Hillary Miller is an Associate Professor of English at Queens College, City University of New York (CUNY) and affiliate faculty in the Ph.D. Program in Theatre and Performance at The Graduate Center, CUNY.

She teaches modern and contemporary drama, theatre, and performance, with specializations in twentieth- and twenty-first century dramatic literature in the United States and Britain. Her first monograph, Drop Dead: Performance in Crisis, 1970s New York (Northwestern University Press, 2016), sits at the nexus of dramatic literature and urban history. The project looks at theatre practices in 1970s New York through the lens of austerity and intervenes in multi-disciplinary conversations about the relationship between the arts and economic scarcity. Other works include Playwrights on Television: Conversations with Dramatists (Routledge, 2020) and the full-length play Preparedness (2021). Her current project, Brotherhood or the New Hell, is a cultural history of the Greenwich Mews Theater. Between 1949 and 1973 the Mews premiered groundbreaking work by American playwrights—including Alice Childress, Langston Hughes, Loften Mitchell, Lester Pine, Sheldon Stark—addressing censorship, racist violence, discrimination, and workers’ rights.

From 2021-2023 I served as the Vice President of Awards for the Association of Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE), and I currently serve as a Board Member for the American Theatre and Drama Society (ATDS). I have taught theatre, performance, writing, and oral communications at Baruch College (CUNY), Stanford University, California State University-Northridge, and (since 2018) at Queens College (CUNY). 

Contact: hillary [dot] miller [at] qc.cuny.edu