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Project Staff

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Ed Folsom, project co-director, is the Carver Professor of English at The University of Iowa. He has served as Editor of the Walt Whitman Quarterly Review since 1983. He directed "Walt Whitman: The Centennial Project," with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Iowa Humanities Board. He is the editor of Walt Whitman: The Centennial Essays (U Iowa P, 1994); co-editor of Walt Whitman: The Measure of His Song (Holy Cow!, 1981, rev.ed., 1997); co-editor of Walt Whitman and the World (U Iowa P, 1996); and author of Walt Whitman's Native Representations (Cambridge UP, 1994). He recently co-authored with Kenneth Price Re-Scripting Walt Whitman: An Introduction to His Life and Work (Blackwell, 2005). The Whitman Archive activities at the University of Iowa are housed at the Obermann Center for Advanced Studies.

Kenneth M. Price, project co-director, is University Professor and Hillegass Chair of American literature at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He is the co-editor of books on James Weldon Johnson, George Santayana, and nineteenth-century periodical literature. He is also the co-editor of Dear Brother Walt: The Letters of Thomas Jefferson Whitman (Kent State UP, 1984); editor of Walt Whitman: The Contemporary Reviews (Cambridge UP, 1996); and author of Whitman and Tradition: The Poet in His Century (Yale UP, 1990) and To Walt Whitman, America (U of North Carolina P, 2004). He recently co-authored with Ed Folsom Re-Scripting Walt Whitman: An Introduction to His Life and Work (Blackwell, 2005).

Brett Barney, project manager and Senior Associate Editor of the Walt Whitman Archive, is Research Assistant Professor in the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He co-edited Encyclopedia of American Literature, Volume II: The Age of Romanticism and Realism, 1816-1895 (Facts on File, 2007) and is currently editing a comprehensive collection of Whitman interviews and recollections.

Susan Belasco is Professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She is the editor of Summer on the Lakes, in 1843 by Margaret Fuller (Illinois 1991); with Larry J. Reynolds, "These Sad but Glorious Days": Dispatches from Europe, 1846-1850 by Margaret Fuller (Yale 1991); with Kenneth M. Price, she is the co-editor of Periodical Literature in Nineteenth-Century America (Virginia 1995), a collection of essays on the development of the literary marketplace; she is the editor of Ruth Hall by Fanny Fern (Penguin 1996). Her collection of essays, Approaches to Teaching Uncle Tom's Cabin, coedited with Elizabeth Ammons, was published by MLA in 2000. For the Whitman Archive she is editing Whitman's poetry appearing in periodicals.

Katherine L. Walter is chair of the Digital Initiatives & Special Collections (DISC) department in the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) Libraries, and co-directs UNL's Digital Research in the Humanities initiative with Kenneth M. Price. Walter is co-principal investigator of the Virtual Archive of Walt Whitman's Manuscripts project funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services. She also co-directs The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition online edition, a joint project of the UNL Libraries and the University of Nebraska Press funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities Division of Public Programs. In addition, Walter serves as a faculty fellow of the International Willa Cather Seminar.

Zach Bajaber is the Digital Resources Designer for the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities. He has experience with many encoding standards and programming and query languages (mainly XSLT, XQUERY, PHP and SQL). In addition to his involvement in the implementation stage of development, Bajaber also advises on technical and workflow matters. Projects he has contributed to include The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition Online, The Walt Whitman Archive, and Birds of Nebraska: Newspaper Accounts, 1854-1923.

Stacey Berry is a lecturer at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where she teaches twentieth-century American literature and first-year composition. She works as an assistant editor for the Whitman Archive encoding texts and writing and editing item descriptions in EAD records. Stacey also created a tool to help transcribers decipher Whitman's handwriting.

Matt Cohen, Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Duke University, focuses on tool development and digital archival theory. With the assistance of a Digital Humanities Start-up grant from the NEH, he is doing work on interface development and markup approaches for Whitman's marginalia. In addition, he is currently working as the editor in charge of adding Horace Traubel's nine-volume With Walt Whitman in Camden to the Whitman Archive. With Rachel Price, he edited and introduced the Archive's digital version of Álvaro Armando Vasseur's 1912 selection from Leaves of Grass, the first book-length translation of Leaves into Spanish.

Andy Jewell is a contributing editor of Walt Whitman's poetry manuscripts and works on the creation of EAD finding guides for Whitman materials. He received his Ph.D. in American literature and is Assistant Professor of Digital Projects at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries.

