About

This is the personal website of Miles Taylor, where you can find his creative non-fiction essays as well as the occasional short story. The blog is to document the development of his work over time, and should not be taken to reflect his permanent, unchanging views. He is a PhD Candidate in Film and Media Studies at The University of California, Berkeley, with a designated emphasis in critical theory. Before this, he received an MA in film theory at Concordia University in Quebec. As an undergrad, he attended Brown University, studying Modern Culture and Media and English with a focus on creative non-fiction. Academically, his textual focus is post-1970 Hollywood, European Arts Cinema, and to a lesser extent New Journalism and contemporary fiction. Theoretically, he is trained in narratology, the Frankfurt School, and semiotically grounded psychoanalytic film theory. He is currently working on a project exploring the undeath of the bourgeois subject and its relationship to narrative structures in the long downturn. His writing has been published in In Bed With Maradona, Synoptique, Contemporaries@Post45, and No! Cinema. He is currently starting a literary journal with Ryan Lackey, a Ph.D. candidate in the Berkeley English department. It is focused on the everyday and taking the unserious seriously.. If you have any comments, suggestions, or want to commission an essay, please email him at miles@mileshtaylor.com. He is always open to freelance work.

In case this is not already clear, he is unrelated to Miles Taylor, the former intelligence officer and author of A Warning.