Joseph Viscomi
email: jsviscom@email.unc.edu
Office: (919) 962-8764
Home: (919) 933-9033
EDUCATION:
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1980 |
Ph.D. English and
Comparative Literature, Columbia University |
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1974 |
M.A. English and
Comparative Literature, Columbia University |
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1973 |
Ph.B. Humanities, Monteith College, Wayne St. University |
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1972 |
Paris, France: Independent Study in French and Modern Art |
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1971, 1970 |
Interlochen Arts Academy, Interlochen, Michigan (June-Aug) |
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
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2000- |
James G. Kenan Distinguished Professor of English Literature, UNC at Chapel Hill |
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1994-00 |
Professor, English, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
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1990-94 |
Associate Professor, English, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
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1984-90 |
Assistant Professor, English, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
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1983-84 |
Visiting Assistant Professor, English, Art History, Theater Arts, Cornell University |
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1981-83 |
Mellon Fellow in the Humanities, Depts. of Art History & English, Cornell University |
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1981-83 |
Technical Consultant, Manchester Etching Workshop |
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1982-84 |
Technical Consultant, Department of Prints, Johnson Museum, Ithaca, N.Y. |
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1982-83 |
Guest Curator, Department of Rare Books, Olin Library, Cornell University |
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1982-83 |
Guest Curator, Department of Prints and Drawings, Johnson Museum, Ithaca, N.Y. |
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1980-81 |
Assistant Professor, English and Humanities, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University |
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1980 |
Instructor, Department of English, Columbia University |
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1977-79 |
Preceptor, Department of English, General Studies, Columbia University |
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1976-77 |
Curator, Theater Exhibition, Museum of the City of N.Y. and 5 other museums |
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1975-76 |
Curatorial Assistant, Toy Collection, Museum of the City of New York |
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1974-76 |
Adjunct Lecturer, English, Kingsborough Community College, Brooklyn |
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1974-75 |
Curatorial/Research
Asst., Dept. of Paintings, Prints, and Photographs, Museum |
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1973-74 |
Instructor, Education Department, Museum of the City of New York |
FELLOWHIPS AND HONORS:
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2005 |
MLA Committee for Scholarly Editions, An Approved Edition, Blake Archive |
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2003 |
MLA Prize for Distinguished Scholarly Edition, for the Blake Archive |
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2001 |
Fellowship in the Humanities, Institute for the Arts and Humanities, UNC |
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2000 |
James G. Kenan Distinguished Professor of English Literature, UNC at Chapel Hill |
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2000-03 |
NEH Preservation and Access Grant for The William Blake Archive |
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1993-99 |
L. M. Slifkin Distinguished Term Professor of Literature, UNC, Chapel Hill |
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1999 |
UNC-IBM Curriculum Innovation Grant, for Study Guide to the Blake Archive |
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1998 |
UNC Chancellor's Information Technology Grant, for Blake Archive |
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1997 |
UNC Chancellor's Information Technology Grant, for Media Lab |
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1997-98 |
Mellon Centre for British Art Grant for the William Blake Archive |
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1995-98 |
Getty Grant Program for The William Blake Archive |
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1996 |
Sun Microsystems Equipment Grant for The William Blake Archive |
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1996-98 |
Networked Associate Fellow, Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, UVa |
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1995-96 |
Fellow-in-Residence, Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, UVa |
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1995 |
UNC Research Fellowship |
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1992 |
Scholar-in-Residence, Rockefeller Study Center, Bellagio, Italy |
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1992 |
Getty Grant Program for Publication of Blake and the Idea of the Book |
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1992 |
UNC College Endowment Committee Grant for Publication |
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1991-92 |
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship |
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1990 |
UNC Research Fellowship |
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1990 |
Southern Region Educational Board Travel Grant |
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1990 |
UNC Research Council Grant |
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1989 |
UNC College Endowment Committee Grant for Publication (two) |
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1988 |
Lurcy Fellowship in the Humanities, Institute for the Arts and Humanities, UNC |
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1988 |
Summer Fellowship in the Institute for the Arts and Humanities, UNC |
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1987 |
Fellow-in-Residence, Huntington Library and Art Gallery |
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1987 |
Fellow-in-Residence, Yale Center for British Art |
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1987 |
UNC Faculty Development Grant |
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1985-86 |
NEH Fellowship for Independent Study and Research |
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1985-86 |
UNC Research Council Grant |
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1983-84 |
Council for Creative and Performing Arts Grant, Cornell University |
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1982-83 |
Council for Creative and Performing Arts Grant, Cornell University |
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1981-83 |
Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities, Cornell University |
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1981 |
NEH Summer Fellowship |
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1981 |
Virginia Politechnic Institute and State University Summer Grant |
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1981 |
American Philosophical Society Grant |
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1979-80 |
Whiting Fellowship in the Humanities, Columbia University |
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1977; 1980 |
Ph.D. qualifying examinations and dissertation passed with distinction |
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1976-77 |
NEH Youthgrant |
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1970-73 |
Academic Scholarship to Monteith College, Wayne State University |
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1968, 69, 70 |
Painting honors in Detroit and Michigan competitions |
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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. The Production, Editing, and
Dating of Illuminated Books. 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 Laocon. 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
and 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.
