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Join us for a digital scholarship coffee gathering – tea and coffee will be provided.
At this session we’ll have a talk titled Spectral Analysis and the Shelley Circle: Towards a New Digital School of Textual Criticism
About the speaker
Michael J. Sullivan is a literary critic at the University of Oxford and General Editor of The Complete Works of Alfred Tennyson for Oxford University Press. His interests span the poetics and verse cultures of the late eighteenth to twentieth centuries, with publications on Victorian and Romantic literature and special interests in poetic drafts and the transnational drift of verse forms. His work in digital editing includes the project Recovery of Literary Manuscripts, which is among the first sustained applications of multispectral imaging to the study of modern anglophone literature. The project’s work on Tennyson received recent media coverage in The Smithsonian magazine and Artnet among others, and a video on Recovery of Literary Manuscripts was released by the University of Oxford in 2025: www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvIqW-qj7eA. He is currently finishing Tennyson: A Life in Manuscripts for Princeton University Press and writing Transnational Verse Forms: The Making of Stanzas in Modern Poetics.
These will be held in the Visiting Scholars Centre, so to attend you’ll need to bring your Bodleian Card and to leave your bags in the lockers – this event is only open to University staff and students.
