Josephine Miles

Josephine Miles

writer
poet
literary scholar
🇺🇸United States
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Josephine Louise Miles was an American poet and literary critic; the first woman tenured in the English department at the University of California, Berkeley. She wrote over a dozen books of poetry and several works of criticism. Miles was a foundational scholar of quantitative and computational methods, and is considered a pioneer of the field of digital humanities.

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1911 – 1985
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Born in
Chicago
Educated at
Los Angeles High School
Awards
🏆 Guggenheim Fellowship🏆 Shelley Memorial Award🏆 James Russell Lowell Prize🏆 Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences🏆 Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets

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  • 1911

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  • 1985

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