Publications

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Peer Reviewed

“The Divine Meanwhile: Trans Futurity and the Figure of the Fakir,” SEL: Studies in English, 1500-1900 64.3 (Summer 2026): 647-658.
“The Trans*lations of the Meanwhile: Response to Colby Gordon,” SEL: Studies in English, 1500-1900 64.3 (Summer 2026): 673-676. In proofs.
“Fleece, Flesh, and Fiber: Trans Entanglement and the Unsettled Species Work of Coast Salish Women and Woolly Dogs,” Early American Literature, Special Issue: Trans Studies, accepted.
“Sex (Gender): Aliases as Trans* Historiographic Method in Washington Territory’s and Washington State’s Prison Records of the Long Nineteenth Century,” Transgender Studies Quarterly 13.1 (2026): pp. 81-95. Special Issue: “Trans Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century Americas,” edited by Jesse Aléman, Ren Heintz, and Bernadine Marie Hernández.
“Undomesticated Grounds: Racial Passing on Unca Eliza’s Islands,” Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Special Issue: “What’s Race Got to do with It?”, co-edited by Victoria Barnett Woods and Karen Lipsedge, forthcoming.
“Trans Geohistoriography: A Subjectless Critique of Beachy Head’s Chalk,” European Romantic Review 36.2 (May 2025): 319-339. Special Issue: “Transing Romanticism,” edited by Kate Singer.
“Taxonomies of Loyalty in Bankim Chandra Chatterjee’s Ānandamaṭh,” Victorian Studies 66.3 (Spring 2024): pp. 396-407.
“‘Doesn’t matter if it’s crack or…pesticides, AIDS, it’s all the same shit’: Body-Land Metonymies in Cherríe Moraga’s Heroes and Saints,” Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States (Spring 2024): 99-121.
“The Costs of Passing in the Transvaal,” Victorian Studies 64.4 (Summer 2022): pp. 611-23.
Published as Margaret A. Miller, “George Eliot’s Wetland Form,” Nineteenth-Century Literature 76.3 (December 2021): pp. 291-320.
Published as Margaret A. Miller, “Navigating Wonder: The Medieval Geographies of Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant,” Co-authored with Matthew Vernon, Arthuriana 28.4 (Winter 2018), 68-89.

Book cover titled 'Unsettling Sexuality: Queer Horizons in the Long Eighteenth Century,' edited by Jeremy Chow and Shelby Johnson, featuring colorful illustration of two stylized figures facing each other surrounded by vibrant patterned foliage.

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Invited Edited Collections

(Peer Reviewed)

“Desert Thirst Traps: Queer Extinction, the Qajar, the Qanat, and the Qur’an,” Routledge Companion to Global Victorian Literature and Culture. Edited by Sukanya Banerjee and Fariha Shaikh. Routledge, forthcoming.
“Chapter 3: Spirituality and the Sacred,” A Cultural History of Trans Lives in the Eighteenth Century. Edited by Sal Nicolazzo, Scott Larson, and Aixia Huang. Bloomsbury Press, under contract.
“Forage: Waste, Law, and Queer Ecologies from English Commons to Palestinian Hillsides and Cornish Mine Tailings,” Waste Collection: The Ecologies, Politics, and Complexities of Discard. Edited by Jeremy Chow and Sage Gerson. Bloomsbury, forthcoming.
“On the ‘General Appearance’ of Intersex Subjects in The Indian Medical Gazette (1866-1929)” Oxford Handbook to Queer Modernisms edited by Juno Richards, Tavi Gonzalez, and Hannah Freed Thall. Oxford University Press, forthcoming.
“Queerness and the Environment,” The Bloomsbury Handbook of Queer Romanticism. Edited by Andrew Elfenbein. Bloomsbury, accepted and under contract.
“Apocalyptic Trans Cinema.” The Handbook of Trans Cinema. Edited by Douglas Vakoch. Manuscript in process.
“‘F*ck Anyone Who’s Not a Sea Blob’: Trans Bildung and the Intertidal Invertebrate,” Trans Ecocriticism: Animality, Embodiment, and Environment in Transgender Literature. Co-edited by Douglas Vakoch and M.A. Miller. Under review at Indiana University Press.
“Organ/ic Gender in Manjula Padmanabhan’s The Island of Lost Girls,” The Handbook of Transgender Science Fiction. Co-edited by Douglas Vakoch and Sabine Sharp, under review with University of Liverpool Press.
“Trans Reading in South Asia: Taxonomies of Loyalty in Bankim Chandra Chatterjee’s Ānandamaṭh,” The Edinburgh Companion to Queer Reading. Edited by Jeremy Chow and Declan Kavanagh. Edinburgh University Press, November 2024, pp. 47-61.
“Matters of Intimacy: The Sugar-Cane’s Asexual Ecologies.” Unsettling Sexuality: Queer Horizons in the Long Eighteenth Century. Edited by Jeremy Chow and Shelby Johnson.University of Delaware Press, October 2024, pp. 111-128.
“The Anthropocene and Trans Literature.” The Routledge Handbook of Trans Literature. Co-edited by Douglas Vakoch and Sabine Sharp. Routledge, April 2024, pp. 185-197.
Published as Margaret A. Miller, “Making Room: Queer Domesticity in Jane Austen’s Emma and the Anne Lister Diaries.” At Home in the Eighteenth Century: Interrogating Domestic Space. Edited by Karen Lipsedge and Stephen Hague. Routledge, 2021, pp. 225-244.

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Book Reviews & Encyclopedia Entries

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Public Scholarship