Eric Miller, PhD
Scholar, Trainer, Artist
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Primary Areas of Interest:
Storytelling, Videoconferencing, and Tamil Nadu, South India

Offering Storytelling Training for individuals and groups

of all ages and professions, in-person and via videoconference --
for Adults (Parents, Tour Guides, Trainers, Performers, Writers, etc).

for Teachers.

for Therapists.

for People in the Business World.
for People interested in Tribal Cultures.

for Children.

*  Curriculum Vitae

*  Life Narrative

Contact:

(Chennai) 98403 94282

eric@storytellingandvideoconferencing.com

December 2007 onwards --
World Storytelling Institute (please see for current events),
Co-Founder and Director.

August 2010 --
PhD awarded by the Folklore Program, University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, USA). 
Dissertation:

"Ethnographic Videoconferencing, as Applied to Songs/Chants/Dances/Games

of South Indian Children, and Language Learning".

December 2011 onwards --
Indian Storytelling Network ,
Co-Founder and Co-Facilitator.

February 1-3 (and field-trip on 4-7), 2013 --

Chennai Storytelling Festival -- Teaching and Learning about Storytelling ,

Director.

February 7-9, 2014 (upcoming) --

Chennai Storytelling Festival -- Storytelling and Healing ,

Director.

*  Oct 2011 -- An Ethnographic Videoconference between people in Chennai and Bloomington, Indiana, USA.  The event concerned the Mahabharata, and featured a professional Mahabharata storyteller on the Chennai side.  Event info is here,  and the recording is here.

*  Oct 2012 -- An Ethnographic Videoconference between college students in Chennai and Cairo, Egypt.  The event handout is here,  and the recording is here.

*  March 2013 -- An Ethnographic Videoconference between college students in Chennai and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.  Students discussed their identities as expressed through their language use (sayings, proverbs, etc) and other cultural practices.  The recording is here.

*  Talking about Videoconferencing on Youtube (June 2007).

*  Talking about Storytelling on Youtube (Nov 2010).

*  Talking about Tribal People in India on Youtube (Nov 2010).

Selected Writings

Eric Miller  ©2013

ABOUT VIDEOCONFERENCING, ETC.

15 items

*  "Videoconferencing at the University of Pennsylvania",

report (1998)

*  "Videoconferencing at the University of Pennsylvania Update: Response to the 2002-7 Strategic Plan"

report (2002)

*  "Principles of Videoconferencing"

notes (1999) 

*  "Videoconferencing for Folklorists"

talk abstract (1999)

*  "A Report on the 1996 Storytelling for the New Millennium Conference"

article (1996)

*  "The 1999 Grammy Award Television Broadcast: Ritual Aspects of the Set Design"

paper (1999)

*  "A Mass-media Object in a Face-to-face Ritual: The Case of Television Sets in Restaurants and Bars"

paper (1999)

*  "Videoconferencing and the Teaching of Tamil Language and Verbal Arts"

article (2002)

*  "Child’s Play, Language Teaching and Learning, and Videoconferencing"

article (2003)

*  "Chennai and Videoconferencing"

article (2003)

*  "The 16 Oct. 2004, and 15 Oct. 2005, Webcasted-videoconferences for the Demonstration and Discussion of Children's Tamil (and Other) Songs-dances-games, and Methods of Teaching and Learning Spoken Tamil Language"

article (2004)

*  "Ideas for Cultural Videoconferencing in the Cairns Area (Northeastern Australia)"

essay (2005)

*  "Videoconference Interviews in the Folklore Classroom"

article (2008)

*  "Videoconferencing"

PhD dissertation

chapter (2010)

*  "Ethnographic Videoconferencing"

article (2011)

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ABOUT STORIES AND STORYTELLING 

20 items

*  "12 Principles of Physically-present Storytelling"

MA thesis

excerpt (1996)

*  "Visuals Accompanying Physically-present  Storytelling"

