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Ben Miller, Ph.D.

Associate Teaching Professor of Technical Writing and Digital Humanities

Affiliate Faculty, Department of Quantitative Theory and Methods

Emory University

 

Email: b.j.miller@emory.edu

 

 

 

 

 

CURRICULUM VITAE

 

Education

Ph.D. in Comparative Literature

Emory University, 2009

B.A. in English with Physics minor

State University of New York at Albany, 1996

 

Academic Appointments

2023

 

2018 – current

Visiting Erskine Faculty Fellow

University of Canterbury

Associate Teaching Professor

Department of English

Affiliate Faculty, Department of Quantitative Theory and Methods

Director of Technical Writing

Emory University

2011 – 2018

Assistant Professor

Departments of English and Communication

Affiliate Faculty, Creative Media Industries Institute

Affiliate Faculty, Global Studies Institute

Georgia State University

2014

Visiting Faculty Fellow

eHumanities Group

Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

2010 – 2011

Assistant Professor

Department of English

University of North Florida

2007 – 2010

Lecturer

Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies

Comparative Media Studies

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2004 – 2007

Brittain Teaching Fellow

School of Literature, Media, & Culture

Georgia Institute of Technology

 

 

SCHOLARSHIP

PUBLISHED SCHOLARSHIP: FULLY PEER-REVIEWED

        All work in this section was reviewed by at least two anonymous readers with relevant experience.

        *Student co-authors are noted with an asterisk

 

Journal Articles

W. Mehran, S. Herron, B. Miller, A. Lemieux, M. Conway.  “Two Sides of the Same Coin? A Largescale Comparative Analysis of Extreme Right and Jihadi Online Text(s); Studies in Conflict & Terrorism.” Studies in Conflict & Terrorism. DOI: 10.1080/1057610X.2022.2071712.  2022.

Nature of Contribution: model design, methods development, data collection, data analysis, subject matter expert, writing (33%)

 

E. Raymond, B. Miller, J. Braun*, M. McKinney*.  “Gentrifying Atlanta: Investor Purchases of Rental Housing, Evictions and the Displacement of Black Residents.” Housing Policy Debate, DOI: 10.1080/10511482.2021.1887318.  2021.

Nature of Contribution: data collection, data analysis, authored section on cluster analysis and interpretation, contributed to overall analysis, writing (20%)

Note: Awarded Paper of the Year for Housing Policy Debate, 2021.

 

W. Stoop, F. Kunneman, A. van den Bosch, and B. Miller, “Catching Cyberbullies with Neural Networks,” The Gradient, 12-Feb-2021. [Online]. Available: https://thegradient.pub/catching-cyberbullies-with-neural-networks/.

Nature of Contribution: convened research group, subject matter expert, data collection, methods development, co-author (20%)

 

E. Raymond, R. Duckworth*, B. Miller, M. Lucas, S. Pokharel*.  “From Foreclosure to Eviction: Housing Insecurity in Corporate-Owned Single-Family Rentals.” Cityscape, 20(3), 159-188.  2018. 

Nature of Contribution: data collection, data analysis, authored sections on methods and spatial interpretation, final review (25%)

 

B. Miller, A. Shrestha,* J. Olive.*  "Visualizing Computational, Transversal Narratives from the World Trade Towers.”  Digital Scholarship in the Humanities.  Oxford University Press.  March 2016.

 

A. Shrestha,* Y. Zhu, B. Miller, Y. Zhao.  “Storygraph: Telling stories from spatio-temporal data.” in Lecture Notes in Computer Science.  8034:693-703.  Springer Verlag.  2013.

Nature of Contribution: theoretical design, subject matter expert, authored section on interpretation, final review (15%)

 

B. Miller.  “06.213: Attacks with Knives and Sharp Instruments // Quantitative Coding and the Witness to Atrocity.” in Leonardo, the Journal of the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology.  45.1. 2012.  Print.

 

L. McNair, J. Norback, and B. Miller.*  “Integrating Discipline-Specific Communication Instruction based on Workforce Data into Technical Communication Courses.” Proceedings of the ASEE: The Changing Landscape of Engineering and Technology Education in a Global World Conference, June 12-15, 2005, Portland, Oregon.  Washington, D.C.: American Society for Engineering Education, 2005.  Print.

Nature of Contribution: case study from technical writing for computer science.  (10%).

 

Discussion Papers (Blind peer and legal reviewed publications released by the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank)

E. Raymond*, R. Duckworth*, B. Miller, M. Lucas, S. Pokharel*.  “Corporate Landlords, Institutional Investors, and Displacement: Eviction Rates in Single Family Rentals.”  Atlanta: Community & Economic Development Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.  2016.  04-16.

Nature of Contribution: data collection, data analysis, authored sections on methods and spatial interpretation, final review (25%)

 

Chapters in Edited Volumes

B. Miller.  “Reading Certainty across Sources.”  In Computational Analysis of Storylines.  T. Caselli, M. Palmer, E. Hovy, P. Vossen, Eds.  Cambridge University Press.  2021.  pp. 176-190.

 

B. Miller, W. Mehran, Y. K. Alsahlani*, H. Qahtan*.  “Metaphors of Radicalisation: A Computational and Qualitative Analysis of Jihadi Propaganda.”  In Online Terrorist Propaganda, Recruitment, and Radicalization.  J.R. Vacca, Ed.  CRC Press.  2019.

 

Full-paper Conference Proceedings (Double-blind peer reviewed original work in Computer Science and/or Natural Language Processing)

B. Miller, J. Park.*  “Computing Narrative.”  CHR 2020: Workshop on Computational Humanities Research, November 18–20, 2020, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.  CEUR Workshop Proceedings.  ISSN 1613-0073.  2020.  pp. 182-190.

 

W. Stoop, F. Kunneman, A. van den Bosch, B. Miller.  “Detecting harassment in real-time as conversations develop.” Proceedings of the Abusive Language Online Workshop.  Association for Computational Linguistics.  2019. pp. 19-24.

