Dr Michael Sullivan features in video on Recovery of Literary Manuscripts

Michael J Sullivan (Faculty of English) features in a University of Oxford video introducing the Recovery of Literary Manuscripts project, which is developing new digital techniques to recover lost lines of literature.

Dr Sullivan’s team has been using multispectral imaging to examine the manuscripts of Tennyson and the Shelley Circle, among other modern authors. Find out about the project’s recent work on Shelley’s notebooks:

You can read more about Dr Sullivan’s research project, Recovery of Literary Manuscripts, on the project website and in Michael J Sullivan, Roger Easton Jr, and Andrew Beeby, ‘Reading Behind the Lines: Ghost Texts & Spectral Imaging in the Manuscripts of Alfred Tennyson’ in The Review of English Studies (Open Access article).