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3136 CHASS INT SOUTH
University of California
Riverside, CA 92521

Miller, Toby

Professor, Media & Cultural Studies
Chair

Biography

Toby Miller, a Professor in the Departments of English, Sociology, and Women’s Studies and Director of the University’s Program in Film and Visual Culture studies the media, sport, labor, gender, race, citizenship, politics, and cultural policy via political economy, textual analysis, archival research, and ethnography. Editor of Television & New Media and Editor and Co-Editor of book series Popular Culture and Everyday Life (Lang) and Sport and Culture (Minnesota), he was also Chair of the International Communication Association Philosophy of Communication Division, Editor of Journal of Sport & Social Issues, and Co-Editor of Social Text, the Blackwell Cultural Theory Resource Centre, and the book series Film Guidebooks (Routledge) and Cultural Politics (Minnesota). He has recently become the co-editor of Social Identities. After working in broadcasting, banking, and civil service, Toby Miller became an academic in the late 1980s, when cultural studies was starting its boom, and was able to parlay a combination of his work experience, theoretical interests, and political commitments into a new career, since which time he has taught media and cultural studies across the humanities and social sciences at the following schools: University of New South Wales, Griffith University, Murdoch University, and NYU. He is at UCR across three departments and a program, with the intention of sustaining and developing a dynamic interdisciplinary research environment in media and culture.

Former Institution

New York University

Degrees

BA 1980

Australian National University

PhD 1991

Murdoch University

Awards

Distinguished Faculty Visitor, Center for Ideas & Society, University of California Riverside, January-June 2003
Media Scholar in Residence Sarai, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi, February 2002
Visiting Professor, University of Illinois, October 1999
Visiting Fellow, Australian Key Centre for Cultural and Media Policy, Griffith University, 1997
Sportsex was a Choice Outstanding Academic Title in 2002
Becker Lecturer at the University of Iowa, 2005


Research Area

Media, sport, labor, gender, race, citizenship, politics, and cultural policy via political economy, textual analysis, archival research, and ethnography.

Publications

The Well-Tempered Self: Citizenship, Culture, and the Postmodern Subject (The Johns Hopkins UP, 1993)

Contemporary Australian Television (U of New South Wales P, 1994 – with S Cunningham)

The Avengers (British Film Institute, 1997/Indiana UP, 1998)

Technologies of Truth: Cultural Citizenship and the Popular Media (U of Minnesota P, 1998)

Popular Culture & Everyday Life (Sage, 1998 – with A McHoul)

SportCult (U of Minnesota P, 1999 – co-ed R Martin)

A Companion to Film Theory (Blackwell, 1999 – co-ed R Stam)

Film and Theory: An Anthology (Blackwell, 2000 – co-ed R Stam)

Globalization and Sport: Playing the World (Sage, 2001 – with G Lawrence, J McKay, D Rowe)

SportSex (Temple UP, 2001)

Global Hollywood (British Film Institute/U of California P, 2001 – with N Govil, J McMurria, R Maxwell)
A Companion to Cultural Studies (Blackwell, 2001 – ed)

The Television Genre Book (British Film Institute/Indiana UP, 2001 – assoc ed with J Tulloch, ed G Creeber)

Cultural Policy (Sage, 2002 – with G Yúdice)

Television Studies (British Film Institute/U of California P, 2002 – ed, assoc ed A Lockett)

Critical Cultural Policy Studies: A Reader (Blackwell, 2003 – co-ed J Lewis)

Television: Critical Concepts in Cultural and Media Studies (Routledge, 2003 – 5 vols, ed)

Spyscreen: Espionage on Film and TV from the 1930s to the 1960s (Oxford UP, 2003)

Política Cultural (Editorial Gedisa, 2004) (Spanish translation)

Global Hollywood (Chu Liu Book Company, 2004) (Chinese translation)

International Cultural Studies: An Anthology (Blackwell, in press – sec ed, co-ed A Abbas, J Erni)

Global Hollywood 2 (British Film Institute/U of California Press, 2005, – with Nitin Govil, John McMurria, Richard Maxwell, and Ting Wang)

El Nuevo Hollywood: Del Imperialismo Cultural a las Leyes del Marketing (Ediciones Paidós Ibéricas, 2005 – with Nitin Govil, John McMurria, and Richard Maxwell) (Spanish translation)

Handbook of Television Studies (Sage Publications, contracted – edited with Milly Buonanno and Herman Gray)

Cultural Citizenship: How Conservatives and Neoliberals Captured the Cultural Politics of Television and How We Can Take it Back (Temple University Press, in press)

Cultural Policy (National Center for Radio & Television Studies, Beijing Broadcasting Institute, in press - with George Yudice)

Global Hollywood (Hua Xia, in press - with Nitin Govil, John McMurria, and Richard Maxwell) (Simplified Chinese translation)