JOSEPH VISCOMI
509 North Street http://english.unc.edu/faculty/viscomij.html
Chapel Hill, NC 27514
email: jsviscom@email.unc.edu
EDUCATION:
1980 Ph.D.
English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
major: Romantic Movement in
Literature and Art
minors: Modern Drama;
Descriptive Bibliography
Dissertation: The
Workshop of William Blake
1974 M.A. English and Comparative Literature,
Columbia University
Thesis: "The Image of
the Artist in Byron's Manfred"
1973 Ph.B.
Humanities, Monteith College, Wayne St. University
1972 Paris,
France: Independent Study in
French and Modern Art
1971, 1970 Interlochen
Arts Academy, Interlochen, Michigan (June-Aug)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
2000- James
G. Kenan Distinguished Professor of English Literature, UNC at Chapel Hill
1993-99 L.
M. Slifkin Professor of Literature, UNC, Chapel Hill
1990-94 Associate
Professor, English, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
1984-90 Assistant
Professor, English, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
1983-84 Visiting
Assistant Professor, English, Art History, Theater Arts, Cornell University
1981-83 Mellon
Fellow in the Humanities, English, Art History, Cornell University
1981-83 Technical
Consultant, Manchester Etching Workshop
1982-84 Technical
Consultant, Department of Prints, Johnson Museum, Ithaca, N.Y.
1982-83 Guest
Curator, Department of Rare Books, Olin Library, Cornell University
1982-83 Guest
Curator, Department of Prints and Drawings, Johnson Museum, Ithaca, N.Y.
1980-81 Assistant
Professor, English and Humanities, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and
State University
1980 Instructor,
Department of English, Columbia University
1977-79 Preceptor,
Department of English, General Studies, Columbia University
1976-77 Curator,
Theater Exhibition, Museum of the City of N.Y. and 5 other museums
1975-76 Curatorial
Assistant, Toy Collection, Museum of the City of New York
1974-76 Adjunct
Lecturer, English, Kingsborough Community College, Brooklyn
1974-75 Curatorial/Research
Asst., Dept. of Paintings, Prints, and Photographs, Museum
of the City of New York
1973-74 Instructor,
Education Department, Museum of the City of New York
FELLOWSHIPS AND HONORS:
2007 Inducted,
Lewis Round Wilson Academy, SILS, UNC
2007 Scholar-in-Residence,
Rockefeller Study Center, Bellagio, Italy
2006 Knowledge
Trust Exploration Award
2006-07 National
Humanities Center Fellowship
2006 UNC
Research and Economic Development Grant
2005 MLA
Committee for Scholarly Editions, An Approved Edition, Blake Archive
2003 MLA
Prize for Distinguished Scholarly Edition, for the Blake Archive
2001 Fellowship
in the Humanities, Institute for the Arts and Humanities, UNC
2000 James
G. Kenan Distinguished Professor of English Literature, UNC at Chapel Hill
2000-03 NEH
Preservation and Access Grant for the William Blake Archive
1993-99 L.
M. Slifkin Distinguished Term Professor of Literature, UNC, Chapel Hill
1999 UNC-IBM
Curriculum Innovation Grant, for Study Guide to the Blake Archive
1998 UNC
ChancellorÕs Information Technology Grant, for Blake Archive
1997 UNC
ChancellorÕs Information Technology Grant, for Media Lab
1997-98 Mellon
Centre for British Art Grant for the William Blake Archive
1995-98 Getty
Grant Program for the William Blake Archive
1996 Sun
Microsystems Equipment Grant for the William Blake Archive
1996-98 Networked
Associate Fellow, Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities,
UVa
1995-96 Fellow-in-Residence,
Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, UVa
1995 UNC
Research Fellowship
1992 Scholar-in-Residence,
Rockefeller Study Center, Bellagio, Italy
1992 Getty
Grant Program for Publication of Blake
and the Idea of the Book
1992 UNC
College Endowment Committee Grant for Publication
1991-92 John
Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship
1990 UNC
Research Fellowship
1990 Southern
Region Educational Board Travel Grant
1990 UNC
Research Council Grant
1989 UNC
College Endowment Committee Grant for Publication (two)
1988 Lurcy
Fellowship in the Humanities, Institute for the Arts and Humanities, UNC
1988 Summer
Fellowship in the Institute for the Arts and Humanities, UNC
1987 Fellow-in-Residence,
Huntington Library and Art Gallery
1987 Fellow-in-Residence,
Yale Center for British Art
1987 UNC
Faculty Development Grant
1985-86 NEH
Fellowship for Independent Study and Research
1985-86 UNC
Research Council Grant
1983-84 Council
for Creative and Performing Arts Grant, Cornell University
1982-83 Council
for Creative and Performing Arts Grant, Cornell University
1981-83 Mellon
Fellowship in the Humanities, Cornell University
1981 NEH
Summer Fellowship
1981 Virginia
Polytechnic Institute and State University Summer Grant
1981 American
Philosophical Society Grant
1979-80 Whiting
Fellowship in the Humanities, Columbia University
1977; 1980 Ph.D.
qualifying examinations and dissertation passed with distinction
1976-77 NEH
Youth Grant
1970-73 Academic
Scholarship to Monteith College, Wayne State University
1968, 69, 70 Painting honors in Detroit
and Michigan competitions
1969, 70 Forensic
honors in original oratory in Detroit and Michigan competition
MEMBERSHIPS:
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Association for Documentary Editing
International Society for Textual Studies and Scholarship
Modern Language Association
North American Society for the Study of Romanticism
Wordsworth-Coleridge Association
BOOKS:
Blake
and the Idea of the Book, Volume I: The Production, Editing, and
Dating of Illuminated Books (424 pages + 325 illustrations). Princeton University Press, 1993. One
of CHOICEÕs Outstanding Academic Books of 1994.
Co-editor, with Morris Eaves and Robert
Essick, William Blake's Illuminated Books,
volume 3: All Religions are One, There is No Natural Religion, The Book of Thel, Visions of the Daughters of Albion, and The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. The William Blake Trust, in
conjunction with the Tate Gallery and Princeton Univ. Press, 1993. Paperback
edition, 1998.
