Ben enjoys leaning against walls
Benjamin Miller, a third-generation American (of Ashkenazi Jewish descent) and a sixth-year Ph.D. candidate in English/Composition at the CUNY Graduate Center, is delighted to be joining this site as an Instructional Technology Fellow. Ben has taught academic writing at Hunter College and at Columbia University, where he also taught creative writing while earning an MFA in poetry; last year, he worked in Writing Across the Curriculum at Lehman College. His first book of poems, Without Compass, is forthcoming from Four Way Books, and his first academic article – entitled “A Link to the Writing Process: Metaphor, Writer’s Block, and The Legend of Zelda” – will be included in the collection Rhetoric / Composition / Play, forthcoming from Palgrave Macmillan.
Ben’s ongoing interest in data visualization, as evidenced in his dissertation work on mapping the methods of Composition/Rhetoric, carries over into The Peopling of New York City, where he hopes to use interactive maps and charts to explore the relationships among people, space, time, and large data sets.
Ben occasionally enjoys speaking of himself in the third person, albeit mostly in the context of author bios.
