About

Monica Miller is Professor and Chair of Africana Studies at Barnard College, Columbia University. She is a scholar of contemporary African American and Afro-diasporic literature and cultural studies. Her book Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity won the William Sanders Scarborough Prize for an outstanding scholarly study of Black American literature or culture from the Modern Language Association and was short-listed for the Modernist Studies Association Book Prize.

She’s been interviewed and consulted frequently by the media and arts worlds; she teaches and write about Black literature, art, and performance, fashion cultures, and contemporary Black European culture and politics. Her work has received support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and the Institute for Citizens and Scholars.

Miller studied at Dartmouth College where she earned a BA in English and Classical Studies, and Harvard University, where she received an MA and PhD in English Literature. Her next book project, Blackness Swedish Style: Race and the Rhizomatics of Being considers cultural production by the emerging Black community in Sweden and its connection to Black European identity formation and cultural/political movements.