Co-editor, with Robert Essick, William Blake's Illuminated Books,
volume 5: Milton a Poem, The Ghost of Abel, On Homers Poetry [&]On Virgil, and The Laocošn. The William Blake Trust, in conjunction with the Tate
Gallery and Princeton Univ. Press, 1993. Paperback edition, 1998.
Volumes 3 and 5, part of a six volume
series, consist of newly edited texts, textual notes, facsimile reproductions,
and variants. The introductions to each book consist of detailed commentaries
on the book's production history, context, major themes, designs, and variants.
Volume 3 also includes a general introduction on Blake's printing techniques.
CATALOGUES AND
MONOGRAPHS:
The
Art of William Blake's Illuminated Prints, Manchester
Etching Workshop, 1983.
Accompanies the M.E.W. facsimile and monochrome editions of the Songs of Innocence and of Experience and
issued separately in 1984 in a limited numbered edition.
Blake
at Cornell: Checklist of Original
and Reproductive Engravings.
Cornell University Libraries Publications, 1984 (36 p).
Prints
by Blake and His Followers, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art
Publications, 1983 (36 p).
William
Blake, Illustrator and Poet, Olin Graduate Library, Cornell
University, Cornell University Libraries Publications, 1983 (22 p).
The
Juvenile Drama: Playing with the
Toy Theater, N.Y.: Mava Press, 1977 (100 p). Includes essay on the conditions and
development of the English Theater, 1800-50.
HUMANITIES COMPUTING PROJECTS:
The William Blake Archive
<http://www.blakearchive.org
>. Co-editor/creator with
Robert Essick and Morris Eaves of a hypertext of Blake's poetry and art, based
on approximately 5500 images (2/3rds from the illuminated books and 1/3rd from
Blake's paintings, drawings, and engravings) transferred to digital form.
Conceived and designed in 1993-95, and a free site on the World Wide Web since
1996, the Archive is an international public resource that provides unified
access to major works of visual and literary art that are highly disparate,
widely dispersed, and often severely restricted as a result of their value,
rarity, and extreme fragility. As of this writing, the Archive contains fully
searchable and scalable electronic editions of 67 copies of BlakeÕs 19
illuminated works in the context of full, up-to-date bibliographic information
about each image, scrupulous ÒdiplomaticÓ transcriptions of all texts, detailed
descriptions of all images, and extensive bibliographies. It also contains a
PreView wing in which many hundreds of prints, paintings, and
drawings—including all the illustrations to MiltonÕs poetry, DanteÕs
Divine Comedy, The Book of Job, BlairÕs The Grave, and GrayÕs poetry—are
available for study without being fully searchable. Also in the Archive are
general bibliographies, collection lists, a searchable electronic version of
David V. ErdmanÕs Complete Poetry and
Prose of William Blake (the standard printed edition for reference), an
illustrated biography and essay on illuminated printing, chronology, and
glossary of terms.
About the Archive:
"Editorial Principles," "The Archive at a Glance,"
"Plan of the Archive" (with
Morris Eaves and Robert Essick) http://www.blakearchive.org/public/about/index.html. (1999; revised and expanded, 2003)
Updates/Publication
notices from the William Blake Archive (November 1996-September 2008) http://www.blakearchive.org/public/update.html
About Blake: ÒAn Illustrated Blake BiographyÓ and
ÒChronologyÓ (with Denise Vultee, Morris Eaves, and Robert Essick, includes 109
reproductions that exemplify the range of his artistic accomplishments) http://www.blakearchive.org/about-blake.html (2003)
The Study Guide to the William Blake
Archive <http://sites.unc.edu/~tb/fall99/index.html>
(1999-2000), created with Denise Vultee, includes bibliographies, study and
essay questions, introductions. (Currently off line)
Electronic Editions in the Blake Archive, co-edited with
Morris Eaves and Robert Essick:
William Blake. The
Book of Thel copies L and R. September 2008.
<http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/work.xq?workid=thel&java=yes>
William Blake. Illustrations to John
Milton's Paradise
Lost, the Linnell set, and "On
the Morning of Christ's Nativity," the Butts set. July 2008
http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/work.xq?workid=but537&java=yes
William Blake. The
Marriage of Heaven and Hell copies K, L, and M. June 2008.
<http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/work.xq?workid=mhh&java=yes>
William Blake. Illustrations to John
MiltonÕs Paradise
Lost, the Butts set. April 2008.
<http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/copy.xq?copyid=but536.1&java=yes>
William Blake. Milton a Poem copy A. March 2008.
<http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/copy.xq?copyid=milton.a&java=yes>
BlakeÕs
illustrations to MiltonÕs Paradise
Lost, the Thomas set. January 2008.
<http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/work.xq?workid=but529&java=yes>
William Blake. America a Prophecy copy F. December 2007.
<http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/copy.xq?copyid=america.f&java=yes>
Blake's
illustrations to Milton's "Comus," the Butts set.
October 2007.
<http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/work.xq?workid=but528&java=yes>
William Blake. Songs of Innocence and of Experience
copy T. September 2007.
<http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/copy.xq?copyid=songsie.t&java=yes>
Blake's
illustrations to Milton's "Comus," the Thomas set.
June 2007.
<http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/work.xq?workid=but527&java=yes>
William Blake. Songs of Innocence and of Experience
copy B. April 2007.
<http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/copy.xq?copyid=songsie.b&java=yes>
William Blake. Songs of Innocence and of Experience
copy A. April 2007.
<http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/copy.xq?copyid=songsie.a&java=yes>
William Blake.
Engraved Illustrations to Edward Young, Night Thoughts, uncolored copy.
February 2007.
<http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/copy.xq?copyid=bb515.1&java=yes>
William Blake.
Engraved Illustrations to Edward Young, Night Thoughts, colored copy.
February 2007.
<http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/copy.xq?copyid=bb515.2&java=yes>
William Blake. Visions of the Daughters of Albion copy O.
December 2006.
<http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/copy.xq?copyid=vda.o&java=yes>
William Blake. Visions of the Daughters of Albion copy B. December 2006.
