Check out the obituary of J. Hillis Miller, a towering figure in the “Yale School,” along with Geoffrey Hartman, Paul de Man, and Jacques Derrida (whose work we’ll read soon). Miller and his confreres revolutionized the way we read in ways we’ll explore in some detail through the work of Derrida and Barbara Johnson (one of the first generation of critics trained at Yale by Miller et al.).

Bonus points for anyone who can find the Nietzsche reference in the obit…

J. Hillis Miller, 92, Dies; Helped Revolutionize Literary Studies

He was most closely associated with the Yale School, which took on the foundations of literary scholarship in the 1970s and ’80s. J. Hillis Miller, a literary critic who, by applying the wickedly difficult analytic method known as deconstruction to a broad range of British and American prose and poetry, helped revolutionize the study of literature, died on Feb.