About me
Gregory Heyworth is an associate professor of English, History and Computer Science at the University of Rochester. He holds BAs from Columbia and Cambridge in English, and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Princeton. Trained as a medievalist, he is an expert in both cultural heritage imaging and codicology. He is the author of Desiring Bodies: Ovidian Romance and the Cult of Form (Notre Dame, 2009), and editor of Les Eschez D'amours : a critical edition of the poem and its Latin glosses (Brill, 2013, vol. 1, with vol. 2 forthcoming in 2025). In 2010, he founded the Lazarus Project as an initiative to recover damaged cultural heritage objects using spectral imaging around the world, having built the first, transportable, multispectral imaging laboratory. Under Heyworth’s direction, the Lazarus Project has recovered damaged manuscripts, maps, globes and paintings using multispectral imaging (MSI) and other technologies in thirteen countries. He and his team have recovered such renowned works as the Black Book of Carmarthen, the 1491 Martellus Map, the Vercelli Book, the Bronze-Age cave paintings of Laja Alta, the Gaius palimpsest of Roman Law, and the Sarajevo Haggadah.
