Morris Eaves

Department of English
University of Rochester
Rochester, NY 14627
phone (office) 585 275-9025
fax (office) 585 442-5769
email morris.eaves@rochester.edu

PRESENT POSITION

• Professor of English, U of Rochester, 1986-
• Chair, Department of English, U of Rochester, 1988-96
• Co-Editor (with Morton D. Paley), Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly, 1970-

History of Employment:

• Presidential Prof. of English, U of New Mexico, 1985-86
• Prof. of English, U of New Mexico, 1982-85
• Visiting Assoc. Prof. of English, Tulane U, 1979-80
• Associate Prof. of English, U of New Mexico, 1974-82
• Assistant Prof. of English, U of New Mexico, 1970-74
  

EDUCATION

• Ph.D. 1972 Tulane U
• B.A. summa cum laude 1966 Long Island U
  

HONORS, FELLOWSHIPS

• William Riley Parker Prize, 1977-78 (awarded by the MLA for an outstanding article in PMLA during the year)
• Best Special Issue award from the Conference of Editors of Learned Journals, for Romantic Texts, Romantic Times: Homage to David V. Erdman (Studies in Romanticism, fall 1982)
• Co-director (with Michael Fischer) of "Literary Theory and the Romantic Self," NEH Summer Seminar for College Teachers, June-August 1984
• National Humanities Center Fellow, 1984-85
• Presidential Professor of English, U of New Mexico, 1985-86
• Co-director (with Paul Hunter and Myra Jehlen) of the Institute for High School Teachers of English, National Humanities Center, 1988-1990
• Getty Grant Program publication grant for The Counter-Arts Conspiracy (1992)
• Associate Fellow, Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, U of Virginia, 1994-
• Getty Grant Program grant to the Institute of Advanced Technology in the Humanities, U of Virginia, in support of the William Blake Archive (online hypermedia edition), 1995-98 ($250,000)
• Guggenheim Fellowship, 1997 (for "Posterity: The Authority of the Audience")
• MLA Committee on Scholarly Editions, 1997-present (co-chair, 2004-05)
• Advisory Board, Romantic Circles Virtual Art Gallery, Romantic Circles http://www.rc.umd.edu/, 1999-
• NEH (Preservation and Access Program) grant to the Institute of Advanced Technology in the Humanities, U of Virginia, in support of the William Blake Archive, 2000-2002
• Selection Committee, Lyman Award (for achievements in information technology), National Humanities Center/Rockefeller Foundation, 2002
• Steering Committee, NINES/9s, Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-Century Electronic Scholarship
• MLA Prize for a Distinguished Scholarly Edition, 2003, for the William Blake Archive
• Scholars’ Advisory Panel, Digital Library Federation
• Task Force on Evaluating Scholarship for Tenure and Promotion, MLA
• Editorial Board, ElectraPress (projected devoted to the online publication of scholarly monographs, headed by Prof. Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Pomona College)

CURRENT PROJECTS & FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS

• In progress: Posterity: The Authority of the Audience. A study of the posthumous social, technological, and aesthetic power of the readers and spectators who have conventionally been regarded as the receivers of art. Guggenheim Fellowship, 1997.
• Electronic Publications:
  Project Director and Editor (with Robert Essick and Joseph Viscomi), The William Blake Archive. Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, U of Virginia. 1995-present. Co-sponsored by the Library of Congress. Other supporters have included the National Endowment for the Humanities, Preservation and Access Division and the Getty Grant Program, with additional support from Sun Microsystems, Inso Corp., Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. <http://www.blakearchive.org>.
• The Charles Babbage Institute, Center for the History of Information Technology, University of Minnesota, has acquired the project records of the Blake Archive, which was selected as a “groundbreaking hypermedia project” in the humanities. The Babbage Institute is the Archive’s official archivist. <http://www.cbi.umn.edu>

Recent Blake Archive publications:

• Color printed drawings (Nov. 2004)
• Visions of the Daughters of Albion copies A and a (June 2004)
• The Song of Los copies A and D (May 2004)
• Europe a Prophecy copy H (April 2004)
• America a Prophecy copy M (March 2004)
• “Illuminated Printing” (Further Resources) (February 2004)

Articles in Printed Sources:

• “Multimedia Body Plans: A Self-Assessment” in Electronic Textual Editing, ed. John Unsworth and Katherine O’Brien O’Keefe (New York: MLA). Forthcoming, 2005.
• "The Innovator’s Dilemma: ‘Illuminated’ Printing" in Blake, Nation and Empire, ed. Steve Clark and David Worrall (London: Palgrave). Forthcoming.
  

