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Timothy S. Miller, Ph.D.
(T. S. Miller)
Sarah Lawrence College
Literature
1 Mead Way
Bronxville, NY 10708
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.
Timothy S. Miller, Ph.D.
(T. S. Miller)
Sarah Lawrence College
Literature
1 Mead Way
Bronxville, NY 10708
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.