Prints by Blake and His Followers,
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art Publications, 1983.
William Blake, Illustrator and Poet,
Olin Graduate Library, Cornell University, Cornell University Libraries
Publications, 1983.
The Juvenile Drama: Playing with the Toy Theater, Mava Press: N.Y., 1977. 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 Morris Eaves and Robert Essick of a hypertext of Blake's
poetry and art, currently based on approximately 4500 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, 2005)
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, video of theatrical production, Cornell University, 1983, with introduction, photographs, and 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> (2003)
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.
The William Blake Archive <http://www.blakearchive.org>. April
1998.
William Blake, America, a Prophecy
copy A.
The William Blake Archive <http://www.blakearchive.org>. April
1998.
William Blake, Europe, a Prophecy
copy E.
The William Blake Archive <http://www.blakearchive.org>. April
1998.
William Blake, Song of Los copy B.
The William Blake Archive <http://www.blakearchive.org>. April
1998.
William Blake, The Book of Ahania
copy A.
The William Blake Archive <http://www.blakearchive.org>. April
1998.
William Blake, The Book of Los copy
A.
The William Blake Archive <http://www.blakearchive.org>. April
1998.
William Blake, Visions of the Daughters of Albion copy A.
The William Blake Archive <http://www.blakearchive.org>. April
1998.
William Blake, All Religions are One
copy A.
The William Blake Archive <http://www.blakearchive.org>. June
1998.
William Blake, There is No Natural Religion copies C, G, and L.
The William Blake Archive <http://www.blakearchive.org>. June
1998
William Blake, Milton: a Poem copy C.
The William Blake Archive <http://www.blakearchive.org>. August
1998.
William Blake, The Ghost of Abel copy
A.
The William Blake Archive <http://www.blakearchive.org>.
October 1998.
William Blake, On Homers Poetry [and] On Virgil copies A and F.
The William Blake Archive <http://www.blakearchive.org>.
October 1998.
William Blake, Laocoon copy B.
The William Blake Archive <http://www.blakearchive.org>.
October 1998.
William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience copies C, F, and L.
The William Blake Archive <http://www.blakearchive.org>. March
1999.
William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell copies C, and F.
The William Blake Archive <http://www.blakearchive.org>. April
1999.
William Blake, Gates of Paradise: For the Sexes copy D.
The William Blake Archive <http://www.blakearchive.org>. June
1999.
William Blake, Gates of Paradise: For Children copy D.
The William Blake Archive <http://www.blakearchive.org>. June
1999.
William Blake, Songs of Innocence
copies B and U.
The William Blake Archive <http://www.blakearchive.org>. August
1999.
William Blake, The Book of Thel copy
J.
The William Blake Archive <http://www.blakearchive.org>.
September 1999.
William Blake, Visions of the Daughters of Albion copy G.
The William Blake Archive <http://www.blakearchive.org>.
September 1999.
William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience, copies R and AA.
The William Blake Archive <http://www.blakearchive.org>.
December 1999.
William Blake. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, copies H and I.
The William Blake Archive <http://www.blakearchive.org>. April
2000.
William Blake. America a Prophecy
copy O.
The William Blake Archive <http://www.blakearchive.org>. March
2001
William Blake. Europe a Prophecy copy
K.
The William Blake Archive <http://www.blakearchive.org>. March
2001
William Blake. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell copy G.
The William Blake Archive <http://www.blakearchive.org>.
October 2001
William Blake. Visions of the Daughters of Albion copy P.
The William Blake Archive <http://www.blakearchive.org>.
October 2001
William Blake. The Book of Job
watercolors, Butts copy.
The William Blake Archive <http://www.blakearchive.org>.
February 2002
William Blake. L'Allegro and Il
Penseroso watercolors and manuscripts.
The William Blake Archive <http://www.blakearchive.org>. June
2002
William Blake. The Book of Urizen
copy A.
The William Blake Archive <http://www.blakearchive.org>.
