Nancy K. Miller[1] (born 21 February 1941) is an American literary scholar, feminist theorist and memoirist.
Currently a Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the CUNY Graduate Center, Miller is the author of several books on feminist criticism, women’s writing, and most recently, family memoir, biography, and trauma.
[3] Miller's early contributions to literary theory include that of the “invisible intertext” added by women to a more conventional form of writing, as by blending a quest plot with the romantic plot normatively prescribed to early female authors.
[7] She was further notable for her opposition to Roland Barthes's influential theory of The Death of the Author, pointing out how this tended to occlude gender subjectivities in a text through emphasising what she called the web, as opposed to the role of the weaver:[8] the theory serving thereby as a postmodern mask for phallocentrism.
[9] Her position gave rise to a famous debate within feminism on the issue with Peggy Kamuf.