Associate professor, Art History @UWM. Gustave Doré and the Modern Biblical Imagination @OUPAcademic. Co-curator "J. R. R. Tolkien: The Art of the Manuscript."
A winter storm on the last day of the exhibition meant one final visit before we close the books on “J. R. R. Tolkien: The Art of the Manuscript.” It was a dream to work on this project, and to meet so many stellar people in the process.
Moreover, I can't but recall that so much of JRRT's own scholarship was rooted in his study of manuscript facsimiles (only a handful of which were photographic).
@JoelMerriner@bodleianlibs I'll be looking mostly at "non-visual" stuff (but with an eye toward the "visual" in a broader sense). I love the idea of "textual sketching"! And also just regular sketching 😁
Heading to Oxford in November for a month of #Tolkien research at @bodleianlibs! Excited as hell, but also daunted––haven't been on a research trip like this since grad school, but also don't have a ton of experience in hyper-focused archival work. Any tips or recs?
@Dr_Dimitra_Fimi@timboltonuk@bodleianlibs @asthiggins @AranelParmadil This has sparked a lot of thoughts on how my archive anxiety may be a kind of Foucauldian self-policing... like, "the *real* scholars will judge me if I'm not holed up in the archives all day..." 😵💫😵💫😵💫
@Dr_Dimitra_Fimi@timboltonuk@bodleianlibs @asthiggins @AranelParmadil Thank you so much, this is super helpful! I'm especially grateful to know that I'm not the only one who doesn't adhere to the intense-immersion-without-rest model 🙂 But yeah, definitely mentally preparing for having to be much more diligent about note-taking...