Nature of Contribution: senior author, domain expert, data collection, authored sections on domain, authored section on theory and social impacts (15%)

 

B. Miller. "Cross-Document Narrative Alignment of Environmental News: A Position Paper on the Challenge of Using Event Chains to Proxy Narrative Features." Proceedings of the Workshop Events and Stories in the News 2018. Association for Computational Linguistics.  2018.  pp. 18-24.

 

B. Miller, J. Olive,* S. Gopavaram,* Y. Zhao,* A. Shrestha* and C. Berger,* "A method for cross-document narrative alignment of a two-hundred-sixty-million word corpus," Big Data (Big Data), 2015 IEEE International Conference on, Santa Clara, CA, 2015, IEEE Xplore, pp. 1673-1677. 

 

B. Miller, J. Olive,* S. Gopavaram,* A. Shrestha.* "Cross-Document Non-Fiction Narrative Alignment." in Proceedings of the First Workshop on Computing News Storylines (CNewsStory 2015). Edited by T. Caselli, B. Miller, M. van Erp, P. Vossen. ACL-IJCNLP 2015.  Association for Computational Linguistics. (2015). pp. 56-61.

 

B. Miller, A. Shrestha,* J. Olive,* S. Gopavaram.* “Cross-Document Narrative Frame Alignment.” in  Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Computational Models of Narrative (CMN 2015). Eds. Mark A. Finlayson, Ben Miller, Remi Ronfard, and Antonio Lieto. OASIcs-OpenAccess Series in Informatics.  Schloss Dagstuhl-Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik, Vol. 44. 2015. pp. 124-132.

 

A. Shrestha,* Y. Zhu, and B. Miller. "Visualizing uncertainty in spatio-temporal data." in ACM SIGKDD Workshop on Interactive Data Exploration and Analytics (IDEA). ACM, 2014. pp.117-126.

Nature of Contribution: subject matter expert, theoretical design, model design, contributed to specifications of software, authored sections on domain knowledge (15%)

 

B. Miller, A. Shrestha,* J. Derby,* J. Olive,* K. Umapathy, F. Li, Y. Zhao.* “Digging into Human Rights Violations: Data Modeling Collective Memory.” 2013 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (2013): 37-45. IEEE Xplore. Web.

 

A. Shrestha,* Y. Zhu, B. Miller.  “Visualizing time and geography of Open Source Software with Storygraph.” in IEEE Xplore.  vol., no., pp.1,4, 27-28 Sept. 2013.

Nature of Contribution: model design, final review (10%)

 

A. Shrestha,* B. Miller, Ying Zhu, and Yi Zhao. 2013. “Storygraph: extracting patterns from spatio-temporal data.” in Proceedings of the ACM SIGKDD Workshop on Interactive Data Exploration and Analytics (IDEA '13), Duen Horng Chau, Jilles Vreeken, Matthijs van Leeuwen, and Christos Faloutsos (Eds.). ACM. New York, New York. 95-103. 2013. Print.

Nature of Contribution: data collection, data interpretation, subject matter expert, final reviewer, co-authored methods and discussion (10%)

 

Juried Digital Projects

B. Miller, B. Collins, J. Varner, S. Varner, J. Reed, M. Slimmons.  ATLmaps.  Computer Software.  ATLmaps.com.  Vers 0.1. Atlanta, GA: Emory University Libraries, 2016.  Web.  13 March 2017. < https://atlmaps.com/> < https://github.com/ecds/ATLMaps-Server/>.

 

Edited Proceedings Volumes (Double-blind peer reviewed full-paper original scholarship)

C. Bonial, T. Caselli, S. Chaturvedi, E. Clark, R. Huang, M. Iyyer, A. Jaimes, H. Ji, L. Martin, B. Miller, T. Mitamura, N. Peng, J. Tetrault, Eds., Proceedings of the First Joint Workshop on Narrative Understanding, Storylines, and Events. ACL 2020.  Seattle, WA: Association for Computational Linguistics, 2020.

Nature of Contribution: convened organizing committee, principal author for volume proposal, managed organizing committee, co-recruited program committee, co-authored and managed CFP, co-authored volume introduction. (30%)

 

T. Caselli, B. Miller, M. v. Erp, P Vossen, M. Palmer, E. Hovy, T. Mitamura, D. Caswell, Eds., Proceedings of the Events and Stories in the News Workshop. CoLING 2018.  Santa Fe, NM: Association for Computational Linguistics, 2018.

Nature of Contribution: reviewer, co-authored introduction (5%)

 

T. Caselli, B. Miller, M. v. Erp, P Vossen, M. Palmer, E. Hovy, T. Mitamura, D. Caswell, Eds., Proceedings of the Events and Stories in the News Workshop. ACL 2017.  Vancouver, Canada: Association for Computational Linguistics, 2017.

Nature of Contribution: reviewer, co-authored introduction (5%)

 

T. Caselli, B. Miller, M. v. Erp, P. Vossen, D. Cawell, Eds.  Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Computing News Storylines (CNS 2016).  EMNLP 2016.  Austin, TX: Association for Computational Linguistics, 2016.

Nature of Contribution: reviewer, co-authored introduction (5%)

 

B. Miller, R. Ronfard, A. Lieto, S. Ware, M. Finlayson, Eds.  7th Workshop on Computational Models of Narrative.  Schloss Dagstuhl Open Access Series on Information and Computer Science.  Vol. 53. October 2016.

 

T. Caselli, B. Miller, M. v. Erp, P. Vossen, Eds.  Proceedings of the First Workshop on Computing News Storylines (CNewsStory 2015).  ACL-IJCNLP 2015.  Beijing, China: Association for Computational Linguistics, 2015.

Nature of Contribution: reviewer, co-authored introduction, co-authored volume proposal, managed review process, prepared LaTeX drafts (20%)

 

M. Finlayson, B. Miller, R. Ronfard, A. Lieto, Eds.  Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Computational

      Models of Narrative (CMN 2015).  Schloss Dagstuhl Open Access Series on Information and Computer Science. Vol. 45. October 2015.

