DAVID S. MIALL

Professor

Department of English and Film Studies
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, T6G 2E5

Experience | Forthcoming publications | Publications | Conference papers | Conferences organized | Associations | Citations

Married to Sylvia Chard, Emeritus Professor of Elementary Education, University of Alberta.

Fuller details of publications in reader response are available (some authored with Don Kuiken).

EXPERIENCE

EDUCATION

DEGREES

A.G.S.M. (Pianoforte), Guildhall School, 1967
B.A. Hons (1st Class) in English Literature University of Stirling, 1976
Ph.D (University of Wales), English Literature, 1980

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

Tutorial Fellow, Department of English, University College, Cardiff, Wales, 1976-1979

Lecturer in English, College of St. Paul & St. Mary, Cheltenham, England, 1979-1989
-- Senior Lecturer, April 1981
-- Research Director, Faculty of Arts, March 1985
-- Principal Lecturer, September 1986

Post-Doctoral Fellow, Center for the Study of Reading, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, U.S.A., 1982-1983

Visiting Assistant Professor, Faculty of Arts, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada 1989-1990 (Nov-Feb)

Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, 1990-1992
-- Associate Professor, 1992-2000

-- Full Professor, 2000

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

AT UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, CARDIFF: Teaching over a range of English literature, from Chaucer to the 20th Century. The Doctoral work was completed during the period at Cardiff.

AT CHELTENHAM: The main courses taught formed part of the English component of a B.A. Combined Studies degree: Introduction to Poetry; Shakespeare and His Contemporaries; Romantic Period; Early 20th Century Literature; Modern Literary Theory. Taught computer methods courses for Humanities students. Chaired the College's Research Committee for three years, 1986-89.

Member of the English Board of the Council for National Academic Awards from 1983 to 1988 and a specialist advisor on Information Technology. Chaired a commission for the Council, on Information Technology in the Arts and Humanities, 1987-89.

Founded the Friends of Coleridge in 1987, an association centered on Coleridge Cottage in Nether Stowey, Somerset. Organized several conferences on Coleridge; edited the Coleridge Bulletin (1988-91), which now appears twice a year. Editor of several issues of The Wordsworth Circle based on the Biennial Coleridge Summer Conference.

AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA: Courses taught in British Romantic Literature, Gothic Fiction, Nineteenth-Century Novel, The Short Story, Hypertext Theory, Humanities Computing, Bibliography and Research Methods, History of Reading, Empirical Studies of Literary Reading, Cognitive Poetics, and introductory English courses.

PUBLICATIONS

FORTHCOMING

David S. Miall.  Review of  The Neural Sublime (2010) by Alan Richardson. The Wordsworth Circle (in press).
Olivia Fialho, Sonia Zyngier, and David S. Miall. "Interpretation and Experience: Two Pedagogical Interventions Observed." Dutch Reading Foundation (in preparation, in Dutch).

Moniek M. Kuijpers and David S. Miall. "Bodily Involvement in Literary Reading: An Experimental Study of Readers' Bodily Experiences During Reading." Dutch Reading Foundation (in preparation, in Dutch).

David S. Miall. "Why am I a narratologist." In Peer F. Bundgaard, Henrik Skov Nielsen, and Frederik Stjernfelt (Eds.), Five Questions: Narratology / Literary Art. Automatic Press / VIP (in press).

David S. Miall. “Science in the perspective of literariness.” Scientific Studies of Literature. Ms pp. 12.

David S. Miall. "Enacting the Other: Towards an Aesthetics of Feeling in Literary Reading." In Peter Goldie and Elisabeth Schellekens (Eds.), The Aesthetic Mind: Philosophy and Psychology. Oxford University Press. ms pp. 24.

David S. Miall. "Emotions and the Structuring of Narrative Response." Poetics Today. ms pp. 41.

Sikora, Shelley, Don Kuiken, and David S. Miall. "Expressive reading: A phenomenological study of readers' experience of Coleridge's 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'." Journal of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts.

David S. Miall. “Literature, Empirical Study of.” In Patrick Hogan, Ed., The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press. ms pp. 9.

PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS AND SOFTWARE

Literary Reading: Empirical and Theoretical Studies. New York: Peter Lang, 2006, pp. 234.

David S. Miall and Duncan Wu, Eds. Romanticism: The CD-ROM (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1997). Contains approximately 2 million words and over 1200 images.

Ed. Metaphor: Problems and Perspectives (Sussex, England: Harvester Press, & New Jersey: Humanities Press, 1982), pp. xix + 172.

