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Nicholas E. Miller, Ph.D. @uncannydazzler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My second edited K-pop collection, The Cultural Politics of Transmedia Storytelling in K-Pop, officially came out yesterday from @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social. I am a day late to my own publication announcement, but very happy to finally have this one in the world. A thread! #CriticalKPop

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The Cultural Politics of Transmedia Storytelling in K-Pop

Foregrounding the ways in which stories are created and circulated across media forms and cultures, this volume approaches K-pop as a narrative system rather th…

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Nicholas E. Miller, Ph.D. @uncannydazzler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My essay “Stillness in Motion: BIBI, Hongdae, and Flâneuserie Under Platform Capitalism” is out today! It looks at urban movement, platform capitalism, and what I call choreographed stillness: moments when stillness resists the systems shaping how women move. #BIBI #Hongdae doi.org/10.4324/9781...

Chapter title that reads: “Stillness in Motion: BIBI, Hongdae, and Flâneuserie Under Platform Capitalism,” by Nicholas E. Miller, in black serif text on a white background.

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Nicholas E. Miller, Ph.D. @uncannydazzler.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Really proud of my kids and the lives they are starting to build: one diving into theater as they start high school, one getting their first college acceptances, one beginning an EMT program, and one who just got their first law school acceptance. The world is burning, but my children give me hope.

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Nicholas E. Miller, Ph.D. @uncannydazzler.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

If anybody needs nearly 2,000 songs and 105 hours of K-pop girl groups and soloists, good news: I made you a playlist. I clearly have very normal hobbies, and this seems like a completely reasonable use of my time.

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Well, That Escalated Quickly

K-pop girl groups and soloists: title tracks, B-sides, deep cuts, nugus, ults, and whatever came next.

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Nicholas E. Miller, Ph.D. @uncannydazzler.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

One unexpected side effect of cleaning up twenty-plus years of my online existence: finding a little poem on #LiveJournal that I apparently wrote for a class at MSU and then completely forgot about. Kind of fun to meet a much younger version of myself in the digital rubble.

Image of a short poem I wrote in a class at Michigan State University more than twenty years ago. The poem reads:

“I’m sitting in the corner,
wedged safely
between dreams and friends.
Self-consciously,
I let tiny pulses of sleep
massage the back
of my eyes,
as I wait
for the white noise
to break.”

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Nicholas E. Miller, Ph.D. @uncannydazzler.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I am SO excited for *Death Wish* to be out in the world this January. @lillyluwrites.bsky.social is a brilliant writer, and if you have read any of her short fiction, you already know this is one to preorder. Cannot wait! #DeathWish #BookSky #SapphicRomance

Screenshot showing a preorder for Lilly Lu’s Death Wish: A Supernatural Love Story, arriving January 26, alongside the book’s blue-and-purple cover.

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Nicholas E. Miller, Ph.D. @uncannydazzler.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I genuinely was not sure I would ever publish another journal article after leaving higher education, so getting my first acceptance in years (with minor revisions!) feels surprisingly good. Apparently I missed this a little.

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Nicholas E. Miller, Ph.D. @uncannydazzler.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Farewell to #BonnieTyler. Nobody will ever face off against evil cowboys with neon whips quite like she did. Music videos have never been the same.

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Bonnie Tyler - Holding Out For A Hero (Official HD Video)

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Nicholas E. Miller, Ph.D. @uncannydazzler.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Yesterday, I did something hard, and I am really proud of myself for it: I hit send on an academic monograph and sent it off to a university press that has shown interest. I have no idea whether it will pass peer review or eventually be published. But I wrote the thing.

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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

AI has started blocking the Wayback Machine from chronicling the web. Considering that nearly 40% of websites disappear after 10 years, this will enforce a giant loss in collective memory.

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AI’s biggest casualty could be history itself

The Internet Archive is a vital resource that has helped the search for truth in more than one global event, writes Anthony Cuthbertson, but it is in danger of becoming the latest collateral damage of...

