Emeritus Prof Andrew Milner - Researcher Profile

Biography

I was born and brought up in West Yorkshire, England, and educated at the local primary school and selective state high school. I studied at the London School of Economics (LSE), part of the University of London, where I completed an Honours degree in Sociology and a Ph.D. in the Sociology of Literature. I have subsequently taught at the LSE, the University of Canberra, Goldsmiths' College London and the University of Leeds.I was appointed Professor of Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies at Monash University in 2000 and Professor of English and Comparative Literature in 2012.

I have also held visiting appointments in the Theory, Culture and Society Centre at Nottingham Trent University, the School of English at the University of Liverpool and the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick.

My academic interests include contemporary cultural theory, the sociology of literature, seventeenth-century English literature, English and French literary utopianism and European science fiction. My work has been published in English in Australia, India, the USA and the UK and has been translated into German, Portuguese, Chinese, Farsi and Korean.

Qualifications

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

Institution: University of London

Year awarded: 1977

B SC (ECON) HONS

Institution: University of London

Year awarded: 1972

Publications

Books

Milner, A.J., 2012, Locating Science Fiction, Liverpool University Press, Liverpool, United Kingdom.

Milner, A.J., Ryan, M.D., Sellars, S.W.S. (eds), 2008, Demanding the Impossible: Utopia and Dystopia, Arena Publications Association, Melbourne VIC Australia.

Milner, A.J., Ryan, M.D., Savage, R.I. (eds), 2006, Imagining the Future: Utopia and Dystopia, Arena Publications Association, North Carlton Vic Australia.

Milner, A.J., 2005, Literature Culture and Society, Routledge, Abingdon UK.

Milner, A.J. (ed), 2005, Postwar British Critical Thought, Volume Four: New Times, Sage Publications, London Thousand Oaks and New Delhi.

Milner, A.J. (ed), 2005, Postwar British Critical Thought, Volume One: Old Right and New Left, Sage Publications, London Thousand Oaks and New Delhi.

Milner, A.J. (ed), 2005, Postwar British Critical Thought, Volume Three: New Politics, Sage Publications, London Thousand Oaks and New Delhi.

Milner, A.J. (ed), 2005, Postwar British Critical Thought, Volume Two: New Theory, Sage Publications, London Thousand Oaks and New Delhi.

Milner, A.J., Browitt, J., 2002, Contemporary cultural theory, Allen & Unwin, Crows Nest NSW Australia.

Milner, A., 2002, Re-Imagining Cultural Studies: The Promise of Cultural Materialism, Sage Publications Ltd, London UK.

Milner, A., 1999, Class, Sage, London UK.

Book Chapters

Milner, A.J., 2013, Need it all end in tears? The problem of ending in four classic dystopias, in Critical Insights: Dystopia, eds M. Keith Booker, Salem Press, Ipswich MA, Ipswich, MA, USA, pp. 109-124.

Milner, A.J., 2012, On the beach and the sea and summer: Two paradigmatic Australian dystopias?, in Spectres of Utopia: Theory, Practice, Conventions, eds Artur Blaim, Ludmila Gruszewska-Blaim, Peter Lang, Frankfurt Germany, pp. 256-268.

Milner, A., 2011, Landmarks without landscape: Aesthetics and the sociology of art, in Groteske Moderne - Moderne Groteske. Festschrift fuer Philip Thomson / Festschrift for Philip Thomson, eds Franz-Josef Deiters, Axel Fliethmann, Christiane Weller, Roehrig Universitaetsverlag, St. Ingbert Germany, pp. 213-225.

Milner, A., 2010, Editor's introduction, in Tenses of Imagination: Raymond Williams on Science Fiction, Utopia and Dystopia, eds Andrew Milner, Peter Lang, Bern Switzerland, pp. 1-216.

Milner, A.J., 2009, Die dekonstruktion der nationalliteraturen: Komparatistik, cultural studies und kritische theorie (The deconstruction of national literature: Comparative literature, cultural studies and critical theory), in Literaturwissenschaft im Wandel: Aspekte Theoretischer und fachlicher Neuorganisation, eds Christine Magerski and Svjetlan Lacko Vidulic, VS Verlag, Wiesbaden Germany, pp. 47-63.

