Profile for Taylor Cole Miller

Research and publishing

Books:
Miller, Taylor Cole and Alfred L. Martin, Jr. (forthcoming, Rutgers University Press.) The Golden Girls: Essays from the Lanai.

Refereed Journal Articles:
Miller, Taylor Cole. (2021.) “Rewitched: Retextuality and the Queering of Bewitched.” Camera Obscura, vol. 108.

Miller, Taylor Cole. (2017.) “The Fashion of Florrick and FLOTUS: On Feminism, The Good Wife, and Quality Television.” Television and New Media. 18(2).

Miller, Taylor Cole. (2011). “Too Short to be Quarterback, Too Plain to be Queen: Roseanne and Postfeminism.” GNOVIS: Communication, Culture, and Technology. 11(2). 

 

Book Chapters:
Miller, Taylor Cole. (forthcoming.) "'Vocal Voyeurs': Local Television Meets National Syndication in Norman Lear's The Baxters." In Local Television: Histories, Communities, and Aesthetics. Athens: University of Georgia Press.

Miller, Taylor Cole and Jonathan Gray. (2020.) “Family Sitcoms’ Political Front.” In Popular Culture and the Civic Imagination: Case Studies of Creative Social Change, edited by Henry Jenkins, Gabriel Peters-Lazaro, and Sangita Shresthova, pp. 60-67. New York: New York University Press.

Miller, Taylor Cole. (2020.) “Roseanne: Programming Flow.” In How to Watch Television, Second Edition, edited by Ethan Thompson and Jason Mittell. New York: NYU Press.

Miller, Taylor Cole. (2016.) “Social Sorrow: Tweeting the Mourning of Whitney Houston.” In Death and the Rock Star, edited by Catherine Strong and Barbara Lebrun, pp. 87-102. New York: Routledge.

Miller, Taylor Cole. (2014.) “‘Forced Out of the Flannel Closet’: Glee and #biphobia.” In Queer in the Choir Room: Sexuality and Gender in Glee, edited by Michelle Park, pp. 24-38. Jefferson: McFarland.

Online:
Miller, Taylor Cole. (2020.) “Syndication 203: A Waxy Queer Buildup.” Flow TV Journal, 26(7). 

Miller, Taylor Cole. (2020.) “Syndication 202: Make Reruns Great Again.” Flow TV Journal, 26(4).

Miller, Taylor Cole. (2019.) “Syndication 201: Syndication is Dead. Long Live Syndication.” Flow TV Journal, 26(2). 

Miller, Taylor Cole. (2014.) “Flow (Still) Matters.” Antenna TV Blog, UW Madison.

Miller, Taylor Cole. (2014.) “Queering Captain Planet and HIV/AIDS.” In Media Res. 

Miller, Taylor Cole. (2013.) “Tornadoes and Meteors and Bombs, Oh My! – Queering Kansas in the Pictures.” Antenna TV Blog, UW Madison. 

Miller, Taylor Cole. (2012.) “Don’t Drop the SOAP: American Television’s Long-Lost Lesbian.” Flow TV Journal, 16(1).

Miller, Taylor Cole. (2012.) “Outing Anderson: Our Cultural Coming Out Imperative.” Antenna TV Blog, UW Madison. 

Miller, Taylor Cole. (2012.) “A Star Was Born: The Inspiring Life and Work of Alexander Doty.” Antenna TV Blog, UW Madison. 

Miller, Taylor Cole. (2011.) “Performing Glee: Gay Resistance to Gay Representations and a New Slumpy Class,” Flow TV Journal, (14.3). 

Popular Press:
Miller, Taylor Cole. (2015.) “Remembering Elizabeth Montgomery and the Queerest Moments of Bewitched.” The Huffington Post.

Miller, Taylor Cole. (2014.) “Orange is the New Black’s Miss Rosa on ‘Tit Hairs,’ the Prop in Her Freezer, and F**cking with Cancer.” The Huffington Post.

Miller, Taylor Cole. (2013.) “Breaking Bad but ‘Entertaining Good’: Cause Placement in the Media.” The Huffington Post.

Miller, Taylor Cole. (2012.) “Oprah Builds a Network: What Does It Mean to be ‘Struggling’?” The Huffington Post.

Miller, Taylor Cole. (2012.) “The Deliciously Queer World of American Horror Story.” The Huffington Post.

Miller, Taylor Cole. (2012.) “True Blood: An Allegory in an Obama Mask.”
The Huffington Post.

Media Production Projects:
“Preserving the Peabody Awards Collection.” (2020.) Produced with Mary Lynn Miller, Sarah Krix, Taylor Potter, Alaina Booth, Rohini Bose, Kristin Storck, and Julia Garner for Peabody Media Center and the UGA Special Collections Library, University of Georgia.

“Below Baldwin.” (2019.) Executive produced by Taylor Cole Miller for filmmaker Joe Lavine. Premiered at the Morton Theatre, Athens, GA.

The Peabody Awards iOS App. (2019.) Developed with students in the New Media Institute, launched June 11. 

