About
Michael John Goodman received his PhD in English Literature form Cardiff University in February 2017. His thesis, ‘Illustrating Shakespeare: Practice, Theory and the Digital Humanities’ explored how digital technology can be used to make sense of historical (specifically Victorian) illustrations of Shakespeare’s plays. The project saw the launch of the Victorian Illustrated Shakespeare Archive, an online open access resource that contains over 3000 illustrations taken from Victorian editions of Shakespeare’s plays.
In January 2017, Digital Arts Magazine named the archive as one of the top nine on the web for free historical images and Michael has also worked with the BBC to create a short video about the project for social media. Open Culture, Lit Hub, and Fine Books Magazine, amongst others, have also written about the project. You can learn more about the archive in an interview Michael did with arts and culture website, Hyperallergic. The Archive has also been used in secondary schools at Key Stage 4 to teach Romeo and Juliet to GCSE students.
A founding member of Forms of Innovation (an AHRC-funded collaborative project that investigated the interplay between technology and literature), Michael also designed the website Women in Trousers: A Visual Archive, and is on the advisory board of the Wellcome Trust-funded ‘Science Humanities’ initiative at Cardiff University. He was the Research Associate on Cardiff University’s Digital Cultures Network and the GW4 Remediating the Archive Project Fellow. Michael has written for The Conversation, the Education section in the Western Mail newspaper and has appeared on the BBC Radio Wales Arts Show talking about Shakespeare and national identity. Michael has peer reviewed and written reviews for the journals the History of Education and the Journal of British Studies. He is currently writing his first monograph which will explore how the digital can help students and the general public engage meaningfully with the humanities.
Education
PhD, English Literature / Digital Humanities, Cardiff University, 2017
Ma, English Literature, Cardiff University, 2011
BA (Hons), Drama, Manchester University, 2005 Publications
Shakespeare in Bits and Bytes: Making the Victorian Illustrated Shakespeare Archive (monograph, under consideration with Emerald, Studies in Digital Cultures Series)
Victorian Illustrated Shakespeare Archive Available at: http://www.shakespeareillustration.org
‘The Victorian Illustrated Shakespeare Archive: Art to Enchant’ in Shakespeare and Digital Pedagogy: Case Studies and Strategies eds. Diana Henderson and Kyle Vitale (forthcoming, Arden, 2020)
‘Victorian Illustrated Shakespeare Archive: Digital Archive as Critical Argument’, The International Journal of Creative Media Research (2), 2019. Available at: https://www.creativemediaresearch.org/post/victorian-illustrated-shakespeare-archive-digital-archive-as-critical-argument
‘Teaching with Digital Resources’ in Teaching the History of the Book (forthcoming, MLA, 2020)
‘The Modern Kate: Or A Husband Perplexed’ in The Cambridge Guide to the Novel in the Eighteenth Century (forthcoming, Cambridge University Press)
‘Owen Glendowr and Other Stories’ in The Cambridge Guide to the Novel in the Eighteenth Century (forthcoming, Cambridge University Press)
‘The Sons of St. David’ in The Cambridge Guide to the Novel in the Eighteenth Century (forthcoming, Cambridge University Press)
‘Eden Vale’ in The Cambridge Guide to the Novel in the Eighteenth Century (forthcoming, Cambridge University Press)
‘Edmund Fitzaubrey’ in The Cambridge Guide to the Novel in the Eighteenth Century (forthcoming, Cambridge University Press)
‘A Hundred Ducats Apiece for his Picture in Little’, Shakespeare Magazine 14, July 27, 2018. Available at: https://issuu.com/shakespearemagazine/docs/shakespeare_magazine_14
‘Brush up on Your Shakespeare in a Brave New Illustrated World’, The Western Mail, March 25, 2017
‘Art to Enchant: Shakespeare and Victorian Illustration’, Folger Shakespeare Library, October 24, 2017. Available at: https://shakespeareandbeyond.folger.edu/2017/10/24/victorian-illustrated-shakespeare-archive/
‘Yes, You Really Can Judge a Book by its Cover?’, The Conversation UK, September 29, 2016. Available at: https://theconversation.com/yes-you-really-can-judge-a-book-by-its-cover-65768
Reviews
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Electronic Literature, ed. Joseph Tabbi, in the British Society for Literature and Science (forthcoming 2019)
Adrienne Mayor, God’s and Robots: Myths, Machines and Ancient Dreams of Technology, in the British Society for Literature and Science, 2019. Available at: https://www.bsls.ac.uk/reviews/general-and-theory/adrienne-mayor-gods-and-robots-myths-machines-and-ancient-dreams-of-technology/
David Hansen, A Folio of Dempsey’s People: British Street Portraits, 1824-1844, in the Journal of British Studies 57(3), 2018, pp. 652-653
Devoney Looser, The Making of Jane Austen, in Romantic Textualities (forthcoming, 2019)
