Ed Folsom, project co-director, is the Carver Professor of English at The University of Iowa. Since 1983, he has served as Editor of the Walt Whitman Quarterly Review. He directed "Walt Whitman: The Centennial Project," which was funded by the NEH and the Iowa Humanities Board. He is the editor of Walt Whitman: The Centennial Essays (Iowa, 1994); co-editor of Walt Whitman: The Measure of His Song (Holy Cow!, 1981, rev.ed., 1997) and Walt Whitman and the World (Iowa, 1996); and author of Walt Whitman's Native Representations (Cambridge, 1994). He recently co-authored with Kenneth Price Re-Scripting Walt Whitman: An Introduction to His Life and Work (Blackwell, 2005) and with Price and Susan Belasco co-edited Leaves of Grass: The Sesqui-centennial Essays (Nebraska, 2007). The Whitman Archive activities at Iowa are housed at the Obermann Center for Advanced Studies.

Kenneth M. Price, project co-director, is Hillegass University Professor 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, 1984); editor of Walt Whitman: The Contemporary Reviews (Cambridge, 1996); author of Whitman and Tradition: The Poet in His Century (Yale, 1990) and To Walt Whitman, America (North Carolina, 2004). In addition, Price co-authored with Susan Belasco and Ed Folsom Leaves of Grass: The Sesquicentennial Essays (Nebraska, 2007), and with Ed Folsom Re-Scripting Walt Whitman: An Introduction to His Life and Work (Blackwell, 2005).

Brett Barney, 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, 2008) 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), and co-editor with Larry J. Reynolds of "These Sad but Glorious Days": Dispatches from Europe, 1846-1850 by Margaret Fuller (Yale, 1991); she is the editor of Ruth Hall by Fanny Fern (Penguin, 1996) and co-editor with Elizabeth Ammons of Approaches to Teaching Uncle Tom's Cabin, (MLA, 2000). With Kenneth Price she co-edited Periodical Literature in Nineteenth-Century America (Virginia, 1995). Recently Belasco co-edited, with Ed Folsom and Kenneth Price, Leaves of Grass: The Sesquicentennial Essays (Nebraska, 2007), and edited Stowe in Her Own Time (Iowa, 2009). For the Whitman Archive she is the editor of Whitman's Poems in Periodicals .

Katherine L. Walter is chair of Digital Initiatives & Special Collections (DISC) in the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) Libraries, and co-directs UNL's Center for Digital Research in the Humanities with Kenneth M. Price. Walter has been co-principal investigator of two Whitman-related research projects funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services: A Virtual Archive of Walt Whitman's Manuscripts and Interoperability of Metadata for Thematic Research Collections: A Model Based on The Walt Whitman Archive. She currently serves as co-chair of the steering committee of centerNet, an international network of digital humanities centers.

Stacey Berry is project manager for Civil War Washington: Studies in Transformation at the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities and post-doctoral research associate at University of Nebraska-Lincoln. In addition, Stacey continues to serve as an assistant editor for the Whitman Archive, a position she has held for five years. Berry received her PhD in English from UNL in August 2007. Her dissertation, The War Zone, examines the relationships between violence, space, and oppression in post-1945 American fiction.

Travis Brown is a PhD student in the English Department at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the lead developer and assistant director of the eComma project, and his research interests include poetics, syntax, machine learning, and text mining. He is currently helping to expand the Archive's bibliography, contributing to the editing of Horace Traubel's With Walt Whitman in Camden, and developing tools for encoding Whitman's marginalia.

Blake Bronson-Bartlett is an English PhD candidate at the University of Iowa. He is the Managing Editor of the Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, and has worked on the transcription, encoding, and annotation of Whitman's correspondence and notebooks for the Whitman Archive. He is currently working on machine readable transcripts of Two Rivulets and early French translations of Whitman's poetry and prose for the Archive. His interests include urban studies, Franco-American cultural studies, and nineteenth-century French and American verse.

Janel Cayer is a PhD student in English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She studies nineteenth-century American literature and culture, with a focus on women authors. Janel is particularly interested in formations of gender in fin-de-siècle scientific and medical professions as well as depictions of gender in relation to domestic spaces. Her work for the Whitman Archive includes locating and transcribing Whitman's Civil War era journalism as well as image processing.