<http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/copy.xq?copyid=vda.b&java=yes>
William Blake. Water Color Illustrations to Robert Blair's The Grave.
November 2006.
<http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/work.xq?workid=butwba10&java=yes>
William Blake. The Book of Urizen
copy D. October 2006.
<http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/copy.xq?copyid=urizen.d&java=yes>
William Blake. Sketchbook Containing Drawings for the Engraved Illustrations to the
Book of Job. September 2006.
<http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/work.xq?workid=but557&java=yes>
William Blake. The Book of
Job watercolors, the Linnell set. September
2006.
<http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/work.xq?workid=but551&java=yes>
William Blake. ÒThe Order of the SongsÓ
Manuscript. June 2006.
<http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/work.xq?workid=bb125&java=yes>
William Blake. Songs of Innocence and of Experience
copy Y. June 2006.
<http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/copy.xq?copyid=songsie.y&java=yes>
William Blake. Songs of Innocence and of Experience
copy V. June 2006.
<http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/copy.xq?copyid=songsie.v&java=yes>
WBA
2006, our first XML-based Archive, involving essential upgrades in technology
and shift to open source software. May 2006.
<http://www.blakearchive.org/blake/>
Redesigned and expanded
Bibliographies for the study of Blake and Collection Lists of contributors to
the Archive. July 2005.
<http://www.blakearchive.org/blake/resources.html>
BlakeÕs 116
water color illustrations to Thomas GrayÕs Poems. April 2005.
<http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/work.xq?workid=but335&java=yes>
BlakeÕs 7
engraved illustrations to DanteÕs Divine Comedy. January 2005.
<http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/work.xq?workid=bb448&java=yes>
BlakeÕs 102
watercolor illustrations to DanteÕs Divine Comedy. January 2005.
<http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/work.xq?workid=but812&java=yes>
William Blake. The Large Color Print Drawings. November 2004.
<http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/work.xq?workid=but327&java=yes>
William Blake. Visions of the Daughters of Albion
copy A. June 2004.
<http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/copy.xq?copyid=vda.a&java=yes>
William Blake. Visions of the Daughters of Albion
copy a. June 2004.
<http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/copy.xq?copyid=vda.a-proof&java=yes>
William Blake. The Song of Los
copy D. May 2004.
<http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/copy.xq?copyid=s-los.d&java=yes>
William Blake. The Song of Los
copy A. May 2004.
<http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/copy.xq?copyid=s-los.a&java=yes>
William Blake. Europe a Prophecy copy H. April 2004.
<http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/copy.xq?copyid=europe.h&java=yes>
William Blake. America a Prophecy copy M. March 2004.
<http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/copy.xq?copyid=america.m&java=yes>
About Blake: ÒIlluminated Printing,Ó with 95
illustrations. February 2004.
<http://www.blakearchive.org/saxon/servlet/SaxonServlet?source=blake/documents/illum.xml&style=blake/shared/styles/wba.xsl>
Blake's
illustrations to Milton's Paradise Regained. December 2003.
<http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/work.xq?workid=but544&java=yes>
Blake's
illustrations to Milton's "On the Morning of Christ's
Nativity". December 2003.
<http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/work.xq?workid=but538&java=yes>
Blake's
separate plate of Deaths Door. November 2003.
<http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/work.xq?workid=esxiii&java=yes>
Blake's
illustrations to Robert Blair's The
Grave. November
2003.
<
http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/work.xq?workid=bb435&java=yes>
William Blake. The Book of Urizen
copy B. October 2003.
<http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/copy.xq?copyid=urizen.b&java=yes>
About
Blake: Biography of Blake, with Denise Vultee.
September 2003.
<http://www.blakearchive.org/saxon/servlet/SaxonServlet?source=blake/documents/biography.xml&style=blake/shared/styles/wba.xsl>
William Blake. Jerusalem, the Emanation of the Giant
Albion
copy E. March 2003.
<http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/copy.xq?copyid=jerusalem.e&java=yes>
William Blake. Illustrations of the Book of Job
[engravings]. December 2002.
<http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/work.xq?workid=bb421&java=yes>
William Blake. The Book of Urizen copy F. September 2002.
<http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/copy.xq?copyid=urizen.f&java=yes>
William Blake. The
Book of Urizen copy C. September 2002.
<
http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/copy.xq?copyid=urizen.c&java=yes>
William Blake. The
Book of Urizen copy A. September 2002.
<http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/copy.xq?copyid=urizen.a&java=yes>
William Blake. LÕAllegro
and Il Penseroso manuscripts. June 2002.
<http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/work.xq?workid=but543&java=yes>
William Blake. LÕAllegro
and Il Penseroso
watercolors. June 2002.
<http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/work.xq?workid=but543&java=yes>
Resources for Further
Research: ÒCollection
Lists of Contributing Institutions,Ó ÒBibliographies of Reference and Scholarly
Sources pertaining to Blake.Ó April 2002.
<http://www.blakearchive.org/blake/resources.html>
William Blake. The
Book of Job watercolors, the Butts set. February
2002.
<http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/work.xq?workid=but550&java=yes>
William Blake. Visions
of the Daughters of Albion copy P. October 2001.
<http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/copy.xq?copyid=vda.p&java=yes>
William Blake. The
Marriage of Heaven and Hell copy G. October 2001.
<http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/copy.xq?copyid=mhh.g&java=yes>
William Blake. Europe
a Prophecy copy K. March 2001.
<http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/copy.xq?copyid=europe.k&java=yes>
William Blake. America
a Prophecy copy O. March 2001.
<http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/copy.xq?copyid=america.o&java=yes>
William Blake. The
Marriage of Heaven and Hell copy I. April 2000.
<http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/copy.xq?copyid=mhh.i&java=yes>
William Blake. The
Marriage of Heaven and Hell copy H. April 2000.
<http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/copy.xq?copyid=mhh.h&java=yes>
Electronic
edition of David V. ErdmanÕs Complete Poetry and Prose
of William Blake. February 2000.
<http://www.blakearchive.org/blake/erdman.html>
William Blake. Songs
of Innocence and of Experience copy AA. December 1999.
