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Digital Scholarship at Oxford @discoxford.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Join us at our next digital scholarship coffee morning, Tuesday 24th. Come along to hear @michaeljsullivan.bsky.social talk about his research: 'Spectral Analysis and the Shelley Circle: Towards a New Digital School of Textual Criticism'. More details: digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk/event/digita...

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Michael J Sullivan @michaeljsullivan.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Enjoyed filming this video on Recovery of Literary Manuscripts and our multispectral work on Tennyson and the Shelley Circle. Many thanks to the video team at the University of Oxford! www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvIq... @ox.ac.uk @engfac.bsky.social @oxhumanities.bsky.social @bars.bsky.social

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Recovery of Literary Manuscripts

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Michael J Sullivan @michaeljsullivan.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Fantastic to welcome the new @engfac.bsky.social Master’s groups this year and to begin the course in Material Texts! Wishing you all the best for the year ahead!

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Michael J Sullivan @michaeljsullivan.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Really enjoyed opening this year’s Tennyson Talks last week, and to see the vibrant international audience the Zoom series is bringing together. #Tennyson #Victorian @tennysonsociety.bsky.social @engfac.bsky.social @bavs-uk.bsky.social

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Michael J Sullivan @michaeljsullivan.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Much looking forward to speaking in the Tennyson Talks Zoom series on 2 October: ‘“Among a World of Ghosts”: Tennyson’s Texts’. Joining details via the poster @engfac.bsky.social @bavs-uk.bsky.social @navsa.bsky.social

Poster of the Tennyson Talks 4th Series indicating that events are at 7.30pm London time on the first Thursday of each month, held via Zoom. Joining details can be obtained from Professor Valerie Purton.

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Michael J Sullivan @michaeljsullivan.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Excited to have begun a new role for this year leading the courses in material texts for the Oxford Master’s strands in modern literature. Very much looking forward to this role spanning 1830-present, and incorporating new resources and methods both material and digital. @engfac.bsky.social

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Michael J Sullivan @michaeljsullivan.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Excellent to attend and speak at the British Association of Victorian Studies 25th Anniversary Conference, and to hear its inspiring roundtable from presidents past and future. Isobel Armstrong on the future of the discipline: ‘Be dauntless’. #BAVS2025 @bavs-uk.bsky.social @engfac.bsky.social

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BAVS @bavs-uk.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

One week to go until the BAVS 2025 Annual Conference @engfac.bsky.social If you're interested in hosting BAVS 26, 27, or 28 at your institution then we'd love to hear from you! bavs.ac.uk/host-the-bav...

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Michael J Sullivan @michaeljsullivan.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

‘Reading this recovered text helps us to illuminate the creative process behind works of art, but also to restore valuable parts of the world’s cultural heritage’: read full article at doi.org/10.1093/res/... @engfac.bsky.social

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Michael J Sullivan @michaeljsullivan.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Delighted to publish 'Reading Behind the Lines', among the first sustained applications of multispectral processing to modern anglophone literature. We recover lost text in Tennyson's manuscripts and theorise its critical implications: doi.org/10.1093/res/... @engfac.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk

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Michael J Sullivan @michaeljsullivan.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Call for Papers now open for BAVS 25th Anniversary Conference in Oxford. Papers, panels and roundtables are invited on any aspect of the long nineteenth century. 23-25 July, with an ECR event on 22 July – for more details and to submit, see english.web.ox.ac.uk/bavs2025 @engfac.bsky.social

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Michael J Sullivan @michaeljsullivan.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Many thanks for compiling this -- if there's still space, I'd be very grateful to be added.

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Michael J Sullivan @michaeljsullivan.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Thanks — we cite their work on X-Ray Fluorescence. We’re also advancing methods of multispectral image analysis and processing for environmentally damaged manuscripts.

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Michael J Sullivan @michaeljsullivan.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Many thanks to the Oxford Centre for Textual Editing and Theory for hosting our research lecture yesterday, where we launched the project website: recovery-of-literary-manuscripts.net #DigitalHumanities #DigitalScholarship @universityofoxford.bsky.social @engfac.bsky.social

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Recovery of Literary Manuscripts – Recovery of Literary Manuscripts

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Michael J Sullivan @michaeljsullivan.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Our DH research is informing literary criticism and scholarly editions, including The Complete Works of Alfred Tennyson for OUP and work on the Shelley Circle for the Johns Hopkins edition of The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley. @navsa.bsky.social @bars.bsky.social @engfac.bsky.social

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Michael J Sullivan @michaeljsullivan.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Since 2021, we’ve been recovering lost variants in modern literature – article forthcoming in The Review of English Studies. We’re developing new techniques to restore lost lines of literary manuscripts, revealing more of the world’s extant literature that has remained beyond the reach of critics.

