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Hillary Miller

@profhillmill.bsky.social
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Prof of English at Queens College & Theatre at the Graduate Center, CUNY ✍️ 📖 🕺 🚲

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The Shipman Agency @shipmanagency.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Our client, the brilliant novelist Maaza Mengiste, has been named a MacArthur fellow! She joins our three other fellows: Reginald Dwayne Betts, Natalie Diaz, and Keeanga-Yamhatta Taylor. We are so proud of all of them!! www.macfound.org/fellows/clas...
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Maaza Mengiste
Revealing the human costs of political violence through a compelling blend of history, memory, and imagination.
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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
America.gov launched today--a DOGE initiative to use AI to deliver public services. Child lying facedown on a frozen lake as the image accompanying the question: "How can I invest in my child's future" is just incredible. Way to go AI
Image of a child lying facedown on a froze lake.  above is the portal where you ask AI questions about government services.  the question matching this image is:  "How can I invest in my child's future?"
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Mina Rees Library @minareeslibrary.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
There's a research guide for Labor Studies! This guide provides easy access to research resources for Labor Studies and related subjects. Learn more at: libguides.gc.cuny.edu/slu_labor #academiclibraries #cunygradcenter #minareeslibrary
There's a research guide for Labor Studies:
https://libguides.gc.cuny.edu/slu_labor
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I am thrilled to announce that the American Studies Program at Boston University will be accepting new PhD Students for the 27/28 academic year. These are fully funded, unionized, 5-year positions, with 4 semesters of guaranteed dissertation fellowship in years 4 & 5.

Application Deadline: December 15, 2026
The American Studies Program at Boston University is a nationally recognized leader in the interdisciplinary field of American Studies. Our students and faculty study the disparate yet interconnected cultures of colonial North America and the United States as seen in the ideas and actions of its people, and as expressed in a range of forms, especially culture, the arts, media, literature, and institutions - often seen through a global or transnational lens. Formerly known as the American & New England Studies Program, we maintain active collaborations with many cultural institutions in the region, especially in the Boston Area. Our large PhD program has produced tenure-track protessors, public historians, museum curators, and directors at major universities, museums, and other cultural and historical institutions.
Funding Opportunities
PhD students receive full funding for up to five years (12 months a year) under a collective bargaining agreement. During this time, they take courses, teach in their fields and disciplines of interest, and develop and write dissertations. The fellowship package guarantees four semesters of dissertation fellowship in years 4 and 5, with no service obligations Additional funding is available from Boston University for travel to conferences, for archival research, and for internships.
Current students have recently received outside fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation, the American Antiquarian Society, the Massachusetts Historical Society, the Huntington Library, the Smithsonian Institution, the Beinecke Library, the Corning Museum of Glass, the New Bedford Whaling Museum, and the American Historical Association.
Graduate Student Association
The Program's own independent Graduate Student Association (GSA) is comprised of elected PhD students who sponsor events and programs for developing professional skills, while representing our students' interests to the governing faculty.
A list of affiliate faculty, available also on the program’s webpage
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 17/09/2026
“A senior executive at Microsoft said A.I. systems built on the work of others will be seen as ‘an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions’ and possibly the greatest robbery of labor in human history, according to court documents unredacted Thursday in an ongoing Manhattan lawsuit.”
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Docs in A.I. copyright suit reveal startling admission by Microsoft exec over ‘astonishing theft’
The admission appeared in a newly unredacted filing in the landmark copyright infringement legal battle playing out between newspapers like the Orlando Sentinel and tech companies Microsoft and OpenAI...
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Michael Schulman @michaelschulman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Thank you to whoever anonymously donated $60 million to the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, the largest single donation in its history, so it can expand access. One of my favorite places in NYC! www.nypl.org/blog/2026/09...
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Kellen Hoxworth @kellenhoxworth.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Looking for Langston, indeed.