<http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/copy.xq?copyid=songsie.aa&java=yes>
William Blake. Songs
of Innocence and of Experience copy R. December 1999.
<http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/copy.xq?copyid=songsie.r&java=yes>
William Blake. Visions
of the Daughters of Albion copy G. September 1999.
<http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/copy.xq?copyid=vda.g&java=yes>
William Blake. The
Book of Thel copy J. September 1999.
<http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/copy.xq?copyid=thel.j&java=yes>
William Blake. Songs
of Innocence copy U. August 1999.
<http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/copy.xq?copyid=s-inn.u&java=yes>
William Blake. Songs
of Innocence
copy B. August 1999.
<http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/copy.xq?copyid=s-inn.b&java=yes>
William Blake. Gates
of Paradise: For Children copy D. June 1999.
<http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/copy.xq?copyid=gates-child.d&java=yes>
William Blake. Gates
of Paradise: For the Sexes copy D. June 1999.
<http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/copy.xq?copyid=gates-sexes.d&java=yes>
William Blake. The
Marriage of Heaven and Hell copy F. April 1999.
<http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/copy.xq?copyid=mhh.f&java=yes>
William Blake. The
Marriage of Heaven and Hell copy C. April 1999.
<http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/copy.xq?copyid=mhh.c&java=yes>
William Blake. Songs
of Innocence and of Experience copy L. March 1999.
<http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/copy.xq?copyid=songsie.l&java=yes>
William Blake. Songs
of Innocence and of Experience copy F. March 1999.
<http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/copy.xq?copyid=songsie.f&java=yes>
William Blake. Songs
of Innocence and of Experience copy C. March 1999.
<http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/copy.xq?copyid=songsie.c&java=yes>
About the
Archive: ÒEditorial
Principles and Methodology,Ó ÒArchive at a Glance,Ó ÒTechnical Summary,Ó
ÒFAQs,Ó ÒPlan of Archive,Ó Bibliography of articles by editors and about
Archive/. January 1999.
<http://www.blakearchive.org/blake/public/about/index.html>
William Blake. Laocoon copy B. October 1998.
<http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/copy.xq?copyid=laocoon.b&java=yes>
William Blake. On
Homers Poetry [and] On Virgil copy F. October 1998.
<http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/copy.xq?copyid=homer.f&java=yes>
William Blake. On
Homers Poetry [and] On Virgil copy B. October 1998.
<http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/copy.xq?copyid=homer.b&java=yes>
William Blake. The
Ghost of Abel copy A. October 1998.
<http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/copy.xq?copyid=abel.a&java=yes>
William Blake. Milton:
a Poem
copy C. July 1998.
<http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/copy.xq?copyid=milton.c&java=yes>
William Blake. There
is No Natural Religion copy L. July 1998.
<http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/copy.xq?copyid=nnr.l&java=yes>
William Blake. There
is No Natural Religion copy G. July 1998.
<http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/copy.xq?copyid=nnr.g&java=yes>
William Blake. There
is No Natural Religion copy C. July 1998.
<http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/copy.xq?copyid=nnr.c&java=yes>
William Blake. There
is No Natural Religion copy B. July 1998.
<http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/copy.xq?copyid=nnr.b&java=yes>
William Blake. All
Religions are One copy A. July 1998.
<http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/copy.xq?copyid=aro.a&java=yes>
William Blake. Visions
of the Daughters of Albion copy F. April 1998.
<http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/copy.xq?copyid=vda.f&java=yes>
William Blake. The
Book of Los copy A. April 1998.
<http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/copy.xq?copyid=b-los.a&java=yes>
William Blake. The
Book of Ahania copy A. April 1998.
<http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/copy.xq?copyid=ahania.a&java=yes>
William Blake. Song
of Los copy B. April 1998.
<http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/copy.xq?copyid=s-los.b&java=yes>
William Blake. Europe, a Prophecy copy E. April 1998.
<http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/copy.xq?copyid=europe.e&java=yes>
William Blake. America,
a Prophecy copy A. April 1998.
<http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/copy.xq?copyid=america.a&java=yes>
William Blake. The
Book of Urizen copy G. April 1998.
<http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/copy.xq?copyid=urizen.g&java=yes>
William Blake. Europe,
a Prophecy copy B. February 1998.
<http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/copy.xq?copyid=europe.b&java=yes>
William Blake. America,
a Prophecy copy E. February 1998.
<http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/copy.xq?copyid=america.e&java=yes>
William Blake. Songs
of Innocence and of Experience copy Z. February 1998.
<http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/copy.xq?copyid=songsie.z&java=yes>
William Blake. The
Marriage of Heaven and Hell copy D. February 1998.
<http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/copy.xq?copyid=mhh.d&java=yes>
William Blake. Visions
of the Daughters of Albion copy J. November 1996.
<http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/copy.xq?copyid=vda.j&java=yes>
William Blake. Visions
of the Daughters of Albion copy C. November 1996.
<http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/copy.xq?copyid=vda.c&java=yes>
William Blake. The
Book of Thel copy O. November 1996.
<http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/copy.xq?copyid=thel.o&java=yes>
William Blake. The
Book of Thel copy H. November 1996.
<http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/copy.xq?copyid=thel.h&java=yes>
William Blake. The
Book of Thel copy F. November 1996.
<http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/copy.xq?copyid=thel.f&java=yes>
forthcoming in the Blake Archive:
illuminated books: The Book of Thel copies a, B, D, G, and
I, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
copies B and E, Songs of Innocence
copies D, G, I, L, and X, Songs of
Innocence and of Experience,
copies E, K, N, and O, Visions of
the Daughters of Albion copies E and I, Milton:
a Poem copies B and D, America, a
Prophecy copies B, H, and I, Europe, a Prophecy copies A, D, and L, Song of Los copies C, E, and F, Jerusalem:
the Emanation of the Giant Albion copies A, F, and I.
non-illuminated works: the Island in the Moon ms., Four Zoas ms., Tiriel ms., Notebook ms. Pickering Manuscript, Descriptive Catalogue, Poetical Sketches, Annotations to
LavaterÕs Aphorisms, engravings,
sketches, and watercolors to Chaucer's
Canterbury Pilgrims, YoungÕs Night
Thoughts (537), all commercial
engravings, book illustrations, and original separate prints and prints in
series, and all drawings and sketches from the British Museum, British Library,
Library of Congress, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Victoria and
Albert Museum, Fogg Museum, Tate Britain, Yale Center for British Art,
Fitzwilliam Museum, National Gallery of Victoria, Morgan Library and Museum,
and Huntington Library and Art Gallery.