Milner, A.J., 2009, Utopia and science fiction revisited, in Red Planets: Marxism and Science Fiction, eds Mark Bould and China Mieville, Pluto Press, London, United Kingdom, pp. 213-230.

Milner, A.J., 2007, Apendice: estudos culturais. Appendix: Cultural studies (English Translation), in Palavras-chave: um vocabulario de cultura e socieda [Key Words: A Vocubulary of Culture and Society], eds Raymond Williams, Maria Elisa Cevasco and Sandra Guardini Vasconcelos, Boitempo, Sao Paolo, pp. 420-427.

Milner, A.J., 2007, Comparative literature, world-systems theory and science fiction, in Moderne Begreifen. Zur Parodoxie eines Sozio-asthetischen Deutungsmusters, eds Christine Magerski, Robert Savage and Christiane Weller, Deutschen Universitatsverlag, Wiesbaden Germany, pp. 417-428.

Milner, A.J., 2006, Framing catastrophe: the problem of ending in Dystopian fiction, in Imagining the Future: Utopia and Dystopia, eds Andrew Milner, Matthew Ryan and Robert Savage, Arena Publications Association, North Carlton Vic Australia, pp. 333-354.

Milner, A.J., 2006, Raymond Williams, in Modern British and Irish Criticism and Theory: A Critical Guide, eds Julian Wolfreys, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh Scotland, pp. 75-83.

Milner, A.J., 2005, Editor's introduction: postwar British critical thought, in Postwar British Critical Thought, Volume One: Old Right and New Left, eds Andrew Milner, Sage, London UK, pp. ix-xxxiv.

Milner, A.J., 2005, Mechanical reproduction: the forces of production, in Literature, Culture and Society, eds Andrew Milner, Routledge, Abingdon UK, pp. 89-140.

Milner, A.J., 2005, Texts and contexts: from Rossum's Universal Robots to Buffy the Vampire Slayer, in Literature, Culture and Society, eds Andrew Milner, Routledge, Abingdon UK, pp. 239-294.

Milner, A.J., 2004, Dissenting, plebeian, but belonging, nonetheless: Bourdieu and Williams, in Practising Theory: Pierre Bourdieu and the Field of Cultural Production, eds Jeff Browitt and Brian Nelson, Associated University Presses, Cranbury USA, pp. 101-112.

Milner, A.J., 2004, Professing comparative literature, in Die Lekture der Welt/Worlds of Reading: Zur Theorie, Geschichte und Soziolologie kultureller Praxis/On the Theory, History & Sociology of Cultural Practice. Festschrift fur Walter Veit/Festschrift for, eds H Heinz and C Weller, Peter Lang, Frankfurt Germany, pp. 151-157.

Milner, A.J., 2003, Fredric Jameson, in Key Contemporary Social Theorists, eds Anthony Elliott and Larry Ray, Blackwell Publishers Ltd, Malden USA, pp. 177-182.

Milner, A.J., 2003, Raymond Williams, in Key Contemporary Social Theorists, eds Anthony Elliott and Larry Ray, Blackwell Publishers Ltd, Oxford UK, pp. 267-272.

Milner, A.J., Browitt, J., 2002, Cultural criticism and cultural policy, in Contemporary Cultural Theory, eds Andrew Milner and Jeff Browitt, Allen & Unwin, Crows Nest NSW Australia, pp. 203-223.

Milner, A.J., Browitt, J., 2002, Cultural studies and cultural theory, in Contemporary Cultural Theory, eds Andrew Milner and Jeff Browitt, Allen & Unwin, Crows Nest NSW Australia, pp. 1-20.

Milner, A.J., 2002, Raymond Williams (1921 - 1988), in The Edinburgh Encyclopeaedia of Modern Criticism and Theory, eds J Wolfreys, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, pp. 717-725.

Milner, A.J., Browitt, J., 2002, The cultural politics of difference, in Contemporary Cultural Theory, eds Andrew Milner and Jeff Browitt, Allen & Unwin, Crows Nest NSW Australia, pp. 128-163.

Milner, A.J., 2000, University Chaos, Apocalypse No, in Burning Down the House: The Bonfire of the Universities, Arena Publications, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 20-24.

