Cynthia Miller

Hello!  I'm a cultural anthropologist specializing in visual media. I teach in the Marlboro Institute for Liberal Arts at Emerson College in Boston and am the editor or co-editor of twenty scholarly volumes, including the recently published Journeys Into Terror: Essays from the Cinematic Intersection of Travel and Horror (2023). I'm the recipient of the Peter C. Rollins prize for a book-length work in popular culture, and the James Welsh prize for lifetime achievement in adaptation studies. I serve as Treasurer and a Governing Council member of IAMHIST and also serve on the editorial board of the Journal of Popular Culture. My research interests are early genre horror, early U.S. television anthology series, media related to traveling shows and vaudeville, and community-based media projects.