Seminars with online
syllabi and extensive resource pages:
Humanities
Computing and Digital Editing
(2008)
http://sites.unc.edu/viscomi/841/syllabus.html
Resource Site on Scholarly Editing,
Textual Criticism, and Hypertext Theory at <http://sites.unc.edu/viscomi/841/
>[userid: blake; password: songs]
The Romantic Revolution in
the Arts (2005)
http://sites.unc.edu/viscomi/honors.355.syl
Electronic
course pack with extra readings and selected criticism at:
<http://sites.unc.edu/viscomi/romrev>
[userid: blake; password: Catherine]
William
Blake and Hypertext Resource Page
<http://www.unc.edu/~jsviscom/372 >
(1997).
Select
Bibliography on Hypertext, its theory, history, and practice.
Jerusalem, copy E, an Introduction and Hypermedia
Edition of plates 15, 35, 53, and 94, prepared by graduate students at the
University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill) under the direction of Joseph
Viscomi <http://sites.unc.edu/blake/jerusalem.html
> [username: blake; password: enitharmon] (1997).
ARTICLES: (all Blake articles are online at
http://english.unc.edu/faculty/viscomij.html)
ÒBlakeÕs Illuminated Word.Ó Word and Image in Art. Ed. Michael Leaman. London: Reaktion
Books Ltd. (forthcoming, 2008; online with 17 illustrations at
<http://sites.unc.edu/viscomi/illword/>).
ÒBlakeÕs Relief
Etching Process: A Simplified Account,Ó from The Art of William Blake's Illuminated Prints, Manchester Etching
Workshop (1983), reprinted in BlakeÕs
Poetry and Designs, Norton Critical Edition, second edition, revised, NY:
Norton and Company, 2008.
ÒBlakeÕs
ÔAnnus MirabilisÕ: the Productions of 1795.Ó Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly (Fall 2007). 52-83 + 43 illus. Refereed article. Online with 49 color
illustrations at <http://www.rochester.edu/college/eng/blake/1795/1795/index.html>
ÒWordsworthÕs
Dramatic Anti-Picturesque: Burke, Gilpin, and ÔLines left upon a Seat in a
Yew-treeÕ.Ó Romantic
Circles Scholarly Resource
(Summer 2007). Refereed
article. <http://www.rc.umd.edu/reference/viscomi_yewtree/viscomi_yewtree.pdf
>
ÒWordsworth,
Gilpin, and the Vacant Mind.Ó The
Wordsworth Circle 38.1-2 (Winter/Spring 2007), 40-49, special issue in
honor of Karl Kroeber. Eds. Steven
Jones and Toby Benis. Refereed
article. Also online at <http://www.rc.umd.edu/reference/wcircle/viscomi.pdf>
ÒAn Inquiry into William BlakeÕs Method
of Color PrintingÓ (with Robert Essick). Blake/An
Illustrated Quarterly (Winter 2001/02): 73-102 + 50 illus. Refereed article.
Online version, with 81 color illustrations, at the QuarterlyÕs webstite: <www.blakequarterly.org >.
"The
Persistence of Vision: Images and Imaging at the William Blake Archive"
(with Morris Eaves, Robert Essick, and Matthew Kirschenbaum). RLG DigiNews 4.1
(February 2000) <http://www.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/diginews 4-1.html>
ÒStandards, Methods, Objectives of the William Blake
Archive: A Response to Mary Lynn Johnson, Andrew Cooper, and Michael SimpsonÓ
(with Morris Eaves, Robert Essick, and Matthew Kirschenbaum). The Wordsworth Circle (Summer 1999):
135-144.
"In the Caves of Heaven and Hell:
Swedenborg and Printmaking in Blake's Marriage"
[Part III of The Evolution of William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell], in Blake in the Nineties.
Eds. Steven Clark and David Worrall. London:
Macmillan, 1999. 27-60 + 6 illus.
"Lessons of Swedenborg: or, the
Origin of Blake's The Marriage of Heaven
and Hell" [Part II. of The Evolution of William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell], in Lessons of Romanticism. Eds. Robert Gleckner and Thomas
Pfau. Durham, N.C.: Duke
University Press, 1998. 173-212 + 4 illus.
"The Evolution of William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell"
[Part I]. Huntington
Library Quarterly 58.3&4 (1996): 281-344 + 10 illus.
"Blake's Death" (with Dr. Lane
Robson, MD), Blake/An Illustrated
Quarterly (Fall, 1996): 36-49 + 12 illus. Refereed article.
"A 'Green House' for Butts? New
Information about Thomas Butts, His Residences, and Family." Blake/An
Illustrated Quarterly (Summer, 1996): 4-21 + 7 illus. Refereed article.
"Blake in the Marketplace 1852:
Thomas Butts, Jr. and Other Unknown Nineteenth-century Blake
Collectors." Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly (Fall,
1995): 40-69 + 8 illus. Refereed
article.
"William Blake's 'The Phoenix / to
Mrs. Butts' Redux." Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly 29
(Summer, 1995): 12-15 + 2 illus.
Refereed article.
"A
Breach in a City, the Morning After the Battle: Lost or Found?" Blake/An
Illustrated Quarterly (Fall, 1994): 44-59 + 14 illus. Refereed article.
"William Blake, Illuminated Books,
and the Concept of Difference," in Essays
on Romanticism. Ed. Karl Kroeber and Gene Ruoff. New Brunswick: Rutgers
University Press, 1993. 63-87.
"The Myth of Commissioned
Illuminated Books: George Romney,
Isaac D'Israeli, and `ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY designs . . . of
Blake's'." Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly 23
(Autumn, 1989): 48-74 + 14
illus. Refereed article.