Ed. The Evaluation of Information Technology in the Arts and Humanities (Bath, U.K.: Computers in Teaching Initiative Support Service, 1988), pp. 58.

Ed. Humanities and the Computer: New Directions (Oxford University Press, 1990), pp. 212.

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

"A Repertory Grid Study of Response to Poetry," in F. Fransella & L. Thomas, Eds., Experimenting with Personal Construct Psychology, pp. 539-547 (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1988).

"Story and Affect: A Model of Story Understanding," in Clare Hanson, Ed., Re-reading the Short Story, pp. 121-133 (London: Macmillan, 1989).

"An Expert System Approach to Interpretation in Literary Response," in R. Ennals and J-P. Gardin Eds., Interpretation in the Humanities: Perspectives from Artificial Intelligence, pp. 196-214 (London: British Library, 1990).

"Introduction" and "Rethinking English Studies: the Role of the Computer," in David S. Miall, Ed., Humanities and the Computer: New Directions, pp. 1-12, 49-59 (Oxford University Press, 1990).

"The Romantic Lyric," and "Wedgwood," in L. Dabundo, Ed., Romanticism: An Encyclopedia, pp. 350-2, 609-10 (Garland, 1992).

"Response to Poetry: Studies of Language and Structure," in Elaine F. Nardocchio, Ed., Reader Response: The Empirical Dimension, pp. 153-170 (Mouton de Gruyter, 1992).

"Beyond the Word: Reading and the Computer," George P. Landow and Paul Delany, Eds., The Digital Word: Text-Based Computing in the Humanities, pp. 319-342 (MIT Press, 1993).

"'I see it feelingly': Coleridge's Debt to Hartley," in Tim Fulford and Morton D. Paley, Eds., Coleridge's Visionary Languages (Boydell & Brewer, 1993), 151-163.

"Constructing Understanding: Emotion and Literary Response," in Deanne Bogdan and Stanley B. Straw, Eds., Constructive Reading: Teaching Beyond Communication (Boynton/Cook, 1993), pp. 63-81.

"Representing and Interpreting Literature by Computer," Yearbook of English Studies, 25: Non-Standard Englishes and the New Media (Modern Humanities Research Association, 1995), pp. 199-212.

"Thomas Beddoes, 1760-1808" and "Sir James Mackintosh, 1765-1832," in Gary Kelly and Edd Applegate, Eds., British Reform Writers 1789-1832 (Bruccoli Clark Layman,1996), 17-24, 184-193.

"Empowering the reader: Literary response and classroom learning," in Roger J. Kreuz and Mary Sue MacNealy, Eds., Empirical Approaches to Literature and Aesthetics (Ablex, 1996), pp. 463-478.

"Gothic Fiction," in Duncan Wu, Ed., The Blackwell Companion to Romanticism (Oxford: Blackwell, 1997), 345-354.

"The Project Method in the Literature Classroom," in Louann Reid and Jeff Golub, Eds., Reflective Activities: Helping Students Connect with Texts (National Council of Teachers of English, 1999), pp. 149-155. [online version]

Miall, D. S., & Kuiken, D., "Aspetti della recezione letteraria: un nuovo questionario," in Aldo Nemesio, Ed. & Trans., L'esperienza del testo ( Rome: Meltemi, 1999), pp. 111-125.

"The Preceptor as Fiend: Radcliffe's Psychology of the Gothic," in Laura Dabundo, Ed., Jane Austen and Mary Shelley and Their Sisters (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2000), pp. 31-43.

Miall, D. S., & Kuiken, D., "Shifting Perspectives: Readers' Feelings and Literary Response," in W. Van Peer & S. Chatman, Eds., New Perspectives on Narrative Perspective (New York: SUNY Press, 2001), pp. 289-301.

"An Evolutionary Framework for Literary reading," in Gerard Steen & Dick Schram, Eds., The Psychology and Sociology of Literature: In Honour of Elrud Ibsch (Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2001), pp. 407-419.

"Literary Discourse," in Arthur C. Graesser, Morton Ann Gernsbacher, & Susan R. Goldman, Eds., Handbook of Discourse Processes (Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2003), pp. 321-355.

Gao Wei, David S. Miall, and Don Kuiken. "The Receptivity of Canadian Readers to Chinese Literature," in James Gifford and Gabrielle Zezulka-Mailloux, Eds., Culture and the State: Nationalisms (Edmonton: CRC Studio Publishers, 2004), pp. 93-101.

"Romanticism in the Electronic Age." In Nicholas Roe, Ed., Romanticism: An Oxford Guide (Oxford UP, 2004), pp. 708-720.

