JOSEPH VISCOMI

509 North Street

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 UNC Research Fellowship

2007 Scholar-in-Residence, Rockefeller Study Center, Bellagio, Italy

2006-07 National Humanities Center Fellowship

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 Chancellor's Information Technology Grant, for Blake Archive

1997 UNC Chancellor's 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 CHOICE's 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 Laocoön. 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 (26 p). 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.

WORLD WIDE WEB:

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 52 copies of Blake's 19 illuminated works in the context of full, up-to-date bibliographic information about each image, scrupulous "diplomatic" transcriptions of all texts, detailed descriptions of all images, and extensive bibliographies. It also contains general bibliographies, collection lists, a searchable new electronic version of David V. Erdman's Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake (the standard printed edition for reference), an illustrated biography and essay on illuminated printing, chronology, glossary of terms, and a PreView wing in which many hundreds of prints, paintings, and drawings are available for study without being fully searchable.

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 on the William Blake Archive (November 1996-April 2005) http://www.blakearchive.org/public/update.html

About Blake: "An Illustrated Blake Biography" and "Chronology" (with Denise Vultee, Morris Eaves, and Robert Essick, includes 109 reproductions that exemplify the range of his artistic accomplishment) 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)

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).

An Island in the Moon, Web-video of theatrical production, Cornell University, 1983, with introduction and illustrated text; music by Margaret LaFrance < http://www.ibiblio.org/jsviscom/island/ >(2003)

30 Collected Essays on William Blake and his Times http://sites.unc.edu/viscomi/frontend_page.html (2004)

ELECTRONIC EDITIONS, co-edited with Morris Eaves and Robert Essick:

William Blake, The Book of Thel copies F, H, and O.

The William Blake Archive <http://www.blakearchive.org>. November 1996.

William Blake, Visions of the Daughters of Albion copies C and J.

The William Blake Archive <http://www.blakearchive.org>. November 1996.

William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell copy D.

The William Blake Archive <http://www.blakearchive.org>. February 1998.

William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience copy Z.

The William Blake Archive <http://www.blakearchive.org>. February 1998.

William Blake, America, a Prophecy copy E.

The William Blake Archive <http://www.blakearchive.org>. February 1998.

William Blake, Europe, a Prophecy copy B.

The William Blake Archive <http://www.blakearchive.org>. February 1998.

William Blake, The Book of Urizen copy G.