Conducted in June 1990 and revised extensively by the interviewee J. Hillis Miller himself, this interview (with its nineteen questions and answers) focuses on some issues of special interest to students of Eng1ish and American literature as well as 1iterarycriticism and theory. Dialogic and interactive by nature, it remarks Mil1er's development first as a student of New Criticism and then as an eloquent proponent of Criticism of Consciousness (as proposed by Georges Poulet) and later of Deconstruction (as proposed by Jacques Derrida and Paul de Man). A1sodealt with ~n the interview are his position in and relationship to the Yale Critics, his significance in the institutionalization of American literary theory, his discussion about New Historicism, Cultural Studies, etc., his observation about the so-ca11ed age of digital reproduction, and his interest in the ethics of reading, the performative and inaugural function of works of literature, as well as the translation of theory (especially Deconstruction) into other disciplines, languages, and cultures.