Christopher Miller

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Christopher L. Miller, Ph.D., Yale University, 1983, is the Emeritus Frederick Clifford Ford Professor of African American Studies (now Black Studies) and French. His latest book, Thresholds: A “Complete” Table of the Borrowings in Yambo Ouologuem’s Le Devoir de violence, and Why They Matter, was published by Liverpool University Press in 2024. His Impostors: Literary Hoaxes and Cultural Authenticity was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2019 and will be issued in French translation by Les Presses Universitaires de Vincennes. The French Atlantic Triangle: Literature and Culture of the Slave Trade was published by Duke University Press in 2008 and was a finalist for the Melville Herskovits Prize of the African Studies Association; it was published in French translation by Editions les Perséides. His other publications include: Nationalists and Nomads: Essays on Francophone African Literature and Culture (1998); Theories of Africans: Francophone Literature and Anthropology in Africa (1990); and Blank Darkness: Africanist Discourse in French (1985), all with Chicago. At Yale from 1984, he served as Associate Chair in African American Studies, Director of Undergraduate Studies, Director of Graduate Studies, and Chair of the French Department. He directed dozens of dissertations. He taught courses on African and Caribbean literatures in French; postcolonial theory; French literature; film, literary and anthropological theory; and comparative African literatures. He retired in 2020.