Laurie Hovell McMillin Chair and Associate Professor of Rhetoric & Composition Director, First-Year Seminar Program B.A. Lawrence University, 1984 M.A. Syracuse University, 1989 Ph.D. Syracuse University, 1993 Laurie.McMillin@oberlin.edu 440/775-8614 King 139-A

Laurie Hovell McMillin is Chair and Associate Professor of Rhetoric & Composition and Religion, and Director of the First-Year Seminar Program. As someone whose writing and research cuts across disciplines, Ms. McMillin enjoys helping students to negotiate the demands of a liberal arts curriculum. Her teaching interests include non-fiction prose, personal writing, and the pleasures of academic discourse. Her research interestes include cultural studies, non-fiction prose, South Asian culture and religion, and Tibetan studies.

Her published work includes:

• Buried Indians: Digging up the Past in a Midwestern Town. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2006.
• "New Age Namtar: Tibetan Autobiographies in English." In Proceedings of the Ninth Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill Academic Publishers, 2002.
• English in Tibet, Tibet in English: Self-Presentation in Tibet and the Diaspora. New York: Palgrave, 2001.
• "Enlightenment Travels: The Making of Tibetan Epiphany." Writes of Passage, edited by James S. Duncan and Derek Gregory. London: Routledge, 1999.
• "The Poems of Namdeo Dhasal," in An Anthology of Dalit Literature. Ed. Mulk Raj Anand and Eleanor Zelliot. New Delhi: Gyan Publishers, 1992.
• "Namdeo Dhasal: Poet and Panther." Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars. Fall 1991: 77-83.
• "Namdeo Dhasal's Poetry." Journal of South Asian Literature. Michigan State University, Spring, Fall 1989: 65-82.
• "Two poems by Namdeo Dhasal." Translation. Spring 1989: 234-235.

Laurie and her husband, Tracy Scott McMillin, have two boys, Liam and Jack. They like to hike, canoe, and travel.