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Michael J Sullivan @michaeljsullivan.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Excited to have launched our project website for ‘Recovery of Literary of Manuscripts’ at Oxford yesterday. 'Recovery of Literary Manuscripts' is an interdisciplinary project applying multispectral imaging to the study of modern anglophone literature. recovery-of-literary-manuscripts.net

Project website depicting manuscript imaging in progress

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Michael J Sullivan @michaeljsullivan.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Many thanks for compiling, and I'd be very grateful if I might be added, too.

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Michael J Sullivan @michaeljsullivan.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Please could I be added? Many thanks!

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Michael J Sullivan @michaeljsullivan.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Many thanks for compiling this - if there's still space, I'd be very interested in joining!

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Michael J Sullivan @michaeljsullivan.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Many thanks for compiling - please might I be added, if there is still space?

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Jennie Batchelor @jenniebatchelor.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

Hi folks. Please request an add/share/like to join the Material Culture starter pack! go.bsky.app/GARWutv

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Dr Kath @dr-kath.bsky.social · 26/10/2024

This is my humble attempt at a starter back for literary studies. Please feel free to join. go.bsky.app/9i1XbVC

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Michael J Sullivan @michaeljsullivan.bsky.social · 13/06/2024

Thrilled to see my article out in The Wordsworth Circle, examining a recently acquired manuscript of ‘The Barberry-Tree’ and disentangling its authorship, philosophy and prosody: doi.org/10.1086/730753

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Wordsworth, Parody, and the Authorship of “The Barberry-Tree” | The Wordsworth Circle: Vol 55, No 2

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Michael J Sullivan @michaeljsullivan.bsky.social · 21/04/2024

Excellent time at the Byron Bicentenary event at Cambridge this week — thank you very much to the organisers. @trincolllibcam.bsky.social

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Bodleian Libraries @bodleian.ox.ac.uk · 08/11/2023

On this day 400 years ago, Shakespeare's First Folio was published! There are quite a few around. We look after a couple ourselves. But here's something unique. We hold the only known surviving copy of the first of his works to be published in 1593: the poem Venus and Adonis!

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Michael J Sullivan @michaeljsullivan.bsky.social · 03/11/2023

Read the full article open advance access in the OUP journal The Review of English Studies - ‘Sesta Rima as a Mode of Imitation: Hybrid Forms in Anglo-Italian Verse’: academic.oup.com/res/advance-...

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Sesta Rima as a Mode of Imitation: Hybrid Forms in Anglo-Italian Verse

Abstract. This article finds in the Italianate form of sesta rima an additional strand of influence on English ottava rima in the nineteenth century. It explore

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Michael J Sullivan @michaeljsullivan.bsky.social · 03/11/2023

Engaging with the genesis and uses of these stanzas in a range of modern poets, the article forms a case study in experimental stanza switching and hybrid forms in Romantic and post-Romantic verse. @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social @modernistudies.bsky.social

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Michael J Sullivan @michaeljsullivan.bsky.social · 03/11/2023

Drawing together #Byron's Italian reading, his correspondence, and his manuscript experiments, the article opens up a cluster of poems between 1813 and 1816 which reveal how his movements towards ottava rima predate his arrival in Italy and intertwine with the history of sesta rima.

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Michael J Sullivan @michaeljsullivan.bsky.social · 03/11/2023

The research finds in the Italianate form of sesta rima an alternative strand of influence on English ottava rima and casts light on the genesis of Byron’s most celebrated verse form: the ottava rima of Don Juan and Beppo. @modernlanguage.bsky.social @bsecs.bsky.social

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Michael J Sullivan @michaeljsullivan.bsky.social · 03/11/2023

Delighted that my research on the transnational drift of verse forms and the origins of Byron’s ottava rima has just been published by RES. ‘Sesta Rima as a Mode of Imitation: Hybrid Forms in Anglo-Italian Verse’: academic.oup.com/res/advance-... @bars.bsky.social @navsa.bsky.social

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