"Beyond Interpretation: The Cognitive Significance of Reading," in Harri Veivo, Bo Pettersson, and Merja Polvinen, Eds, Cognition and Literary Interpretation in Practice (Helskinki: University of Helsinki Press, 2005), pp. 129-156.

"Experimental Approaches to Reader Responses to Literature." In Paul Locher, Colin Martindale, & Leonid Dorfman, Eds. New Directions in Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts (Baywood Press, 2006), pp. 175-188.

"'Too soon transplanted': Coleridge and the Forms of Dislocation." In Willie van Peer (Ed.), The Quality of Literature: Linguistic Studies in Literary Evaluation (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2008), pp. 95-116.

GaoWei, David S. Miall, and Don Kuiken. "Translating Foregrounding: A Comparative Study of Chinese and English Readers." In Willie van Peer & Jan Auracher (Eds.), New Beginnings in the Study of Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publications), pp. 238-250.

"Foregrounding and Feeling in Response to Narrative." In Sonia Zyngier, Marisa Bortolussi, Anna Chesnokova, & Jan Auracher (Eds.), Directions in Empirical Literary Studies: Essays in Honor of Willie van Peer (Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2008), pp. 89-102.

"Resisting Interpretation." In Nathan Dunne (Ed.), Tarkovsky (London: Black Dog Publishing, 2008), pp. 321-333.

"Cognitive Poetics: from Interpreting to Experiencing what is Literary." In Klaus Stierstorfer, Ed., Anglistentag 2007 Münster: Proceedings. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 2008. pp. 187-198.

"Neuroaesthetics of Literary Reading." In Martin Skov & Oshin Vartanian (Eds.), Neuroaesthetics (Amityville, NY: Baywood Publishing, 2009), pp. 233-247.

"Afterword: Reading through the machine." In Willie van Peer, Vander Viana, and Sonia Zyngier (Eds.), Digital Learning: Methods and Technologies (Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2010), pp. 187-198.

ARTICLES IN REFEREED JOURNALS

"Aesthetic Unity and the Role of the Brain," Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 35 (1976): 57-67.

"Metaphor and Literary Meaning," British Journal of Aesthetics, 17 (1977): 49-59.

"Metaphor as a Thought-Process," Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 38 (1979): 21-28.

"Kant's Critique of Judgement: A Biased Aesthetics," British Journal of Aesthetics, 20 (1980): 135-145.

"The Meaning of Dreams: Coleridge's Ambivalence," Studies in Romanticism, 21 (1982): 57-71.

"The Aesthetics of Love in Coleridge," British Journal of Aesthetics, 23 (1983): 18-24.

"Guilt and Death: The Predicament of the Ancient Mariner," Studies in English Literature, 24 (1984): 633-653.

"Designed Horror: James's Vision of Evil in The Turn of the Screw," Nineteenth-Century Fiction, 39 (1984): 305-327.

"Coleridge's Dread Book of Judgement: A Memory for Life," Journal of European Studies, 15 (1985): 233-246.

"The Structure of Response: A Repertory Grid Study of a Poem," Research in the Teaching of English, 19 (1985): 254-268.

"Emotion and the Self: The Context of Remembering," British Journal of Psychology, 77 (1986): 389-397.

"Design Principles for the Computer-Assisted Management of Literary Response," Future Computing Systems, 1 (1986): 217-231.

"Authorizing the Reader," English Quarterly, 19 (1986): 186-195.

"Metaphor and Affect: The Problem of Creative Thought," Journal of Metaphor and Symbolic Activity, 2 (1987): 81-96.

"Learning in Autonomous Student Groups: Learning Skills as a Predictor of Satisfaction," Studies in Educational Evaluation, 13 (1987): 175-183.

"Affect and Narrative: A Model of Response to Stories," Poetics, 17 (1988): 259-272.

"The Indeterminacy of Literary Texts: The View from the Reader," Journal of Literary Semantics, 17 (1988): 155-171.

"Beyond the Schema Given: Affective Comprehension of Literary Narratives," Cognition and Emotion, 3 (1989): 55-78.

"Welcome the Crisis! Rethinking Learning Methods in English Studies," Studies in Higher Education, 14 (1989): 69-81.

"Anticipating the Self: Towards a Personal Construct Model of Emotion," International Journal of Personal Construct Psychology, 2 (1989): 185-198.

"The Displacement of Emotions: the Case of 'Frost at Midnight'," The Wordsworth Circle, 20 (1989): 97-102.

"Education, Authority, and Literary Response: A New Model," English Quarterly, 22 (1990): 7-19.

"Personal Librarian: a Tool for the Literature Classroom," Literary and Linguistic Computing, 5 (1990): 19-23.

