Derek Miller
Derek Miller is a professor of English and the chair of the Standing Committee on Theater, Dance, and Media at Harvard.
Latest Articles
Reviewing Viewpoint Diversity
The loss of trust in higher education is a serious problem that we neither can nor should solve by ignoring our hard-won disciplinary knowledge or abandoning our ethical principles.
Change Harvard’s Bottom Line
To assure our intellectual and financial future, Harvard should move away from the tub-and-bottom model and toward a financial structure that better advances our shared mission.
Harvard, Please Comment!
If Harvard’s leaders are making decisions thoughtfully, based on evidence, and involving input from the whole community, then what do they have to hide? Why can’t Harvard comment?
How Many Women Teach in FAS? Harvard Won’t Say.
Nothing has changed in the composition of Harvard’s faculty to justify abandoning our commitment to racial diversity. The gender ratio in FAS does not suddenly warrant eliminating a modest seminar presenting scholarship by female tenure-track professors.
We Need To Talk About Kevin
We hear a lot these days about the “isms” threatening our democracy: ethno-nationalism, authoritarianism, fascism. This semester, Harvard needs McCarthyism.
Free Inquiry and Authoritarianism
We live today in an authoritarian country, run by an overtly fascist government. What does it mean to teach, learn, and research, to think at a university, under these conditions?
Grading the Trump Administration’s Attacks on Harvard
I suggest Trump drop the project — and his involvement with higher education — immediately.
Harvard Must Choose Veritas Over Survival
We may be able to justify, in the long run, the compromises we will make to help Harvard survive the difficult years ahead. But the University must defend truth as long as it can, and do so with fortitude and courage.