"Reading, Drawing, Seeing
Illuminated Books," in Approaches to
Teaching William Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience. Ed. R. Gleckner and M. Greenberg. New York: MLA, 1989. 67‑73. Refereed article.
"Recreating Blake: the M.E.W. Blake
Facsimiles." Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly 19
(Summer, 1985): 4-23 + 12 illus.
Refereed article.
"Forgery or Facsimile? An
Examination of America copy B, plates
4 and 9," Blake/An Illustrated
Quarterly 16 (Spring, 1983): 217-223 + 4 illus. Refereed article.
"Blake's Workshop," Studies in Romanticism 21 (Fall, 1982): 404-409. Refereed article.
REVIEWS:
Morris Eaves, The Counter-Arts Conspiracy: Art and Industry in the Age of Blake. The Wordsworth Circle (Fall 1993):
205-210. (Review-essay).
Raymond Lister, Samuel Palmer: His Life
and Art. Studies in Romanticism 30 (Summer 1991): 298-305.
Robert N. Essick, The Separate Plates of William Blake, A Catalogue. The
Wordsworth Circle (Fall, 1988): 212-218. (Review-essay).
Martin Meisel, Realizations: Narrative,
Pictorial, and Theatrical Arts in 19th c. England. Studies
in Romanticism 25 (Winter, 1986): 561-567. (Review-essay).
Selections
from William Blake's Songs, an album by Gregory Forbes, and Companion to the New Musical Settings. Blake/An
Illustrated Quarterly 19 (Fall, 1985): 84-89 (with M. LaFrance).
Blake's
Designs for Young's Night Thoughts. Ed. Erdman et al. Philological Quarterly (Fall, 1982): 539-4 (with D. Welch).
Blake's
Designs for Young's Night Thoughts. Ed. Erdman et al. Fine Print (Spring, 1982): 49-50.
WORKS EDITED:
Wordsworth's
Romantic Landscape: Nature and
Books [exhibition catalogue by Mark L. Reed of
Wordsworth's canon as published in his lifetime], University of North Carolina,
Wilson Library, November, 1988.
Assisted in editing the Blake section of The Norton Anthology of English Literature,
fifth, sixth, and seventh editions.
Ed. M. H. Abrams, et al. New York:
W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. 1986-2003.
Process
& Problems in Contemporary Printmaking [exhibition
catalogue of prints by John Brody], Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art Publications,
1984.
OTHER:
Reader for PMLA, Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly, Studies in
Philology, Eighteenth Century Studies,
The Art Bulletin, European Romantic Review, Literature Compass, Princeton University
Press, University of Toronto Press, Wayne State University Press, and The
William Blake Trust, 1984-08.
Advisory and Editorial Boards:
Blake/An Illustrated
Quarterly
Romantic Circles <http://www.rc.umd.edu/indexjava.html>,
Romantic Circles Virtual Art Gallery
William Blake Trust
European Romantic Review
i.biblio.org
Annals of the University of Craiova (Romanian and Comparative Literature Series)
Consultant: Morgan Library and Museum, bibliographical
descriptions of illuminated books for exhibition, 2008.
Consultant: SwannÕs of New York, to authenticate
Blake material, August 2004
Consultant: ChristieÕs of London, to
authenticate 3 Blake prints, August 2001.
Consultant: ChristieÕs of New York, to
authenticate Blake print, July 1999.
Consultant: Houghton Library,
Harvard University, to authenticate Blake drawing, September 1997.
Consultant: Pierpont Morgan
Library, bibliographical description of illuminated book for Exhibition
Catalogue of Works from the Wormsley Library, May 1997.
Consultant: William Blake Trust, on the production,
dating, and histories of the six illuminated books in volumes 4 and 6 of William Blake's Illuminated Books,
published by The William Blake Trust and Tate Gallery Publications (1995).
Consultant: Christie's of London, on the
sale of the Frank Rinder Blake Collection, 30 November 1993, identifying one of
the illuminated books as a forgery.
Consultant: Sotheby's of New York City,
on the sale of Blake prints, May 1993.
Consultant: Tokyo Museum of Art, Japan,
exhibition of BlakeÕs illuminated books and prints, (Spring 1990).
Consultant: Christie's of New York City,
on The Estelle Doheny Blake Collection, February 1989.
WORKS IN PROGRESS:
The
Caves of Heaven and Hell
(second volume of Blake and the
Idea of the Book) discusses the origin of illuminated printing and the
various ways in which the technique and the idea of creating figure into his
poetry, designs, and theories of art.
It also reveals for the first time how many of the poems and books
evolved through production. (The articles on the evolution of Blake's Marriage of Heaven and Hell and
reconstruction of Song of Los are
part of this book.)
Romanticism and the Anti-Picturesque examines the discourse among painters, printmakers, and poets
regarding the idea of the sketch, touring, and nature, focusing on the works by
Burke, Gilpin, Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Turner. (The article on
WordsworthÕs ÒLines left upon a Seat in a Yew-treeÓ is part of this
book.)
EXHIBITIONS:
Representation:
La Condition Magritte. Painting in oil and oil stick on paper, 90 x 42 inches. Institute for
the Arts and Humanities, UNC-Chapel Hill, 2003. http://sites.unc.edu/viscomi/Representation.htm.
Wordsworth's
Romantic Landscape: Nature and Books, exhibition of
Wordsworth's canon as published in his lifetime. Co-organized with Mark L.
Reed, Department of Rare Books, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina,
November, l988
The
Art of Illuminated Printing: exhibition of photographs and
facsimiles documenting Blake's printing methods and variations. Art History Gallery, Cornell
University, April 1-14, 1983
William
Blake, Illustrator and Poet: Blake's original and reproductive
engravings and literary illustrations.
Department of Rare Books and Olin Library, Cornell University, April 1 -
May 15, 1983
The
Prints of Blake and his Followers: Blake's late prints
and the Blake-influenced prints of Richmond, Sherman, Calvert, and Palmer. Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell
University, March 15 - April 17, 1983
Making
Blake's Illuminated Book: slide exhibition on illuminated
printing and its variations, as recreated step-by-step in my studio. Produced for a 1979 NEH Summer Seminar
at Columbia University, it introduces students to 18th-century book production
and graphic arts and explains Blake's innovations technically and historically.