"Readers' Responses to Narrative: Evaluating, Relating, Anticipating," Poetics, 19 (1990): 323-339.

"Coleridge on Emotion: Experience into Theory," The Wordsworth Circle, 22 (1991): 35-39.

"The Campaign to Acquire Coleridge Cottage," The Wordsworth Circle, 22 (1991): 82-88.

"Estimating Changes in Collocations of Key Words Across a Large Text: A Case Study of Coleridge's Notebooks," Computers and the Humanities, 26 (1992): 1-12.

"Wordsworth and The Prelude: the Problematics of Feeling," Studies in Romanticism, 31 (1992): 233-253.

Miall, D. S., & Kuiken, D., "Foregrounding, Defamiliarization, and Affect: Response to Literary Stories," Poetics, 22 (1994): 389-407.

Miall, D. S., & Kuiken, D., "Beyond Text Theory: Understanding Literary Response," co-authored with Don Kuiken, Discourse Processes, 17 (1994): 337-352.

"Beyond Cognitivism: Studying Readers": Peer commentary on Herbert Simon, "Literary Criticism: A Cognitive Approach," Stanford Humanities Review (1994): 82-84.

Miall, D. S., & Kuiken, D., "Aspects of Literary Response: A New Questionnaire," Research in the Teaching of English 29 (1995): 37-58.

"Anticipation and Feeling in Literary Response: A Neuropsychological Perspective," Poetics 23 (1995): 275-298.

"Electronic Romanticism: The CD," Romanticism on the Net 1 (January 1996). http://www.erudit.org/revue/ron/1996/v/n1/005710ar.html

"The Self in History: Wordsworth, Tarkovsky, and Autobiography," The Wordsworth Circle 27 (1996): 9-13.

Miall, D. S., & Kuiken, D., eds., special double issue, "Coleridge and Dreams," Dreaming 7:1-2 (1997), including Miall & Kuiken, "Coleridge and Dreams: An Introduction," 1-11.

"The Body in Literature: Mark Johnson, Metaphor, and Feeling," Journal of Literary Semantics, 26 (1997): 191-210.

"The Alps Deferred: Wordsworth at the Simplon Pass," European Romantic Review, 9 (1998): 87-102.

Miall, D S., & Kuiken, D., "The Form of Reading: Empirical Studies of Literariness," Poetics, 25 (1998): 327-341.

"The Hypertextual Moment," English Studies in Canada, 24 (1998): 157-174. (See Honours)

Dobson, T., & Miall, D. S. "Orienting the reader? A Study of Literary Hypertexts," Spiel, 17 (1998): 249-261.

"Trivializing or Liberating? The Limitations of Hypertext Theorizing," Mosaic, 32 (1999): 157-172.

"The Resistance of Reading: Romantic Hypertexts and Pedagogy," Romanticism on the Net, 16 (November 1999). http://www.erudit.org/revue/ron/1999/v/n16/005886ar.html

Miall, D. S., & Kuiken, D., "What is Literariness? Three Components of Literary Reading," Discourse Processes, 28 (1999): 121-138.

Review article on Richard J. Gerrig, Experiencing Narrative Worlds (1993), Journal of Pragmatics, 32 (2000): 377-382.

"On the necessity of empirical studies of literary reading," Frame, 14 (2000): 43-59.

"Locating Wordsworth: 'Tintern Abbey' and the Community with Nature," Romanticism on the Net 20 (November 2000). http://www.erudit.org/revue/ron/2000/v/n20/005949ar.html

Kuiken, D., and Miall, D. S., "Numerically Aided Phenomenology: Procedures for Investigating Categories of Experience," FQS. Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 2.1 (January 2001). http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/.

"Sounds of contrast: An empirical approach to phonemic iconicity," Poetics, 29 (2001): 55-70.

Miall, D. S., & Dobson, T. (2001). Reading hypertext and the experience of literature. Journal of Digital Information, 2.1. Online at http://jodi.tamu.edu/Articles/v02/i01/Miall/

"The Library versus the Internet: Literary Studies Under Siege?" PMLA 116 (2001): 1405-1414.

Review article on Maria-Laure Ryan, Narrative as Virtual Reality: Immersion and Interactivity in Literature and Electronic Media (2001), and N. Katherine Hayles, How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics (1999). Comparative Literature Studies, 39 (2002),: 259-262.

Kuiken, D., Bears, M., Miall, D. S., and Smith, L. "Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing Facilitates Attentional Orienting." Imagination, Cognition, and Personality 21 (2001-02): 3-20.

Miall, D. S., & Kuiken, D. "A Feeling for Fiction: Becoming What We Behold." Poetics 30 (2002): 221-241.