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I’m putting together a group of benefactors to help advance the cause of canonizing Father Mychal Judge. As you may know, these efforts are lengthy, labor-intensive, and expensive. If you or anyone you know is interested, please email me at info@christopherhale.com.
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Father Mychal Judge, Gay Franciscan Killed in the North Tower, Could Be 9/11’s First Saint
The first recorded death at Ground Zero would become the first known gay person canonized a saint in the Catholic Church’s history.
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GothamToGo @gothamtogo.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Sharing for all my Cat loving friends. www.threads.com/@newjourney0...
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newjourney01 (@newjourney01365) on Threads
I nearly got off at the wrong stop because I could not stop watching this 😭 I thought somebody was carrying a small lion through Manhattan. It is a cat in a carrier bag with a mane sewn round the open...
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Bruce Dorsey @profbrucedorsey.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Great interview with Angela Davis on Gloria Steinem. 👇 www.wlrn.org/npr-breaking...
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I don't think I had $10 in the bank: Angela Davis remembers Gloria Steinem's allyship
Activist and author Angela Davis remembers her friend Gloria Steinem, and discusses intersectional feminism today.
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Hillary Miller @profhillmill.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
“Readers would often ask Steinem if she were worried that mental illness ran in her family. ‘I told them, “No, only patriarchy is hereditary.”’
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Jeanne Theoharis @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Thinking about feminist powerhouses Coretta Scott King & Gloria Steinem & their fierce welfare rights work. CSK wrote, "We hear so much about the crisis of the black family ...We don’t hear enough about the remarkable courage, strength &dedication these mothers are passing onto the next generation.”
Gloria Steinem and Coretta Scott King sitting in front of microphones in 1978.
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Hillary Miller @profhillmill.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Are you a strategic leader in LGBTQIA+ Community Engagement & Public History? CUNY job alert ‼️ 🚨
cuny.jobs
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GothamToGo @gothamtogo.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
www.dezeen.com/2026/08/28/a...
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Leroy Street Studio renovates historic New York City theatre for A24
For its first brick-and-morter venue, A24 worked with Leroy Street Studio to overhaul a tiny 1800s Off-Broadway theatre in the West Village
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Hillary Miller @profhillmill.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Brilliant songwriter yes but her covers were 🔥 too
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Dolly Parton - Don't Think Twice (Audio)
YouTube video by DollyPartonVEVO
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Hillary Miller @profhillmill.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Saw this book about the Cherry Lane Theater, “the birthplace of off-Broadway,” in a bookstore. No author on cover or on spine. Encased in plastic so couldn’t see see who (other than A24!) wrote it. Probably b/c I’m writing a book on the Greenwich Mews Theater the cover alone raised questions. 1/3
An image of a red hardcover book
 covered in plastic.
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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Post45 CFP Alert: Super excited to announce this special issue, edited by Michelle N. Huang and Carlos Alonso Nugent. If you've ever thought that our periodization (or ASAP's!) needed fixing, now is your chance. submissions.post45.org/journal/CFP/...
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Why45? (or Why68?) | Post45 Journal Submissions
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Hillary Miller @profhillmill.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Berkeley Law’s AI policy is satisfyingly clear and wouldn’t be out of place in an undergrad humanities syllabus
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Hillary Miller @profhillmill.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
@pmckelveyphd.bsky.social Seen just now in the elevator @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social :
A poster hanging in an elevator with lettering advertising an exhibit and an image of a protest.