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 12/06/2026

I feel like that Vanderbilt/WashU report exists almost entirely to be forwarded to the iPhones of trustees, who will in their turn skim the first few sentences before forwarding it triumphantly to chancellors. “FW: FW: FW: Food for thought?”

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Nicholas E. Miller, Ph.D. @uncannydazzler.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Looking forward to this reading series! I loved the Erevis Cale trilogy (Forgotten Realms) enough to buy the original cover artwork back in the day.

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Nicholas E. Miller, Ph.D. @uncannydazzler.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Latest issue of @inkscomicsjournal.bsky.social includes an editorial by me on teaching comics in difficult times. Writing this openly felt a little unusual for an academic journal, but I wanted to be honest about where comics teaching is right now (for me). Open access: muse.jhu.edu/article/991716.

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Nicholas E. Miller, Ph.D. @uncannydazzler.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

A big man’s guide to #CedarPoint: Do not go. Despite what you may read online, if you are over 6'0" and wear XXL clothing, you may not be able to ride most of the coasters.

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Nicholas E. Miller, Ph.D. @uncannydazzler.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

One of the unexpected pleasures of publishing an edited collection is watching it pop up in the libraries of places where I studied or worked. Undergraduate me would have found it absolutely wild to see my own name in the MSU Libraries catalog like this. Still feels a little wild now, honestly.

A collage of online library catalog listings for the 2026 edited collection, Critical Approaches to Transmedia Storytelling in K-Pop. At the top is the book’s full record in the Michigan State University Libraries catalog. Below it are listings from several academic libraries, accompanied by university logos, including Washington University in St. Louis, Hollins University, and Valdosta State University.

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Nicholas E. Miller, Ph.D. @uncannydazzler.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Grateful to @andreastlane.bsky.social for this generous review of my forthcoming collection. It is a strange gift to have someone read a project back with such care. Her words mean a great deal, not only because I adore *her* work, but because she understands what the collection is trying to do.

A review blurb for The Cultural Politics of Transmedia Storytelling in K-pop by Andrea Acosta. The quotation praises the collection for examining K-pop’s transmedia storytelling through questions of racial politics, transnational circulation, idol and fan labor, queerness, and resistance praxis. It describes the book as combining the closeness of fan perspective with the incisiveness of cultural criticism. The attribution reads: “Andrea Acosta, Assistant Professor of Media Studies, Pitzer College, USA.”

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Nicholas E. Miller, Ph.D. @uncannydazzler.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

One comment on my student surveys this semester read, "The feedback feels like it is AI-generated." It is not the first time I have heard that. We have barely entered the era of "generative AI," and already the default assumption is that anything polished or well-written must not be human.

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Nicholas E. Miller, Ph.D. @uncannydazzler.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

If clean, well-structured prose is "clearly AI," then what exactly are we teaching people writing is supposed to look like? I did not spend decades learning and teaching this craft just to have basic competence dismissed as artificial.

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Nicholas E. Miller, Ph.D. @uncannydazzler.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

My favorite genre of academic conference encounter is the simple, familiar: “It is so nice to finally meet you in person.” For all the benefits of remote communication, I keep coming back to that reminder that our work is not purely textual. It lives in bodies and voices, too. #SCMS26

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Nicholas E. Miller, Ph.D. @uncannydazzler.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

If you are going to be at #SCMS26 this weekend, please stop by on Saturday morning to chat all things K-pop! I feel ridiculously fortunate to be presenting with two absolute icons in #KpopStudies on mediating difference across platforms and cultures.

Conference program listing titled “K-pop’s Transnational Turn: Mediating Difference across Platforms and Cultures,” held in the Fairmont Millennium (Lobby Level). Presentations include: Andrea Acosta, “Digital Artifice: K-pop, Race, and the Internet Body”; Nicholas E. Miller, “K-Pop as Queer Method: Generative Unruliness and Transnational Reception”; and Michelle Cho, “Nostalgia for Nostalgia: BTS on American TV.”

