Cogut Institute for the Humanities

Aubrie Miller ’26 is an undergraduate concentrating in English, Comparative Literature, and History of Art and Architecture. Her thesis, tentatively titled “‘I will be free… in words’: Viewing Gender Through a Bibliographic Lens in Shakespeare’s Plays,” analyzes when bibliographic language (language referring to book-making or book-using) is used to characterize women in a selection of Shakespeare’s plays. Her research uses the history of the book to understand women’s relationship to material texts in the early modern period. She spent the 2024–25 academic year as a visiting student at the University of Oxford. Outside of the Cogut Institute, she is a member of Brown University’s Presidential Scholars Program and a Special Collections Curatorial Assistant at the John Hay Library. She is also co-writing an article with a Columbia University Ph.D. candidate on the ecology of the archive of Katharine S. White (The New Yorker’s first fiction editor) and is compiling a bibliography for the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP).