Christopher Patrick Miller, who joins the English Department, has been working as an educator for the last 12 years at a wide range of institutions: St. Paul's School, University of California, Bard College, Saint Louis University, and the Nueva School. Thinking across disciplines has been crucial to his diverse approaches to reading and writing, as he began his studies with a B.A. in Architecture and English from Syracuse University, worked as a ghostwriter while earning his M.A. at U Chicago, and then coordinated a national poetry reading series and international conferences while completing a PhD in English and Critical Theory at UC Berkeley. A collection of poems, ARCH (Tuumba, 2019), came out in December. He comes to Oregon with his partner, Juliana, and two restless kids: Djuna, 2, and Ukiah, who is rounding his fourth month. When he isn't reading books he loves hiking, playing pickup soccer, and exploring the culture of coffee.
Christopher was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2011 – he was chosen in the Faculty Fellow category.