Christina Milletti
Associate Professor
Interim Director: Humanities Institute
Co-Director: Exhibit X Fiction Series
Interests
Creative Writing, Fiction; Experimental Fictions/Narratives, Narrative Theory Contemporary American Fiction, Transatlantic Novel, Gender Studies & the Novel, Women’s Experimental Fiction.
Works in Progress
- The Girling Season: A Novella & Stories; Room in Hotel America (novel)
Books
- The Girling Season (chapbook), Thornwillow Press, Thornwillow Press Patron’s Prize, 2022
- Choke Box: A Fem-Noir (novel), University of Massachusetts Press, Juniper Prize for Fiction, 2018
- Truth Seeking in an Age of (Mis)Information Overload Editors: David Castillo, Siwei Lyu, Christina Milletti & Cynthia Stewart, SUNY Press, 2024
- The Religious and Other Fictions (short story collection), Carnegie Mellon University Press
- Co-Edited Volumes: Gravitational Intrigue: An Anthology of Emergent Hypermedia (with Dimitri Anastasopoulos)
Articles and Book Chapters
- Milletti, Christina, “Trusting Fiction’s Truth,” Trust Seeking in an Age of (Mis)Information Overload, Eds: David Castillo, Siwei Lyu, Christina Milletti & Cynthia Stewart SUNY Press, 2024
- Milletti, Christina and Christine Hume, “On Girlhood: Introduction to a special focus issue,” American Book Review (Special Edition.) 42:2, January/February 2021. (Available via Project Muse at https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/44282)
- Milletti, Christina. “Decomposition FrameWords: Experimental Writing, Fictional Awareness & the Information Wars,”Experimental Literature: A Collection of Statements. (Eds) Jeffrey Di Leo and Warren Motte, Fall 2018.
- Milletti, Christina. “Mary Caponegro’s Renegade Short Fiction Form.” Zeta: Rivista Internazionale di Poesia e Ricerche. Ed: D. Daniele. June 2018
- Milletti, Christina. “Doing Fiction,” Divergent Trajectories. Ed: Flore Chevaillier. Ohio University Press, Fall 2017.
- “Violent Words, Volatile Acts: Kathy Acker’s Terrorist Aesthetic.” Studies in the Novel, Special Issue on Terrorism. June 2004 https://www.jstor.org/stable/20831901
Selected Fiction Publications & Exchanges
- Milletti, Christina and Elisabeth Sheffield. “Crone’s Rule, Old’s Cool: Middle-Aged Narrators and Their Treacherous Texts,” Big Other, (Ed) John Madera, June 2021. Link:
https://bigother.com/2021/06/29/crones-ruleolds-cool-middle-aged-narrators-and-their-treacherous-texts/ - “Yes,” Ocean State Review. Excerpt from Choke Box and “Conversation with Christina Milletti,”
http://oceanstatereview.org/2020/05/03/conversation-christina-milletti Fall 2019. - “Composition Axe,” Tupelo Quarterly Review. Excerpt, Choke Box,
https://www.tupeloquarterly.com/prose/an-excerpt-from-choke-box-a-fem-noir-composition-axe-by-christina-milletti/ Fall 2019 - “Twelve Inches,” The Iowa Review. Iowa. Fall 2018. Winner of the Tim McGinnis Award for “the most unusually pleasing and unexpected work of the year.”
- “Now You See Her,” New World Writing.. http://newworldwriting.net/fall-2015/. (Nominated for Pushcart Prize.)
- “The Erratic,” Masters Review Award Anthology, Volume 4, Fall 2015. Guest Judge: Kevin Brockmeier.
- “Dr. Kirkbride’s Moral Treatment Plan,” Buffalo Noir, (Eds) Ed Park & Brigid Hughes. Akashic Books. New York: 2015. Solicited.
- “The Upper Hand,” Denver Quarterly, Spring 2015.
Selected Awards and Fellowships
- Saltonstall Foundation of the Arts Residency , June 2024
- Humanities Institute Faculty Research Award, Spring 2017
- Marble House Project Residency, June 2016
- Pushcart Prize Nomination, 2015
- Masters Review Award Anthology IV, Fall 2015
- Clarissa Dalloway Novel Prize (Finalist), A Room of Her Own Foundation, Fall 2014
- Dr. Nuala M. Drescher Leave Program, 2006