Miall, D. S., & Kuiken, D., "The Effects of Local Phonetic Contrasts in Readers' Responses to a Short Story." Empirical Studies of the Arts 20 (2002): 157-175.

Review article on Raymond J. Gibbs, Intentions in the Experience of Meaning (1999). Journal of Pragmatics 35 (2003): 149-154.

Miall, D. S., & Dissanayake, E. "The Poetics of Babytalk." Human Nature 14 (2003): 337-364.

"Reading Hypertext: Theoretical Ambitions and Empirical Studies." Jahrbuch für Computerphilologie 5 (2003): 161-178. Online: http://computerphilologie.uni-muenchen.de/jg03/miall.html

Kuiken, D., Miall, D. S., & Sikora, S. "Forms of Self-implication in Literary reading." Poetics Today, 25 (2004): 171-203.

Kuiken, D., Phillips, L., Gregus, M., Miall, D. S., Verbitsky, M., & Tonkonogy, A. "Locating self-modifying feelings within literary reading." Discourse Processes, 38 (2004): 267-286.

"Episode Structures in Literary Narratives." Journal of Literary Semantics 33 (2004): 111-129.

Gao Wei, Miall, D. S., Kuiken, D., & Eng, T. "The Receptivity of Canadian Readers to Chinese Literature: Lin Yutang's Writings in English." Empirical Studies of the Arts 23 (2005): 33-45.

"Mellem tekst og læser: Om litterariteten og dens neuropsykologi" [Literariness: Are there neuropsychological indicators?] Kritik 174 (2005): 64-72. (in Danish; special issue on neuroaesthetics)

"Representing the Picturesque: William Gilpin and the Laws of Nature." ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment 12 (2005): 75-93.

Gao Wei, Li Ping, & David S. Miall. "Literary study by empirical study of reader's response." Journal of Bohai University (Social Science) 28, No. 3 (2006):15-17. (in Chinese)

Gao Wei & David S. Miall. "Empirical study of reader's responses to literary reading." Tianjin Foreign Studies University Journal 13, No.2 (2006): 60-65. (in Chinese)

"Empirical Approaches to Studying Literary Readers: The State of the Discipline." Book History 9 (2006): 291-311.

"Foregrounding and the Sublime: Shelley in Chamonix." Language and Literature 16 (2007): 155-168.

"Feeling from the Perspective of the Empirical Study of Literature." Journal of Literary Theory 1.2 (2008): 377-393.

"Completing the Paradigm: In Pursuit of Evidence." Peer commentary on Joseph Carroll target paper, Style, 42 (2008): 234-238.

David S. Miall. Review of Science and Sensation in Romantic Poetry, by Noel Jackson. Studies in Romanticism 49 (2010): 172-177.

Sikora, Shelley, Don Kuiken, and David S. Miall. "An Uncommon Resonance: The Influence of Loss on Expressive Reading." Empirical Studies of the Arts 28 (2010): 135-153.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

"Coleridge: The Moment of Poetry," Start, No. 23 (Sept, 1985), 15-17.

"Computers and English Literature: Implications for Learning," Humanities Communication Newsletter, 11 (1989), 4-8.

Editor, Teaching English Studies with Computers: An Informal Casebook. Cheltenham: College of St Paul & St Mary, Faculty of Arts, 1989, pp. 60.

Book review article: "The Teaching of Literature Reconsidered," Studies in Higher Education, 14 (1989), 356-358.

"Changing the Self: The Affective Plot in Literary Narratives," The British Psychological Society: Psychotherapy Section Newsletter, No. 8 (June 1990), 30-39.

"The Affective Plot: Research on Reading Literature," Inkshed, 9, No. 3 (1991), 5-9.

"Klein Government Destroying Alberta's Universities," Edmonton Journal, December 5th 1993, p. A9. Reprinted with revisions as "Three Steps to Destroying Alberta's Universities," CAUT Bulletin, May 1994.

CONFERENCE PAPERS

"A Repertory Grid Study of Response to Poetry," 5th International Conference of Personal Construct Psychology, Cambridge, U.K., August 1985.

"Anticipating the Self: Towards a Personal Construct Model of Emotion," 6th International Conference of Personal Construct Psychology, Memphis, TN, August 1987.

"Rethinking Learning Methods," Computers and Teaching in the Humanities, Southampton, U.K., December 1988.

"Towards Independent Learning in English," Seminar on Humanities Computing, The Open University, May 1989.

"Changing the Self: The Affective Plot in Literary Narratives," Psychology, Psychotherapy, and Story Telling (British Psychological Society Conference), Dumfries, Scotland, May 1989.

