Michael J. Preston is a professor emeritus of English at the University of Colorado Boulder, specializing in Middle English and early Renaissance literature, vernacular culture, folklore and traditional drama.
In 1976, a subspecies of Mexican lizard, Sceloporus torquatus mikeprestoni, was named in his honor by Hobart M. Smith and José Ticul Álvarez.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . ("Preston", p. 211).. www.reptile-database.org.
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