Encounters: How I first discovered Ruskin (original) (raw)

Please send your story of encountering Ruskin to the webmaster for inclusion here — George P. Landow

“And so,” someone asks a new arrival: “Why, for you, Ruskin?” Various answers are given, of course. It is quite marvelous to hear the differences. But when I heard that question the first time, these thoughts sprang immediately to mind. I thought: “Well, it’s because he tells me the truth, the truth I should have known long ago; it’s because he inspires me; it’s because he gives me more life.” — Jim Spates

• Sara Atwood, PhD, Assistant Professor, Portland State University/Portland Community College; North American Development Director; Guild of St George

• Linda M. Austin, Professor Emerita of English, Oklahoma State University

• David Barrie CBE, Chair of Ruskin Today, Former Member of the Foreign Service, Former Director of The Art Fund, and Fellow of the Royal Institute of Navigation

• R. Dyke Benjamin. Companion, the Guild of St. George

• Robert Brownell, PhD., author of Marriage of Inconvenience

• Alan Cole, Lecturer in Post-Graduate Palaeography, and Curator, Museum of Writing Research Collection, University of London

• Simon Cooke, Ph.D, Assistant Editor for Book Illustration and Design, the Victorian Web

• Rob Cowan, Writer and Broadcaster

• Alan Davis, Honorary Visiting Researcher at the Ruskin Centre, Lancaster University; Editor of the Ruskin Review and Bulletin, 2009-2018.

• James S. Dearden, Founder of the Ruskin Association, Former Master of the Guild of St. George, Former Keeper of the Ruskin Galleries at the Bembridge School

• Pascal Debout, Faculté de Droit, Université de Strasbourg

• Dr Stuart Eagles, former Secretary of The Ruskin Society and the Guild of St George

• Dr Mark Frost, Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University of Portsmouth

• Ann Gagne, PhD, Lecturer, University of Toronto Scarborough

• Dr Cynthia Gamble, Honorary Research Fellow, University of Exeter, UK

• Professor Ray Haslam, Artist

• James A. W. Heffernan, Professor of English Emeritus, Dartmouth College

• Elizabeth K. Helsinger, John Matthews Manly Distinguished Service Professor, Departments of English and Art History, and the College, University of Chicago

• Robert Hewison, Visiting Professor at Ruskin Centre Lancaster University

• Andrew Hill, Associate Editor, Financial Times

• Nancy Hiller, Furniture Designer, Cabinetmaker, and Author

• Tim Holton, Picture Framer

• Howard Hull, Director, The Ruskin Foundation & Brantwood Trust

• Arjun Jain, Poet, Painter, Proprietor of the John Ruskin Manufactory. New Delhi, India

• George P. Landow, Editor-in-Chief, the Victorian Web; Professor Emeritus of English and the History of Art, Brown University

• Béatrice Laurent, University of Bordeaux, France

• David Lustgarten, Associate Professor of Design and Design History, Champlain College, Burlington, Vermont USA

• William McKeown, Associate Professor of Art History, University of Memphis

• Christopher Newall, Author and Curator

• Pritika Pradhan, PhD candidate in English, Rutgers University

• Tim Rawson, Technical Writer, Kongsberg Maritime AS, Norway

• Laurence Roussillon-Constanty, Professeur des Universités HDR, University of Pau et de Pays L’ardour, France

• Paul Sawyer, Professor of English & Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow, Cornell University

• Simon Seligman, Communications & Membership Officer, The Guild of St George

• Nicholas Shrimpton, PhD., Emeritus Fellow, Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford

• Julian Spalding, former Master of the Guild of St George and former Director of Sheffield, Manchester, and Glasgow Museums

• Jim Spates, Professor of Sociology Emeritus Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Editor of Why Ruskin

• Dr Kay J. Walter, Professor of English, Professor of English, University of Arkansas at Monticello

• Sharon Aronofsky Weltman, William E. “Bud” Davis Alumni Professorship, Louisiana State University

• Professor Michael Wheeler, Chairman of Gladstone’s Library, formerly founding Director of the Ruskin Centre and Ruskin Collection Project at Lancaster University

• Selby Whittingham, PhD

• Michael Williams, PhD, Founder, the Turner Society

• Clive Wilmer, Master of the Guild of St George, Emeritus Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge

Last modified 8 January 2022