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Morris Eaves Morris Eaves's research has been principally concerned with literature and the visual arts and with the cultural contexts of British Romanticism, especially the interlocking histories of technology and commerce. His current project, Posterity, is a speculative study of editorial theory and practice in terms of the audience's historical power to preserve, alter, and abandon its objects of interest. From this angle he is exploring the social role of editing and its product, the edition, in connection with such issues as censorship, plagiarism, and intellectual property. Eaves wants to understand "editing" in its broad, fundamental connections with communication, information control, and cultural memory across a range of arts and media. His interests in multimedia editing, media history, and British Romanticism are combined in his work as a project director and editor of The William Blake Archive, the online digital edition of Blake's literary and artistic work, sponsored by the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (University of Virginia) and the Library of Congress. Degrees PhD Tulane University Experience Eaves was Presidential Professor of English before coming to UR in 1986. He has been a visiting professor at Tulane and will be a visiting professor at the University of Paris in the spring of 2009. Honors/Awards Prize for a Distinguished Scholarly Edition (Modern Language Association) for The William Blake Archive Best Special Issue Award (Conference of Editors of Scholarly Journals) for Romantic Texts, Romantic Times William Riley Parker Prize, Modern Language Association Presidential Professor of English, University of New Mexico Guggenheim Fellowship National Humanities Center Fellowship Associate Fellow, Institute of Advanced Technology in the Humanities Editorial Board, Eighteenth-Century Studies Steering Committee, Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-Century Electronic Scholarship (NINES-9s) Select Conference Presentations Plenary address, "Forgetting Blake," William Blake at 250, York University (UK), 2007 Select Publications Author William Blake's Theory of Art, Princeton 1982 The Counter-Arts Conspiracy: Art and Industry in the Age of Blake, Cornell 1992 Editor The Cambridge Companion to William Blake, Cambridge 2003 The William Blake Archive, with Robert N. Essick and Joseph Viscomi, 1996-present The Early Illuminated Books of William Blake, with Robert N. Essick and Joseph Viscomi, Blake Trust/Tate/Princeton, 1993 Romanticism and Contemporary Criticism, with Michael Fischer, Cornell 1986 Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly, with Morton Paley |
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