Monica Miller

Monica Miller

Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Africana Studies and English, Barnard College, Columbia University

Monica L. Miller is Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Africana Studies and English at Barnard College, Columbia University. A specialist in contemporary African American and Afro-diasporic literature and cultural studies, she is the author of the award-winning book Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity.  A grantee from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and the Institute for Citizens & Scholars, she is a frequent commentator in the media and arts worlds and teaches and writes about black literature, art, and performance, fashion cultures, and contemporary Black European culture and politics. She is at work on a book project, Blackness Swedish Style: Race and the Rhizomatics of Being, which considers cultural production by the emerging black community in Sweden and its connection to black European identity formation and cultural/political movements.

Working Group: Afronordic Feminisms

Books Edited:

Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity Duke University Press, 2009.