Professor Miller’s academic interests include Nineteenth century Spanish and Latin American novelists and short story writers, Central American women authors and African and Afro-Hispanic writers.  He is currently involved in producing a collection of Argentina Diaz Lozano’s short stories published in Honduran and Guatemalan newspapers from 1945-1980, and in a volume of literature published by Afro-Argentine and Afro-Uruguayan writers in newspapers published in Argentine and Uruguayan black newspapers from 1826-1890.  He is currently working with a group of researchers in Argentina on indexing the newspapers and then creating a web page that would allow researchers in all the disciplines access to the material.

His most recent conference presentations include the following:

• April 2014: Presented a paper presented at Kentucky Foreign Language Conf. in Lexington, Kentucky Las Voces Fenininas de las Cuentistas Argentina Diaz Lozano y Lucila Gamero de Medina
• March 2013: Presented a paper at ILCH conference in Domínguez Hills, California, La Sombra de Emilia Pardo Bazán en la obra literaria de la hondureña Argentina Díaz Lozano
• August 2010: Presented a paper at ILCH conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina Texto y Vida de los Afro-argentinos en la Prensa Argentina del Siglo XIX
• April 2006: Presented a paper at Michigan Academy in Detroit, Michigan.  Another Dimension of the Black Diaspora: The Black Communities of Argentina and Uruguay.
• August 2005: Presented a paper at ILCH Conference in Puerto Montt, Chile.  Argentina Díaz Lozano and the New Historical Novel in Latin America.