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Dr Gavin Miller

Senior Lecturer in Medical Humanities (English Literature)

Gavin.Miller@glasgow.ac.uk
http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/critical/staff/gavinmiller/

Biography

I am a graduate of Edinburgh University, where I took my MA Hons and PhD. Prior to joining the University of Glasgow in 2011, I worked at Edinburgh University and Manchester Metropolitan University. I have mainly worked in literature departments, but was from 2010-11 employed within the School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh, as part of the Theology and Therapy Project, where I investigated the overlap of psychotherapy, Christianity, and spirituality in post-war Scotland and England.

Research and Teaching Interests

I research and publish in critical history of psychiatry, and have more recently been working on global mental health and transcultural psychiatry, as well as in the overlap between book history and psychiatric history. I have also been combining my research interest in science fiction with my work in medical humanities.

Keywords:

• History of medicine
• Literature
• Literature and medicine
• Mental health
• Psychiatry
• Science fiction

Projects:

• Attentive Writers: Healthcare, Authorship and Authority
• Cocaine and Cultural Mythology
• Medical Humanities Research Network Scotland
• Science Fiction and the Medical Humanities
• Sir Ronald Ross (1857-1932): Physician-Writer of the British Empire
• Stigmatised Health Issues in Scottish Fiction 1979-present
• ‘Lonely lost people living in the waste-land’: T. Ferguson Rodger, ‘social psychiatry’, ‘mad dreaming’ and ‘rethinking mental health’

Teaching Materials:

• Course: Literature and Medicine (English Literature, senior honours)
• Programme: Intercalated BSc in Medical Humanities

Units:

• College of Arts, School of Critical Studies
• Medical Humanities Research Centre