Nature of Contribution: recruited reviewers, solicited and managed submissions and review process, co-authored introduction (30%)

 

PUBLISHED SCHOLARSHIP: NON-PEER REVIEWED

Digital Projects

B. Miller.  Digital Humanities in the BeNeLux Region.  Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2014.  Interactive Film. <http://www.ehumanities.nl/web-documentary-digital-humanities/>. 

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White Papers

B. Miller, J. Olive, C. Kunzelman.  “Notoriously Toxic: Understanding the Language and Cost of Hate and Harassment Online Games.”  White Paper.  Washington, D.C.: NEH, 2018.  https://bit.ly/2Y0mXYA (25 pp)

 

B. Miller, L. Xiao, K. Umapathy.  Digging into Human Rights Violations: Anaphora Resolution and Emergent Witnesses.  White Paper.  Washington, D.C.: NEH, 2015. https://bit.ly/2Y62GRI (59 pp)

 

M. Flanagan, N. Fraistat, A. Wiggins, Et. Al. Engaging the Public: Best Practices for Crowdsourcing Across the Disciplines. White Paper.  Crowd Consortium, College Park, MD, 2015. 

Nature of Contribution: minor contributor to large, 30+ person group effort (1%)

 

Online Journals

B. Weber, T. Peterson, P. Stawski, B. Miller, L. Xiao, P. Graham.  “Digital History’s Relationship to Human Rights Archives and Data Analysis.”   HASTAC Digital History Group Spotlight Series.  HASTAC.  On-line.  March 2013.

Nature of Contribution: interviewed for spotlight series, co-edited interview transcript for clarity and brevity (50%)

 

B. Miller.  “Documenting Change in Points of Contact.”  In Media Res.  September 2011.  On-Line.

 

D. Laub, B. Miller*, P. Schweitzer.* “The Art of Survival, a Conversation with Dori Laub.” Reading On: A Journal of Theory and Criticism. Atlanta: Emory University.  Fall 2006.  On-Line.

Nature of Contribution: co-interviewer, transcribed four-hour interview, first editor of transcript for clarity and brevity, final review (30%)

 

E. Cadava, D. Kelman*, B. Miller* “Irresistible Dictations, a Conversation with Eduardo Cadava.” Reading On: A Journal of Theory and Criticism. Atlanta: Emory University.  Fall 2006.  On-Line.

Nature of Contribution: co-interviewer, transcribed two-hour interview, first editor of transcript for clarity and brevity, final review (30%)

 

Conference Proceedings, Extended Abstracts

M. C. Page; J. Hurley; B. Collins; J. B. Glover; R. Bryant; E. Clark; M. Davis; R. Gue; S. Van Horn Melton; B. Miller; M. L. Pierce; M. Slemons; J. Varner; and R. Wharton, "Digital Atlanta: A collaborative approach to remapping Atlanta's past," 2015 Digital Heritage, Granada, Spain, 2015, pp. 469-470.

Nature of Contribution: described methods and goals for Atlanta Maps project (3%)

 

 

GRANTS, AWARDS, AND FELLOWSHIPS

Grants: PI

Digital Humanities Start-up Award. NEH ODH.  $27,500.  2015-16.  PI.  “Notoriously Toxic.”  International team studying hate speech in online chat systems of video games.  Team includes game studies scholars, game developers, computational linguists, legal scholars, communication studies scholars, and industry.

 

Digging into Data.  NSF, SSHRC.  $235,699.  2012 – 2013.  PI.   “Digging into Human Rights Violations: Anaphora Resolution and Emergent Witnesses.”  Lead 12-member international project to explore transversal reading methods for text-mining large-scale collections of witness statements and official documents relating to mass violations of rights in Guatemala, Chechnya, South Africa, Burma, and Liberia.  Team includes lawyers, archivists, computer scientists, human rights activists, statisticians, linguists, information scientists, human-computer interaction researchers, historians, and linguists in three countries.

 

Grants: Co-Principal Investigator, Co-Investigator, Key Personnel

Mellon Humanities PhD Intervention.  $107,877.  2020-2022.  Co-PI.  “Mellon Public Writing Fellows.”  The grant provides funding for two doctoral fellows per year to take on writing projects with community partners in the fall, then return to campus and disseminate information about their work and develop related pedagogical materials during the spring.  

Nature of Contribution:  Identify and line up community partners, convene proposal committee, co-draft proposal for funding and revisions, identify partnering departments.  (60%)

 

MINERVA.  Department of Defense.  $2,200,000.  2015 - 2020.  Co-Investigator.  “Mobilizing Media.”  Research into social psychology and media of radicalization produced by ISIS, ISIL, AQiM, and other Islamic State actors.  Team includes political scientists, ethnomusicologists, subject-matter experts, language experts, computer scientists, and communication scholars.

Nature of Contribution: Led NLP and text mining efforts, coordinated data base design, directed GRAs and URAs, co-authored publications. (20%)

 

NEH Next Generation Ph.D. Grant.  NEH.  $61,205.  2016-17.  Key Personnel.  Develop new models for PhD programs in the humanities.

Nature of Contribution: directed development of Ph.D. certificate in Digital Humanities, directed development of externship model for Ph.D. students. (10%)

 

Knight Foundation Knight News Challenge.  Knight Foundation.  $35,000.  2016-17.  Co-Investigator.  “ATLmaps.”  Expand ATLmaps platform in concert with personnel at GSU and Emory University.

Nature of Contribution: PI on overall ATLmaps project setting platform goals and development schedule. (10%)

 

National and International Fellowships and Awards

Erskine Visiting Faculty Fellowship.  University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.  April-August 2023.

 

CityVis Award, Shortlisted.  ATLmaps.  Habitat III, The United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development.  http://cityvis.io/  July 2016.

 

Visiting Scholar Fellowship.  Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.  $14,500. April-June, 2014.  Facilitate local digital humanities projects, produce documentary on Digital Humanities in the BeNeLux region, and conduct research on documenting human trafficking.

 

High Performance Sound Technologies for Access and Scholarship.  NEH, Institute for Advanced Topics.  $1,000.  Attend two four-day workshops.  Training in technologies necessary for collection and machine-learning based analysis of affective dimensions of environment sound.

