Peter Miller
For over 40 years, Peter Miller has been a teacher of writing and literature on the graduate and undergraduate level at the City University of New York’s College of Staten Island. For 25 years, he worked with Rose Ortiz in her Freshman Workshop Program, helping many non-traditional, first generation college students bring their reading and writing skills up to college level.
In the 1980’s, he was co-editor with Bill Bernhardt of the national academic Journal of Basic Writing. Also, with Bill Bernhardt, he has presented at conferences and led writing workshops inspired by Caleb Gattegno in France, Japan and Brazil. With Bill Bernhardt and Peter Ross he was co-editor, for one issue a year, of the Une Education Pour Demain journal : The Science of Education in Questions /La Science de l'Education en Questions from 1993 to 1997.
For the past 10 years, he has been most active in the Writing Across the Curriculum movement, an attempt to infuse and integrate writing into all college courses at all levels, and with online instruction. With his wife, Gail, he lives in New York City and has 3 grown children and 4 step-children. Between them, they have eleven grandchildren. His entire professional career has been inspired by the pedagogic ideas of Caleb Gattegno.
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Articles on this site
- The Invisible Writing Kit
- The Freedom that Comes from Restricted Writing Using Words in Color
- The Name Game
- On Private Writing
Books
- Becoming a Writer, Peter Miller, Bill Bernhardt, St. Martins's Press, 1986.
- 4,000 Years of Chinese Calligraphy, Leon Long-Yien Chang, Peter Miller, University of Chicago Press, 1990.