Soon this will be replaced by a page about my work in Classics and the English language. In addition to my courses on the history of the English language and the formative influences of Latin, Greek, and religion on its development, I recently gave a paper at a conference organized by the Graduate Program in Liberal Studies at the New School called Obscurity and the Aesthetics of Political Discourse. In it I discuss the contremporary controversy about obscurity and pretension in academic and political writing in the light of foreign loans of vocabulary and syntax.
Michael Miller's courses on the English language:
Word Power (Rutgers University 2002)
From Beowulf to Joyce (New School 2002-03)
From Vindolanda to Shakespeare (New School Online University 2003)
From Shakespeare to Joyce (New School Online University 2004)
Society and Language in the Plays of Shakespeare and Jonson (New School Online University, January 2005)
From Beowulf to Joyce (New School Online 2005)