Drama
in a Romantic Child's Eye: travelling exhibition of 19th-c.
English Toy Theater prints and stages, documenting stage designs and scenery,
actors, costumes, and acting styles.
Accompanied by a 28-page brochure and 100-page catalogue. Sponsored by
NEH and hosted in l976-77 by:
Neuberger Museum of
Art [State University of New York at Purchase]
Princeton University
University of
Pennsylvania
Columbia University
National Endowment of
Humanities, Washington, D.C.
The Museum of the
City of New York
Trick
Toys: pre-cinematic popular culture as expressed in
200 years of projectory, persistence of vision, and narrative instruments and
toys; co-curated for Museum of the City of New York, its major exhibition for
1976.
PERFORMANCES:
An Island in the Moon, Web-video of theatrical production,
with introduction and illustrated text; music by Margaret LaFrance < http://www.ibiblio.org/jsviscom/island/
>(2003)
An Island in the Moon, video of Cornell theatrical production
for Ithaca Public Television, channel 13, 12/2/1983 and other airings and
classroom showings.
An
Island in the Moon, stage adaptation of Blake's prose
satire, performed at
Goldwin Smith
Theater, Cornell University, 4/7-8/1983.
Drummond Studio,
Cornell University, 5/11-12/1983.
Tiny Kingdoms,
cabaret verse-drama, with David Patrick Kelly, performed at the Other End Cafe,
Greenwich Village, NYC, 11/23-30/1976.
LECTURES:
"Blake's
Enlightened Graphics: Illuminated Books and New Technologies," Morgan
Library and Museum, tba, October 2009.
"Blake's Enlightened Graphics:
Illuminated Books and New Technologies," Annual Fox-Adler Lecture,
Skidmore College, 9/24/09.
Plenary Address: ÒBlakeÕs ÔAnnus
MirabilisÕ: Song of Los and the Color
Prints of 1795.Ó Society of Textual Studies. Graduate Center, NYC, 3/18/09
"Blake's Enlightened Graphics:
Illuminated Books and New Technologies," Annual J. D. M. Brown Lecture,
Muhlenberg College, 3/19/08.
Seminar on Blake, Muhlenberg College,
3/19/08.
"Blake's Enlightened Graphics:
Illuminated Books and New Technologies," Wilson Library, University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 10/9/07.
ÒThe Blake Archive in Blake Studies,Ó
Rockefeller Study Center, Bellagio, Italy, 5/2/07
ÒThe Blake Archive in Blake Studies,Ó
National Center for the Humanities, 10/18/06
ÒBlakeÕs Enlightened Graphics: Illuminated Books and New
Technologies," Center for Applied Technologies in the Humanities (CATH),
Virginia Technical Institute and State University, 4/16/04
ÒDigital Representation, Editorial
Fidelity, and the William Blake Archive.Ó Symposium in English Studies,
University of Texas at Arlington, 10/16-17/03
ÒDigital Representation, Editorial
Fidelity, and the William Blake Archive.Ó North American Society for the Study
of Romanticism, NYC, 8/1-5/03
ÒBlakeÕs Enlightened Graphics: Illuminated Books and New
Technologies," University of Arkansas, Little Rock, William G. Cooper, Jr.
Lecture in the Humanities, 9/11/02
Seminar on Blake and Wordsworth,
University of Arkansas, Little Rock, 9/12/02
ÒRepresenting Artifacts in the Blake
Archive.Ó Digital Epigraphy Conference, University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill, 4/29-30/02
ÒBlakeÕs Enlightened Graphics:
Illuminated Books and New Technologies," University of Maryland, College
Park, MD, 2/22/02
Portions of the Eternal World: Prints by
William Blake, Art Museum, University of Virginia, Panel Discussion with Jerome
McGann and Joanna Drucker, 2/21/02.
ÒBlakeÕs Enlightened Graphics:
Illuminated Books and New Technologies," University of North Carolina at
Greensboro, N.C., 10/16/01
ÒBlake in the 21st
Century: The William Blake Archive,Ó Metropolitan Museum, NYC, 5/11/01
ÒWilliam BlakeÕs
Graphic Imagination: The Origins of Illuminated Printing.Ó The Rare Book
School, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, 2/21/01
Seminar: BlakeÕs The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.
Department of English, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, 2/22/01
"Blake After Blake: A
Nation Discovers Genius," Blake, Nation, and Empire symposium, Tate
Britain, London, 12/9/00
ÒWilliam Blake: Romantic Poet
and Artist,Ó Romanticism, Adventures in Ideas Weekend, University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill, 11/10-11/00
Plenary Address: ÒBlakeÕs
Enlightened Graphics: Illuminated Books and New Technologies," Friendly
Enemies: Blake and the Enlightenment conference, University of Essex,
Colchester, England, 8/24-26/00
Plenary Address: ÒThe William
Blake Archive and the Study of Illuminated Books,Ó Material Cultures: The Book,
The Text, and The Archive conference, sponsored by Centre for the History of
the Book, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, 7/29-30/00
ÒThe Marriage of Heaven
and Hell: Exploring William BlakeÕs Visionary Satire,Ó Visions and Mystics,
Adventures in Ideas Weekend, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
11/19-20/99
ÒAccuracy in Digital
Imaging,Ó School of Information and Library Science, University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill, 10/20/99
Plenary Address: ÒDigital
Facsimiles: Reading the Blake Archive,Ó North American Society for the Study of
Romanticism, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 8/12-15/99
ÒEditorial Principles in the
Blake Archive,Ó with Morris Eaves and Robert Essick, 10th International
Congress on the Enlightenment, Dublin, Ireland, 7/25-31/99
ÒDigital Representation,Ó
Association for Computers and the Humanities/Association for Literary and
Linguistic Computing, joint international conference, University of Virginia,
Charlottesville, Va., 6/9-13/99
ÒConstructing the William
Blake Archive: a Progress Report and Demonstration,Ó Modern Language
Association, San Francisco, 12/27-30/98
Seminar: Textual Editing and
the William Blake Archive, University of Windsor, 10/14/98
ÒBlakeÕs Graphic
Imagination,Ó University of Windsor, Canada 10/14/98
Seminar: Textual Editing and
the William Blake Archive, St. JohnÕs College, Oxford, 5/8/98
ÒBlakeÕs Graphic
Imagination,Ó Third Annual D. F. McKenzie Lecture on the History of the Book,
St. JohnÕs College, Oxford, 5/7/98
ÒBlakeÕs Graphic
Imagination,Ó Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 11/1/97
"Blake and
Hypertext," Yale Center for British Art, Yale University, 4/24/97
"Hypertext Editing:
Blake on the Web," Society for Textual Scholarship Conference, CUNY
Graduate Center, NYC, 4/10-12/97
"The William Blake
Archive Project," Modern Language Association, Washington, D.C. 12/29/96
"Hypertext Editing:
Blake on the Web," North American Society for the Study of Romanticism
Conference, Boston College, 11/14-16/96
"Hypertext Editing:
Blake on the Web," Digital Resources in the Humanities Conference,
Somerville College, Oxford, 7/1-3/96
"The Electronic Blake: A
Progress Report," seminar, Institute for Advanced Technology in the
Humanities, University of Virginia, November 8, 1995
"The Electronic Blake: A
Progress Report," with Morris Eaves, Documentary Editing Conference,
Baltimore, Maryland, October 26-28, 1995
"The Technical and
Aesthetic Origin of William Blake's Illuminated Books," for NEH Summer
Seminar for College Teachers, University of Georgia, Athens, June 29, 1995.