Milner, A., 1998, A Centre at the Edge: Scotland and the Early Teaching of Literature in Australia and New Zealand, in The Scottish Inventing English Literature, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge UK, pp. 207-224.

Journal Articles

Milner, A., 2011, Changing the climate, Arena [P], vol 35, issue 6, Arena Printing and Publications, Australia, pp. 1-7.

Burgmann, V., Milner, A., 2011, Ecotopians in hardhats: The Australian green bans movement, Utopian Studies [P], vol 22, issue 1, Pennsylvania State University Press, US, pp. 125-142.

Milner, A., 2011, Science fiction and the literary field, Science-Fiction Studies [P], vol 38, issue 3, SF-TH Inc, US, pp. 393-411.

Milner, A., 2010, It's the conscience collective, stupid: philosophical aesthetics and the sociology of art, Thesis Eleven: Critical Theory and Historical Sociology [P], vol 103, issue 1, SAGE Publications, United Kingdom, pp. 26-34.

Milner, A., 2010, Styles of radical will: what's in a (sub) title?, Thesis Eleven: Critical Theory and Historical Sociology [P], vol 100, Sage, London, UK, pp. 61-66.

Milner, A., 2010, Tales of resonance and wonder: science fiction and genre theory, Extrapolation [P], vol 51, issue 1, The Univerity of Texas at Brownsville, Brownsville, USA, pp. 148-169.

Milner, A.J., 2009, Archaeologies of the future: Jamesons utopia or orwells dystopia?, Historical Materialism [P], vol 17, issue 4, Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands, pp. 101-119.

Milner, A.J., 2009, Changing the climate: the politics of dystopia, Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies [P], vol 23, issue 6, Routledge (Tayler & Francis), Abingdon, United Kingdom, pp. 827-838.

Milner, A.J., 2008, Mis/reading Nineteen Eighty-Four: a comparatist critique of Williams on Orwell, Key Words: A Journal of Cultural Materialism, vol 6, The Raymond Williams Society, Nottingham UK, pp. 31-45.

Milner, A.J., Savage, R.I., 2008, Pulped dreams: Utopia and American pulp science fiction, Science Fiction Studies, vol 35, issue 1, SF-TH Inc. at DePauw University, Greencastle Indiana USA, pp. 31-47.

Milner, A.J., 2008, Socialism, utopian and scientific?, ARENA journal, vol 31, Arena Printing and Publishing Pty. Ltd., Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 7-20.

Milner, A.J., 2007, Meditations on the impossible: a report from Australia, Spaces of Utopia: An Electronic Journal, vol 3, issue Autumn-Winter, Faculdada de Letras da Universidade do Porto, Porto, pp. 1-16.

Milner, A.J., 2006, Theorize this! Cultural studies versus utilitarianism, Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, vol 20, issue 1, Routledge Journals, Abingdon UK, pp. 111-125.

Milner, A.J., 2005, Postmodern Gothic: Buffy, the X-Files and the Clinton Presidency, Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, vol 19, issue 1, Routledge, UK, pp. 103-116.

Milner, A.J., 2004, Coming up for air: orwell and the left, Overland, vol 177, issue Summer, O L Society Limited, Footscray Vic Australia, pp. 63-68.

Milner, A.J., 2004, Darker cities: urban dystopia and science fiction cinema, International Journal of Cultural Studies, vol 7, issue 3, SAGE Publications, London UK, pp. 259-279.

Milner, A.J., 2004, When worlds collide: comparative literature, worlds-systems theory and science fiction, Southern Review, vol 37, issue 2, School of Applied Communication, RMIT University, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 89-101.

Milner, A.J., 2003, Utopia and science fiction in Raymond Williams, Science Fiction Studies, vol 30, issue 2, SF-TH Inc. DePauw University, DePauw University Indiana USA, pp. 199-216.

Milner, A.J., 2002, Left out? Marxism, the New Left and cultural studies, Arena Journal, vol 0, issue 19, Arena Printing and Publishing, Fitzroy Vic Australia, pp. 85-98.

Milner, A., 2000, Class and Cultural Production: The Intelligentsia as a Social Class, Arena Journal, vol no 15, Arena Printing and Publishing, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 117-137.

Milner, A., 1999, Can Cultural Studies be disciplined? or should it be punished?, Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, vol 13, issue 2, CARFAX (Taylor and Francis), Basingstoke UK, pp. 271-281.