September 2002
William Blake. The Book of Urizen
copy C.
The William Blake Archive <http://www.blakearchive.org>.
September 2002
William Blake. The Book of Urizen
copy F.
The William Blake Archive <http://www.blakearchive.org>.
September 2002
William Blake. Illustrations of the Book of Job [engravings]
The William Blake Archive <http://www.blakearchive.org>.
December 2002
William Blake. Jerusalem, the Emanation of the Giant Albion copy E.
The William Blake Archive <http://www.blakearchive.org>. March
2003
Biography of Blake, with Denise Vultee, Morris Eaves, Robert Essick
The William Blake Archive <http://www.blakearchive.org>.
September 2003
William Blake. The Book of Urizen
copy B.
The William Blake Archive <http://www.blakearchive.org>.
October 2003
William Blake. Illustrations to Robert Blair's The Grave and Death's Door.
The William Blake Archive <http://www.blakearchive.org>.
November 2003
Blake's illustrations to Milton's "On the Morning of Christ's
Nativity" and Paradise Regained.
The William Blake Archive <http://www.blakearchive.org>.
December 2003
"Illuminated Printing," with 95 illustrations
The William Blake Archive <http://www.blakearchive.org>.
February 2004
William Blake. America a Prophecy
copy M.
The William Blake Archive <http://www.blakearchive.org>. March
2004
William Blake. Europe a Prophecy copy
H.
The William Blake Archive <http://www.blakearchive.org>. April
2004
William Blake. Visions of the Daughters of Albion, copies a and A.
The William Blake Archive <http://www.blakearchive.org>. June
2004
William Blake. 24 Color Print Drawings.
The William Blake Archive <http://www.blakearchive.org>. November
2004
Blakes 102 water color and 7 engraved illustrations to Dantes Divine
Comedy.
The William Blake Archive <http://www.blakearchive.org>. January 2005
Blakes 116 water color illustrations to Thomas Grays Poems.
The William Blake Archive <http://www.blakearchive.org>. April 2005
forthcoming:
illuminated books: The Book of Thel copy G, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell copies E and K, Song of Liberty copies L and M, Songs of Innocence copy G, Songs of Innocence and of Experience, copies A, B, O, T, V, and Y, Visions of the Daughters of Albion copies B, I, and O, The Book of Urizen copy D, Milton: a Poem copies A and D, America, a Prophecy copies F and H, Europe, a Prophecy copies A and D, Song of Los copy F, Jerusalem: the Emanation of the Giant Albion copies A and I.
non-illuminated works: the Pickering Manuscript, Descriptive Catalogue, Poetical Sketches, engravings, sketches, and watercolors to Chaucer's Canterbury Pilgrims, The Book of Job (Linnell copy), Paradise Lost, Comus, Nativity Ode, Poems of Gray (116), Young's 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, 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.
ARTICLES:
Rethinking Blake: Blake Studies and the William Blake Archive, with Morris Eaves. Special Issue on Romanticism and Technology, Romanticism on the Net, http://www.ron.umontreal.ca/ (Forthcoming Fall 2005).
"Blake After Blake: A Nation Discovers Genius." Blake, Nation,
Empire. Eds. Steve Clark and David Worrall.
London: Palgrave 2005. 239-262.
"Illuminated Printing in Context," expanded version of the text in Cambridge
Companion to William Blake (ed. Morris
Eaves. Cambridge University Press, 2002. 37-62); with 95 illustrations and
detailed captions on various 18th-century modes of reproduction. <http://www.blakearchive.org/about-blake.html>
(February 2004).
"Blake's Method of Color Printing: Some Responses and Further
Observations" (with Robert Essick). Blake/An Illustrated
Quarterly (Fall 2002): 49-64 + 24 illus.
Online version, with color illustrations, at the Quarterly's webstite: <http://ww.blakequarterly.org>.
"'Once Only Imagined': An Interview with Morris Eaves, Robert N. Essick,
and Joseph Viscomi on the Past, Present, and Future of Blake Studies."
Conducted by Kari Kraus. Studies in Romanticism 41 (Summer 2002): 143-99.
"'Once Only Imagined': An Interview with Morris Eaves, Robert N. Essick,
and Joseph Viscomi on the Past, Present, and Future of Blake Studies."
Conducted by Kari Kraus. Online version at Romantic Circles <http://www.rc.umd.edu/indexjava.html>
(2002)
"Illuminated Printing." Cambridge Companion to William
Blake. Ed. Morris Eaves. Cambridge
University Press, 2002. 37-62.