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Stephen Guy-Bray @stephengb.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
The University of Toronto is advertising a tenure-track job in Global Anglophone Literature and Postcolonial Theory. I pasted information below. Full details: jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-... Closing Date: October 15, 2026
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Assistant Professor - Global Anglophone Literature
Assistant Professor - Global Anglophone Literature
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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I got tired of waiting for the journalists at @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social to cover this (it IS summer), but this is to say that ALL the staff members in Women & Gender Studies here were laid off last week, on the top of the cutting of 5 lecturer positions in the program last year.+
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Hillary Miller @profhillmill.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Zuck's AI "manifesto" imagines a future without educational institutions. In his fantasy no one attends universities, which are replaced by a superintelligent "personalized tutor and coach with a PhD in every subject" while tech CEOs define "freedom" for us
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PSC-CUNY @psc-cuny.org · 07/08/2026
Deliver the petition to Save Jobs at Queens College Tuesday, August 11 at 10AM
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Hillary Miller @profhillmill.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
"Arts Grads are Doing Just Fine, Actually" - refreshing attempt to capture some of the nuances of employment prospects for arts majors, minus the usual hysteria www.chronicle.com/special-proj...
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Arts Grads Are Doing Just Fine, Actually
With AI driving algorithmic sameness, these students often have skills and creative perspectives that set them apart.
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Hillary Miller @profhillmill.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
When someone tells the full story of the hollowing out of the New School for Social Research & brings all the receipts— it will be a multi-volumed horror show of neoliberal higher ed
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Hillary Miller @profhillmill.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
The Mary Oliver doc has some great moments in it & most are supplied by the brilliant John Waters, a perfect interviewee— the one most able to balance her intense desire for privacy with his insights about who she was... www.pbs.org/wnet/america...
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Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World | American Masters | PBS
Celebrate the work of writer Mary Oliver, who published more than 30 collections of poetry and essays on nature, beauty, and love.
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Hillary Miller @profhillmill.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Queens deserves better
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Hillary Miller @profhillmill.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
This is an outrageous move by Harvard & one that will give other institutions permission to undertake similarly lunkheaded “reorgs”
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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
the people behind this are ghouls
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AI Companies Are Buying Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, and Then Destroying Them at Incredible Scale, Even If Almost No Copies Remain
AI companies are quietly obtaining rare books, ingesting their contents, and then destroying them -- even if they're exceedingly rare.
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Hillary Miller @profhillmill.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
The official pics are here! W/ appreciation to all who showed in body & spirit-- & to elected officials who joined the layoff protest on Wall Street yesterday, @catalinacruzny.bsky.social & @claireforny.bsky.social, ty, #CUNY couldn't exist w/o REAL support from reps psc-cuny.org/news-events/...
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Lawmakers Join CUNY Faculty and Staff to Protest Layoffs, Mismanagement at Queens College - PSC CUNY
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David Orkin @david4queens.com · 28/07/2026
No Cuts to Queens College! CUNY is the pride of our public education system. As a proud CUNY grad, former PSC union member, and future Queens Assemblymember, I will fight to tax the rich and end austerity budgets so that students, staff, and faculty can thrive.
David Orkin holds a bullhorn and gives remarks to the Queens College picket line wearing a DSA baseball hat and a PSC bandannaDavid Orkin holds a No Cuts to CUNY sign while listening to Queens College PSC members with Samantha Kattan and Brian Romero Samantha Kattan smiles and holds a bullhorn leading a chat in front of the Queens College rally David Orkin poses for a photo with Samantha Kattan and Brian Romero who holds a No Cuts to CUNY sign standing
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Hillary Miller @profhillmill.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
The demand: CUT FROM THE TOP! On Wall Street today, outside the offices of a #CUNY board of trustee to protest *another* round of budget cuts at QC. Huge showing of students, faculty, staff, pols, & the rude mechanicals! @psc-cuny.org
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Hillary Miller @profhillmill.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Seeking a co-writer for a play about A.I. teacher robots who are actually repurposed A.I. sex robots, DM me www.techspot.com/news/113154-...
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New York school will deploy AI teaching robot from company linked to sex bots
Update / Correction (July 22): Realbotix contacted TechSpot to clarify that the Salamanca classroom pilot is scheduled to begin in September 2026. According to the company, Sally...
