J. Hillis Miller is Emeritus Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine, having taught formerly at Yale University and Johns Hopkins University. He holds honorary degrees as Doctor of Letters from the University of Florida, Doctor of Humane Letters at Bucknell University, and Doctor Honoris Cause at the University of Zaragoza. He is also Honorary Professor of Peking University and past president of the Modern Language Association. One of the most prolific and important literary critics of the past five decades, Professor Miller’s works have been translated into several European and Asian languages. His published works include Poets of Reality; The Form of Victorian Fiction; The Linguistic Moment; The Ethics of Reading; Ariadne's Thread; Topographies; and Speech Acts in Literature. Most recently, a collection of some of his most influential critical essays has been published as The J. Hillis Miller Reader.