Somehow you have stumbled across the website of me, Kristen Miller. I am a PhD student in the English Department at Auburn University (hoping to complete and defend my dissertation before the end of Fall 2009), an adjunct professor of English at Columbus State University, and a volunteer karate instructor at Keeth's Karate. This site is essentially an expanded version of my CV, reflecting much of the same information but providing more about my non-academic endeavors (of which there are many), particularly my non-academic writing and my artwork, which are not represented at all on my CV. You will also find a lot more detail about some of my other interests outside of academia. If you didn't come to this site for academy-related reasons, you probably came here because you know me from Rock Band; there's a page about that, now, too.

Current Writing Projects
Dissertation - Rhetoric and the Composition of Film (literature review chapter)
"Girl Gamers Rock!: The Role of the Female in Rock Band's World of Virtual Musicians" for upcoming "Videogame Cultures and the Future of Interactive Entertainment" conference in Oxford, England in July (this paper is a focused look at the practices of female gamers who play Rock Band, but is intended to be the starting point on a longer work about differences between how males & females interact with video games and the relevance of those differences to current studies on video games and literacy)

Upcoming Conference Presentations
July 10-12 -- "Girl Gamers Rock!: The Role of the Female in Rock Band's World of Virtual Musicians" at the "Videogame Cultures and the Future of Interactive Entertainment" conference in Oxford, England

Other Upcoming Events
April 25 -- Battle of Stone Mountain karate tournament - Lithonia, GA
May 15th & 16th - Gator Nationals karate tournament - Daytona Beach, FL
July 4th & 5th - U.S. Open karate tournament - Orlando, FL