"Developing a Knowledge Base for Readers' Responses to Literature," Canadian Semiotic Society (Learned Societies Meeting), University of Victoria, May 1990.

"Coleridge on Emotion: Experience into Theory," Coleridge Summer Conference 1990, Cannington, Somerset, UK, July 1990.

Kuiken, D., & Miall, D. S., "Correspondences Between Dream Formation and Literary Understanding," Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of Dreams, Charlottesville, Virginia, June 1991.

Miall, D. S., & Kuiken, D., "The Influence of Defamiliarization on Literary Response," The Winter Text Conference, Jackson, Wyoming, January 1992.

"Empowering the reader: Literary response and classroom learning," Society for the Empirical Study of Literature (IGEL), Memphis, Tennessee, May 1992.

Kuiken, D., & Miall, D. S., "Variations in response to a short story: A phenomenological study," Society for the Empirical Study of Literature (IGEL), Memphis, Tennessee, May 1992.

"Emotion in Literary Response," Day Conference on Emotion and Literature, Research Institute for History and Culture, University of Utrecht, July 6 1992.

"Hypertext and the Question of Reading," The 4th Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas (ISSEI), Graz, Austria, August 22-27 1994.

Kuiken, D., & Miall, D. S., "Extending the poetics of dreams: Dream impact and reader response," The Conference of the Association for the Study of Dreams, Leiden, The Netherlands, July 1994..

Miall, D. S., & Kuiken, D., "Feeling and the Three Phases of Literary Response," The 4th International Conference on the Empirical Study of Literature, Budapest, Hungary, August 24-27 1994.

Miall, D. S., & Kuiken, D., "Aspects of Literary Response: A New Questionnaire," The 4th International Conference on the Empirical Study of Literature, Budapest, August 24-27 1994.

Kuiken, D., & Miall, D. S., "Procedures in Think Aloud Studies: Contributions to the Phenomenology of Literary Response," The 4th International Conference on the Empirical Study of Literature, Budapest, August 24-27 1994.

Miall, D. S., & Kuiken, D., "Shifting Perspectives: Readers' Feelings and Literary Response," Conference on Narrative Perspective: Cognition and Emotion, The Netherlands, June 1-3 1995.

"The Self in History: Wordsworth, Tarkovsky, and Autobiography," the Third Conference of the North American Association for the Study of Romanticism, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, July 20-23 1995.

Miall, D. S., & Kuiken, D. "Relativism revisited: Traces of actual reading 'performances'." Session 681: Real Readers; Convention of the Modern Languages Association, Chicago, December 27-30, 1995.

The XIV Congress of the International Association of Empirical Aesthetics, Prague, August 1-4, 1996:

The 5th Biennial Conference of the International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature (IGEL), Nakoda, Alberta, August 21-25, 1996:

"Romantic Construction of the Reader: Implications for Reading and Teaching," the International Association of Literary Semantics (IALS), Freiburg, September 1-3. (Session on "Literary Education: Focus on Form and Instruction Methods")

"The Resistance of Reading: Romantic Hypertexts and Pedagogy," the 5th Conference of The North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR), McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, 23-26 October 1997. (Special Session: "Teaching Otherwise: Romanticism and Digital Pedagogy.")

D. S. Miall, T. Fröhlich, P. Henningsen. "In the convergence zone: A neuronal model of literary response." Forum of European Neuroscience, Berlin, June 27-July 1 1998.

T. Fröhlich, R. Haux, P. Henningsen, D.S. Miall, P. Roebruck. "Attention based neuronal processing: A probabilistic model of non-hierarchical neuronal convergence." Forum of European Neuroscience, Berlin, June 27-July 1 1998.

T. Fröhlich, R. Haux, P. Henningsen, D. S. Miall, and P. Roebruck. "Prevention of childhood atopic disease: Health care targeting somatic, psychic, and social levels." XXIIth International Congress of Pediatrics, Amsterdam, August 1998.

VIth Biennial IGEL Conference, Utrecht, August 26-29, 1998, six papers:

"Beyond the picturesque: An affective poetics of Coleridge's landscapes." American Conference on Romanticism. University of California at Santa Barbara, October 16-18 1998. (Special Panel on Romanticism and Cognitive Neuroscience)

"The Poetics of Babytalk II. "Micro"-Poetics." Conference of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, June 2-6 1999.

"Reading Nature: Coleridge's Kinaesthetic Landscapes." The 7th Annual Conference of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR), August 12-15, 1999, Halifax, Nova Scotia. (Special session: Romanticism and the New Psychology)

"The first poetry? The stylistics of babytalk." Poetics and Linguistics Association, June 29-July 2 2000, Goldsmith's College, London.