"The William Blake Archive:
The Medium When the Millennium is the Message" (with Morris Eaves and
Robert Essick). Romanticism and Millenarianism. Ed. Timothy Fulford. London: Palgrave, 2002.
219-33.
"Digital Facsimiles: Reading The William Blake Archive," Computers in the Humanities 36.1 (February 2002). 27-48 + 17 illus. Refereed
article.
"An Inquiry into William Blake's Method of Color Printing" (with
Robert Essick). Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly (Winter 2001/02): 73-102 + 50
illus. Refereed article. Online version, with 81 color illustrations, at the
Quarterly's webstite: <http://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>
"Standards, Methods, Objectives of The William Blake Archive: A Response to Mary Lynn Johnson, Andrew Cooper, and
Michael Simpson" (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.
"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.
"The Evolution of William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and
Hell" [Part I]. Huntington
Library Quarterly 58.3&4 (1997):
281-344.
"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 Romanticism,
Princeton University Press, University of Toronto Press, Wayne State University
Press, and The William Blake Trust, 1984-04.
Advisory Board (current):
Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly
Romantic Circles <http://www.rc.umd.edu/index.html>
Romantic Circles Virtual Art Gallery
William Blake Trust
Consultant: Swann's
of New York, to authenticate an illuminated book, August 2004
Consultant: Christie's of London, to authenticate prints, August 2001.
Consultant: Christie's of New York, to authenticate prints, July 1999.
Consultant: Houghton Library, Harvard University, to authenticate 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 Blake's illuminated books
and prints, Spring 1990.
Consultant: Christie's of New York City, on The Estelle Doheny Blake
Collection, February 1989.
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. (Three published articles on the evolution of Blake's Marriage
of Heaven and Hell are part of this book.)
Romanticism and the Anti-Pictureque
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.
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
between 1800 - 1850. 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, 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.
An Island in the Moon, video of theatrical
production for Ithaca Public Television, channel 13, 12/2/1983 and other
airings and classroom showings.
An Island in the Moon, Webvideo of
theatrical production, with introduction, photographs, and text; music by
Margaret LaFrance <http://www.ibiblio.org/jsviscom/island/>(2003)
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," Center for Applied Technology in the Humanities (CATH),
Virginia Tech and St. University, 4/16/04.
"Digital Representation, Editorial Fidelity, and The William Blake
Archive." Symposium in English Studies, University of Texas at
Arlington, 10/16-17/03
"Digital Representation, Editorial Fidelity, and The William Blake Archive." North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, NYC, 8/1-5/03
"Blake's 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
"Representing Artifacts in the Blake Archive." Digital Epigraphy
Conference, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 4/29-30/02
"Blake's 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.
"Blake's Enlightened Graphics: Illuminated Books and New
Technologies," University of North Carolina at Greensboro, N.C., 10/16/01
"Blake in the 21st Century: The William Blake Archive," Metropolitan Museum, NYC, 5/11/01
"William Blake's Graphic Imagination: The Origins of Illuminated
Printing." The Rare Book School, University of Virginia, Charlottesville,
2/21/01
Seminar: Blake's 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
"William Blake: Romantic Poet and Artist," Romanticism, Adventures in
Ideas Weekend, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 11/10-11/00
Plenary Address: "Blake's 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: "The William Blake Archive and the Study of Illuminated Books," 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
"The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: Exploring William Blake's Visionary Satire," Visions and
Mystics, Adventures in Ideas Weekend, University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill, 11/19-20/99
"Accuracy in Digital Imaging," School of Information and Library
Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 10/20/99
Plenary Address: "Digital Facsimiles: Reading the Blake Archive,"
North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, Dalhousie University,
Halifax, Nova Scotia, 8/12-15/99
"Editorial Principles in the Blake Archive,"10th International
Congress on the Enlightenment, Dublin, Ireland, 7/25-31/99
"Digital Representation," Association for Computers and the
Humanities/Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, joint
international conference, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va.,
6/9-13/99
"Constructing The William Blake Archive: a Progress Report and Demonstration," Modern
Language Association, San Francisco, 12/27-30/98
Seminar: Textual Editing and The William Blake Archive, University of Windsor, 10/14/98
"Blake's Graphic Imagination," University of Windsor, Canada 10/14/98
Seminar: Textual Editing and The William Blake Archive, St. John's College, Oxford, 5/8/98
"Blake's Graphic Imagination," Third Annual D. F. McKenzie Lecture on
the History of the Book, St. John's College, Oxford, 5/7/98
"Blake's Graphic Imagination," 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 LanguageAssociation, 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," 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 Blake's 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," 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 Blake's 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]