Rate My Professor Michelle Miley

Michelle Miley is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at Montana State University, specializing in WAC/WID and Rhetoric and Writing Studies. She serves as Director of the MSU Writing Center and Associate Dean for the College of Letters and Science, appointed to the latter position in November 2021. Prior to this, she was Director of the Writing Center and Associate Professor in English. Miley began her academic career at Montana State University following her doctoral studies. She holds a Ph.D. in English with a concentration in Rhetoric and Composition from the University of Houston (2013) and an M.A. from Baylor University (1997).

Miley's research focuses on writing center administration, feminist theory in writing pedagogy, institutional ethnography, and interdisciplinary writing support. Her publications include 'Feminist Mothering: A Theory/Practice for Writing Center Administration' (2016), 'Looking Up: Mapping Writing Center Work through Institutional Ethnography' (2017), 'Crafting Collaboricity: Harmonizing the Force Fields of Writing Program and Writing Center Work' (2017, co-authored with D. Downs), 'Chapter 10. Writing Studios as Countermonument: Reflexive Moments from Online Writing Studios in Writing Center Partnerships' (2018), 'The Working Lives of New Writing Center Directors' (2019), 'Bringing Feminist Theory Home' (2019), 'Improving the Teaching and Learning of Writing through the Writing Studio Model' (conference paper, 2018), 'Writing Workshops to Foster Written Communication Skills in Statistics Graduate Students' (2022, co-authored with E. Strickland), 'Developing an Integrated Environmental Engineering Curriculum' (conference paper, 2022), 'Work in Progress: Writing in Engineering Faculty Fellows' (conference paper, 2022), and 'IE and Pedagogical Possibilities: A Framework for Thirdspace Explorations' (2023). Her work has garnered 45 citations on ResearchGate. Miley has contributed to faculty development through initiatives such as Writing in Engineering Faculty Fellows and received the Adobe Creative Cloud Pro award for the Writing Center (2020-2021). In November 2023, she delivered a Provost's Lecture on the importance of writing as a social activity in an AI world.