Milner, A., 1999, From Resistance Through Rituals - To Reform?, Arena Magazine, vol issue 38, Arena Publishing, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 48-50.

Milner, A., 1998, From Resistance through Rituals - to Reform?, Arena Magazine, vol no 38, Arena Printing and Publishing, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 48-50.

Milner, A., 1997, Cultural Studies and Cultural Hegemony: Comparing Britain and Australia, Arena Journal (new series), vol not applicable, Arena Printing and Publishing, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 133-155.

Burgmann, V.N., Milner, A., 1997, Dressed for Success? Economic rationalism and the New Social Movements in Britain and Australia, Australian Studies, vol 12, Frank Cass & Co Ltd, London UK, pp. 46-57.

Conference Proceedings

Booth, S., Burgmann, V.N., Macintyre, S.F., Milner, A.J., Ryan, M.D., 2005, Vanguards and avant-gardes: the 'Reason in Revolt' online project on political and cultural radicalism, The Past is Before Us: The Ninth National Labour History Conference, 30 June 2005 to 2 July 2005, Australian Society for the Study of Labour History and the Business and Labour History Group, Sydney NSW Australia, pp. 29-36.

Other

Milner, A.J., 2007, Bricolage, The Blackwell Encycolpedia of Sociology, vol 1, Blackwell, Oxford, pp. 365-366.

Milner, A.J., 2007, Science fiction, The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, vol 7, Blackwell, Oxford, UK, pp. 3494-3498.

Milner, A.J., 2007, Star Trek, The Blackwell Encylopedia of Sociology, vol 7, Blackwell, Oxford UK, pp. 3516-3517.

Milner, A., 1999, Cultural Imperialism, post-colonialism, post-humanism, post-structuralism & stucture of feelings, New Fontana Dictionary of Modern Thought, vol contribution to reference work, Harper Collins, London UK.

Milner, A., 1999, Once Were Marxists, Overland, vol review, issue 155, Ol Society Ltd, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 62-65.

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Current Supervision

Program of Study:

(MASTER'S BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

"'Recollective Eschatology' as an Epistemological Paradigm in Ernst Bloch's Philosophy of History.

Supervisors:

Deiters, F (Main), Milner, A (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Imagining the future: Comic perspective and critical spaces..

Supervisors:

Milner, A (Main), Rigby, C (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Science fiction adaptations: from novel to film and back.

Supervisors:

Milner, A (Main), Perkins, C (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

The Mad Scientist from Frankenstein to Fringe: Transmedia Bioethics and the Image of the Scientist.

Supervisors:

Oakley, J (Main), Khoo, O (Associate), Milner, A (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Utopias of balance.

Supervisors:

Milner, A (Joint-co), Rigby, C (Joint).

Completed Supervision

Student:

Bandt, A.

Program of Study:

Work to rule: rethinking Pashukanis, Marx and law. (PHD) 2008.

Supervisors:

Benjamin, A (Joint), Milner, A (Joint-Co).

Student:

Berry, G.

Program of Study:

Under the dominion of light: an ecocritical mythography. (PHD) 2009.

Supervisors:

Rigby, C (Main), Milner, A (Associate).

Student:

Browitt, J.

Program of Study:

REMEMBERING FUTURES PAST. (PHD) 2000.

Supervisors:

Milner, A (Main).

Student:

Currier, D.

Program of Study:

TECHNOLOGY AND TRANSFORMATION: DELEUZE, FEMINISM AND CYBERSPACE. (PHD) 2001.

Supervisors:

Milner, A (Main).

Student:

Fitzgerald, M.

Program of Study:

On 'character:' the experience of human identity in early modernity. (PHD) 2010.

Supervisors:

Benjamin, A (Main), Milner, A (Associate).

Student:

Funari, R.

Program of Study:

Everything is personal: Choice and Complementarity in Michael Frayn's Copenhagen. (Masters) 2008.

Supervisors:

Milner, A (Joint-Co), Worth, C (Joint).

Student:

Huppatz, D.

Program of Study:

HONG KONG DESIGN: CULTURE MEETS COMMERCE. (PHD) 2003.

Supervisors:

Davies, G (Main), Milner, A (Associate).

