Professor Thomas P. Miller is Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs

at the University of Arizona, where he teaches in the English Department and in the Rhetoric, Composition and the Teaching of English Program.

Address:  512 Administration, P.O. Box 210066, Tucson, AZ. 85721-0066

Phone:  520-621-0202              Fax: 520-621-9118

Email: tpm@u.arizona.edu 

 

     Curriculum Vitae

 

Faculty Development Materials (in progress)

The Advance Program at The University of Arizona is committed to improving the research mission of the university by diversifying its faculty. The Resources page provides links on a wide range of related issues.

Advancing Research in Science and Engineering: Investing in Early-Career Scientists and High-Risk, High-Reward Research is a study from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Perceptions of Early Career Faculty: Managing the Transition from Graduate School to the Professional Career reports on a survey of 450 faculty by the TIAA/CREF Institute.

"The Confidence Gap for New Profs" is an article from Inside Higher Education reporting on the TIAA/CREF survey.

Diverse Issues in Higher Education is from Brown University.

Assessing College Level Learning is from the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education.

University Handbook for Appointed Personnel

 

Course Websites (with resources pages with links on related topics):

English 102 (first-year composition, Spring 08)

American Political Rhetoric (junior seminar, Spring 08)

Classical Rhetorics (graduate seminar, Fall 07)

Teaching for a Living (senior seminar for future teachers, Fall 07)

American Political Rhetoric: Revolutionists, Republicans, and Suffragists (Humanities Seminar for community)

Rhetorical Traditions (English 362)

Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Rhetorics (graduate seminar)

Community Literacy Practicum (graduate practicum)

Professing English (senior seminar)

First-year Colloquium on Civic Literacy

 

Other projects and sites

Rhetoric is not a four-letter word

CCCC presentation: what's going on with English majors?

RSA presentation: rhetoric in composition and communications: historical contexts and national trends in undergraduate curricula

rhetorical analysis as a means to foster reflection in a time of war: a resource page for college and high school teachers (a website created for Spring Conference, 2002)

Resource Page on Exploring Writing in Your Major (a page for students working on the final assignment in English 102--a letter to their advisor on what they have learned about writing in their general education studies)

will english departments become the classics departments of the twenty-first century? (a hypertext essay, which surveys of several of the transformations that have shaped the historical relations of literacy and literacy studies, with a print version appearing in Rhetorical Education in America, edited by Cheryl Glenn, Margaret M. Lyday, and Wendy B. Sharer)

Why don’t our graduate programs do a better job of preparing students for the work that we do? (an article from Writing Program Administrators)

Reinventing Rhetorical Traditions (a chapter from a collection, Learning from the Rhetorics of History--see cv for details)

A Rhetorical Stance on the Archives of Civic Action (a College English essay--see my CV for details)