 

German Historical Institute and Smithsonian American History Museum Lemelson Center for Innovation Research Award.  $1,000. Spring 2011.  Travel and research award for biography of Ralph Baer, inventor of the video game.  Biography draws together technical and entrepreneurial accomplishments with Baer’s cultural background and immigrant experience.

 

Smithsonian American History Museum Lemelson Center for Innovation Research Award.  $1,000.  Summer 2009.  Research history of videogames and magnetic recording as related to inventors’ lives during wartime: Ralph Baer and Semi Joseph Begun.  Conduct additional research on Wadsworth Mount for article, “The Engineer’s Deferment.”

 

Internal Grants, Awards, and Fellowships

Emory University.  Faculty Development Workshop on Evidence Focused Seminars.  $3,000.  Summer 2019. 

 

Emory University. Classroom Mini Grants, The Center for Faculty Development and Excellence.  $300.  Spring 2019.

 

GSU URSA Conference Grant.  Atlanta Computational Social Science Workshop (GSU, GT, Emory). $3,000.  December 2015.  Co-PI.  3rd iteration of this regional workshop on computational methods in the social sciences, cosponsored by YikYak, Facebook, and Yahoo.

 

Dean’s Early Career Award.  $3,000 (GSU).  2014-2015. 

 

GSU URSA Conference Grant.  NEH ODH Regional Workshop (GSU, UGA, GT, Emory). $3,722.  October 2014.  PI.  9-institution consortium convened by Miller organizing two days of talks and workshops at GSU and Georgia Tech and individual meetings with three NEH ODH program officers.

 

GSU Conference Grant.  Korsakow Workshop. $2,500.  November 2013.  PI.  16-person workshop on interactive documentary production using Korsakow, led by Florian Thalhofer.

 

Cities Grant.  $98,600 (GSU).  ATLmaps.  September 2013 – August 2014.  PI.  Collaborating with communities in Atlanta to expand system for integrating historic maps and photos, public data, and crowdsourced narratives.  Team includes historians, software developers, geographers, community activists, neighborhood development planners, librarians, archivists, and linguists.

 

Research Initiation Grant.  $13,141 (GSU).  “Databased witness: A monograph on population-level memory.”  July 2013-June 2014.  Research on data analysts and methods at HRDAG and Benetech.

 

Cities Grant.  $38,600 (GSU).  ATLmaps.  September 2012 – August 2013.  PI.  Collaborating with geospatial researchers and urban planners at Georgia State, Georgia Tech, Emory, and Harvard to develop system for integrating historic maps and photos, public data, and crowdsourced narratives to site, map, and tell the spatially and temporally dispersed stories of Atlanta’s financial, racial, and planning politics.

 

Dean’s Leadership Council Faculty Fellowship.  $18,000 (U. of North Florida).  Spring 2011.  University-wide competitive funding for new research of importance for the University and region.  Funding towards pilot study of Soldier Story Project.

 

M.I.T. Dean’s Fund for Faculty Development.  $2,000 (M.I.T.). Spring 2008.  Attend and deliver papers on the history of new media and its application as a platform for individual witnessing at professional conferences at Columbia, McGill, SUNY Binghamton, and UC Riverside.

 

Dissertation Fellowship.  $8,000 (Emory).  Spring 2002 & 2004. 

 

Woodruff Library Fellowship.  $2,500 (Emory). Summer 2001. Develop finding aid for Fortunoff Archive for Holocaust Video Testimony sub-collection held by Special Collections at the Woodruff Library.

 

Dissertation Research Funding.  $800 (Emory).  Summer 2000. Conduct research at Neue Judisches Museum, Berlin on relationship among technology of museum display, collective memory, and architecture as memorial.

 

 

PRESENTATIONS

Invited Talks

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2008

B. Miller.  “An Architecture of Language: A brief foray into the computational modeling of language.” Living in Languages Conference, SUNY Albany.  March 2023.

T. Lemieux, C. Winkler, N. Lahoud, J. Pieslak, H. Khan, W. Mehran, A. Awan, B. Miller, J. Brachman.  “Mobilizing Media: A deep and comparative analysis of magazines, music, and videos in the context of terrorism. Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Trust and Influence Program.  August 20, 2021.

B. Miller.  “Computing Testimony.”  Atlanta Global Studies Symposium.  Atlanta, GA.  April 26, 2019.

 “Hate Speech and Social Movements in the 21st Century.” Rhetoric Society of America.  October 2015.

“Notoriously Toxic.”  NEH Project Directors Meeting.  Washington, D.C.  September 2015.

“Human Rights Frameworks and Natural Language Processing.”  National University of Samoa.  Apia, Samoa.  July 2015.

 “Extracting Historical Narratives from Witness Statements.  Invited talk at Freie Universität,

        Berlin, Center for Digital Systems.  Berlin, Germany.  July 2014.

“Database Documentary Filmmaking with Korsakow.”  Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, eHumanities Group.  Amsterdam, NL.  June 2014.

 “Mining Digital Repositories: Challenges and Horizons.”  National Library of the Netherlands, The Hague.  Invited Speaker.  April 2014.

“Understanding Literature and Art Cultures for Transformative Research.” Arizona State / NASA. Invited Workshop Participant. Tempe, AZ. 14-15 Jan. 2014.

“Computational Narratives of Collective Trauma.”  SAMLA 2013, Featured Speaker, Atlanta, GA.

 “Text Mining and Data Journalism.” Future of Investigative Journalism. Atlanta, Georgia. Invited Speaker.  Oct. 2013.

“Digging into Human Rights Violations.”  Digging into Data Funders Conference. Montreal, Can. 2013.

"Digging into Human Rights Violations.”  Invited Talk, Virginia Tech.

“Anaphora and Transversal Reading.”  Invited talk, Information Interfaces Research Group, College of Computing, Georgia Tech.

