Bonnie Miller
teaches courses in visual culture/media studies and American social and cultural history from 1600 to present.  Her research centers on the role of visual and other popular media forms in shaping the politics of gender, race, and empire during the late nineteenth century.  Her current book project, entitled The Spectacle of War: A Study of Spanish-American War Visual and Popular Culture, argues for the importance of visual images in shaping the political debates surrounding the Cuban crisis and the imperial aftermath of the Spanish-American War of 1898.  It emphasizes the imperatives and methodological challenges of using visual analysis in the study of American culture, politics, and imperialism. Her interests further include the history of world’s fairs, cartooning, photography, slavery, Native Americans, colonization, old time radio, and print culture. 

Selected Publications:

"Imperial Culture and National Conscience:  The Role of the Press in the United States and Spain during the Crisis of 1898" (The Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, July 2000).  [Published under maiden name Goldenberg]

Recent Papers:

From Liberation to Conquest:  How Sexual Imagery “Seduced” the Nation into War with Spain and Imperial Acquisition in 1898.  New England American Studies Association, November 2007.

 “Remember the Maine” of 1898: The Making of a Modern Media Spectacle in Late-Nineteenth-Century Popular Culture.  New England Historical Association, May 2007.

Office: Wheatley, 5th floor, Room 107
Email: bonnie.miller@umb.edu
Phone 617-287-6765