{"id":595342,"date":"2024-02-27T15:50:32","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T20:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/?p=595342"},"modified":"2024-02-28T12:59:56","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T17:59:56","slug":"morris-eaves-english-professor-who-breathed-new-life-into-william-blake-scholarship-remembered-595342","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/morris-eaves-english-professor-who-breathed-new-life-into-william-blake-scholarship-remembered-595342\/","title":{"rendered":"Morris Eaves, English professor who breathed new life into William Blake scholarship, remembered"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_595392\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-595392\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-595392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/inline-morris-eaves-blake-archive-02.jpg\" alt=\"Morris Eaves smiles in front of a Blake Archives banner.\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1524\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/inline-morris-eaves-blake-archive-02.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/inline-morris-eaves-blake-archive-02-413x630.jpg 413w, https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/inline-morris-eaves-blake-archive-02-768x1170.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-595392\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">English professor Morris Eaves was a pioneer in preserving William Blake\u2019s body of work in the internet age. (University of Rochester photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>The scholar made the British poet and \u201cmultimedia artist\u201d accessible to a wide audience.<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sas.rochester.edu\/eng\/people\/faculty\/eaves_morris\/index.html\">Morris Eaves<\/a>, an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sas.rochester.edu\/eng\/\">English<\/a> professor whose ceaseless and groundbreaking effort to digitize the illustrated poems of William Blake enabled widespread scholarship of the British poet\u2019s work, died February 25 at the age of 79.<\/p>\n<p>Family and friends describe his death as sudden and say a cause was not immediately known.<\/p>\n<p>Eaves, who held one of the University\u2019s Richard L. Turner Professorships of Humanities from 2010 to 2018, had been teaching two classes during the spring 2024 semester\u2014Romantic Literature: Gothic Spirit, which explores the nexus of fantastical and terrifying works of British romanticism, and Media ABC, a historical introduction to media in a variety of forms.<\/p>\n<p>He had been with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\">University of Rochester<\/a> since 1986 and was known within the University community as much for his institutional knowledge as his devotion to the institution.<\/p>\n<p>But Eaves was perhaps best known in academia for his scholarship on Blake and his pioneering preservation of Blake\u2019s body of work in the internet age. His work on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blakearchive.org\">The William Blake Archive<\/a>\u2014an online initiative he pursued with two colleagues at other universities\u2014has been the subject of scores of books, essays, and news articles.<\/p>\n<p>Blake is most often remembered as a poet. But he was also a painter, engraver, and printmaker who has been called the first multimedia artist for his hand-produced books of elaborately illustrated poems.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_595372\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-595372\" style=\"width: 2000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-595372\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/fea-morris-eaves-richard-l-turner-professorships-in-humanities.jpg\" alt=\"Morris Eaves speaking and gesturing at a lectern in a room reminiscent of a library during a ceremony.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/fea-morris-eaves-richard-l-turner-professorships-in-humanities.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/fea-morris-eaves-richard-l-turner-professorships-in-humanities-630x378.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/fea-morris-eaves-richard-l-turner-professorships-in-humanities-193x117.jpg 193w, https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/fea-morris-eaves-richard-l-turner-professorships-in-humanities-768x461.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/fea-morris-eaves-richard-l-turner-professorships-in-humanities-1536x922.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/fea-morris-eaves-richard-l-turner-professorships-in-humanities-1920x1152.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-595372\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In December 2010, Morris Eaves was named one of the Richard L. Turner Professors in the Humanities at Rochester in recognition of his scholarly contributions. (University of Rochester photo \/ Shannon Taggart)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The breadth of his work, however, posed a major challenge for students of Blake for nearly two centuries after his death in 1827. Students were seldom able to fully experience Blake because his artworks were scattered amongst collections around the world and his poems were typically reproduced without their illustrations.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_595432\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-595432\" style=\"width: 254px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-595432 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/songsie.n.p8-42.100.jpg\" alt=\"Illustration of William Blake's &quot;The Tyger.&quot;\" width=\"254\" height=\"440\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-595432\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201cThe Tyger\u201d by William Blake from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blakearchive.org\/copy\/songsie.n?descId=songsie.n.illbk.08\">The William Blake Archive<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Eaves and two other top Blake scholars\u2014Robert Essick of the University of California and Joseph Viscomi of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill\u2014sought to change that in the early 1990s when they began exploring the then nascent territory of digital humanities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t remember when we first heard about the internet,\u201d Eaves told the <em>Rochester Democrat and Chronicle<\/em> of the pursuit in 2004. \u201cSomeone suggested it might be a way for us to go. . . . We got into it not knowing what the hell we were doing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They figured it out, though, and then some.