PUBLICATIONS

Printed Books:

• William Blake's Theory of Art. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 1982. Hardcover and paperback
• The Counter Arts Conspiracy: Art and Industry in the Age of Blake. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 1992
• Editor, Romantic Texts, Romantic Times: Homage to David V. Erdman (festschrift published as a special 200-page issue of Studies in Romanticism, fall 1982)
• Editor (with Michael Fischer), Romanticism and Contemporary Criticism. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 1986. Hardcover and paperback
• Editor, A Blake Dictionary by S. Foster Damon. Rev. ed. Lebanon, NH: U Press of New England, 1988
• Editor (with Robert Essick and Joseph Viscomi), William Blake: The Early Illuminated Books. London: William Blake Trust/Tate Gallery and Princeton: Princeton U Press, 1993 (paperback, 1998; combined edition, 2000).
• Editor, The Cambridge Companion to William Blake. Cambridge: Cambridge U Press, 2002.
  

Electronic Publications:

• Co-Editor (with Robert Essick and Joseph Viscomi), The William Blake Archive. http://www.blakearchive.org. 1995-present.
  Editions published to date include watercolors, engravings, and 48 copies of 18 of Blake’s 19 works in illuminated printing, plus a searchable electronic edition of David V. Erdman's Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake. For a complete list, see the table of contents on the site.
• “Collaboration Takes More Than E-Mail (Behind the Scenes at the Blake Archive),” JEP: The Journal of Electronic Publishing 3:2 (Dec. 1997) <http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/03-02/blake.html>.
• "The Persistence of Vision: Images and Imaging at the William Blake Archive," RLG DigiNews 4.1 (Feb. 2000) (with Blake Archive editors and staff) <http://www.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/diginews4-1.html>.
• “‘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], Romantic Circles 2002. Praxis Series. <http://www.rc.umd.edu/praxis/blake/patricipants.html>. Published simultaneously in Studies in Romanticism 41 (summer 2002): 143-99.
  

Contributions to Printed Books:

