Ryan Miller graduated from the University of Maryland in the winter of 2023 with a BA in English and a minor in history. Throughout his time in undergrad, Ryan frequently helped with events for Maryland’s English honor society, Sigma Tau Delta, and the learning disability honor society, Delta Alpha Pi. Being a student with learning disabilities like dyslexia, an English master's never seemed like the obvious way forward for a future. However, after working on projects like Hemingway’s “One True Word,” a comprehensive essay that focused on the single word “rotten” and tracked it throughout all of Hemingway’s main works, and a 70-page short story, Ryan realized the ability to tell and analyze stories was his focus for the future despite the challenges. At Villanova, Ryan hopes to further foster this passion for writing and stories by focusing on modernist and postmodern novels and expanding his familiarity with different sorts of texts he did not encounter during undergrad. Specifically, he hopes to study a bit of cinema and screenplay writing to see how a visual medium borrows or enhances the written form. Ultimately through Villanova Ryan hopes to create meaningful writing his own.
Ryan has worked as a camp counselor during his summers and, in his free time, likes to watch movies and review them, play basketball, run, and, of course, support his favorite football team, the Dallas Cowboys.
