Timothy S. Miller, Ph.D.
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  • About
  • Blog
  • CV
  • Teaching
  • Dissertation
  • Chaucer Projects
    • Hyper Chaucer
    • The SF Chaucer
    • Chaucer Valentines
    • Chaucer in Translation
  • Botanical Fiction
    • Botanical Fiction Database
    • Critical Bibliography
    • Image Gallery
Contact

Timothy S. Miller, Ph.D.
(T. S. Miller) 
ts.tsmiller@gmail.com

Education

Ph.D. in English, University of Notre Dame, 2014
 -Dissertation title: "Closing the Book on Chaucer: Medieval Theories of Ending and the Ends of Chaucerian Narrative"

Bachelor of Arts in English and in Classics, Kenyon College, 2008
-Graduated summa cum laude with High Honors in English

Employment and Major Fellowships

-Sarah Lawrence College, Guest Faculty in Literature, 2014-present
-Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship, 2013-2014
-Notebaert Premier Fellowship, University of Notre Dame, 2008-2013 

Selected Publications

Medieval Studies

-"Chaucer's Sources and Chaucer's Lies: Anelida and Arcite and the Poetics of Fabrication." The Journal of 
           English and Germanic Philology 114.3 (2015): 373-400.
-"Forms of Perspective and Chaucer's Dream Spaces: Memory and the Catalogue in The House of Fame." Style 48.4                              (2014):479-495 [special issue on "Narrative Perspectives and Interior Spaces in Literature Prior to 1850," ed.                              Monika Fludernik and Suzanne Keen].
-"Flying Chaucers, Insectile Ecclesiasts, and Pilgrims Through Space and Time: The Science Fiction Chaucer." The 
           Chaucer Review 48.2 (2013): 129-165.
-"Chaucer Abroad, Chaucer at Home: Arch. Selden. B. 24 as 'The Scottish Ellesmere.'" The Chaucer Review 47.1 (2012): 
           25-47.
-"The Pearl Maiden's Psyche: The Middle English Pearl and the Allegorical-Visionary Impulse in Till We Have 
           Faces." Mythlore 30.1/2 (2011): 43-76.
-"Writing Dreams to Good: Reading as Writing and Writing as Reading in Chaucer's Dream Visions." Style 45.3 (2011): 
           528-48.
-"The Fifth Funeral in Beowulf: 'fyr on flode' as a Viking Burial and Other Untenable Claims." Comitatus 42 (2011): 1-18.
-"A Look at Some New Lays of Beowulf: The Misunderstood Monsters of Contemporary Popular Music." The Year's Work 
           in Medievalism XXV (2010): 75-104.

Genre Studies

-"The Lives of the Monster Plants: The Revenge of the Vegetable in the Age of Animal Studies." The Journal of the            
           Fantastic in the Arts 23.3 (2012): 460-479.
-"Preternatural Narration and the Lens of Genre Fiction in Junot Díaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao." Science 
           Fiction Studies 38.1 (2011): 92-114.
-"The Two Kings and the Two Labyrinths: Escaping Escapism in Henson's Labyrinth and Del Toro's Laberinto." 
           Extrapolation 52.1: 26-50 (2011).
-"From Bodily Fear to Cosmic Horror (And Back Again): The Tentacle Monster from Primordial Chaos to Hello 
           Cthulhu." Lovecraft Annual 5 (2011): 121-54.
-"Myth-Remaking in the Shadow of Vergil: The Captive(-ated) Voice of Ursula K. Le Guin's Lavinia." Mythlore 29.1/2 
           (2010): 29-50.
-"The Motley & The Motley: Conflicting and Conflicted Models of Generic Hybridity in Bas-Lag." Foundation 108 (2010): 
           39-65.
-"'I tell it as I best know how': Fable, Fantasy, and Storytelling in Joanna Newsom's 'Colleen.'" Visions of Joanna Newsom. 
           Ed. Bradley Buchanan. Sacramento: Roan Press, 2010. 57-72.
-"Frankenstein Without Frankenstein: The Iron Giant and the Absent Creator." The Journal of the Fantastic in the 
           Arts 20.3 (2009): 385-405.

