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Dr Michael J Sullivan is a Lecturer in English at St Catherine's College, University of Oxford, and General Editor of The Complete Works of Alfred Tennyson for Oxford University Press. His research focuses on 18th-20th century poetics, Victorian/Romantic literature, and the application of Digital Humanities to manuscript recovery. As Principal Investigator of the Recovery of Literary Manuscripts project, he pioneers multispectral imaging techniques to uncover obscured literary texts.
Education: PhD (Trinity College, Cambridge), MPhil (Eighteenth-Century/Romantic Studies, Cambridge; AHRC-funded), BA (Durham University; Vice-Chancellor’s Scholar). Awards include the Gordon Duff Prize and Durham’s T. W. Craik Prize.
Research interests span poetic drafts, transnational verse forms, and the materiality of literary canons. He edits journals (Tennyson Research Bulletin, Victorian Poetry) and leads the Tennyson Society. Current projects include Tennyson: A Life in Manuscripts (Princeton) and Transnational Verse Forms (Cambridge).
Awards:
- Gordon Duff Prize (Tennyson revision studies)
- T. W. Craik Prize (Durham University)
- Brooks Johnson Prize (Durham)
- J. R. Watson Prize (Durham)
Advising & Grants: Supported by Rodney G. Dennis Visiting Fellowship (Harvard) and AHRC grants. Supervised dissertations on Dickinson manuscripts, Keats’s absence aesthetics, and Tennyson’s mourning poetics. Engages in outreach for humanities access programs.
Projects: Directs the Recovery of Literary Manuscripts (https://recovery-of-literary-manuscripts.net), a DH initiative restoring lost literary lines via spectral imaging. Collaborates across disciplines to reinterpret modern anglophone literary history.