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Nicholas E. Miller, Ph.D. @uncannydazzler.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Editing a volume of scholarship is intense work. Editing two volumes back-to-back is something else entirely. But I just finished reviewing copyedits for the second one, and I am genuinely thrilled with how it has come together. Well worth it! And well worth a pre-order! #KpopStudies #Transmedia

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The Cultural Politics of Transmedia Storytelling in K-Pop

Foregrounding the ways in which stories are created and circulated across media forms and cultures, this volume approaches K-pop as a narrative system rather th…

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Nicholas E. Miller, Ph.D. @uncannydazzler.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Guess what has now entered production? My second edited volume on transmedia storytelling in K-pop will be out this September and features another phenomenal roster of international scholars. Please consider pre-ordering and recommending it to your academic libraries! #Kpop #Transmedia #AcademicSky

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The Cultural Politics of Transmedia Storytelling in K-Pop

Foregrounding the ways in which stories are created and circulated across media forms and cultures, this volume approaches K-pop as a narrative system rather th…

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Nicholas E. Miller, Ph.D. @uncannydazzler.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Someday I want whatever chemical reaction happens in Haewon's brain every time she covers a Beyoncé song. #NMIXX

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Nicholas E. Miller, Ph.D. @uncannydazzler.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

I do not want to make light of how dangerous this moment is, as I am genuinely frightened that Trump’s rhetoric is going to get Ilhan Omar killed. That said, there is something profoundly heartening about watching her walk purposefully toward her assailant, refusing to flinch.

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Nicholas E. Miller, Ph.D. @uncannydazzler.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

I have often worried that I am desensitized to violence, especially state-sanctioned gun violence. The visceral, embodied experience of watching this latest execution proves otherwise. Realizing this feels less like relief and more like an obligation to stay attentive and be unwilling to look away.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/01/2026

Sayre: "My background is in international humanitarian response in conflict zones in Yemen, Haiti, Syria, Iraq, and Ukraine. What I've seen here is what I've seen there. A powerful entity violently and intentionally terrorizing people."

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Nicholas E. Miller, Ph.D. @uncannydazzler.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

My nervous system cannot take this. Watching militarized, masked men assault protesters while another person is executed by federally sanctioned thugs is not “news”—it is trauma. This is not a glitch in the system. This *is* the system: state violence, protected by impunity, carried out in public.

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Nicholas E. Miller, Ph.D. @uncannydazzler.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

After months of digital collaboration, I finally got to chat with @nayoungbishoff.bsky.social live—and she is every bit as brilliant, cool, and lovely as you would expect. Huge thanks to her for organizing such a fascinating panel on global musical adaptations earlier today! #MLA26

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Nicholas E. Miller, Ph.D. @uncannydazzler.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

For those at #MLA26: I am participating in a virtual roundtable on “Global Musical Adaptations” with @nayoungbishoff.bsky.social at 3:30 PM (EST), with remarks on “Fairy Queens and K-Pop Dreams: A Midsummer Night’s Dream and its Contemporary Afterlives.” Join us! mla.confex.com/mla/2026/mee...

Title slide with pink, ethereal fairycore background and window light, reading “Fairy Queens and K-Pop Dreams: A Midsummer Night’s Dream and its Contemporary Afterlives.”

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Nicholas E. Miller, Ph.D. @uncannydazzler.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Proud of my kids for showing up, standing out, and refusing silence—even in the rain. In a moment amplified by the killing of Renee Good, they chose visibility, solidarity, and care over ICE and its reign of terror. Photo shared by @stlpublicradio.bsky.social.

A rain-soaked teenage protester chants at a rally, holding a sign amid a crowded demonstration, with protest signs visible behind him.

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Nicholas E. Miller, Ph.D. @uncannydazzler.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

📘 PUBLICATION DAY 📘 My edited collection, Critical Approaches to Transmedia Storytelling in K-Pop, is now available for individual purchase and library acquisition via @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social. So grateful to the contributors who made this project possible! #Kpop #Transmedia #MediaStudies

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Critical Approaches to Transmedia Storytelling in K-Pop

In Critical Approaches to Transmedia Storytelling in K-Pop, contributors present a variety of compelling case studies to argue that K-pop has evolved beyond a m…

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Nicholas E. Miller, Ph.D. @uncannydazzler.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Even granting every bad decision made by a handful of twenty-somethings and their families, it is still unsettling to watch people cheer on HYBE. Corporate power does not need a fandom, y'all.

