Jeffrey Alan Miller is an American literary scholar. He is an associate professor of English at Montclair State University, specializing in the study of early modern literature, history, and theology, with a particular focus on the works of

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and his contemporaries. In 2015, he discovered the earliest known draft of the

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while researching at

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Awards

In 2018, he was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship to support a full year of dedicated work to complete a book-length critical edition and study of the earliest known draft of part of the

. In 2019, he was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Miller, Jeffrey Alan Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Princeton University alumni Alumni of the University of Oxford