• "The Title-Page of The Book of Urizen," in William Blake: Essays in Honour of Sir Geoffrey Keynes, ed. Morton D. Paley and Michael Phillips (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1973): 225-30, illus.
• "Lamb, Charles [and John Milton]," in The Milton Encyclopedia, ed. William B. Hunter et al. (Lewisburg, Pa., and London: Bucknell U Press and Assoc. U Press, 1979): 4: 198-203
• "Teaching Blake's Relief Etching," in Sparks of Fire: Blake in a New Age, ed. James Bogan and Fred Goss (Richmond, CA: North Atlantic Books, 1982): 127-40, illus. [Reprinted from Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly]
• "Blake and the Artistic Machine," in Essential Articles for the Study of Blake, 1970-1984, ed. Nelson Hilton (Hamden, CT: Shoestring Press [Archon Books], 1986): 175-209, illus. [Reprinted from PMLA 1977]
• "Blake as Conceived: Lessons in Endurance," new foreword and annotated bibliography for S. Foster Damon, A Blake Dictionary (Lebanon, NH: U Press of New England, 1988): ix-xxi [Advance publication in Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly]
• "Inquiry into the Real and Imaginary Obstructions to the Acquisition of the Arts in England: The Comedy of the English School of Painting," in William Blake and His Circle: Papers Delivered at a Huntington Symposium (San Marino, CA: Huntington Library, 1989): 125-38 [also Huntington Library Quarterly 52, winter 1989)
• "Lamb, Charles [and Edmund Spenser]," in The Spenser Encyclopedia, ed. A.C. Hamilton et al. (Toronto: U of Toronto Press, 1990): 423-25
• "The Sister Arts in British Romanticism," in The Cambridge Companion to Romanticism, ed. Stuart Curran (Cambridge: Cambridge U Press, 1992): 236-69, illus.
• "'Why Don't They Leave it Alone?' Speculations on the Authority of the Audience in Editorial Theory," in Cultural Artifacts and the Production of Meaning: The Page, the Image, and the Body, ed. Margaret Ezell and Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe (Ann Arbor: U of Michigan Press, 1994): 85-99.
• “On Blakes We Want and Blakes We Don’t,” in William Blake: Images and Texts (San Marino, CA: Huntington Library, 1997): 137-63 [also Huntington Library Quarterly 58:3 & 4, 1997: 413-39).
• "The William Blake Archive: The Medium When the Millennium Is the Message" (with Robert N. Essick and Joseph Viscomi), in Romanticism and Millenarianism, ed. Tim Fulford (London: Palgrave, 2002): 219-33, illus.
• "Graphicality," in Textual Studies in the Late Age of Print, ed. Elizabeth B. Loizeaux and Neil Fraistat (Madison: U of Wisconsin Press, 2002): 99-122.
• "To Paradise the Hard Way," in The Cambridge Companion to William Blake, ed. Eaves (Cambridge: Cambridge U Press, 2002): 1-16.

Articles in Printed Sources:

• "The Real Thing: A Plan for Producing Shakespeare in the Classroom," College English 31 (1970): 463-72
• "A List of Entries in Damon's Blake Dictionary," Blake Studies 3 (1970): 69-85
• "Decision and Revision in James Merrill's (Diblos) Notebook," Contemporary Literature 12 (1971): 156-65
• "A Reading of Blake's Marriage of Heaven and Hell, plates 17-20: On and Under the Estate of the West," Blake Studies 4 (1972): 81-116, illus.
• "Reproducing Blake's Characters of Spenser's Faerie Queene," Blake Newsletter 31 (winter 1974-75): 86-87, illus.
• "Blake and the Artistic Machine: An Essay in Decorum and Technology," PMLA 92 (1977): 903-27, illus.
• "What Is the History of Publishing?" Publishing History 2 (1977 [i.e. 1978]): 57-77
• Comprehensive index for S. Foster Damon's A Blake Dictionary (Boulder: Shambhala Press, 1979): 461-532 [Reprinted in a new ed. of the Dictionary, UP of New England, 1988]
• "Teaching Blake's Relief Etching," Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly 13 (1979-80): 140-47, illus.
• "Romantic Expressive Theory and Blake's Idea of the Audience," PMLA 95 (1980): 784-801
• "Bread, Politics, and Poetry," an interview with David V. Erdman, in Romantic Texts, Romantic Times, above
• Editor, "Blake Future," in Romantic Texts, Romantic Times, above
• "Standards, Methods, and Objectives in the William Blake Archive: A Response" (co-authored with Essick, Viscomi, and Kirschenbaum), The Wordsworth Circle 30 (1999): 135-44 (response to essays by Mary Lynn Johnson, Andrew Cooper, and Michael Simpson)
• “‘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. Published simultaneously online at Romantic Circles <www.rc.umd.edu>

Reviews:

