Rate My Professor Michelle Miles

Michelle Miles is an Associate Professor of English at Kennesaw State University, specializing in Literature, and serves as Director of National and International Scholarships and Fellowships in the KSU Journey Honors College. She earned her B.A. from Montana State University in 1999, M.Phil. in Anglo-Irish Literature from Trinity College Dublin as a 2002 George J. Mitchell Postgraduate Scholar, where her thesis examined Seamus Heaney's translation and adaptation of classical works, and Ph.D. in English from Emory University. Her doctoral dissertation expanded this focus to include contemporary Irish poets Michael Longley and Derek Mahon, investigating how they engaged with classical literature to journey to the underworld and bring voices of the dead into the living world. As a doctoral student, she met Seamus Heaney multiple times and worked with his original papers and manuscripts. Prior to Kennesaw State, where she received tenure, Miles was Associate Director of the University of Georgia at Oxford Study Abroad Program. Her research interests encompass Contemporary Irish Literature, Postcolonial Literature, Composition, Irish poetry and politics, and the impact of self-reflection practices in first-year honors pedagogy. She teaches honors courses such as those on Northern Ireland, featuring works by Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley, Paul Muldoon, and others, and has extensive experience teaching abroad.