News Coverage

Reviews of The Ecological Plot

Diana Rose Newby, Review of The Ecological Plot.
ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment, July 9, 2025.

Mary Bowden, Review of The Ecological Plot.
Review 19, July 9, 2025.

Ernest Lee, Review of The Ecological Plot.
H-Net Reviews, June 10, 2025.

Pramod K. Nayar, Review of The Ecological Plot.
Modern Philology, June 10, 2025.

Lydia Millet, "How Darwin's Theories Influenced George Eliot and Other Novelists."
Washington Post, October 9, 2024.

Other Media Coverage

Kerrigan Swartz, "Prof. John MacNeill Miller Publishes First Book." 
The Campus, November 8, 2024.

Stephen Moss, "'The Bully of the Bird Table': How the Humble Starling Conquered the World."
Guardian, October 19, 2024.

Alex Johnson, "October Books Roundup."
Fine Books & Collections, October 2024.

"Is William Shakespeare to Blame for Any of America's Invasive Species?"
WiseGEEK, July 12, 2023.

Ben Naddaff-Hafrey, "Parakeet Panic."
The Last Archive Podcast, July 6, 2023.

Luca Amato, "Lo strano caso degli storno di Shakespeare como esempio econazionalismo americano." 
Pikaia, May 6, 2022.

"This Month in Birding – April 2022."
American Birding Podcast, April 28, 2022.

Jason Bittel, "The Starling and a Tall Tale."
New York Times, April 11, 2022.

Jeanine Farley, "Starlings may have no real link to Shakespeare, but they have gone from hero to villain to victim."
Cambridge Day, January 1, 2022.
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Joe Boggs, "Mesmerizing Murmuration."
Buckeye Yard and Garden Online Blog, December 16, 2021.

Kate St. John, "Introduced, But Not by Shakespeare."
Birds Outside My Window Blog, February 23, 2021.

Richard Stanley, "How Starlings and Shakespeare Led to a Flight of Misinformation."
Allegheny College News, February 16, 2021.

Lectures and Interviews

"ASLE Scholar of the Month: John MacNeill Miller."
Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment, March, 2025.

"Unsustainable Storytelling: Conservation Narratives and the Problem of Science Communication."
Experimental Curiosity Lecture Series, Lawrence Technological University, February 6, 2025.

"Online Book Talk: Miller, The Ecological Plot."
The Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities, University of Stavanger, Norway, September 9, 2024.

"Human Nature."
Pennsylvania Legacies Podcast, #142, April 19, 2021.

"A Story that Shaped the Sky: The Curious Case of Shakespeare's Starlings."
Biophilia: Pittsburgh Lecture, Phipps Conservatory & Botanical Gardens, January 2021.