“Soldiers’ Story Archive.”  Purple Blurb Reading Series.  MIT.  (https://nickm.com/trope_tank/purple_blurb/previous.html)

 

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2013

 

Mehran, Weeda, Stephen Herron, and Ben Miller.  “Nothing in Common? A Semiotic Comparative Analysis of Far Right & Jihadi Extremist Rhetoric.”  International Studies Assoc. Annual Meeting.  March 29, 2022.

B. Miller, J. Park.*  “Computing Narrative.”  Computational Humanities Research Workshop.  Amsterdam, The Netherlands.  November 18-20, 2020.

B. Miller.  “Reading Certainty.”  Digital Humanities 2020.  Ottawa, Canada.  July 22-24, 2020.

W. Mehran, B. Miller, H. Qahtan*.  “Comparative discourse of jihadi extremists and alt-right groups.”  77th International Midwestern Political Science Association Conference.  Chicago, IL.  April

W. Mehran, B. Miller, H. Qahtan*.  “Mirror Images: Comparative analysis of conceptual metaphors in white supremacist and jihadi propaganda.”  60th International Studies Association Conference.  Toronto.  March 27-30, 2019.

B. Miller.  “Cross-Document Narrative Alignment of Environmental News: A Position Paper on the Challenge of Using Event Chains to Proxy Narrative Features.”  Events and Stories in the News Workshop (EventStory 2018), 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics.  Santa Fe, NM. 2018.

E. Raymond,* R. Duckworth,* B.Miller, M. Lucas, S. Pokharel*.  “New Corporate Landlords and Displacement: Eviction Rates in Post-Foreclosure Single Family Rentals in Fulton County, Georgia.”  2017 Urban Affairs Assoc. Annual Conference, Minneapolis, MN.

B. Miller, J Olive,* et. al. “Notoriously Toxic.”  Digital Humanities 2016.  Krakow, Poland.

B. Miller, S. Bhattacharyya, et. al.  “Computing World Literature.”  Digital Humanities 2016. Krakow, Poland.  2016.

B. Miller, J. Olive,* S. Gopavaram,* Y. Zhao, A. Shrestha,* C. Berger.*  “A Method for Cross-Document Narrative Alignment of a Two-Hundred-Sixty-Million Word Corpus.”  IEEE Big Data.  October 2015.

B. Miller, J. Olive,* S. Gopavaram,* A. Shrestha*.  “Cross-Document Non-Fiction Narrative Alignment.” The First Workshop on Computing News Storylines (CNewS 2015), Assoc. for Computational Linguistics 53rd Annual Conference.  Beijing, China.  July 2015.

B. Miller, J. Olive,* A. Shrestha*.  “Automated Comparison of Narrative and Character Function Similarity Using Graph Theory.”  Digital Humanities 2015.  Sydney, Australia.  July 2015.

B. Miller, A. Shrestha,* J. Olive,* S. Gopavaram*.  “Cross-Document Narrative Frame Alignment.”  Computational Models of Narrative Workshop 2015.  Atlanta, Georgia.  May 2015.

B. Collins, M. Davis, B. Miller.  “Stadiumville.”  Southern American Studies Association Annual Conference.  Atlanta, Georgia.  February 2015.

“Two Commutes, Eleven Packets, Three Bombs, 253 Possible Worlds: Counterfactual Testimony.”  American Comparative Literature Association 2015.  Seattle, WA.  March 2015.

B. Miller, Y. Zhao,* J. Olive,* A. Shrestha*.  “Entity Resolution in Narrative Texts Using Graph Theory.”  Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science.  Chicago.  October 2014.

J. Olive,* B. Miller, A. Shrestha,*  J. Zhao,* N. Subtirelu,* Y. Zhao*. “Narrative Markup with TEI.”  Text Encoding Initiative Conference.  Chicago.  October 2014.

B. Miller, A. Shrestha,* J. Olive*.  “Visualizing Computational, Transversal Narratives from the World Trade Towers.”  Digital Humanities 2014.  Lausanne, Switzerland.  July 2014.

B. Miller, B. Collins.  “Deep Mapping a Metropolis: ATLmaps’ Art, Planning, and Ice.”  DH BeNeLux.  12-13 June 2014.  The Hague, The Netherlands.

B. Miller, and J. Derby*. “Big Data and the End of Practical Anonymity.”  Surveillance Studies Network 14. Barcelona, Spain. 24-26 Apr. 2014.

J. Hurley, M. Page, B. Croxall, B. Collins, B. Miller, et al.  “ATLmaps.” Organization for American History. Apr. 2014.

B. Miller, and J. Olive*. “Digital Epics.” American Comparative Literature Association 2014. New York, NY. 20-23 Mar. 2014.

B. Miller, A. Shrestha,* N. Subtirelu*.  “NLP Approaches to Rights Violations Classifying.”  RightsCon.  March 2014.

 “Geospatial Storytelling.” Panel Chair, SAMLA 2013.  Atlanta, Georgia. 10 Nov. 2013. Conference Panel.

 “Transversal Reading of Human Rights Violations.”  World Social Science Forum.  Montreal, Can. 2013.

B. Miller, A. Shrestha,* J. Derby,* J. Olive,* K. Umapathy,  Fuxin Li, Y. Zhao*.  "Digging into Human Rights Violations: Data Modeling Collective Memory.”  IEEE Big Data 2013; Big Data and the Humanities Workshop.  Santa Clara, CA. 2013.

A. Shrestha,* Y. Zhu, B. Miller.  "Visualizing Time and Geography of Open Source Software with Storygraph.”  IEEE First Working Group on Visualization of Software (VisSoft) / Int. Conference on Software Maintenance. Eindhoven, Netherlands.

 “Digging into Human Rights Violations: phrase mining and trigram visualization.”  Digital Humanities 2013, U. Nebraska-Lincoln.

“Transversal Reading of Collective Memory.” HASTAC 2013, York University.

“Mapping Crisis.”  American Comparative Literature Assoc. Annual Conference, University of Toronto.

“Going Viral.”  Respondent, Special Session at Modern Language Assoc. Annual Meeting.

2012

T.H. Park, B. Miller, A. Marse,* et al.  “Citygram One: Visualizing Urban Acoustic Ecology.”  Digital Humanities 2012.  U. of Hamburg.

