Michael Hancher Prof Eng U of Minnesota Twin Cities Commons username: @hancher Twitter handle: MichaelHancher Mastodon handle: @MichaelHancher@hcommons.social ORCID iD: 0000-0001-9933-9239 mh.cla.umn.edu Following 18 members View ProfileActivitySites 10Following 18Followers 20Groups 11ForumsDocs Academic InterestsBook historyDigital humanitiesLawLexicographyLiteratureVictorian studies Commons GroupsMLADigital HumanitiesLLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century EnglishLSL Linguistics and LiteratureMLA Commons HelpTC Digital HumanitiesTC Philosophy and LiteratureTHATCampTM Bibliography and Scholarly EditingTM Book History, Print Cultures, LexicographyTM Literary CriticismTopic Modeling Recent Commons Activity deposited Virtual Displacement of Victo… in the group TM Book History, Print Cultur… deposited Virtual Displacement of Victo… in the group LLC Victorian and Early-20th-… deposited Virtual Displacement of Victo… AboutInterests include Victorian studies; book history; lexicography; pragmatics, literature, and the law; and digital humanities. Past president of Dictionary Society of North America (http://www.dictionarysociety.com/). Mastodon FeedUnfortunately (or not) it's true (as AI says) that AI still fails this basic Turing test. (2025-11-04 ↗)Just announced: Macaulay and English in India https://www.routledge.com/Macaulay-and-English-in-India/Hancher/p/book/9781032454849 (2025-10-28 ↗)"Physical books are also being threatened in what used to be their citadel: the library." Aiden and Michel, Uncharted (2014). For details, pro and con, see Duplicate Books, Facsimiles, and Weeds: A Bibliography with Excerpts, for Scholars and Librarians (2021), https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:33963/ (2025-06-04 ↗)"for now" https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=for+now&year_start=1800&year_end=2022&corpus=en&smoothing=3 (2025-06-03 ↗)New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1888-1928). Recent acquisition by Buffalo & Erie County Public Library (more volumes in another display case). #DSNA25 (2025-06-01 ↗) Blog Posts