"Now you see it! Electronic postmodernism." SENAPULLI: Seminário Nacional dos Professores Universitários de Literaturas de Língua Inglesa, July 16-21, 2000, Juiz de Fora, Brazil.

Miall, D. S., & Kuiken, D., "Becoming what we behold: A feeling for literature." The 7th Biennial Conference of the International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature (IGEL), July 31-August 4, 2000, Toronto.

Kuiken, D., & Miall, D. S. "Reading expressively through 'tears of light'." The 7th Biennial Conference of the International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature (IGEL), July 31-August 4, 2000, Toronto.

"The first poetry? The stylistics of babytalk." The 7th Biennial Conference of the International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature (IGEL), July 31-August 4, 2000, Toronto.

Miall, D. S., & Kuiken, D. "A Feeling for Fiction: Becoming What We Behold." The Work of Fiction: Cognitive Perspectives, June 4-7 2001, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel. (paper online at: http://www.ualberta.ca/~dmiall/reading/Feelfict.htm)

Kuiken, D., & Miall, D. S. "Phenomenological Approaches to the Temporality of Reading Experience." The 8th Biennial Conference of the International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature (IGEL), Pécs, Hungary, August 21-24, 2002.

Kuiken, D., Miall, D. S., Gregus, M., Phillips, L., & Sikora, S. "Metaphors of Personal Identification: Forms of Self-implication in Literary Reading." The 8th Biennial Conference of the International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature (IGEL), Pécs, Hungary, August 21-24, 2002.

Miall, D., Kuiken, D., & Gifford, J. "Reasons for Reading and Studying Literature." The 8th Biennial Conference of the International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature (IGEL), Pécs, Hungary, August 21-24, 2002.

"The Third Factor: Modelling the Reader." Second Annual Humanities Computing Graduate Conference: New Perspectives in Humanities Computing. University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, December 5-6, 2002.

Gao Wei, Miall, D. S., & Don Kuiken, D. "The Receptivity of Canadian Readers to Chinese Literature." Culture and the State: Past, Present, Future. University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, May 2-5 2003.

Miall, D. S. "The Landscape of Feeling: Re-reading Romantic Travel." Keynote presentation for conference: Literature and Emotions: Text, Ideology, and Conflict, The Netherlands Graduate School for Literary Studies, University of Utrecht, June 22-26 2003.

Kuiken, D., & Miall, D. S. "Withdrawing to Engage: How Literary Reading Penetrates Consciousness." Workshop: How Literature Enters Life, University of Utrecht, June 26-28 2003.

Miall, D., Kuiken, D., & Gifford, J. "Why do students choose to study literature?" European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction, EARLI, University of Padua, Italy, Aug 26-30, 2003.

Miall, D. S. "Reading Hypertext: Theoretical Ambitions and Empirical Studies." Invited paper, The State of the Art in Humanities Computing, University of Munich, December 12, 2003.

VIth International Congress of the International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature (IGEL), Edmonton, Canada, August 3-7 2004. Four papers:

Keynote: "Beyond interpretation: The cognitive significance of reading." Cognition and Literary Interpretation in Practice. University of Helsinki, Finland, August 27-29 2004.

"Experimental approaches to studying literary readers." Cultural Research: Challenges for the 3rd Millennium II. International Conference, May 1-6, 2005, Kyiv National Linguistic University, Ukraine.

Miall, David S., and Don Kuiken. "Reorienting the self: Psychological dimensions of the sublime." Conference "Text and Cognition," Tel Aviv University, Israel, May 15-18, 2005.

"Literariness: Are There Neuropsychological Indicators?" The International Congress on Aesthetics, Creativity, and Psychology of the Arts, Perm, Russia, June 1-3, 2005.

"Shelley at Chamonix: Reading the Sublime." NASSR (North American Society for the Study of Romanticism), Montreal, August 13-17, 2005.

Sopcak, Paul, Don Kuiken, and David Miall. "Meta-Language or Dialogicity? The effects of free indirect speech in George Eliot's Middlemarch." 10th International Conference of IGEL (International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature and Media), Chiemsee, Germany, August 5-9 2006.

Gao Wei, David S. Miall, and Don Kuiken. "Translating foregrounding: A Comparative study of Chinese and English readers." 10th International Conference of IGEL (International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature and Media), Chiemsee, Germany, August 5-9 2006.

