The Norton Book of Composition Studies
Susan Miller (Ph.D. University  of North Carolina–Chapel Hill) is professor of  English and a faculty member in the University  of Utah Writing Program. She has directed  composition programs at The Ohio State  University and the University of  Wisconsin–Milwaukee and was founding director of Utah's Writing Program. She has written many  award-winning monographs: Rescuing the  Subject: An Introduction to Rhetoric and the  Writer won the JAC award for best book.  Textual Carnivals: The Politics of  Composition won the JAC award for best book and two others—the MLA Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize  for best theoretical book and the NCTE/CCCC  Outstanding Book Award. Assuming the  Positions: Cultural Pedagogy and the Politics of Ordinary Writing was named a Choice  Outstanding Academic Book and shared the  NCTE/CCCC Outstanding Book Award. She has also  written four textbooks for first-year  composition courses and published with  first-year students a CCC article about  cross-curricular student underlife.