Selected Reviews and Reference Entries

-"Mars in the Middle Ages" and "Mars in Classical Mythology." The Encyclopedia of Mars. Ed. Howard V. Hendrix and 
            Laurel L. Hendrix. Jefferson: McFarland. Forthcoming.
-Rev. of Jill Mann, Life in Words: Essays on Chaucer, the Gawain-Poet, and Malory. Forthcoming in The Sixteenth                               Century Journal (2015).
-Rev. of Tison Pugh, Introduction to Geoffrey Chaucer. Comitatus 45 (2014): 310-313.
-Rev. of Jeffrey Todd Knight, Bound to Read: Compilations, Collecting, and the Making of Renaissance Literature.                               The Sixteenth Century Journal 45.2 (2014): 504-505.
-Rev. of Helen Conrad-O'Briain and Gerard Hynes, eds., J.R.R Tolkien: The Forest and the City. Mythlore 32.2 (2014): 188-
           192.
-"Monstrous Plants." The Ashgate Encyclopedia of Literary and Cinematic Monsters. Ed. Jeffrey Weinstock. Farnham: 
           Ashgate, 2014. 470-475.
-Rev. of Stephanie Trigg, Shame and Honor: A Vulgar History of the Order of the Garter. Comitatus 44 
           (2013): 350-353.
-Rev. of Robert Boenig, C. S. Lewis and the Middle Ages. The Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 24.3 (2013): 540-543.
-Rev. of Asa Simon Mittman and Peter J. Dendle, eds., The Ashgate Research Companion to Monsters and the 
           Monstrous. The Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 24.2 (2013): 346-350.
-Contributor, The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, third edition, ed. John Clute, David Langford, and Peter Nicholls. 
           Gollancz: 2011-2012 [online publication].
-Rev. of John Cheng, Astounding Wonder: Imagining Science and Science Fiction in Interwar America. The Science 
           Fiction Research Association Review 302
(2012): 28-30.
-"Feature 101: Apocalypse in the Mainstream." The Science Fiction Research Association Review 301 (2012): 30-38.
-Rev. of John Clute, Pardon This Intrusion: Fantastika in the World Storm. The Journal of the Fantastic in the 
           Arts 23.3 (2012): 533-536.
-Rev. of Geetha B., ed., Exploring Science Fiction: Text and Pedagogy. Extrapolation 53.3 (2012): 390-394.
-Rev. of Tolkien Studies VII. The Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 23.1 (2012): 141-144.
-Rev. of Peter Brown, Chaucer and the Making of Optical Space. Hortulus 7.1 (2011).
-Rev. of Roslyn Weaver, Apocalypse in Australian Fiction and Film: A Critical Study. The Science Fiction Research 
           Association Review 298
(2011): 23-25.
-Rev. of David Butler, Fantasy Cinema: Impossible Worlds on Screen. The Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 22.1 
           (2011): 121-124.
-Rev. of Andy Orchard, Pride and Prodigies: Studies in the Monsters of the Beowulf-manuscript. Hortulus 5.1 (2009).
-Various short articles and critical fiction reviews for The Science Fiction Research Association Review, The Internet 
           Review of Science Fiction, and Strange Horizons.

Selected Presentations

-"The Science Fiction Chaucer: Teaching Chaucer as/with/against Science Fiction." Paper delivered at the 46th Annual                         Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association, May 2015.
-"[I]n plauntes lyf is yhud': Botanical Metaphor and Botanical Science in Middle English Literature." Paper delivered at the                 130th MLA Annual Convention, January 2015.
-"Like Ice / Ice Like: Fluidity, Solidity, and Reading Metaphor Backwards." Paper to delivered at the 19th Biennial 
           Congress of the New Chaucer Society, July 2014.
-"The Post-Apocalyptic Dog: Nature and Collapse in Narratives of Man's Last Friend." Paper delivered at the 7th Annual 
           Conference of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts, October 2013.
-"Chaucer, Scotland, and the Aesthetics of the Supplementum." Paper delivered at the 48th International Congress on 
           Medieval Studies, May 2013.
"Putting an End to Chaucer: Gavin Douglas's Endings and Chaucer's Termination in Late Medieval Scotland." Paper 
           delivered at The Medieval Academy of America Annual Meeting, April 2013.
-"Accumulation as Perspective in Chaucer's Dream Spaces: Descriptive Profusion and Spatial Confusion Inside the House 
           of Fame." Paper delivered at the 128th MLA Annual Convention, January 2013.
-"The Loves of the Plants: Sex Monsters and Monstrous Sex in Botanical Science Fiction." Paper delivered at 2the 6th 
           Annual Conference of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts, September 2012.
-"Chaucer's Science Fiction and Science Fiction's Chaucer." Paper delivered at the Eighteenth Biennial Congress of the 
           New Chaucer Society, July 2012.
-"Remapping the Landscape of Genre: Towards a Medieval Science Fiction." Paper delivered at the 43rd annual Science 
           Fiction Research Association Conference, June 2012.
-"How to Terminate Chaucer: Reimagined Beginnings and Revisionary Endings in the Scottish Response to Chaucer." 
           Paper delivered at the 47th International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 2012.
- "Chaucer's Transhistorical Book: A Memetics-based Life History of a Medieval Textual Fragment." Poster presented at 
           the Consilience Conference on Evolution in Biology, the Human Sciences, and the Humanities, University of 
           Missouri-St. Louis, April 2012.
-"The Âge en Abyme and Chaucer's 'process of time': Narrative Discourse in the Medieval Dream Vision." Paper delivered 
           at the 2012 International Conference on Narrative, March 2012.
-"Lives of the Monster Plants: The Revenge of the Vegetable in the Age of Animal Studies." Paper delivered at the 33rd 
           International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, March 2012.
-"'Suche a cry aboute a cors': Disinterred History and Salvation Memory in St. Erkenwald." Paper delivered at the 25th 
          Medieval-Renaissance Conference at the University of Virginia's College at Wise, September 2011.
-"Chaucer's Transhistorical Book: A Memetic Approach." Paper delivered at the Mellon Symposium on Medieval 
          Subjectivity at Northwestern University, July 2011.
-"'Thilke that sownen into synne': 'Solaas' as 'Sentence' in the Pornographic Chaucer." Paper delivered at the 2010 Film & 
          History Conference, November 2010.
-"From Geoffrey Chaucer to Jeffrey Ford: The Uncanny Afterlife of the Medieval Dream Vision in Contemporary Fantasy." 
          Paper delivered at the 22nd Annual Indiana University Medieval Studies Symposium, March 2010.