Matt Cohen, Associate Professor in the Department of English at University of Texas at Austin, 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.

Eric Conrad is a PhD candidate in the Department of English at the University of Iowa. His research in nineteenth-century United States literature and culture focuses on professional authorship and literary celebrity with a particular interest in Walt Whitman. Eric's past work for the Archive includes transcribing and encoding Whitman's prose manuscripts as well as annotating Whitman's Civil War correspondence.

Tim Jackson, CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow, is an assistant editor of the Walt Whitman Archive, focusing on Whitman’s Civil War prose. He earned his PhD in editorial studies from the Editorial Institute at Boston University. His dissertation, Selected Lyrics and Dramatic Verse of Edna St. Vincent Millay: A Critical Edition, addresses Millay's activity in revising her poems and the publication history of her works, and provides a reliable text for these poems.

Andrew Jewell is the editor of Whitman's Blue Book and a contributing editor for the Whitman Archive. In addition, Andy is editor of the Willa Cather Archive, co-editor of the forthcoming book The American Literature Scholar in the Digital Age, and writer of several articles on American literature and digital humanities. He received his PhD in American literature and is Assistant Professor of Digital Projects at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries as well as a faculty fellow at the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities at UNL.

Kathryn Kruger is an assistant editor of the Walt Whitman Archive and a PhD student in the Department of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Currently, Kathryn is working on the finding guides to Whitman's poetry manuscripts, and she has also assisted with the encoding and transcribing of Whitman's Civil War correspondence. Kathryn's doctoral research focuses on the crosscurrents of religion and literature in the nineteenth-century British novel.

Ashley Lawson is a first-year doctoral student in English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln who intends to specialize in early to mid-twentieth century women's literature. Prior to moving to Lincoln, she taught composition, literature, and gender studies at West Virginia Wesleyan College for three years after receiving her Masters degree from the University of Rochester. She is currently an editorial assistant working with image processing.

Elizabeth Lorang is project manager and senior assistant editor of the Walt Whitman Archive and a PhD candidate in the Department of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. With Susan Belasco, she edited Whitman's Poems in Periodicals , an important collection of first printings of Whitman's poems that have never before been systematically gathered, edited, and studied. Elizabeth's dissertation, "American Newspaper Poetry from the Rise of the Penny Press to the New Journalism," examines the cultural work of newspaper poetry and argues that scholars must evaluate these poems based on their own generic qualities rather than by aesthetic or cultural values tied to other forms.

Elizabeth McClurg is an MA student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her primary fields of interest are Nineteenth-Century British Literature, performance studies, folklore, and creative writing. As an editorial assistant with the Walt Whitman Archive, Elizabeth processes digital scans and completes data entry.

Beverley Rilett is a PhD student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and an assistant editor with the Whitman Archive. Her field of interest is late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century British and American literature, with a focus on biographical reassessments of the literary work of several major authors including George Eliot, Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, Willa Cather, and Walt Whitman. At the Archive, Bev's responsibilities include staff and operations coordination, as well as image processing and text encoding.

Sabrina Ehmke Sergeant is a PhD student in English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She is interested in twentieth-century American literature, with a focus on the World War I era. Her dissertation examines often overlooked contributions to WWI literature including the work of women and African American writers. She served as an editorial assistant for the Willa Cather Archive's digital edition of A Calendar of the Letters of Willa Cather. Currently, Sabrina is preparing the Blue Book for the Archive's Whitman's Civil War Writings grant project.

Vanessa Steinroetter is a PhD 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, among other things, worked on the contemporary reviews section of the Archive website, encoded Hans Reisiger's German translation of Whitman's poetry and prose, and is currently preparing Whitman's outgoing correspondence during the Civil War for electronic publication.

Joshua Ware is a PhD student in creative writing at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He is the co-author of the forthcoming chapbook I, NE: Iterations of the Junco (Small Fires Press, 2009), as well as the author of A Series of Ad Hoc Permutations (Scantily Clad Press) and Excavations (forthcoming, Further Adventure Press). His work has appeared in many journals, including New American Writing, New Orleans Review, and Quarterly West.

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