Josephine Louise Miles (June 11, 1911 – May 12, 1985) was an American poet and literary critic; the first woman tenured in the English department at the University of California, Berkeley.[1] She wrote over a dozen books of poetry and several works of criticism. She was a foundational scholar of quantitative and computational methods, and is considered a pioneer of the field of digital humanities. Benjamin H. Lehman and Josephine Miles' interdepartmental "Prose Improvement Project" was the basis for James Gray's Bay Area Writing Project, which later became the National Writing Project.[2][3] The "Prose Improvement Project" was one of the first efforts at creating a writing across the curriculum program.[4]
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- ^ Gray, James; Myers, Miles (1978). "The Bay Area Writing Project". The Phi Delta Kappan. 59 (6): 410–413. ISSN 0031-7217. JSTOR 20299003.
- ^ Russell, David R. (1991). Writing in the Academic Disciplines, 1870-1990: A Curricular History. Southern Illinois University Press. pp. 263–266. ISBN 0-8093-1597-1.