"Blake, Printmaking, and
the Aesthetics of the Sketch," University of Rochester, February 21, 1995
The Technical and Aesthetic
Origin of William Blake's Illuminated Books," Tate Gallery, London,
7/12/1994
Blake Seminar, California
Institute of Technology, 10/27/1994
"Blake, Printmaking, and
the Aesthetics of the Sketch," The Political and Aesthetic Education of
Romanticism," Conference, Duke University, November 10-13, 1994
"In the Caves of Heaven
and Hell," Blake Conference, The Huntington Library and Art Gallery,
October 29 1994
Plenary Address: "The Evolution of Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell,"
William Blake 1794/1994 Conference, St. Mary's College, Strawberry Hill,
London, 7/13-15/1994
"Frankenstein, or the
Modern Prometheus," St. Andrews College, Laurinburg, NC, 4/15/94
"The Technical and
Aesthetic Origin of William Blake's Illuminated Books"
Blake Society of
London, 11/24/1993
Double Crown Club,
London, 11/25/1993
Emmanuel College,
Cambridge, 11/29 1993
Faculty Seminars: St. Andrews
College, Laurinburg, N.C.
William Wordsworth,
5/20/93
William Blake,
5/21/93
Mary Shelley, 5/24/93
"The Production and
Editing of William Blake's There is No
Natural Religion," Sixth International Conference of the Society for
Textual Scholarship, City University of N.Y. Grad. Center, 11-13 April 1991
Panelist: "Does Art Work
in Museums," Conference, Ackland Museum, UNC 12/1-2/90
"The Technical and
Aesthetic Origin of William BlakeÕs Illuminated Books," for NEH Summer
Institute, The American University, Washington, D. C., 7/3/90
"From Original to Copy
and Back: Facsimile Technology in the Eighteenth Century,Ó UNC Wilson Library,
4/17/90
"Wordsworth, Gilpin, and
the Vacant Mind," Conference on Revolutionary Romanticism: 1790-1990,
Bucknell University, 4/5-8/90
Chair: Works in Progress Session, Midwestern
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Ohio State University,
11/3-4/1989
"George Romney, William
Blake, and the Idea of Commission," Midwestern American Society for
Eighteenth-Century Studies, Ohio State University, 11/3-5/1989
"The Technical and
Aesthetic Origin of William BlakeÕs Illuminated Books," Troy State
University, Alabama, 2/16/1989
"The Printing House in
Hell," Institute for Arts and Humanities, UNC, 11/22/1988
"Fighting Second-class
Citizenship: Technical and Rhetorical Strategies of l8th-century
Printmakers," Institute for Arts and Humanities, UNC, 6/22/1988
"Imitation, Originality,
and Execution in l8th-century Graphic Arts," Midwestern American Society
for Eighteenth-Century Studies, University of Notre Dame, 10/6-9/1988
"From Durer to Blake: A
Technical History of the Graphic Arts," Art History Seminar, Duke
University, 2/18/1986
"Gainsborough, Blake,
& Avant-Garde Printmaking," South Central Society for
Eighteenth-Century Studies, Louisiana State University, 3/15/1985
"Blake and the Idea of
the Book," UNC, Dept. of English, 1/18/1984
"The Caves of Heaven and
Hell," Blake Symposium, Cornell University, 4/8-9/1983
"Technique and
Translation in 18th-century Book Illustrations," Olin Library, Cornell
University, 2/8/1983
"Printmaker and Poet:
Introduction to William Blake," Ithaca College, Ithaca, N.Y., 10/19/1982
"Ancients and Moderns in
18th-century Graphic Arts," Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell
University, 2/4/1982
"Technical and Biblical
Allusions in Blake's The Marriage of
Heaven and Hell," Book Arts Press Lecture Series, Columbia University,
5/15/1981
"Blake's Illuminated
Book as Symbol, Vehicle, and Object," University of Toronto, 3/17/1981
"Blake's Book of Job," Virginia Polytechnic Institute and
State University Learning Center, Critz, Virginia, 1/13/1981
"Blake as Visionary
Artist," Visionary Literature Conference, Long Island University,
1/8-10/1981
"The Art and Craft of
Illuminated Printing," lecture-demonstration presented at:
Blake Symposium,
Skidmore College, 5/9-10/1980
University of
Toronto, 3/18/1981
University of New
Mexico, 4/27/1981
Cornell University,
2/17/1982
Columbia University,
3/23/1982
[illustrated transcript printed in limited edition, Cornell University, 1982]