Welcome to my world! -- David S. Miall
Miall's home page
Courses Autumn 2009 209: Making Readers
2009 409: The Gothic Subject
Previous course web pages Archived courses
Publications
Miall-Kuiken research site Reader Response Research
Empirical Study of Literature IGEL Association
Career, publications, etc. Vita
Family and personal Miall
If you have comments or want more information, please e-mail me at:David.Miall (at) UAlberta.ca
![]()
I can sometimes be found in person in the Humanities Centre, room 4.27. If you need to get in touch but don't find me in, please email me, or leave a note on my door (including a telephone number or email address where I can reach you), or call me on (780) 492-0538.
What's new
- I will be presenting a paper on "The neuropsychology of literariness" at the conference on Neuroaesthetics, Copenhagen, September 24-26, 2009.
- I was a keynote speaker at a conference in Toronto, Cognitive Poetics: A Multimodal Approach, June 9-14, 2009; my presentation was entitled "Thinking with the body: Feeling in literary reading." Several of the doctoral students from our research group also presented their research: Paul Campbell, Olivia Fialho, and Paul Sopcak.
- I helped organize and participate in a Symposium on literary reading and emotion at the Myrifield Institute for Cognition and the Arts, 13-15 July, 2008. The Manifesto we produced is now available online.
- Recent courses included:
- Literary Reading: The Empirical Project (Engl 425), Winter term 2007 -- a study of reading in history and through contemporary empirical research.
- Forthcoming publications include:
- "Neuroaesthetics of Literary Reading." In Martin Skov & Oshin Vartanian, Eds. Neuroaesthetics. Amityville, NY: Baywood Publishing, ms pp. 29.
- Recent publications include:
- "Foregrounding and the Sublime: Shelley in Chamonix." Language and Literature 16 (2007): 155-168.
- "'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.
Last updated: August 6th 2009
You are visitor number since April 9 1996. You can see the last 30 users
The first version of this home page went online October 12 1995