Interviews for Peabody Conversations (2018.)
- "Carol Burnett”
- "S-Town" featuring Brian Reed and Julie Snyder
- "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" featuring Rachel Brosnahan, Michael Zegen, Marin Hinkle, and producers Dan Palladino and Amy Sherman-Palladino
- "American Vandal" featuring co-creators Dan Perrault and Tony Yacenda
- "Homecoming King" featuring Hasan Minhaj
- "The Handmaids Tale" featuring executive producer Bruce Miller

“Disrupting a Culture of Complicity.” (2018.) A Peabody Spotlight video essay short on sexual assault and harassment, featuring Charlayne Hunter-Gault, May 29. 

“Norman Lear Remembers Bob Schiller.” (2017.) 

“Letters to The Open Mind.” (2014.) Documentary Short produced and directed by Taylor Cole Miller and which premiered at Boston LGBT Film Festival, April 11. 

Conference Presentations:

Miller, Taylor Cole. (2023.) "Golden Girls Again: Selling The Golden Girls in Syndication." Console-ing Passions Feminist Media Studies Conference, Calgary, AB, June.

Miller, Taylor Cole. (2023.) "On 'Stories That Matter': Highlighting the Peabody Awards Media Center and Archive." Library of Congress: A Century of Broadcasting, Washington D.C., April.

Miller, Taylor Cole. (2023.) Teaching History with TikTok: The Teaching and Learning Benefits of Public-Facing Video Projects." The Joys of Teaching and Learning, University of Wisconsin System Office of Professional & Instructional Development, April.

Miller, Taylor Cole. (2023.) "The 1950s: Homosexuality and Audiences on the Local Talk Show: The Open Mind." Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Denver, April.

Miller, Taylor Cole. (2022.) "Latchkey TV: The Small Queer Wonders of 1980s Television Syndication." Console-ing Passions Feminist Media Studies Conference, Virtual, Orlando, June.

Miller, Taylor Cole. (2022.) "Thank You for Hating Hallmark: The Golden Girls, Retextuality, and Hallmark Channel." Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Virtual, Chicago, March.

Miller, Taylor Cole. (2021.) “Letters to Mister Rogers: What Correspondence in the Peabody Archive Can Teach Us About Viewers.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Virtual, April.

Miller, Taylor Cole. (2020.) “On ‘Stories That Matter’: Highlighting the Peabody Awards Media Center and Archive.” Presented to “A Century of Broadcasting: Preservation and Renewal Conference,” Library of Congress, Washington D.C., (postponed due to COVID-19).

Miller, Taylor Cole. (2019.) “Syndie’s Mutants: The Bizarre Syndicate Slate of the 1980s.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Seattle, March.

Miller, Taylor Cole. (2018.) “Norman Lear’s Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman and All That Glitters: Televising Queerness in the 1970s.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Toronto, ON, March.

Miller, Taylor Cole. (2017.) “Edited for Syndication: The Invisible Post-Post Production Authors of Television.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Chicago, March.

Miller, Taylor Cole. (2016.) “‘Rewriting Genesis’: Queer Gender in Norman Lear’s Late- Night Syndicated Serial All That Glitters.” Console-ing Passions: International Conference on Television, Video, Audio, New Media, and Feminism, South Bend, IN, June.

Miller, Taylor Cole. (2016.) “Sue, Did the Precedent Call? Veep and the Evolution of Its Adaptations.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Atlanta, March.

Miller, Taylor Cole. (2015.) “Syndicated Queerness.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Montreal, March.

Miller, Taylor Cole. (2014.) “‘Fartin’ Thru Silk’: Roseanne, Elvis, and White Trash Feminism.” International Communication Association (ICA), Seattle, May.

Miller, Taylor Cole. (2014.) “Queering Quality Television.” Film and History Conference, Madison, November.

Miller, Taylor Cole. (2014.) “Mediating White Trash Feminism.” Media and Race Conference, Madison, October.

Miller, Taylor Cole. (2014.) “Transgender Antifandom and ‘Respectable’ Daytime Talk Shows.” Console-ing Passions: International Conference on Television, Video, Audio, New Media, and Feminism, Columbia, MO, June.

Miller, Taylor Cole. (2013.) “‘Hello America, I’m Gay!’: Coming-Out on The Oprah Winfrey Show.” National Communication Association, Washington D.C., November.

Miller, Taylor Cole. (2012.) “Dolphins are Just Gay Sharks: Glee, Reception, and Genre.” Console-ing Passions: International Conference on Television, Video, Audio, New Media, and Feminism, Columbia, MO, April.

Miller, Taylor Cole. (2011.) “The Golden Girls and the Gay Icon.” Popular Culture Association, San Antonio, April.

Workshops & Roundtables:

"Images of Women and Aging in the Media with Golden Girls." (2023.) GoldenCon: Thank You for Being a Fan, Chicago, April. 

“The State of Documentary.” (2018.) A Peabody Media Center Roundtable, Athens, GA, October 16.

“Retextuality.” (2016.) Flow Conference, Austin, TX.

“Disclosure in the Classroom.” (2016.) Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Atlanta.

“Archive Archaeology: Disrupting the TV Canon.” (2014.) Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Seattle, March. Chair.

“Making Media Studies Perfectly Queer: A Tribute to Alexander Doty.” (2012.) Flow Conference, Austin, TX. 

Invited Presentations:
“A Star Was Born–Integrating Queer Politics into the Classroom.” (2013.) Presented to the special event “A Special Tribute to Alexander Doty.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Chicago.