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Nicholas E. Miller, Ph.D. @uncannydazzler.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Less than two weeks until *Critical Approaches to Transmedia Storytelling in K-Pop* is out—and I just hit “send” on the follow-up volume, *The Cultural Politics of Transmedia Storytelling in K-Pop.* Editing overlapping collections was intense, but 2026 is the year of transmedia scholarship in K-pop.

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Nicholas E. Miller, Ph.D. @uncannydazzler.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

My edited collection *Critical Approaches to Transmedia Storytelling in K-Pop* is out soon (January 8!) with @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social and available for pre-order now: rebrand.ly/kpop-stories. This volume grew out of years of thinking with (and teaching) K-pop storyworlds. #CriticalKPop

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Critical Approaches to Transmedia Storytelling in K-Pop

In Critical Approaches to Transmedia Storytelling in K-Pop, contributors present a variety of compelling case studies to argue that K-pop has evolved beyond a m…

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Nicholas E. Miller, Ph.D. @uncannydazzler.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

When I stepped away from higher education about five years ago, I had no real sense of what it might mean to be a scholar working in a K–12 world. I knew the move was right for me and my family, but I was not sure whether I would even keep writing.

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Nicholas E. Miller, Ph.D. @uncannydazzler.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Excited to share that *Critical Approaches to Transmedia Storytelling in K-Pop* is now available for pre-order from @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social! This collection brings together an international group of scholars explores how K-pop reimagines narrative across media. www.bloomsbury.com/us/critical-...

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Critical Approaches to Transmedia Storytelling in K-Pop

In Critical Approaches to Transmedia Storytelling in K-Pop, contributors present a variety of compelling case studies to argue that K-pop has evolved beyond a m…

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Nicholas E. Miller, Ph.D. @uncannydazzler.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Behold the gatekeeper of productivity. She allows no edits to pass. It seems my plan to review page proofs has been thwarted.

Lucy (a gray kitten) sits on my laptop, looking grumpy while I try to work through page proofs for a forthcoming edited volume.

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Nicholas E. Miller, Ph.D. @uncannydazzler.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

My sister and her family attend the church in Michigan that was shot up and burned down today. Thankfully, they are safe—but deeply shaken. I’m struggling to hold it together myself, just two weeks after experiencing my own active shooter scare.

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Nicholas E. Miller, Ph.D. @uncannydazzler.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

A little late in posting, but my daughter and I had such a great time at the #VIVIZ concert in Kansas City! It was wonderful to step away from work for a night and enjoy K-pop live. Next up: #ARTMS in St. Louis this November!

Goofy surprised selfie with Eunha, both of us covering our mouths.

Classic “Shhh” pose with SinB, fingers to our lips.

Cool pose with Umji, chins cradled between our thumbs and forefingers.

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Nicholas E. Miller, Ph.D. @uncannydazzler.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

I figured this was coming, but the #PurpleKiss news still hits hard. Their debut MV remains one of my all-time favorites, and I am not sure we will ever see another track quite like "Sweet Juice."

Selfie of the user with Go Eun of Purple Kiss, both making peace signs toward the camera.

Selfie of the user with Chaein of Purple Kiss, both resting their chins on their hands in a playful pose.

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Nicholas E. Miller, Ph.D. @uncannydazzler.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Can we please stop calling certain words “GPT words”? They show up because LLMs were (unethically) trained on REAL WRITERS using ACTUAL LANGUAGE—including em dashes—that serve legitimate functions. These stochastic parrots do not get to claim ownership of the written word.

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Nicholas E. Miller, Ph.D. @uncannydazzler.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Editing is fun—until citation formatting comes for your soul.

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