• of Allen Ginsberg's recording of Blake's Songs: Blake Newsletter 15 (winter 1970-71): 90-97
• of Benjamin DeMott's Blake and Manchild, tape recording: Blake Newsletter 21 (summer 1972): 25-26
• of York U (Toronto) videotapes on Blake's America and Visions of the Daughters of Albion: Blake Newsletter 25 (summer 1973): 20-22
• "Blake's Job" (review-essay), Eighteenth-Century Studies 7 (1973-74): 226-33
• of On Reflection: Adrian Mitchell on William Blake, film, and The Clouded Hills: Selections from William Blake, ed. Catherine Hughes: Blake Newsletter 32 (spring 1975): 135-36
• of John Howard, Blake's "Milton": A Study in the Selfhood: Studies in Romanticism 16 (1977): 251-60
• of W. J. T. Mitchell, Blake's Composite Art: The Wordsworth Circle 10 (1979): 275-78
• of David Alexander and Richard T. Godfrey, Painters and Engraving: The Reproductive Print from Hogarth to Wilkie: The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography. 1980, 4 (Fine Arts): 251-52
• of Leopold Damrosch, Jr., Symbol and Truth in Blake's Myth: JEGP 81 (1982): 438-41
• of Martin Butlin, The Drawings and Paintings of William Blake, 2 vols.: Studies in Romanticism 25 (1986): 147-54
  
  of Abby Robinson, The Dick and Jane: Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly 21 (1987): 37-41
• of Jean Hagstrum, The Romantic Body: Modern Philology 86 (1988): 94-97
• of John Barrell, The Political Theory of Painting from Reynolds to Hazlitt: Studies in Romanticism 27 (1988): 429-42
• of Ralph Cohen, ed., Studies in Eighteenth-Century Art and Aesthetics: Eighteenth-Century Cumulative Bibliography, The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography n.s. ll for 1985 (NY: AMS, 1990) 5: 368-69
• of Marjorie Levinson, Keats's Life of Allegory: The Origins of a Style: Studies in Romanticism, Studies in Romanticism 29 (fall 1990): 491-95
• of Jack Stillinger, Multiple Authorship and the Myth of Solitary Genius, and Susan Eilenberg, Strange Power of Speech: Wordsworth, Coleridge and Literary Possession: Studies in Romanticism 33 (fall 1994): 503-10
  
• Other:
  “Writers and Painters.” Interview for the MLA radio program What’s the Word? (distributed by National Public Radio satellite). Broadcast 2003
  

UNIVERSITY SERVICE

U of Rochester (1986-present): (university), university apparel manufacturing committee, Faculty Senate committee on minority issues (chair), search committee for Dean of Undergraduate Enrollment Management, Web Governance committee, etc.; (college) College Teaching, Learning, and Technology Roundtable (chair), theater-program study committee, classroom-resources committee, committee on individualized interdepartmental concentrations, various search committees for administrators, RCC sub-committee on co-curricular activities, Faculty Council, Faculty Council steering committee, etc.; (department) department chair 1988-96, executive committee, planning committee, graduate studies committee, graduate admissions committee, undergraduate studies committee, theater program committee (chair), etc.

U of New Mexico (1970-86): (university) university press committee (1977-79), research allocations committee (1972-75), various committees on curriculum revision, etc.; (college) tenure and promotion committee, 1984-85, etc.; (department) policy and personnel committee (elective), 3 terms, 1978-86; undergraduate studies committee (1973-75), etc.

PROFESSIONAL CONSULTATION

Reader: Modern Language Quarterly, Computers in the Humanities, PMLA, Eighteenth-Century Life, Critical Inquiry, Journal of English and Germanic Philology, Liberal and Fine Arts Review, Studies in Romanticism, Modern Language Studies, Journal of the History of Ideas, College English, Michigan Academician, Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, Huntington Library Quarterly, Text, U of California Press, U of New Mexico Press, U of Alabama Press, U of Michigan Press, Cornell U Press, Louisiana State U Press, Ohio State U Press, Wadsworth Publishing Co., MLA (books), Princeton U Press, U of Illinois Press, Oxford U Press, Ashgate Publishing, etc.

Tenure and promotion: U of London, Clarkson College, U of Adelaide (Australia), U of Missouri, La. State U, Ariz. State U, Univ of Western Ontario (Canada), York U (Canada), Yale U, Union College, U of British Columbia, U of Georgia, U of Pittsburgh, the Claremont Colleges, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, U of Pennsylvania, U of California at Berkeley, U of California at Riverside, U of Southern California, U of North Carolina, Drexel U, Penn. State U, Denison U, Kent State U, U of Virginia, Indiana U (Bloomington), U of Melbourne (Australia), etc.

