#  Derek Miller 

Chair, Theater, Dance & Media

Professor of English

 

 

 



   ![Headshot of Derek Miller](/sites/g/files/omnuum6821/files/styles/hwp_4_5__480x600/public/2025-07/DEREK%20MILLER.png?itok=P8T8U3TE) 

 



 





 

Derek Miller is a Professor of English and the Chair of Theater, Dance & Media at Harvard. He is grateful to have been involved with TDM since its founding. His research focuses primarily on the relationship between art and industry. His scholarship includes a book-length history of the development of copyright for the performing arts, data-driven histories of Broadway and nineteenth-century American theater, and, more recently, play publishing in the United States since 1945. He came to theater as a young actor, and brings years of practical experience to his study of the performing arts. In his spare time, he blogs about democracy, reads fiction, coaches Little League, and completes a weekly cryptic crossword. You can find more information and samples of his research at [https://derek.visualizingbroadway.com](https://derek.visualizingbroadway.com/).



 

 

 





 

 

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