Ann Miller (born 1949) is an English academic and translator. An expert on

French comics French (french: français(e), link=no) may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to France ** French language, which originated in France, and its various dialects and accents ** French people, a nation and ethnic group identified with Franc ...

, she has translated many works of comics theory, including that of Benoit Peeters and

Thierry Groensteen Thierry Groensteen (; born 18 April 1957, Uccle, Brussels) is one of the leading French-speaking comics researchers and theorists, whose work has found influence beyond that field. Career In 1984, Groensteen became the editor-in-chief of the ...

Life

Miller taught French and Spanish in comprehensive schools in London in the 1970s, before moving to Oxford to work in

teacher education Teacher education or teacher training refers to programs, policies, procedures, and provision designed to equip (prospective) teachers with the knowledge, attitudes, behaviors, approaches, methodologies and skills they require to perform their t ...

. In the late 1990s she took up an academic post at the School of Modern Languages at the

University of Leicester , mottoeng = So that they may have life , established = , type = public research university , endowment = £20.0 million , budget = £326 million , chancellor = David Willetts , vice_chancellor = Nishan Canagarajah , head_lab ...

, collaborating on new ways to teach French language. She was Head of French and Senior Lecturer at Leicester, teaching cultural studies,

textual analysis Content analysis is the study of documents and communication artifacts, which might be texts of various formats, pictures, audio or video. Social scientists use content analysis to examine patterns in communication in a replicable and systematic ...

French cinema French cinema consists of the film industry and its film productions, whether made within the nation of France or by French film production companies abroad. It is the oldest and largest precursor of national cinemas in Europe; with primary influ ...

and

bande dessinée (singular ; literally 'drawn strips'), abbreviated BDs and also referred to as Franco-Belgian comics (), are comics that are usually originally in French and created for readership in France and Belgium. These countries have a long tradition ...

(i.e. French-language comics). She was a founding editor of the journal ''European Comic Art''. In 2010 Miller retired from full-time teaching.

Works

* ''Reading bande dessinée: critical approaches to French-language comic strip''. Bristol: Intellect Books, 2007. * (ed. with Natalie Edwards and Amy L. Hubbell) ''Textual & visual selves: photography, film, and comic art in French autobiography''. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 2011. * (tr.) ''Comics and narration'' by

. Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 2013. * (ed. with Bart Beaty) ''The French comics theory reader''. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2014. * (tr.) ''The expanding art of comics: ten modern masterpieces'' by Thierry Groensteen. Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 2017.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Miller, Ann 1949 births Living people French–English translators Academics of the University of Leicester English translators Comics scholars