<\/p>\n<p>With a $250,000 grant from the Getty Grant Program, they began securing access to thousands of pages of fragile and expensive Blake materials and mapping out the infrastructure for how to digitize them.<\/p>\n<p>Their creation, The William Blake Archive, was conceived in 1993 and began publishing its first digital editions in 1995. The online archive enabled researchers for the first time to easily compare versions of Blake\u2019s poems, paintings, and prints, something that previously would have required costly travel. The project later received support from major corporations and would become a model for digital humanities projects involving historical texts and images the world over.<\/p>\n<p>In the ensuing years, Eaves further enhanced the archive by overseeing the digitization of every edition of <a href=\"https:\/\/blakequarterly.org\/index.php\/blake\"><em>Blake\/An Illustrated Quarterly<\/em><\/a>, a peer-reviewed journal devoted to Blake research that Eaves had coedited since 1970.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_595442\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-595442\" style=\"width: 320px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-595442 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/songsie.aa_.p11.100.jpg\" alt=\"Illustrated poem &quot;The Blossom&quot; by William Blake.\" width=\"320\" height=\"487\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-595442\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201cThe Blossom\u201d by William Blake from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blakearchive.org\/copy\/songsie.aa?descId=songsie.aa.illbk.11\">The William Blake Archive<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWe were really pioneers in creating this project,\u201d says Viscomi, who recalls Eaves as a \u201cfirst-rate Blake scholar\u201d who was \u201ccrucial and central\u201d to the initiative. \u201cIf you\u2019re teaching Blake or studying Blake, you come to The William Blake Archive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Eaves grew up in West Monroe, Louisiana, and married his high school sweetheart, Georgia, in 1964 while he was a student at Long Island University.<\/p>\n<p>When he earned his doctorate from Tulane University in 1972, it made news in his hometown. Under the headline \u201cLocal man to receive doctorate,\u201d <em>The Ouachita Citizen<\/em> reported that Eaves had successfully defended his dissertation on \u201cBlake\u2019s Artistic Strategy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Decades later, Eaves described in the journal he edited how a rebellious spirit drew him to Blake as a graduate student. He wrote that giving up studying the likes of William Faulkner for Blake was a \u201cself-shocking move,\u201d but explained that he was \u201cyoung, reckless, and fascinated by pictures as well as texts and by processes as well as products.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was the \u201960s after all,\u201d he wrote, \u201cwhen people got up to things they might have suppressed in more sensible times.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Eaves taught for 16 years at the University of New Mexico before joining the Rochester faculty, where he would establish himself as something of an elder statesman of the English department.<\/p>\n<p>During his tenure at Rochester, Eaves served as chair of the department for eight years and sat on dozens of committees on a medley of issues, from those that advised on the use of technology in the classroom to theater study and university apparel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe had been on so many committees for so many years that his loss is a major loss for the department,\u201d says <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sas.rochester.edu\/eng\/people\/faculty\/maister_nigel\/index.html\">Nigel Maister<\/a>, the Russell and Ruth Peck Artistic Director of the <a href=\"http:\/\/sas.rochester.edu\/theatre\/\">International Theatre Program<\/a>, who calls Eaves a mentor and father figure. \u201cHe had significantly built the department over decades.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_595382\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-595382\" style=\"width: 2000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-595382\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/inline-morris-eaves-georgia-bdaycake-fromNigel.jpg\" alt=\"Morris Eaves with his arm around wife Georgia and a birthday cake in the foreground.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/inline-morris-eaves-georgia-bdaycake-fromNigel.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/inline-morris-eaves-georgia-bdaycake-fromNigel-630x473.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/inline-morris-eaves-georgia-bdaycake-fromNigel-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/inline-morris-eaves-georgia-bdaycake-fromNigel-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/inline-morris-eaves-georgia-bdaycake-fromNigel-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-595382\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Morris Eaves married his high school sweetheart, Georgia. Those who knew the couple called them \u201cinseparable.\u201d (Photo credit: Nigel Maister)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Colleagues and friends use words like \u201cbrilliant,\u201d \u201cirreverent,\u201d \u201cunpretentious,\u201d and \u201ccheerful\u201d to describe Eaves.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe once said to me, and this was the best thing he ever said to me, \u2018We take the work seriously, but we don\u2019t take ourselves too seriously,\u2019\u201d says Sarah Jones, the managing editor of <em>Blake\/An Illustrated Quarterly<\/em>, who worked closely with Eaves.<\/p>\n<p>Those who knew Eaves and his wife refer to them as an \u201cinseparable\u201d couple with discerning tastes in travel and food. It was understood, they say, that anyone dining out with the pair left the dinner reservations to them. That could mean sitting down at a Michelin-rated restaurant or a hole-in-the-wall crab shack to write home about.<\/p>\n<p>Eaves is survived by his wife; their two sons, Obadiah and Dashiell; and three grandchildren, Emmeline, Ezra, and August. 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