Elizabeth Lorang is a Ph.D. student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She is interested in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American literature and literature in periodicals. Her work for the Archive has largely centered on developing the portion of the site devoted to Whitman's poetry in periodicals.

Matt Miller is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Iowa. In the fall, he will be joining Yeshiva University as an Assistant Professor. He has helped create the Archive's searchable database of bibliographic citations and its database of images of Whitman. Other projects include work encoding Whitman's notebooks and training others to do so at the University of Iowa.

Wesley Raabe is the Postdoctoral Fellow in Scholarly Information Resources at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries. He is developing a prototype web site and information architecture for the project Civil War Washington: Studies in Transformation.

Sabrina Ehmke Sergeant is a Ph.D. student in English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and is interested in twentieth century women's literature. She is currently serving as editorial assistant for the upcoming A Calendar of the Letters of Willa Cather: An Expanded, Electronic Edition.

Vanessa Steinroetter is a Ph.D. student in the English Department at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her research focuses on nineteenth-century American literature and culture, and she is especially interested in transnational and interdisciplinary approaches. As an editorial assistant for the Walt Whitman Archive, she has encoded and prepared many of the contemporary reviews of Whitman's work for electronic publication, and is currently working on making Hans Reisiger's German translation of Whitman's poetry and prose available on the Archive website.

Brian Pytlik Zillig is Digital Initiatives Librarian at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Among other various contributions to the Archive, he has done much of the work to display our XML-encoded texts using XSLT stylesheets.


Others have also made important contributions to the Archive.

We list Charles Green first because of his key role in the early development of the Archive. Other current and past staff members follow in alphabetical order:

Charles B. Green contributed to the Whitman Archive from its inception until 2006. He served as Project Manager from February 1996 until July 2000 when he shifted to the role of Technical Editor for the project. Green is the author of several articles published in the Walt Whitman Quarterly Review as well as essays in the Walt Whitman Encyclopedia. In 2005 he earned a Ph.D. in American Studies at the College of William and Mary, writing a dissertation entitled "Passing into Print: Walt Whitman and His Publishers." He serves as Assistant Vice Chancellor for Information Technology Services, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

