Peter Miller

@drpeterjmiller.bsky.social

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I’m an academic labour activist, professor, Classical philologist, and sports historian living and working in Winnipeg.

Group photo of the organizing committee and student volunteers of the 2025 CAC meeting. All posed in front of a grey Tyndall stone wall.
Picture of cardboard boxes
Poster in red advertising Harry Crowe lecture. All text in BlueSky posts.
Book review page from Phoenix showing the title Miller, Peter. “In Praise of Greek Athletes” and the opening paragraph of the review.
Glass of dark beer at brewery
Bald eagle flying in blue sky
Picture of a broken marble statue face. Text repeats the information in the post except it adds the time (4:00PM) and room (3D01) as well as this short summary: From theatre’s apparent beginnings in the late Archaic Age of Ancient Greece to the twenty-first century, the living body of the human actor has been seen as the central and defining feature of the medium, the source of theatre’s uniqueness as well as its limitations. The corporeality of the live actor, however, has impelled innovators to call for the complete eradication of the human actor from the stage. This presentation locates the origins of this depersonalizing attempt in the ambiguity of the masked actor at the very foundation of tragedy in ancient Greece and traces how posthumanist moves to supplant the human centre of theatre are, in fact, perhaps connected to the origins of drama in ancient Greece.
Picture of Peter Miller in his office, a computer is to the right of him while behind him are bookshelves. The text on screen identifies him as Peter Miller, President of the University of Winnipeg Faculty Association