He has published articles on anecdotes, abridgements, and Edmund Spenser. His current projects include a monograph on the rhetoric of exemplarity, and a computer program that detects rhetorical figures of repetition and variation in literary texts. For more information on a similar talk facilitated by Michael please visit http://ullyot.ucalgaryblogs.ca/2016/10/17/the-cure-for-death-by-powerpoint/