Judith
Baumel is a
poet, critic and translator. She
is Associate Professor
of English and Director
of the Creative Writing
Program at Adelphi University. A
former director of the
Poetry Society of America,
her books of poetry are
The Weight of Numbers (Wesleyan
University Press, 1988)
for which she won the
Walt Whitman Award from
the Academy of American
Poets and Now (University
of Miami Press, 1996).
David Haven Blake is associate professor of English at The College of New Jersey and author of Walt Whitman and the Culture of American Celebrity.
Adam
Bradford is a
third year PhD candidate
at the University of
Iowa currently working
on his dissertation. He
is interested in 18th and
19th century American literature
and the History of the
Book. These broader
interests arise out of
his fascination with the
poetry and material texts
of Walt Whitman. His
poetry has also appeared
in Dialogue: A
Journal of Mormon Thought.
Robert
A. Emmons Jr.
is a digital documentary
filmmaker. His films
include: Enthusiast:
The 9th Art; Smalltown
USA; Wolf at the Door; YARDSALE!;
and Goodwill: The Flight
of Emilio Carranza,
which was screened as
part of the Smithsonian
exhibition Our Journeys Our
Stories: Portraits of
Latino Achievement at
the New Jersey Historical
Society. His published
and presented work focuses
on electronic media,
documentary film, and
comic books, and he has
contributed to The Encyclopedia
of Documentary Film (Routletdge, 2005) and
Small Tech: The Culture
of Digital Tools (Univ.
of Minn. 2007). Emmons
teaches film, media studies,
and comics history at
Rutgers University-Camden where
he is also the Associate
Director of the Honors
College.
Tyler Hoffman is
the author of Robert
Frost and the Politics
of Poetry (New England,
2001). He has published
articles on Emily Dickinson,
Robert Frost, Vachel Lindsay,
Elizabeth Bishop, Gary
Snyder, Thom Gunn, and
contemporary slam poetry.
He is editor of the Mickle
Street Review.
Elizabeth
Lorang is a
Ph.D. student in the Department
of English at the University
of Nebraska-Lincoln, where
she studies nineteenth-century
American literature, specializing
in the literature of nineteenth-century
periodicals. She is an
assistant editor of the
Walt Whitman Archive, where
she has worked extensively
on Whitman's publications
in periodicals. She has
also contributed to the
Cather Archive at UNL.
Her essay, "'Two more
throws against oblivion':
Walt Whitman and the New
York Herald in 1888" is
forthcoming in the Walt
Whitman Quarterly Review.
Jesse Merandy is
a Ph.D. student at the
CUNY Graduate Center studying
the interesection and interaction
of literature, composition,
and technology. He is
the associate editor and
designer for the Mickle
Street Review.
Kim Roberts is
the author of two books
of poems, The Kimnama (Vrzhu Press, 2007) and
The Wishbone Galaxy (WWPH,
1994). She
has been the recipient
of grants from the National
Endowment for the Humanities,
the DC Commission on the
Arts, and the Humanities
Council of Washington,
as well as writer's residency
grants to eleven artist
colonies. In 2005,
she coordinated a city-wide
festival, "DC Celebrates
Whitman: 150 Years of Leaves
of Grass." She
is the editor of Beltway
Poetry Quarterly. (http://www.beltwaypoetry.com). Her
web site: http://www.kimroberts.org.
Michael Robertson is professor of English at The College of New Jersey and author of Worshipping Walt: The Whitman Disciples. They are co-editors of Walt Whitman, Where the Future Becomes Present.
Geoffrey Sill earned his PhD. at Pennsylvania State University in 1974. He began teaching at Rutgers University in Camden in 1976. He is the author of Defoe and the Idea of Fiction (Delaware, 1983), The Cure of the Passions and the Origins of the English Novel (Cambridge, 2001), and articles in Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, English Studies, Eighteenth Century Studies, Literature and Medicine, Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, and Eighteenth-Century Fiction. He was one of the founding editors of The Mickle Street Review in 1979, and (with Tyler Hoffman and Carol Singley) organized several conferences on Walt Whitman in Camden. He is a co-editor (with Roberta Tarbell) of Walt Whitman and the Visual Arts (Rutgers, 1992); co-editor of Opening the American Mind (Delaware, 1993); editor of Walt Whitman of Mickle Street (Tennessee, 1994); co-editor (with Peter Sabor) of The Witlings and The Woman Hater (2002), and editor of The Court Journals of Frances Burney, Vol. 5 for 1789 (forthcoming).
Jason Stacy is
Assistant Professor of
U.S. History at Southern
Illinois University Edwardsville.
His research interests
are in the cultural history
of the antebellum United
States. His book, Walt
Whitman's Multitudes: Labor
Reform and Persona in Whitman's
Journalism and the First
Leaves of Grass, 1840-1855 (2008), analyzes Whitman's
early writings in the context
of the new market economy
of the 1830s and 1840s.
John Tessitore is
a Lecturer in the History
and Literature Program
at Harvard University. His
article, "The 'Sky-Blue'
Variety: William James,
Walt Whitman, and the Limits
of Healthy-Mindedness" will
appear in Nineteenth-Century
Literature in the spring
of 2008.
Zoe Trodd is
on the Tutorial Board in
the History and Literature
department at Harvard University,
where she lectures on American
protest literature. Her
books include Meteor
of War: the John Brown
Story (Blackwell,
2004), American Protest
Literature (Harvard
University Press, 2006), To
Plead Our Own Cause: Narratives
of Modern Slavery (Cornell
University Press, 2008),
and The Long Civil
Rights Movement (Bruccoli
Clark Layman, 2008). She
has also published numerous
articles on American literature,
history and visual culture.
Edward Whitley is
an assistant professor
in the
Department of English at
Lehigh University. He has
published or has forthcoming
a number of essays on Walt
Whitman and American poetry
in such journals as ESQ,
Nineteenth-Century Literature,
and ELH, and is currently
preparing an essay on humanities
computing for The American
Literature Scholar in the
Digital Age, a forthcoming
volume from the University
of Michigan Press.
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