Referee, Outside Examiner, Panelist: MacArthur Foundation, NEA (Media Programs), NEH (Research Programs, Research Resources Program, Younger Scholars Program, Collaborative Research Program), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, National Humanities Center, U of Adelaide (Australia), U of Toronto, Australian Research Council, Montana State U, U of Colorado, U of California at Irvine, Penn State U, U of California at Davis, U of Chicago, Columbia U, CUNY Graduate Center, National Humanities Center (Lyman Award selection committee), Australian Academy for the Humanities, etc.

PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS, PAPERS DELIVERED, ETC.

• 1971: Blake symposium, Illinois State U, paper on Blake's Marriage of Heaven and Hell
• 1972: discussion leader, Blake Seminar, MLA annual meeting, Chicago
• 1974: Blake Weekend, U of Calif., Berkeley, "Blake & the Printing Press"
• 1974: Blake Symposium, Loyola U (New Orleans), "Blake's Arts & Counter Arts"
• 1976: Conference on Blake in the Art of his Time, U of Calif., Santa Barbara, "Blake and the Artistic Machine"
• 1977: Romantics Division, MLA annual meeting, Chicago, "Teaching Blake's Relief Etching"
• 1978: Age of Revolution seminar, Mills College, "The Revolutionary Audience in Blake's Artistic Theory"
• 1979: Arizona State U, "Romantic Theories of Audience"
• 1980: Blake in the 18th Century (special session), MLA annual meeting, Houston, "Classical Line and Romantic Identity"
• 1981: panel on "Visionary Literature" as part of the conference on the Cultural Impact of Scientific Inquiry, Long Island U
• 1981: Blake and Criticism (special session), MLA annual meeting, New York, "An Image of Blake in Contemporary Theory"
• 1982: Conference on Blake and Criticism, U of Calif., Santa Cruz, "Blake's Illuminated Books and Criticism: A Sometimes Annotated Documentary History of an Old Story"
• 1982: The Impact of Technological Change on Literature (special session), MLA annual meeting, Los Angeles, "Swinburne's Blake and the Institutions of Memory"
• 1982: Brown U and Northwestern U, "Blake's Idea of Line"
• 1983: William Blake, Ancient and Modern, a symposium at Cornell U, "Blake and the Politics of Art History"
• 1984: U of Heidelberg (Germany), "Swinburne's Blake"
• 1984: Southeastern Conference on Christianity and Literature, New Orleans, "The Christian History of Engraving" (keynote address)
• 1985: U of Georgia, "The Technologies of Vision and the Institutions of Memory" (The Rodney Baine Lecture)
• 1985: University of Rochester, "Forgetting Blake"
• 1985: "The Institutions of Memory," half-hour radio broadcast for Soundings (National Public Radio)
• 1986: Patronage of the Arts and Learning, conference at the National Humanities Center, "The Narratives of Patronage"
• 1987: Dartmouth College, guest lecture on Blake's Marriage of Heaven and Hell, NEH summer seminar (director James Heffernan)
• 1987: Reassessing Romantic Genius (Keats-Shelley Assoc. session), MLA annual meeting, San Francisco, "Reassessing William Blake"
• 1987: Literature and History (Non-Fiction Prose Division), MLA annual meeting, San Francisco, "The Narratives of Patronage"
• 1988: William Blake and His Circle, conference at the Huntington Library and Art Gallery, "An Inquiry into the Real and Imaginary Obstructions to the Acquisition of the Arts in England: The Comedy of the English School"
• 1988: "Teachers on Teaching," half-hour radio broadcast for Soundings (National Public Radio)
• 1988: Romanticism and Contemporary Criticism, special session, MLA annual meeting, New Orleans, session leader (with Michael Fischer)
• 1988: McGill U (Montreal), "Forgetting Blake"
• 1988: Dartmouth College, "Forgetting Blake"
• 1989: U of Rochester, Wednesday Evenings at the University, "Preserved for Posterity: The Case of William Blake's Illuminated Books"
• 1989: U of Rochester, graduate symposium, "When There's More Than One Art to Deal With"
