Carolyn Williams
carolyn.williams@rutgers.edu

Carolyn Williams is associate professor in the English Department at Rutgers. She was Associate Director of the CCA from 1989 to 2004. During that time, she served as Acting Director for four years of programming, in particular for the  2001-2002 program on The Performance of Culture. She became a permanent fellow of the CCA in 2004. Her scholarship focuses on nineteenth-century literature and culture. She is currently working on a book entitled Music and Moving Pictures: The Aesthetics of Melodramatic Form.

Richard E. Miller
richard.miller@rutgers.edu

Richard E. Miller, Chair of the English Department and Executive Director of the Plangere Writing Center, is the author of As If Learning Mattered: Reforming Higher Education (Cornell UP, 1998) and of Writing at the End of the World (U of Pittsburgh P, 2005). He works on the dynamics of institutional reform and on the economics of higher education; he works, as well, on autobiography and the essay. He and Kurt Spellmeyer are the co-editors of The New Humanities Reader, (Houghton-Mifflin, 2002) a textbook designed to foster synthetic thinking in the first-year writing course.