Eric Miller

Eric C. Miller joined the department in 2013 after completing a Ph.D. at the Pennsylvania State University. He specializes in rhetoric, and his research focuses on Christianity, conservatism, capitalism, and climate change in American discourse.

He is the editor of Rhetoric of the Protestant Sermon in America: Pulpit Discourse at the Turn of the Millennium (Lexington, 2020) and The Rhetoric of Religious Freedom in the United States (Lexington, 2018). His writing has appeared in Rhetoric & Public Affairs, Journal of Communication and Religion, Advances in the History of Rhetoric, and Voices of Democracy, among other journals.

Dr. Miller teaches a variety of courses in the department's Leadership and Public Advocacy concentration. He comes to each of these with a "civic engagement" focus, encouraging students not just to become better speakers, but to think seriously about what they want to say. Students who enroll in any these courses will be encouraged to realize their potential both as thinkers and as citizens.