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Monica Carol Miller

@monicacmiller.bsky.social

Assoc Prof of English at Middle Georgia State University. I write about the intersections of region, gender, & sometimes music The Tacky South; Being Ugly: Southern Women Writers and Social Rebellion; Dear Regina: Flannery O'Connor's Letters from Iowa

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For my 15th birthday in 1989, I got this Indigo Girls album, REM’s Green (after seeing them in concert), & Robyn Hitchcock’s Queen Elvis. I still listen to them often.

31.10.2025 00:16 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

1989 really was an amazing year for music. If you don’t know this Phranc album, you should.

31.10.2025 00:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yes yes yes! More people should know about that Phranc album.

31.10.2025 00:14 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Add a muddy bog and human skulls, ruin a candy

Raisinets in a muddy bog with several human skulls lying around

30.10.2025 23:24 β€” πŸ‘ 53    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0

I really enjoyed Higher Magic! You captured so much about academia and grad schoolβ€”the bad abd the good.

30.10.2025 01:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

That whole album is so good! I was in high school when it came out, and in choir we learned the choreography from the video for Rhythm Nation. It was intense!

30.10.2025 00:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It’s such a great book.

28.10.2025 02:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

From my before bed book stack, I just finished The Land of Sweet Forever (so good!) & am fixing to start reading Doll Partsβ€”which is making my internal jukebox even more chaotic than usual.

28.10.2025 01:47 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

How wonderful!

24.10.2025 14:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
I’m feeling cranky today, so I put on some Emmylou Harris music, which calms me down. And I remembered the time in high school that I blew out one of the speakers on my parents’ stereo, blasting Emmylou Harris. I have always been a badass.

I’m feeling cranky today, so I put on some Emmylou Harris music, which calms me down. And I remembered the time in high school that I blew out one of the speakers on my parents’ stereo, blasting Emmylou Harris. I have always been a badass.

In fact, I posted this earlier today.

24.10.2025 02:19 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I fully support this. Honestly, most of Emmylou Harris’s albums.

24.10.2025 02:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

And now I've reached the part of the day where I just want to listen to Big Star's Thirteen on repeat. So I shall. Yay for headphones!

23.10.2025 20:30 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm feeling cranky today, so I put on some Emmylou Harris music, which calms me down. And I remembered the time in high school that I blew out one of the speakers on my parents' stereo, blasting Emmylou Harris too loudly. I have always been a badass :)

23.10.2025 17:44 β€” πŸ‘ 55    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Interesting! I’ll see what I can find.

22.10.2025 23:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Even in magical universities. There are still student success portals to log onto to access the early alert system.

21.10.2025 01:10 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I’m so glad that I learned about this novel from @scalzi.com (that @markensley.bsky.social pointed me to). I’m 60 pages in, & I’m fascinated by magic in this world.
And, as an English prof myself, I’m also fascinated by how @courtney-floyd.com has brought so much of academia & teaching to this world

21.10.2025 01:05 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

It’s a funnier book than I expectedβ€”her sense of humor reminds me some of your sense of humor.

19.10.2025 20:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Thursday, November 6, 12:00 PM ET, Online Information Session for Graduate Programs in the School of Arts and Letters at Middle Georgia State University.

Thursday, November 6, 12:00 PM ET, Online Information Session for Graduate Programs in the School of Arts and Letters at Middle Georgia State University.

There's still plenty of time to register for our upcoming online information session about our graduate programs in the School of Arts and Letters at Middle Georgia State University.

19.10.2025 18:52 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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UT Professor Shines Light on Virginia Woolf - College of Arts and Sciences UT Professor Urmila Seshagiri’s scholarship provides context for Virginia Woolf’s first fully realized work of fiction in The Life of Violet: Three Early Stories. A century after Virginia Woolf became...

Yepβ€”discovered by a professor at my alma mater.

artsci.utk.edu/ut-professor...

19.10.2025 15:25 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

@robynhitchcock.bsky.social Have you read The Life of Violet, the new Virginia Woolf, yet? It strikes me as humor that you would enjoy.

19.10.2025 00:10 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Dolly’s okay ❀️

08.10.2025 02:36 β€” πŸ‘ 45    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 7

I had this cassette.

07.10.2025 00:05 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Ooh, this sounds fantastic! Congratulations-I look forward to reading this.

06.10.2025 23:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

There’s one book of hers that had me laughing well beyond cryingβ€”I was laughing to the point of dry heaving.

06.10.2025 23:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

But puns are always welcome, too ❀️

30.09.2025 02:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

(But I do hear you and see you. Please know that if you need a break, there’s plenty to take up the slack, if you need it.)

30.09.2025 02:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is like the anti-spelling bee thing that my high school calculus teacher did. If you got a question correct, you got to sit down.

30.09.2025 02:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I sent myself a reminder about prepping for an upcoming class: β€œget wise blood.”
And now I’m imagining several ways that this message might be misunderstood.

30.09.2025 00:37 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

How wonderful!

29.09.2025 00:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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