T.H. Park, B. Miller, and A. Shretsha*.  “The Electro-Acoustic Music Mine.”  Electroacoustic Music Studies 12: Meaning and Meaningfulness in Electroacoustic Music.  Royal College of Music and Elektronmusikstudio, Stockholm.

 “The 8 Bits at the End of the World.”  American Comparative Literature Assoc. Annual Conference.  Brown University.

 

“Anaphora Resolution and the Emergent Witness.”  Database | Narrative | Archive. Concordia University.

2011

“05.71: Verbal Abuse // The Emergent Witness.”  American Comparative Literature Assoc. Annual Meeting.  New Orleans.

 

“06.213: Attacks with Knives and Sharp Instruments // Quantitative Coding and the Witness to Atrocity.”  High-Throughput Humanities: A Satellite Meeting at the European Conference on Complex Systems.  Lisbon University Institute.

2010

“09.1: Possible Disappearance / Database Testimony.”  Humanities + Digital: Visual Interpretations.  M.I.T. Hyperstudio.

 

“’Bosnia Bleed’: The Blank Frame of Documentary Photography.”  American Comparative Literature Assoc. Annual Meeting.  Harvard University.

2009

“Mechanical Therapy, circa 1945.”  Interrupting the Future.  Institute for Comparative Literary Studies, Columbia University.

2008

“Digital Media and Reporting from the Front.”  (dis)Junctions.  UC Riverside.

 

“Mechanical Media of Survival and Testimony.”  Writing War.  McGill University.

2003

“Mechanical Therapy, circa 1945.”  Sifting Lies.  SUNY Stonybrook.

 

“New Media Testimony: Vision and Water in HVT-206.”  Humanitech Conference.  SUNY Albany.

 

 

 

 

 

 

TEACHING

Courses Taught

 

Where noted by an *, I developed the syllabus, learning outcomes, readings, goals, assignments, and activities for a course.  While ENG181 (Emory), ENG2110 (GSU), CMS.100 (MIT), and 21w.784 (MIT) already existed as course designations, the specific versions I taught from outcomes to readings to assignments were developed by me within the frameworks provided by those designations. 

 

 

2023

 

 

2022

 

 

 

 

2021

 

 

 

2020

 

 

 

2019

 

 

 

 

2018

 

 

 

 

2023

 

 

2022

 

2018

 

 

 

2011-2018

        Undergraduate Courses taught at Emory University

Writing Atlanta.* ENGRD389. [Spring]

Quantitative Literary Analysis: Theory and Practice.* QTM490. [Spring]

 

Technical Writing.*  ENGRD / QTM 302w. [Spring]

Advanced Writing Lab.* ENGRD379w. [Spring]

Writing for Games.* ENGRD367. [Summer]

Data Literacy,* Emory Precollege Program. [Summer]

 

Technical Writing.*  ENGRD / QTM 302w. [Spring]

Writing for Games.* ENGRD367. [Spring, Maymester]

Data Literacy,* Emory Precollege Program. [Summer]

 

Technical Writing.*  ENG / QTM 302w. [Spring, Summer]

Advanced Writing Lab.*  ENG379w.

Writing for Games.* ENG380w. [Spring, Maymester]

 

Technical Writing.*  ENG / QTM 302w. [Spring, Fall]

Writing about Literature: Technology and Society.*  ENG 181.

Independent Study, Advanced Writing Lab.*  ENG 399.

Directed Reading: Modeling Climate Journalism.*  ENG 389.

 

Technical Writing.*  ENG / QTM 302w. [Fall]

Writing about Literature: Technology and Society. *  ENG 181.

Independent Study, Advanced Writing Lab.*  ENG 399.

 

        Graduate Courses taught at Emory University

Quantitative Literary Analysis.* ENG790. [Spring]

Technical Writing for Data Science.* QTM540 [Fall]

 

Digital Humanities Theories and Methods.*  ENG 790.

 

Digital Humanities Theories and Methods.*  ENG 790.

 

        Undergraduate Courses taught at Other Institutions

Georgia State University

Writing for Games. *  CMIS 4910.

World Literature. *  ENGL2110

Game Studies. *  ENGL4204/FILM4780

Scripting Interactive Fiction. *  ENGL4204/FILM4780/CSc4998

Writing Interactive Fiction. *  ENGL4204/FILM4780.

Telling Stories in Data. *  ENGL4200 / JOUR4900.

Digital Documentary / Data Journalism. *  ENGL4200 / FILM4780 / JOUR4900.

Collective Memory. *ENGL 4200 / JOUR 4900.

Games, Simulations, and other Interactive Fictions. *  ENGL3250 / FILM 4780

Introduction to Digital Media Studies. *  ENGL3800

 

 

2010-2011

University of North Florida

Introduction to Digital Media Studies. *  ENC2930.

History of Digital Media. *  LIT4930.

Digital Media Workshop. *ENC4934.

Writing for Games. *  ENC4934.  (Offered)

 

 

2007-2010

M.I.T.

Becoming Digital: Reports from the Front. *  21W.784. (On MIT’s OpenCourseWare at https://bit.ly/3gYcwwp)

Becoming Digital: Logic. *  21W.784. 

Introduction to Comparative Media Studies.  CMS.100, with B. Coleman.

Introduction to Comparative Media Studies: “Transmedia Faust.”  CMS.100, with M. Marks.

Introductory Digital Systems Laboratory.  6.111.  (Writing Lecturer).

Computer Systems Engineering.  6.033.  (Writing Lecturer).

Ethics and Law on the Electronic Frontier.  6.085, with H. Abelson.

Developmental Psychology. 9.85.  (Writing Lecturer).

Measurement and Instrumentation.  2.671 (Writing Lecturer)

 

 

2004-2007

 

 

2000-2003

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2011-2018

 

 

 

 

 

2010-2011

Georgia Institute of Technology

Technical Communication for Computer Science. LCC3401. (20 sections).

