Dr Michael John Goodman is an independent researcher, writer, educator, curator and designer who uses art and design as modes of enquiry to bring together objects and artefacts so that we may see them in new ways. Using archives, public domain and out of copyright material, specifically 19th Century book illustration, Michael’s work exists at the intersection between English literature, graphic design and the digital. He is the creator of the  Charles Dickens Illustrated Gallery, an online resource that contains all the original illustrations from Charles Dickens’s novels, and the Victorian Illustrated Shakespeare Archive, another open-access online resource that contains over 3000 illustrations from the most significant illustrated Shakespeare editions in the Victorian period.  He has most recently created the Kelmscott Chaucer Online,  a website that allows users to explore ‘the most beautiful book ever printed’, alongside the online exhibition ‘Paint the Picture to Word: Shakespeare Illustration and Artificial Intelligence Art‘.  Michael is a big advocate and proponent for open knowledge and culture.

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