: Thomas Ferguson Rodger, “Wartime psychiatry”, “Eclecticism”, and “Mad dreaming” PhD Medical Humanities.(Glasgow LKAS scholarship).

Dr Alex Campbell, Archipelagic poetics: ecology in modern Scottish and Irish poetry. PhD English Literature.

Dr Mark Gallagher, From mental patient to service user: deinstitutionalisation and the emergence of the Mental Health Service User Movement in Scotland, 1971-2006. PhD Economic and Social History.

Teaching

I convene the Senior Honours option Science Fiction ENGLIT4062, and I co-teach on the Senior Honours option Literature and Medicine ENGLIT4059. My postgraduate teaching includes my specialist option ENGLIT5130 The Tomorrow People on speculative forms of human life in contemporary culture

I founded and still convene as needed Glasgow's intercalated medical humanities degree, the BSc Med Sci (Hons) in Medical Humanities. I also accept medical students as a supervisor on independent SSMs.

I was awarded in 2024 the University's Senior Fellowship of Recognising Excellence in Teaching, the in-house equivalent to the Advance HE Senior Fellowship. I also hold an earlier FHEA.

I am committed to research-led development of learning, teaching, and assessment. I have held two Small Awards under the University's Learning and Teaching Development Fund. The first award, 'Developing a source selection and evaluation Moodle resource for pre-Honours students', created an online self-guided resource to assist students on a large second-year course. The second award, 'Co-designing inclusivity for the assessed oral presentation', created new and more inclusive ways of implementing and supporting the oral presentation, an important and widely used assessment in English Literature.

Additional information

Because of my interest in the history of Scottish psychotherapy, I have been for some years a Co-director of the Sutherland Trust http://www.sutherlandtrust.org.uk/, a registered independent charity (Scottish Charity Number SC22013) promoting the study of human relations in Education, Social Services, and Health Care. 2007 – present

Gavin Miller cropped

We use cookies

Necessary cookies

Analytics cookies

Clarity