Kuiken, Don, David S. Miall, and Cathelein Aaftink. "Reading that Gestures Toward What Cannot Be Said: Sublime Enthrallment and Sublime Disquietude." 10th International Conference of IGEL (International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature and Media), Chiemsee, Germany, August 5-9 2006.

Miall, David S. "Defining narrative episodes: An empirical study." 10th International Conference of IGEL (International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature and Media), Chiemsee, Germany, August 5-9 2006.

Miall, David S. (Keynote) "Literary meaning: The challenge of feeling." Fourth Conference of the International Association of Literary Semantics, The Jagiellonian University of Krakow, Poland, October 12-14 2006.

Miall, David S. (Keynote) "Cognitive Poetics: from Interpreting to Experiencing what is Literary." Anglistentag 2007, 23-26 September, University of Münster, Germany.

Miall, David S. (invited paper). "An Enactive Poetics: Empirical Studies of the Body during reading." Conference, "Enacting the body: Representations of the body and the pragmatics of physicality." University of Lille 3, France, March 28-29 2008.

Miall, David S. (Keynote). "Narrative feelings and their cognitive implications." Cognitive Approaches to Narrative, Embodied Simulation, Metaphor and Complex Tropes. University of Vienna, May 14-17 2008.

Miall, David S. (Organizer and participant). Literature and Feeling, Symposium. Myrifield Institution for Cognition and the Arts, Heath, Massachusetts, July 13-14 2008. (Open discussion among 9 participants; no formal papers.)

Sopcak, Paul, Don Kuiken, & David S. Miall. "Beyond "Voices:" Empirical Studies of Free Indirect Discourse in Middlemarch." IAEA: International Association of Empirical Aesthetics, Oak Park, Chicago, August 19-22 2008.

Miall, David S. "Narrative Feelings and Their Cognitive Implications." IAEA: International Association of Empirical Aesthetics, Oak Park, Chicago, August 19-22 2008.

Miall, David S. "Wordsworth's "first-born affinities": Intimations of Embodied Cognition." NASSR Conference, Duke University, May 21-24 2009.

Miall, David S. (Invited paper). " Thinking with the body: Feeling in literary reading." Cognitive Poetics: A Multimodal Approach, Victoria University, University of Toronto, June 10-14, 2009.

Miall, David S., participant. Cognitive Poetics, Symposium. Myrifield Institution for Cognition and the Arts, Heath, Massachusetts, June 15-16 2009. (Open discussion among 10 participants; no formal papers.)

Miall, David S. (Invited paper).  "The Neuropsychology of Literariness." Conference on Neuroaesthetics, Copenhagen, September 24-26, 2009.

International Congress of the International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature (IGEL), University of Utrecht, The Netherlands, July 2010:

Miall, David S. (Invited paper). "Elements of feeling: Towards an aesthetics of narrative." Symposium on Cognitive Aesthetics, University of Aarhus, Denmark, October 15th 2010.

CONFERENCES ORGANIZED

Conference Director:
Evaluating Information Technology in the Arts and Humanities (Day Conference, CNAA/CTISS, Birmingham, May 20th 1988)
Coleridge Summer Conference 1988 (Nether Stowey, Somerset, July 25-28, 1988)
Coleridge Summer Conference 1990 (Cannington, Somerset, July 21-25, 1990)
Consortium for Humanities Computing, Learned Societies Conference (Queen's University, May 27-June 2, 1991)
Coleridge Summer Conference 1992 (Cannington, Somerset, July 24-29, 1992)
Coleridge Summer Conference 1994 (Cannington, Somerset, July 22-27, 1994)
9th International Congress of the International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature (IGEL), 2004 (Edmonton, Canada, August 3-7)

Conference Committee Member:
CATH 88: Computers and Teaching in the Humanities (Southampton University, December 13-15, 1988)
CATH 90: Computers and Teaching in the Humanities (St Andrews University, April 1990)

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

Founder member and Chair (1986-1989) of The Friends of Coleridge in Somerset; member of The National Council of Teachers of English, (1985- ), The British Society of Aesthetics (1977-90), The Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (1986- ), Assocation for Computers and the Humanities (1990- ); International Association for the Empirical Study of Literature (IGEL; 1994- ); Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English (1991- ); Modern Language Association of America (1995- ).

CITATIONS & HONOURS

"The Hypertextual Moment": awarded the F. E. L. Priestley Prize by ACCUTE for the best essay submitted to English Studies in Canada for publication in 1998.

"Locating Wordsworth: 'Tintern Abbey' and the Community with Nature," Romanticism on the Net (2000) awarded the 2nd prize for best essay published during 2000.

Fellow of the International Association of Empirical Aesthetics, 2008.

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