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Hillary Miller @profhillmill.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
CUNY colleagues, alums, community members, fans: please click & sign if you support investing in public education, not austerity measures.🙏
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Hillary Miller @profhillmill.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
One line movie review: the only part of Stop! That! Train! that disappointed was the audience.
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mojubaolu.bsky.social @mojubaolu.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
I’ve sent in my comments. Please do so too. @cadhe.bsky.social @psc-cuny.org
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Noe Montez @noemontez.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Going to ATHE? Interested in pitching your book? I'm emailing in my role as Incoming Editor for the Studies in Theatre History and Culture series at the University of Iowa Press to extend an invitation to meet with me on July 23-24. DM for Calendly Link.
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Hillary Miller @profhillmill.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
The roll-out of OneRF has been a nightmare for RF staff and researchers alike. Poor prep, terrible training, a maze of new procedures & unprofessional delays. RF workers pay the price every day. Sign this petition!
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CUNY Graduate Center @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
In October, we paid tribute to Wallace with an event and panel discussion about his third and final Gotham volume, “Gotham at War: A History of New York City from 1933 to 1945.” Watch it here: youtu.be/XsmDactFGvw
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Gotham at War: A History of New York City from 1933 to 1945 - Mike Wallace’s New Book and Career
YouTube video by CUNY Graduate Center
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GC Writing Center @writingcentergc.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Happy Monday prospective book reviewers @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social! It's not too late to join us for today's workshop on Writing a Book Review. Learn more and register here:
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Workshops and Webinars
Summer 2026 Workshops  June Getting Unstuck: Using Informal Writing Techniques Effectively Wednesday, June 24 @ 4PM; register here A key challenge that writers face is feeling stuck in a project an…
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Hillary Miller @profhillmill.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
“Some words don’t work…Synergy is one of them.” (Oxford Thesaurus, 878)
A note discouraging the use of the word “synergy” from the Oxford Thesaurus.
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Hillary Miller @profhillmill.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
In 2009 I took “NY in the 20th century” w/ Mike Wallace. No class description, 2-3 books on NY assigned per session. “There’s no single opus that treats NYC in the 20th c, though I’m working on one,” his syllabus read. He was a brilliant prof; witty, scattered, passionate, curious, determined.
nytimes.com
Mike Wallace, Who Wrote a Radical History of New York, Dies at 83
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We and AI @weandai.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
The official launch event for The AI Resist List is finally here, and you can join in person or online! The airesistlist.org has met a seemingly urgent public need for examples of ways communities around the world are moving against extractive AI and exploring more equitable technology futures.
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The AI Resist List
A living directory of ways communities resist AI harms—and build alternatives worth fighting for.
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Hillary Miller @profhillmill.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Also, Pete would be proud
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Hillary Miller @profhillmill.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
I’ve never been more proud of my brief stint as a volunteer on the Clearwater 🛳️ & I can attest their dirty sink water has more integrity than this admin
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Hillary Miller @profhillmill.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Theatre/Performance @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social is hiring! European performance specialists, the job ad is below! cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...
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Jobs | City University of New York
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CUNY Graduate Center @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
The Graduate Center community is deeply saddened by the passing of Mira Felner, a longtime professor and influential author who helped shape the field of theater studies and the careers of generations of students. www.gc.cuny.edu/news/memoriam-mira-…
Mira Felner
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Patrick McKelvey @pmckelveyphd.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Another job in my department at Notre Dame! Tenure-track Assistant Professor of Film History (I'm not on this committee, but happy to talk about the dept/ND etc) apply.interfolio.com/188579?fbcli...
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Elizabeth Alsop @elizabethalsop.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
These are best-in-kind guidelines—no surprise, given who wrote them. Thanks to @lukewaltzer.bsky.social @maurasmale.bsky.social and @mkgold.bsky.social for their intellectual leadership and addressing the challenges posed by genAI with characteristic criticality, nuance, and care.
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