At 38, he seems precisely the sort of young, messianic academic-art devotee to whom the museum initially appealed.
More academic-minded devotees have the journal Brontë Studies, which has been running since 1895 and has just increased its output to four issues a year "in response to the mushrooming global fascination with the Brontës's work and all aspects of their lives".
At the WABE theatre space in East Berlin's Prenzlauer Berg, a panel of academics and Hacks devotees spent Friday evening debating his legacy as part of the second annual Peter Hacks Conference.
He's an Italian academic, theoretician and translator, a devotee of Portuguese literature.
Religious academic Joshua Greene, a Hare Krishna devotee, has described this trip as Harrison's "preparation" for recording the Living in the Material World album.
The long weekend also emphasizes education; the "Jazz Talk" tent caters to lifelong devotees and neophytes alike with academic panels, artist presentations and historical lectures.
Research in Japanese traditional music has flourished among native scholars as well as among an increasing number of foreign devotees; and national, private, and academic organizations have been founded for the collection, study, and publication of material dealing with all aspects of Japanese musical life.
There have been two conferences on Wallace at one of the universities where he taught, Illinois State, which seemed as much a place for devotees as academics.
He is swarmed over by fans, devotees, obsessives, Southern and Southwestern history buffs, and fiercely protective academic scholars.
Devotees compiled a readers' guide and organized an academic conference dedicated to Pirsig's unifying idea, the Metaphysics of Quality.
There, in the halls of New York University's department of economics, a group of data-crunching devotees of things macro and micro have become leading characters in a drama of academic empire building -- and brand building -- that has captivated aficionados of the sporting world of higher-octane higher education.