• 1992: Textual Technologies, conference at Texas A&M U, "'Why Don't They Leave It Alone?'"
• 1993: North American Soc. for the Study of Romanticism, conference at U of Western Ontario, "Where is Hamlet, Again?"
• 1994: Huntington Library, Blake conference, session respondent
• 1994: U of Colorado, Boulder, and U of New Mexico, "The Authority of the Audience in Editorial Theory"
• 1994: North American Soc. for the Study of Romanticism, conference at Duke U, "New Romantic Canons in the Same Old Classrooms" (session leader)
• 1995: Society for Textual Studies annual meeting, New York, "Technology and the Discipline of Editing" and "The Blake Hypermedia Archive"
• 1995: Society for Documentary Editing annual meeting, Baltimore, MD, "The Blake Archive" (with Joseph Viscomi)
• 1996: Conference on the Scholarly and Educational Applications of Advanced Technology, National Humanities Center
• 1997: “Multimedia Politics in Posterity,” invited lecture for the opening of the exhibition The Human Form Divine: William Blake from the Paul Mellon Collection, Apr.-July, Yale Center for British Art
• 1997: “Information Technology in the Humanities: The Current Situation,” invited presentation at the planning conference for the German-American Academic Council, 1-5 Oct., National Humanities Center
• 1997: “Behind the Scenes at the Blake Archive,” Digital Resources for the Humanities, conference at St. Anne’s College, Oxford, 14-17 Sept.
• 1997: “First Principles,” keynote address, Wordsworth-Coleridge Assoc. annual lunch, Toronto, 29 Dec.
• 1998: “Graphicality,” keynote address, Blake and the Book: The Materiality of Books in the Life of William Blake, conference at St. Mary’s University College, London, 18 Apr.
• 1999: “Between the Disciplines,” panel. National Humanities Center 20th Anniversary Conference, 26-17 Mar.
• 1999: “Editorial Principles in the Blake Archive,” presentation in a session on “Electronic Resources and the Enlightenment.” Tenth International Congress on the Enlightenment. University College, Dublin, Ireland, 25-31 July
• 1999: "Editing Electronic Images," presentation at the Alice Berline Kaplan Center for the Humanities as part of the Ariadne seminar on information technology and scholarship in the humanities, Northwestern U, 11 Nov.
• 1999: "The Blake Archive as a Prototype," presentation at the Franke Institute for the Humanities, U of Chicago, 12 Nov.
• 2000: presentation on the Blake Archive at the annual "Really Useful Web" day, Canisius College (Buffalo NY)
• 2000: "Blake's Prospectus of 1793 and British National Identity," presentation at Tate Britain [formerly Tate Gallery], "Blake, Nation, and Empire," conference held in conjunction with Blake exhibition
• 2001: plenary session on “The Electronic Humanist: Some Notable Scholarly Advances,” annual meeting American Council of Learned Societies, Philadelphia
• 2001: "Blake in the 21st Century" (with Robert N. Essick and Joseph Viscomi), at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
• 2001: "Printmaking as a Business, 1793," in a session on the "Business Culture of Romanticism" at the annual conference of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, U of Washington, Seattle
• 2001: keynote address, "X-Editing in Progress," at a conference, "Computing Arts 2001: Digital Resources for Research in the Humanities," U of Sydney, Australia. Conference site: <http://setis.library.usyd.edu.au/drrh2001>
• 2002: session on “The Emergence of Digital Scholarship: New Models for Librarians, Archivists, and Humanists,” at the annual conference of the American Library Association, Atlanta
• 2002: organizer, double session, “Electronic Textual Editing I: Standards” and “Electronic Textual Editing II: Practices,” annual conference of the Modern Language Association, New York
• 2004: Lyman Award Nominees panel, at a conference, “Technology in the Humanities,” Ithaca College

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