Her grandfathers was from Bessarabia. Nancy K. Miller is the author or edi- tor of morethan adozen books, most recently What They Saved: Pieces of aJewish Past, winner of the Jewish Journal Prize for 2012, and the story ofa quest to recreate her family's lost history. A well-known feminist scholar, Miller has published family memoirs, personal essays, and literary criticism. As a distinguished professor at the Graduate Center since 1988, she teaches classes in memoir, the graphic novel, and women's studies. She also lectures widely, both nationally and internationally, and her work is anthologized in popular volumes on autobiography and collections of feminist essays. She coedits the Gender and Culture series at Columbia University Press, which she cofounded in 1983 with the late Carolyn Heilbrun. Miller earned her B.A. from Barnard College, an MA. . from Middlebury Graduate School of French in France, a Licence ès Lettres in English studies from the University of Paris in 1965, and a Ph.D. in French literature from Columbia University in 1974. Miller's second memoir, Breathless: An American Girl in Paris, which addresses her "sentimental education" as a master's student ni Paris, is forth- coming (Seal Press, 2013). Research Interests: Contemporary autobiography and au- tobiography theory; women's writing (American and French); 20th-century cultural history, after 1945; feminist theory.