  • Roger Asselineau (a founding member of the Advisory Board who served until his death) 1997-2002
  • Robbie Bingler (programming; database management) 2000-
  • Mary Bolin (creation of MODS records) 2005-
  • Jennifer Borgerding (transcription; proofreading) 2000-2001
  • Stephen Boykewich (scanning of manuscripts; proofreading; encoding) 2002-2004
  • Blake Bronson-Bartlett (transcription and encoding of notebooks and other tasks) 2007
  • Sandy Byrd (encoding of prose texts) 2006
  • Michael Carmody (encoding of poetry manuscripts) 2003-2004
  • Terry Catapano (SGML and EAD consulting) 2001-
  • Nicole Cloeren (scanning; transcription) 1999
  • Eric Conrad (encoding prose manuscripts) 2005-2006
  • Jean Dickinson (encoding of poetry manuscripts) 2000-2002
  • Todd Diehl (revision; updating of bibliography) 1999-2001
  • Stephen Disrud (proofreading and correction of texts) 2006
  • David Donlon (transcription) 1995
  • Mary Ellen Ducey (creation of EAD finding aid for poetry manuscripts) 2002-2005
  • Allison Dushane (transcription, encoding, and proofing of With Walt Whitman in Camden) 2003-2006
  • Erica Fretwell (encoding of With Walt Whitman in Camden; encoding and project management for manuscript annotation interface development) 2006-
  • Amanda Gailey (database and image management; transcription; training) 2002-2006
  • Ted Genoways (editorial contributions on Whitman's correspondence and photographs) 2003-
  • Cindy Girard (programming; development of search engine) 2003-
  • Matthew Gold (Unix editing; formulation of teaching unit questions) 1997
  • Ramon Guerra (transcription of poems in periodicals) 2003-2004
  • Melody Han (encoding of poetry manuscripts) 2003-2004
  • Kirk Hastings (creation of stylesheets and customization of document type definition) 2001-2002
  • John Havard (encoding of poetry manuscripts) 2005-
  • Whitney Helms (transcription and encoding of poetry manuscripts) 2006-2007
  • Peter Henry (project manager; encoding of poetry manuscripts; EAD encoding) 2002-2003
  • Amy Hezel (transcriber and encoder of poetry manuscripts) 2004-2005
  • Chris Higgs (transcription of texts, XML encoding of various documents) 2005
  • Leslie Ianno (encoding of poetry manuscripts) 2003-2004
  • Patrick Jagoda (transcription, encoding, and proofing of With Walt Whitman in Camden) 2003-2006
  • Chris Jessee (digital imaging consulting) 2002-2005
  • Nick Krauter (encoding of prose texts) 2006
  • Kathryn Kruger (encoding of correspondence) 2007
  • Robert LaCosse (encoding of poetry manuscripts) 2004-
  • April Lambert (encoding of Whitman family correspondence) 2006-2007
  • Farrah Lehman (encoding of poetry manuscripts) 2006-2007
  • Margaret Loose (revision of bibliography; transcription of poetry) 1999
  • Thomas Lukas (SGML consulting) 1996
  • Megan Maher (encoding of poetry manuscripts) 2003-
  • Josh Matthews (transcription and encoding of notebooks) 2005-
  • Jason McIntosh (database development for the gallery; encoding of poetry manuscripts) 2001-2002
  • Jon Miller (coordination of revision and updating of bibliography; encoding of bibliography) 1999-2000
  • Heather Morton (assistant project manager) 2003-2005
  • Rob Nelson (project assistant and then project manager; site design; database development) 1997-2000
  • Alyssa Olson (Civil War Washington; editing photo metadata) 2007
  • Jennifer Overkamp (transcription and encoding of poetry manuscripts) 2002-2003
  • Megan Peabody (photo processing) 2007
  • Heather Peltier (encoding) 1997-1998
  • Heidi Peters (transcription of reviews; checking of Rhys edition of Leaves; encoding of poetry manuscripts) 2005
  • Daniel Pitti (SGML and EAD consulting) 1997-
  • Ashley Price (transcription of poetry manuscripts; updating of database) 2003-2005
  • Gillian Price (transcription of poetry manuscripts; proofreading and encoding of Vasseur's translation of Whitman) 2006
  • Rachel Price (preparation of Vasseur edition) 2006-2007
  • Joshua Ranger (EAD encoding and encoding of poetry manuscripts) 2003-
  • Lisa Renfro (grant writing; editing and blessing of poetry manuscripts) 2004-2007
  • Katrina Robertson (transcription and encoding of poetry manuscripts) 2001-2002
  • Susan J. Rosowski (a member of the Advisory Board who served until her death) 2001-2004
  • Alice Rutkowski (project manager; helped with the development of the Whitman DTD and the encoding guidelines) 2000-2002
  • David Seaman (conversion of texts from Borland database format into TEI Lite and SGML/XML consulting) 1998-2001
  • Amy L. Scherdin (encoding) 1998-1999
  • David Sheesley (development of scripts for file conversion; database development) 2002-2003
  • Nina Shevchuk-Murray (preparation of Ukranian and Russian editions) 2007
  • Tracy Simmons (transcription of interviews; image processing) 2005-2006
  • Janel Simons (research assistance on periodicals; proofreading; encoding of poetry manuscripts) 2003-2005
  • Melissa Sinner (encoding of poetry manuscripts) 2000-2003
  • Jonathan Soma (encoding of poetry manuscripts) 2003
  • Justin St. Clair (transcription of poetry manuscripts) 2000-2001
  • Nicholas Swiercek (transcription and encoding of interviews)
  • Elliot Tally (scanning of various editions of Leaves) 1997-1998
  • John Unsworth (general consulting) 1995
  • Bart Welling (EAD encoding) 2002-2003
  • Sarah Weinert (photo processing) 2007
  • Jessica Williams (encoding of prose texts) 2007
  • Leslee Wright (transcription of poetry manuscripts; resizing of images) 2003
  • Zane Zimbelman (encoding of poetry manuscripts) 2003

Advisory Board

  • Edward L. Ayers, University of Virginia
  • Julia Flanders, Brown University
  • Robert A. Gross, College of William & Mary
  • Walter Grünzweig, University of Dortmund
  • Jerome McGann, University of Virginia
  • Joel Myerson, University of South Carolina
  • Daniel Pitti, University of Virginia
  • David S. Reynolds, City University of New York
  • Martha Nell Smith, University of Maryland
  • John Unsworth, University of Illinois

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