Student:

Jack, D.

Program of Study:

The Political Absolute: Fredric Jameson and Utopia. (Masters) 2006.

Supervisors:

Milner, A (Main), Roberts, D (Associate).

Student:

Koh, L.

Program of Study:

Colonial Mimicry - Myth or Reality: A Discourse Analysis on Postcolonial Ethnic Writers and Ethnic Writings in English. (Masters) 2003.

Supervisors:

Milner, A (Main).

Student:

Mathews, P.

Program of Study:

STRATEGIES OF REALISM: REALIST FICTION AND POSTMODERN THEORY. (PHD) 2001.

Supervisors:

Nelson, B (Main), Milner, A (Associate).

Student:

Mcnaughton, C.

Program of Study:

The living spirit of the real: Hegelian-Marxism and the reinvention of the emancipatory imagination. (PHD) 2005.

Supervisors:

Janover, M (Main), Milner, A (Associate).

Student:

Padgett, A.

Program of Study:

The genealogy of postmodernism's ethical aesthetics. (PHD) 2006.

Supervisors:

Vladiv-Glover, S (Main), Milner, A (Associate).

Student:

Pearce, G.

Program of Study:

MARGINS AND MODERNISM: IRELAND AND THE FORMATION OF MODERN LITERATURE. (PHD) 2002.

Supervisors:

Milner, A (Main).

Student:

Pearce, K.

Program of Study:

'Theorising the Mythic Process: From Myth to Modern Myth to Neo-myth'. An alternative analytical approach to the dynamism of myth using Little Red Riding Hood.. (Masters) 2004.

Supervisors:

Milner, A (Main), Williams, D (Joint).

Student:

Pearce, K.

Program of Study:

Girl meets beast...The beast and the cultural forest of female sexuality: the mythic cycle, process of curtailment and power of the pelt. (PHD) 2010.

Supervisors:

Milner, A (Main), Williams, D (Associate).

Student:

Pritchard, S.

Program of Study:

CONTESTED TITLES: POSTCOLONIALISM, REPRESENTATION, AND INDIGENEITY IN AUSTRALIA AND AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND. (PHD) 2000.

Supervisors:

Milner, A (Main), Dever, M (Associate).

Student:

Redgen, K.

Program of Study:

The Intersection of Utopia and Enlightenment: The Case of Rousseau. (Masters) 2006.

Supervisors:

Milner, A (Joint-Co), Roberts, D (Joint).

Student:

Richards, A.

Program of Study:

BODIES OF MEANING: ISSUES OF FIELD AND HABITUS IN CONTEMPORARY AUSTRALASIAN THEATRICAL PERFORMANCE PRACTICE. (PHD) 2003.

Supervisors:

Milner, A (Main), Threadgold, T (Associate).

Student:

Rubin, M.

Program of Study:

Reality Regained: A Baudrillardian Reading of Ballard's Crash and Dumont's Twentynine Palms. (Masters) 2012.

Supervisors:

Milner, A (Main), Perkins, C (Associate).

Student:

Ryan, M.

Program of Study:

SELF, NATION AND NOVEL IN CONTEMPORARY IRISH WRITING. (PHD) 2004.

Supervisors:

Milner, A (Main).

Student:

Salzani, C.

Program of Study:

Constellations of reading: Walter Benjamin in figures of actuality. (PHD) 2007.

Supervisors:

Milner, A (Main), Benjamin, A (Associate).

Student:

Sellars, S.

Program of Study:

'The yes or no of the borderzone': J.G. Ballard's affirmative dystopias. (PHD) 2008.

Supervisors:

Milner, A (Main), Worth, C (Associate).

Student:

Somers, T.

Program of Study:

FASHIONING READINGS, FASHIONING SELVES: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE AMERICAN, AUSTRALIAN AND FRENCH EDITIONS OF VOGUE MAGAZINE, 1997-1999. (PHD) 2001.

Supervisors:

Milner, A (Main), Marsh, A (Associate).

Student:

Trevena, B.

Program of Study:

The Drum and Bass Scene in the City of Melbourne: Narratives of Urban Identities through Sites of Cultural Production. (Masters) 2009.

Supervisors:

Worth, C (Main), Milner, A (Associate).