Timothy S. Miller
fantasy, science fiction, medieval studies, plants
he/him
unicorn book: link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-…
Earthsea book: link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-…
- I missed that the latest book in the series of critical companions I edit for Palgrave has already reached print, Joseph Rex Young on George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones: link.springer.com/book/10.1007... . Feel free to pitch us on a potential project if you'd like to write one of your own!
- I'm really thrilled to share an article that I co-wrote with one of my students, Arwen Paredes: "The First Queer Unicorn?: Reading Peter S. Beagle’s The Last Unicorn as Trans Narrative." www.mdpi.com/2410-9789/6/...
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- So delighted to learn that my middle schooler's English teacher has started using ChatGPT to grade writing assignments. She received a near failing grade based in part on a diagnosis of specific grammatical errors that were not in fact in the assignment.
- Here's a new one from graduate school recommendation systems: rating the "Clarity of career goals" of the applicant, and on a percentile basis. How do you distinguish applicants of the top 2% versus top 5% career goal clarity?
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[Not loaded yet] - Surreal experience: a quarter century or so after I'd always be asking my parents to buy me more Magic: The Gathering cards all the time, here I am saying "No, I'm not buying you more Magic: The Gathering cards" to my own twelve-year-old...
- Somehow back down in the unicorn hole once again
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- I have no idea what governs the price changes for my books even though I now co-edit the series they're published in, but for whatever reason the Beagle book is sitting at a much more affordable price at the moment: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
- Very disturbing to see that Grammarly itself now offers an "AI Humanizer" as one of its core services. Our university provides Grammarly subscriptions to students...
- "Anyone with perfect posture was faking it, overcompensating for entrenched trauma."
- Did kids these days still know about CliffsNotes? When I say "It's like the Cliffsnotes version of X," should I be saying something like "It's like the AI summary version of X"?
- This is such a huge problem: I'm googling a quotation to find a page number, and the AI overview confidently produces total nonsense that would mislead students and others. (This is of course a quotation from noted Jung distiller China Miéville speaking to the subject of "Marxism and Fantasy.")
- It was possibly a mistake to assign the entire Tales of Nevèrÿon, because now I just want to spend the entire semester talking about the series.
- What is going on in the world?
- I would give a copy of this book to everyone in my neighborhood but I think they already hate us enough: www.bloomsbury.com/us/lawn-9798...
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- Classes are done: we're closing so many browser tabs today.
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- Can it be true that the audiobook of @alexpheby.bsky.social 's Mordew doesn't include the glossary? Unconscionable! I almost want to write a journal article on the glossary by itself.
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- "...it was less that they were two separate people and more that they were a single person with two different ways of being in the world, each of which both knew."
- As a consequence of my desire to avoid doomscrolling lately, I feel I've only really been using this site when I'm self-promoting. So, to counter that trend, here is an out-of-context passage from a novel, which is how I used to post in the good old days of social media...
- My Chaucer course just had a lovely visit with author Kate Heartfield @kateheartfield.com. What better way to talk about interactive fiction than interacting with the author?
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- I don't really know why (and when) my Wizard of Earthsea book sometimes costs much less, but the ebook version appears to be only $16.99 right now: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
- Very excited to be part of the launch issue of the new journal UKL: The Journal of Ursula K. Le Guin Studies, with an article on her 1980 novel The Beginning Place: scholarworks.uni.edu/ukl/vol1/iss...
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- New publication: "Speculative Fiction and the Contemporary Novel" in The Cambridge Handbook of Literature and Plants: www.cambridge.org/core/books/a....
- That time in the semester when you have a to-do list with the item "make a real to-do list" on it.
- You have to admire just the complete confidence of large language models in themselves.
- I think I'm teaching Chaucer's Merchant's Tale for the first time since having seen The VVitch, and now I can't help but visualize the character who determines to "live ful deliciously" as follows:
- Found a certificate declaring me the Papa John's Pizza Student of the Month, January 1999. Should I put this honor on my CV for the tenure file? They tell you to include everything, after all...
- "As part of the order, the use of pronouns will be forbidden across the defence department." 🤔
- Does anyone know why the Middle English Dictionary website has been spotty lately?
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- I still cannot fathom why search engines have intentionally ruined their product like this.
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- The thing my past self would be most disappointed to learn about my future self is how often I allow library books to become extremely overdue.
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- In the Middle Ages, did they debate about whether Sir Gawain and the Green Knight was a Christmas movie?
- @gelatinousstand.bsky.social -- is this urs? www.miamiherald.com/news/state/f...
- You'll find the most surprising entries in the Middle English Dictionary sometimes: quod.lib.umich.edu/m/middle-eng...
