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Zea Miller, PhD

Assistant Instructional Professor

Contact Information

Email: zea.miller
Office: 2215 Turlington Hall
Phone: 352-846-1138
Website

Education

  • PhD in English from Purdue University, 2017
  • MA in English Language and Literature from the University of Michigan-Flint, 2011
  • BA in French and International Studies from the University of Michigan-Flint, 2006

Courses Taught

  • ENC 2305: Analytical Writing and Thinking
  • ENC 3246: Professional Communication for Engineers
  • ENC 3254: Writing in Artificial Intelligence
  • IDH 3931: Interstellar AI
  • IDS 2935: Rhetoric of AI

Pedagogical Interests

Design, Genre, Research, Technical Writing, Writing in AI

Research Interests

Cognition, Literary Theory, Neuroethics, Philosophy, Semantics, Semiotics, Science Fiction

Personal Interests

Music Videos, Science Fiction, Video Games

Best Writing Advice

“What can be said at all can be said clearly; and whereof one cannot speak thereof one must be silent.” —Wittgenstein

Publications

  • Forthcoming 2025. “The Societies of Destruction.” Science Fiction Film and Television 18 (1): 27–63.
  • 2022. “Recognizing Science Fiction.” Language and Semiotic Studies 8 (3): 106–29. https://doi.org/10.1515/lass-2022-2006.
  • 2016. “The Free Slave Paradox.” Semiotica (210): 57–74. https://doi.org/10.1515/sem-2016-005.
  • 2015. “The Veneration of Violation in Sherlock.” In Gender and the Modern Sherlock Holmes. Jefferson, NC: McFarland.
  • 2013. “Decriminalising the Lawless Moor.” In Monstrous Spaces: The Other Frontier. Witney, England: Inter-Disciplinary Press.

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