Biofiction as Alchemy: Writing Imperfect Alchemist
Watch Naomi Miller’s talk “Biofiction as Alchemy: Writing Imperfect Alchemist” at Imperial College London. The Q&A following the talk covers some particularly interesting ground!
November 22, 2021
Category: Interviews and Talks
Watch Naomi Miller’s talk at Smith College’s Faculty Showcase, “Changing the Canon Through Historical Fiction”
Professor Miller’s course on “Shakespeare’s Sisters” focuses on Renaissance women writers who were long excluded from the literary canon. Her talk shares how the course inspired her to change the canon outside the classroom in her own series of historical novels, to introduce these extraordinary women to a wider public.
July 21, 2021
Hear Naomi Miller on the Women and Shakespeare Podcast!
In this episode, we discuss Professor Naomi Miller’s novel, Imperfect Alchemist, which revolves around Mary Sidney Herbert and her bond with a maidservant and artist Rose. Interviewer: Dr Varsha Panjwani Guest: Professor Naomi Miller Producer: Mr Zeke Tweedie Artwork: Mr Wenqi Wan Listen here.
June 23, 2021
Salon Conversation with Natalie Byfield and Naomi Miller about Employing New Lenses Across Disciplines – Princeton 40th Reunion
Becoming a novelist to write Imperfect Alchemist after 30 years as a scholar offered Naomi Miller a new lens on her lifetime research subject: Renaissance women authors. Natalie Byfield reframed her research on the social construction of race in the U.S. in her study of the Central Park Jogger case
April 29, 2021
Watch Naomi Miller’s talk at the Harvard seminar on Women, Culture & Gender in the Early Modern World
It was exciting to meet readers in person (via Zoom) at my recent book talk about Imperfect Alchemist at the Harvard seminar on Women, Culture & Gender in the Early Modern World. You can watch the talk at this link. Access Passcode: Alchemist21! (the exclamation mark is part of the
February 8, 2021
Folger Shakespeare Library’s Shakespeare Unlimited podcast interview about Imperfect Alchemist
I’m thrilled to invite all Shakespeare and historical fiction fans to catch the Folger Shakespeare Library’s Shakespeare Unlimited podcast interview with me about Imperfect Alchemist: https://www.folger.edu/shakespeare-unlimited/mary-sidney-imperfect-alchemist-miller
February 3, 2021
Imperfect Alchemist: Writing Women’s Voices
Many popular novels about Renaissance women picture them in relation to powerful men. One need look no further than the steady stream of novels about the wives of Henry VIII, perpetuating a phenomenon that I have named the “Noah’s ark approach,” which positions women in dependent relation to famous men.
January 17, 2021
Naomi Miller ’81 Reimagines Life of Literary Trailblazer Mary Sidney
The book: A novel set in 16th-century England, Imperfect Alchemist (Allison & Busby) by Naomi Miller ’81 reimagines the life of Mary Sidney, one of Shakespeare’s literary contemporaries, and her maid, Rose Commin. From vastly different social backgrounds, they share a drive to make their own way in the world.
January 14, 2021
Introducing Naomi Miller
Naomi Miller is descended on her mother’s side from a shogun in the Tokugawa period and on her father’s side from Dutch-English settlers who arrived in America at the time of the Mayflower. An award-winner author of books about Renaissance women, she is a professor of English and the Study of
December 3, 2020
An interview with Naomi Miller, author of Imperfect Alchemist
Interview and Review by Jo of JaffaReadsToo Two women. One bond that will unite them across years and social divides. England, 1575. Mary Sidney, who will go on to claim a spot at the heart of Elizabethan court life and culture, is a fourteen-year-old navigating grief and her first awareness
December 2, 2020