MA thesis (1996)

*  "The In-performance Identification Process"

talk notes (2000)

*  "Turn-taking and Relevance in Conversation"

paper (1999)

*  "Roleplaying in an African Storytelling Event"

paper (1998)

*  "Continuity and Change in Chinese Storytelling"

paper (2000)

*  "The Performance of Epic"

course notes (1999)

*  "The Performance of Epic and the Practice of Lament"

PhD exam (2001)

*  "Textualization and Mediatization of Verbal Arts"

PhD exam (2001)

*  "Verbal Play and Language Acquisition"

paper (2003)

*  Invitation to a talk on "Nature and Language"

invitation (2005)

*  "Program for a Tamil Language Learning Session: Singing-Games and Question-and-Answer Routines"

notes (2006)

*  "Storytelling and Videoconferencing" (keynote speech, Storytelling in Higher Education Special Interest Group Pre-Conference, USA National Storytelling Conference, 20 July)

notes (2006)

*  "Storytelling Studies, and Subbu Arumugam's Villupattu (Bow Song)"

notes (2006)

*  "Theories of Story and Storytelling"

notes (2010)

* "Weaving Magic: Storytelling in Chennai"

article (2010)

*  "Using Storytelling to Facilitate Reading and Writing"

notes (2011)

*  "Storytelling and Story-listening, and Children's Intellectual, Emotional, and Social Development"

paper (2011)

*  "Are Fairy Tales Indigenous to India?"

e-newsletter (2011)

*  "Aspects of the Storytelling Revival in India"

paper (2011)

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ABOUT SOUTH INDIA, ETC.

15 items

*  "Tamil Nadu's Silappathikaram (Epic of the Anklet): Ancient Story and Modern Identity"

booklet (1991)

*  "Tamil Folklore Studies: The Contemporary Scene and its Background"

paper (2000)

*  "The Culture Area, South India"

PhD exam (2001)

*  "Wireless Internet Access in Rural South India"

report (2000)

*  "Thoughts about the New Delhi Symposium, Folklore, the Public Sphere, and Civil Society"

interview (2002)

*  "The Public Sphere, Folklore, and Interactive Telecommunication in Rural India"

article (2003)

* Review of Changing Tribal Life: A Socio-Philosophical Perspective 

book review (2003)

*  "The Asian Century of Folklore Scholarship: Reflections on the Chennai Conference"

editorial (2004)

*  "Cultivating a Forest Language: Development Ideas for Kani Tribal People of Tamil Nadu's Kanniyakumari District"

article (2004)

*  "Public Presentation of Folklore: Politics of Technology, Culture, and Discourse"

article (2005)

*  "In Praise of Citizen Kannagi"

op-ed article (2006)

*  "Kannagi: Global Symbol of Justice"

text of speech (2007)

*  "Tamil Nadu in 2020" (in English)

essay (2007)

*  "Tamil Nadu in 2020" (in Tamil)

essay (2007)

*  "A Folklorist's Report from Tamil Nadu, South India: Fieldwork, Public Folklore, Commercial Folklore-related Projects, and Teaching Folklore"

essay (2011)

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OTHER

5 items

*  "Why and How Has 'Habermas' Become a Household Word in the Social Sciences?"

paper (1999)

*  "The Guardian-spirit Lady in the Experience of Edwin Pillay"

paper (1999)

*  "Festive Art in a Festive Neighborhood: Street Mosaics in New York City's East Village"

paper (2000)

 *  "Live Video as Performance on New York City's Lower East Side in the 1980s"

article (2003)

 *  "Some Habitation Attitudes and Practices on New York City’s Lower East Side, 1982 to 2002"

article (2006)

 * "Sports, Identity, Stories, and Images -- and the Boston Marathon"

essay (2013)

·  Courses In and/or About Storytelling

·  Towards a Definition of the Discipline

·  Storytelling Studies Bibliography

·  Course and Workshop Descriptions