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CRITIC AS HOST
J. Hillis Miller
[Critical summary and analysis by Dr. S. Sreekumar. Exclusively
meant for students of Indian Universities]
J. Hillis Miller
Biographical note
Joseph
Hillis Miller, Jr. (1928) is an important humanities and literature scholar. He
was among the pioneers in introducing phenomenology and deconstruction to
Anglo-American audience.
From
1952 to 1972, Miller taught at Johns Hopkins University. In 1972, he joined
Yale University where he taught for fourteen years. At Yale, he worked
alongside prominent literary critics like Paul de Man
and Geoffrey Hartman, where they were collectively known as the Yale School of deconstruction1.