 

Emory University (as a doctoral student)

Major Texts: Ancient to Medieval, “Document / Documentary.”  CPLT201.

Literature and Science.  “Representation and Uncertainty.” CPLT333.  (Offered).

Major Texts: Renaissance to Modern. “Re-imagine History.” CPLT202.

Introduction to Literary Studies. “Technological Identification.” LIT101.

Introduction to Literary Studies.  “Traumatic Authorship.”  LIT101.

Electronic Textuality.   CPLT389, T.A., with J. Johnston.

 

        Graduate Courses taught at Other Institutions

Georgia State University

Trauma Literature, Culture, and Theory.  ENGL9050/GLOS8650

Contemporary Literary Theory (Narratology, Distributed Writing, Collective Memory).  ENGL8070 / COMM8900.

Topics in Contemporary Theory: Narrative.  ENGL9050

 

University of North Florida

Comparative Collective Witness. LIT6654.

 

Advising and Mentoring

Thesis Committee Member, Riley Brackin, Chemistry. “The Influence of Polymer Molecular Weight on Hyaluronic Acid Hydrogel Reinforcement of Articular Cartilage.” Awarded Highest Honors. 2022-2023.

Thesis Committee Member, Yazan Bader, Psychology. “Racial and socioeconomic disparities associated with Autism Spectrum Disorder diagnosis.” Awarded Highest Honors. 2021-2022.

Summer Undergraduate Research Experience, Jieyu (Zoey) Jiao, Applied Math.  “Chinese Metaphor Detection Using Computational Linguistic Tools.”  2020.

Directed Reading, Julie Park, English.  “Modeling Climate Journalism.”  Final paper submitted to The Journal of Undergraduate Research (Under review as of Aug. 11, 2020).  Fall 2019.

Teaching Mentor, Tyler Tenant, Doctoral Student, English, Emory University.  2020-present.

Member of Honors Thesis Committee, Lydia Fu, Applied Math, Emory University.  2020 (Degree Awarded with Highest Honors).

Member of the Doctoral Thesis Committee, Folgert Karsdorp, Radboud Uni, NL. 2015-16.  (Doctorate Awarded Cum Luade).

Dissertation Committee Chair, Joe Anderson.  English.  Georgia State University.  2015-2017.  (Doctorate Awarded).

Dissertation Committee Member, Jennifer Olive.  English.  Georgia State University.  2018-present.

Dissertation Committee Chair, Jennifer Olive.  English.  Georgia State University.  2014-2018.

Dissertation Committee Member, Kristopher Kyle.  Applied Linguistics.  Georgia State University.  2014-2016.  (Doctorate Awarded).

Dissertation Committee Member, Ayush Shrestha.  Computer Science.  Georgia State University.  2011-2014. (Doctorate Awarded).

Dissertation Committee Member, Jin Zhao, English.  Georgia State University.  2012-2014. (Doctorate Awarded).

Dissertation Committee Member, Jason Derby, Communications.  Georgia State University.  2012-present.

Dissertation Committee Member, Michael Jablonski, Communications.  Georgia State University.  2012-present.

Thesis Committee Chair, Jennifer Olive, English.  Georgia State University.  2013-2014. (Thesis Awarded).

Reader, Sarah Higinbotham, English.  Georgia State University.  2012-2013. (Doctorate Awarded).

Dissertation Committee Member, Lindsay Byron.  Ph.D. Student, English.  Georgia State University.  2012. (Doctorate Awarded).

Dissertation Committee Chair, Lindsay Byron.  Ph.D. Student, English.  Georgia State University.  2011-2012.

 

Certifications and Professional Development

CITI Course in the Protection of Human Research Subjects.  GSU, 2011, 2016.

Psychoanalytic Studies, Emory University, 2009.

New Media Pedagogy, Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Literature, Communication, & Culture.  2007.

New Media Theory, Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Literature, Communication, & Culture.  2007.

 

Professional Development

“Programming for Humanists at TAMU.”  Texas A&M University.  2015.

“Big Data and Uncertainty in the Humanities.”  Conference and THATCamp at University of Kansas.  2012.

“Getting Started in Digital Humanities with DHCommons.”  MLA, 2012.

GTRI Technical Seminar on Big Data.  Georgia Tech, 2012.

 “What is Real: Photography and the Politics of Truth.”  International Center for Photography.  The TimesCenter.  2008.

“A Brief History of Contemporary Documentary Photography.”  Photographic Resource Center, Boston

University.  Fall 2008.

CITI Course in the Protection of Human Research Subjects.  GSU, 2011. Emory University, 2007.

“Special Projects in Documentary Photography.”  Emory.  Spring 2003.

Teaching Assistant Training and Teaching Opportunity (TATTO), Emory.  Fall 1997-spring 2001.

Teaching of Literature.  Program in Comparative Literature. Emory.  Fall 1999-spring 2000.

Education and Cultural Diversity.  Division of Educational Studies.  Emory.  Fall 1999.

 

                       

SERVICE

 

Departmental

Search Committee Chair, Postdoctoral Teaching Fellows.  Writing Program.  Emory University.  2023.

Executive Committee Member, Department of English.  Emory University.  2022-2025.

Search Committee Member, First Year Writing and Writing Across the Curriculum Faculty Searches.  Emory University. 2022-2023.

Search Committee Chair, Postdoctoral Teaching Fellows. Writing Program.  Emory University.  2022.

Director of Technical Writing, Emory University.  2020 – present.

Search Committee Member, Technical Writing and Science Writing Lecturer Track Faculty.  Writing Program.  Emory University.  2021-2022.

Search Committee Chair: Postdoctoral Teaching Fellows. Writing Program.  Emory University.  2021.

Search Committee Member: Romanticism and Digital Humanities. English.  Georgia State University.  2012.

Research Advancement Committee, Department of English. Georgia State University.  2011-2018.

 

College and University

Executive Committee Member, Teaching Track Faculty. Emory University.  2022-2025

Lead Organizer, Teaching Technical Writing Summer Bootcamp for Doctoral Students, Emory University.  2020.

Member, Continuing Writing Assessment Group, Emory University.  2019-2020.

