Cecilia Miller is a European intellectual historian, and has taught at Wesleyan University in Connecticut since 1991.
In Fall 2011, she taught a lecture/discussion class on Classic Christian Texts, and a new seminar on Theories and Models.
In Spring 2012, she will be teaching a lecture/discussion class on European Intellectual History since the Renaissance, and a new seminar on Augustine’s Confessions.
Cecilia Miller won the Binswanger Prize for Excellence in Teaching at Wesleyan in 2002. She was an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at the Freie Universität Berlin, in Germany, from 1996-1997, and she was an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities at Columbia University, 1989-1991. Cecilia Miller received her D.Phil. in Modern History from Balliol College, University of Oxford, in 1988. Her doctoral supervisor was Sir Isaiah Berlin. Her doctoral thesis was published as Giambattista Vico: Imagination and Historical Knowledge (London: Macmillan, 1993). For selected citations of her book, from Google Books, see: CM Vico book citations. For a list of her publications, in philpapers, Online Research in Philosophy, see: philpapers. Cecilia Miller recently finished writing a book manuscript on Enlightenment and Political Fiction.
Cecilia Miller has given many lectures from her current book manuscript. These lectures include “Renzo, the Failed Revolutionary, in Alessandro Manzoni’s I promessi sposi,” for Yale University’s Department of Italian on October 12, 2006; “Candide in European Intellectual History: Uniforms, Monkeys, and Ravenous Women,” for the Columbia University Seminar in Eighteenth-Century Culture on November 16, 2006; “Don Quixote Reconsidered: Sancho Panza on Good Government and the Origins of the Market Economy,” for New York University’s Department of Economics Colloquium on Market Institutions and Processes on January 29, 2007; and “Matriarchy and Meritocracy in Gulliver’s Travels: Plato’s Republic as Swiftian Ur-Text,” at the Harvard Humanities Seminar in 18th Century Studies at the Barker Humanities Center at Harvard University on April 4, 2008.
As an Enlightenment scholar, her research interests are in the history of European ideas broadly defined, from antiquity to the present, especially the philosophy of history; political, economic, and social theory; political fiction; the philosophy of science; and aesthetics.
Cecilia Miller was born in Los Angeles. She grew up in Manila, Philippines; Lahore, Pakistan; New Delhi, India; and Singapore. In connection with her research, she has lived in Paris, France; St. Andrews, Scotland; Trieste, Naples, and Rome, Italy; Oxford, England; Munich and Berlin, Germany; and Madrid, Spain.
