Research & Publications
Research & Publications
Note: Most of the work on this tab is related to The Watermark. But over the course of this project's development details emerged about other student publications on Campus as well, and as a result some of that research, given the under-documented nature of it, has found its way here under the 'Other Offical Publications' page, for those connected to UMass through funding. I also intend to build a seperate page for non-offical page for truly independent student publications, such as those found in Questionnaire #8.
This essay in Esoterica Magazine is part archeology part reconstruction of the UMass Boston English department graduate lounge shelving systems as they existed until roughly November of 2025 when I began searching through them for a prior project, The Sixth Floor Archive. A link to that website can be found here.
This essay is an argument for awareness of how digitization flattens a historical record and can create the illusion of clean continuity in a publication environment which is inherently unstable. It is available for viewing on the American Printing History Association website.
This forthcoming essay (September 2026) is a narrative of how an archival project begins, matures, and changes while operating in a niche research subject with low funding and low recognition. It will be published in Antae based out of The University of Malta.
This essay is a reconstruction after the fact of how I believe The Watermark moved through campus.
This essay is on the last volume of The Watermark.
This essay is on the forgotten history of Volume #21 and its many iterations.
This essay is an account of how I began purchasing copies independently from online retailers.
This essay details the life stages of The Watermark via three examples.
This essay documents finances, prize support, and scholarship money.
This essay documents periodization and book morphology across The Watermark.
A theoretical framework to understand the decentralized nature of the six archival Watermark systems I have been able to uncover.
How contemporary campus publications move on campus in 2025.
How contemporary campus publications move on campus in real time over a few days in 2026.
A short, followup essay to my other essay, titled The Archeology Of A Bookshelf.