Faculty Development Workshop Participant, Emory Quality Enhancement Plan: The Nature of Evidence.  Emory University.  2019-2020.

Proposal Lead, Digital Humanities and Computational Social Science Cluster Hire, Georgia State University.  2016.

Proposal Committee, Next Generation Cluster Hire, Transcultural Conflict and Violence.  Georgia State University.  2015-2017.

Search Committee Member, Digital Scholarship Projects Librarian.  Georgia State University.  2014-2015.

Proposal Committee, Woodruff Gift for Creative Media Industries Institute, Georgia State University.  2013-2015. ($22.8m awarded).

Fellowship Co-Director, New and Emerging Media Doctoral Fellows.  Georgia State University.  2011-2018.

New and Emerging Media Lab Space Development Planning Committee.  2011-2017.

 

Profession

Academic Publications

Executive Editor, Atlanta Studies Journal, Atlanta Studies Blog.  2019 – present.

Director, Atlanta Studies Annual Symposium Series.  2019 – present. 

 

Conference Workshop Organization

These CS and NLP workshops typically involve 10+ person organizing committees, 40+ person program committees, double-blind peer reviewed full paper review and publications, shared and unshared CS/NLP tasks, and depending on the venue, 30-200 participants.

Organizing Committee, “Online Extremism and Misinformation.” March 31, 2023. Queen’s University Belfast, University of Exeter, and Emory University.  Online.

Organizing Committee, Narrative Understanding, Storylines, and Events, the 1st Joint Workshop.  July 9, 2020.  58th Annual Meeting of the Assoc. for Computational Linguistics, 2020.  Seattle, Washington.

Organizing Committee, EventStory: Events and Stories in the News, the 2nd Joint Computing News Storylines and EVENTS Workshop. August 20, 2018.  27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2018).  Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Organizing Committee, EventStory: Events and Stories in the News, the 1st Joint Computing News Storylines and EVENTS Workshop. August 4, 2017.  55th Annual Meeting of the Assoc. for Computational Linguistics, 2017.  Vancouver, Canada.

Organizing Committee, The 2nd Workshop on Computing News Storylines.  November 5, 2016. Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2016.  Austin, TX.

Organizing Committee, The 1st Computing News Storylines Workshop.  July 31, 2015. 53rd Annual Meeting of the Assoc. for Computational Linguistics, 7th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing of the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing, 2015.  Beijing, China.

Organizing Committee, Atlanta Computational Social Science Forum. December 4, 2015.  Atlanta, GA.

Lead Organizer, 7th International Computational Models of Narrative Workshop. July 11-12, 2016.  Digital Humanities 2016.  Krakow, Poland.

Organizing Committee, 6th International Computational Models of Narrative Workshop.  May 26-28, 2015.  Atlanta, GA.

 

Manuscript Reviewer for Scholarly Publications of Books, Articles, and Chapters

IEEE Access, 2020.

Cambridge University Press.  2019-2020.

Digital Humanities Quarterly. 2019.

Societies — Open Access Sociology Journal, MDPI.  2018.

ASA-CRC Series on Statistical Reasoning in Science and Society, Taylor and Francis Press.  2017-present.

IEEE Transactions, 2007.

 

Funding Proposal Reviewer for National and International Funding Organizations

Reviewer, Canada-UK ESRC/UKRI AI Initiative.  2019.

Remote Reviewer, European Commission, European Research Council.  2018.

External Referee, Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO), 2016, 2017.

External Reviewer, NEH ODH Implementation Grants, 2016.

 

Reviewer for Academic Conferences

Program Committee.  NLP+CSS Workshop, Association for Computational Linguistics.  2020.

Reviewer, Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations, Digital Humanities Annual Conference.  2017, 2018, 2019, 2020.

 

Conference Panel Organization

Panel Organizer, “Spatial Narratives,” American Comparative Literature Assoc. Annual Conference. April 3-7, 2013.  Toronto, Canada.

Panel Co-Organizer, “Marking the End: Last Man, Last Word, Last Thing,” American Comparative Literature Assoc. Annual Conference.  March 29 – April 1, 2012.  Providence, RI.

Lead Organizer, New Media Colloquia.  Georgia State University.  2011-2013.

Organizing Committee, Mirroring Evil @ Emory Conference, Emory University.  April 3, 2003.  Atlanta, GA.

Organizing Committee, Literature on Trial Conference, Emory University.  October 6, 2000.  Atlanta, GA.

 

Advisor and Advisory Boards

Advisor, Mellon Public Writing Fellows Program, Emory University.  2020 – 2023.

Advisory Board Member, Department of Quantitative Theory and Methods.  Emory University.  2019 – present.

Advisor, “INTERVIEWS: INTerview Exploration, Research, Visualization and Interpretation Environment as a Web-based System” proposal for Horizon 2020, EU Programmes 2014-2020 RFP.

Advisory Board Member, Korsakow Institute, Berlin.  2014-present.

Advisory Board Member, Atlanta Studies Journal.  2013-2019.

Director, Faculty Advisory Board, Prison Writing Initiative.  Georgia State University.  2012-2016.

Advisory Board Member, Duval County Atlantic Coast High School IT Academy.  2010-2011.

 

Community

Consultant, Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers Foundation.  “Real-time Evictions Data Service.”  2017-2020.  Project lead on two-year effort to get real-time evictions data from the Fulton County Magistrate Court to AVLF for their evictions defense efforts.  Resulted in targeted legal pop-up clinics in two Atlanta neighborhoods with high rates of evictions; contributed to successful AVLF efforts to secure funding; led to broader efforts by other area institutions to build data dashboard for Fulton County evictions.

Consultant, WABE.  How to collect Fulton County evictions data.  2020.  Trained reporters on how to access to work with real-time evictions filing data for Fulton and DeKalb Counties.

 

Professional Affiliations

Scholars Strategy Network.  2017 – present.

Urban Affairs Association. 2017-2018.

Association for Computational Linguistics. 2015 – present.

IEEE. 2013 – 2017.

MLA. 1998 – 2015.