{"id":6341,"date":"2026-08-13T12:48:50","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T02:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.deakin.edu.au\/writing-and-literature\/?page_id=6341"},"modified":"2026-08-13T18:50:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T08:50:30","slug":"alyson-miller","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.deakin.edu.au\/writing-and-literature\/faculty\/alyson-miller\/","title":{"rendered":"Alyson Miller"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6033\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6033\" style=\"width: 152px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-6033\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.deakin.edu.au\/writing-and-literature\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/251\/2025\/07\/Alyson-Miller_Photo_2024-279x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"152\" height=\"163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.deakin.edu.au\/writing-and-literature\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/251\/2025\/07\/Alyson-Miller_Photo_2024-279x300.jpg 279w, https:\/\/blogs.deakin.edu.au\/writing-and-literature\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/251\/2025\/07\/Alyson-Miller_Photo_2024-954x1024.jpg 954w, https:\/\/blogs.deakin.edu.au\/writing-and-literature\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/251\/2025\/07\/Alyson-Miller_Photo_2024-768x825.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.deakin.edu.au\/writing-and-literature\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/251\/2025\/07\/Alyson-Miller_Photo_2024.jpg 1196w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 152px) 100vw, 152px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6033\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alyson Miller<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"BodyText1\">Alyson researches and writes on literature of extremities, focussing on scandal, censorship, and taboo. She is the author of<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><em>Haunted by Words: Scandalous Texts<\/em>, and an editor of the collected essays,<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><em>The Unfinished Atomic Bomb: Shadows and Reflections<\/em>. Alyson is also a prose poet, with three collections\u2014<em>Dream Animals<\/em><span class=\"apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span>(Dancing Girl Press, 2014),<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><em>Pika-don<\/em><span class=\"apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span>(with Cassandra Atherton and Phil Day, Mountains Brown Press, 2018), and<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><em>Strange Creatures <\/em>(Recent Work Press, 2019)\u2014as well as publications in numerous journals and anthologies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"BodyText1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1741 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.deakin.edu.au\/writing-and-literature\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/251\/2018\/04\/feature-alysonMiller-300x92.jpg\" alt=\"Alyson Miller\" width=\"300\" height=\"92\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.deakin.edu.au\/writing-and-literature\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/251\/2018\/04\/feature-alysonMiller-300x92.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.deakin.edu.au\/writing-and-literature\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/251\/2018\/04\/feature-alysonMiller-768x236.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.deakin.edu.au\/writing-and-literature\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/251\/2018\/04\/feature-alysonMiller-1024x314.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.deakin.edu.au\/writing-and-literature\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/251\/2018\/04\/feature-alysonMiller.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/blogs.deakin.edu.au\/writing-and-literature\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/251\/2018\/04\/feature-alysonMiller-700x215.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Her areas of research include literature and scandal\/taboo, prose poetry, and atomic (bomb) literature. She is on the editorial board of<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><em>Literature and Librarianship<\/em>, a member of the Contemporary Histories Research Group, and a judge for the annual Global Undergraduate Awards.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"BodyText1\">Current Deakin position: Associate Professor Writing and Literature<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"BodyText1\">Deakin research: <a href=\"https:\/\/experts.deakin.edu.au\/29694-alyson-miller\">https:\/\/experts.deakin.edu.au\/29694-alyson-miller<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"BodyText1\">Other links:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>@_alyson_miller<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alyson researches and writes on literature of extremities, focussing on scandal, censorship, and taboo. She is the author of&nbsp;Haunted by Words: Scandalous Texts, and an editor of the collected essays,&nbsp;The Unfinished Atomic Bomb: Shadows and Reflections. Alyson is also a prose poet, with three collections\u2014Dream Animals&nbsp;(Dancing Girl Press, 2014),&nbsp;Pika-don&nbsp;(with Cassandra &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":675,"featured_media":0,"parent":16,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6341","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","column","twocol"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P9qs1q-1Eh","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.deakin.edu.au\/writing-and-literature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.deakin.edu.au\/writing-and-literature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.deakin.edu.au\/writing-and-literature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.deakin.edu.au\/writing-and-literature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/675"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.deakin.edu.au\/writing-and-literature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6341"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.deakin.edu.au\/writing-and-literature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6434,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.deakin.edu.au\/writing-and-literature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6341\/revisions\/6434"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.deakin.edu.au\/writing-and-literature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.deakin.edu.au\/writing-and-literature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}