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November 10-12, 2005, The University of Iowa Museum of Art

Cathleen A. Baker (Ph.D., The University of Alabama) is an independent scholar. A paper conservator and educator for over thirty-five years, she is also a practical printer, binder, and papermaker. She is author of By His Own Labor: The Biography of Dard Hunter and served as the "printer's devil" in the production of the limited edition. Currently she holds a Samuel H. Kress Conservation Publication Fellowship and is writing a book titled Nineteenth-century American Paper: Technology, Materials, Characteristics, and Conservation .

Betsy Erkkila is the Henry Sanborn Noyes Professor of Literature at Northwestern University. She has been awarded fellowships by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Humanities Center, the American Council for Learned Societies, and the Fulbright Foundation. She is the author of Whitman the Political Poet ; Walt Whitman Among the French: Poet and Myth ; Mixed Bloods and Other American Crosses: Essays on American Literature and Culture; The Wicked Sisters: Women Poets, Literary History, and Discord; and is co-editor (with Jay Grossman) of Breaking Bounds: Whitman and American Cultural Studies and editor of a new Riverside edition of Edgar Allan Poe: Selected Writings. She is currently working on a study of American revolutionary writing.

Ed Folsom is the editor of the Walt Whitman Quarterly Review , co-director of the Whitman Archive (www.whitmanarchive.org), and editor of the Whitman Series at The University of Iowa Press.   The Roy J. Carver Professor of English at The University of Iowa, he is the author or editor of numerous books and essays on Whitman and other American writers, including Walt Whitman's Native Representations, Whitman East and West , Walt Whitman: The Centennial Essays , and co-editor (with Gay Wilson Allen) of Walt Whitman and the World and (with Jim Perlman and Dan Campion) of Walt Whitman: The Measure of His Song .   His new book on Whitman, Re-Scripting Walt Whitman , co-authored with Kenneth Price, was published this year by Blackwell, and he is co-editing a collection of essays from the sesquicentennial conference on Leaves of Grass held this past spring in Lincoln, Nebraska.  

Ted Genoways is the editor of the Virginia Quarterly Review , the editor of Walt Whitman: The Correspondence , volume 7, and the author of numerous essays on Whitman.   He holds an MFA from the University of Virginia and is currently writing his doctoral dissertation on Whitman and the Civil War.   He is the author of several chapbooks of poetry and a full-length collection, Bullroarer , which won the Samuel French Morse Poetry Prize, the Natalie Ornish Poetry Award, and the Nebraska Book Award. He is editor of The Selected Poems of Miguel Hernandez (Chicago), A Perfect Picture of Hell: Eyewitness Accounts by Civil War Prisoners (Iowa), and other books, and he is the founding editor of the literary magazine Meridian.

Charles Green , Assistant Vice Chancellor for Teaching and Learning at the University of North Carolina, was the original Project Manager for the Walt Whitman Archive and remains active in Archive activities.   He wrote his doctoral dissertation at William and Mary on Whitman's publishers.

Ezra Greenspan is Kahn Chair in the Humanities and Professor of English at Southern Methodist University. Greenspan is the author of Walt Whitman and the American Reader , editor of the Cambridge Companion to Whitman , and compiler of "Song of Myself": A Sourcebook and Critical Edition (Routledge, 2005).   He is also the founding co-editor of the journal, Book History , and the author of George Palmer Putnam: Representative American Publisher .

Amy Hezel received her MLS at SUNY-Buffalo and her MA in English with a certificate in Book Studies from The University of Iowa.   She has been a transcriber and encoder for the Walt Whitman Archive and this past year assisted Ed Folsom in conducting the first census of the 1855 Leaves of Grass .   She is currently a librarian in the San Franciso Bay area.

Karen Karbiener , a professor at New York University's School of Continuing and Professional Studies, is the editor of Leaves of Grass: First and “Deathbed” Editions for Barnes and Noble and the co-curator of “Walt Whitman and the Promise of America, 1855-2005,” an exhibit at Manhattan's South Street Seaport Museum.   At Columbia University, she has taught “Whitman and New York,” a hands-on class that takes students to Whitman-related sites and gives them hands-on experience with the kind of letterpress Andrew Rome used to print the first edition of Leaves of Grass .   She is general editor of the forthcoming Encyclopedia of American Counterculture and her 14-lecture series entitled "Whitman and the Beginnings of Modern American Poetry" will soon be available on CD, as part of Recorded Books' "Modern Scholars" series.

Jerome Loving , Distinguished Professor of English at Texas A&M University, is the author or editor of nine books on American literature, including two full-length biographies, Walt Whitman: The Song of Himself and The Last Titan: A Life of Theodore Dreiser , as well as Lost in the Customhouse: Authorship in the American Renaissance , Emily Dickinson: The Poet on the Second Story , Emerson, Whitman, and the American Muse , and Walt Whitman's Champion: William Douglass O'Connor .   He has edited Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass for Oxford and Civil War Letters of George Washington Whitman for Duke.

Matt Miller teaches writing and literature at Mount Mercy College and is the managing editor of the Walt Whitman Quarterly Review .   He received an MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop, and his poems and critical work have appeared in American Letters , Commentary , New Letters , Verse , Volt , Prairie Schooner , Poetry Northwest , and other publications; he is a recipient of the John Logan Award and the Academy of American Poets Prize. He is currently finishing his doctoral dissertation at Iowa, writing about Whitman's invention of his poetic style in the notebooks leading to the 1855 Leaves of Grass .  

Kenneth Price is the Hillegass Chair of Nineteenth-Century American literature at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He is the author or editor of a variety of books, including Whitman and Tradition , Walt Whitman: The Contemporary Reviews , and To Walt Whitman, America . His most recent book, co-authored with Ed Folsom, is Re-Scripting Walt Whitman: An Introduction to His Life and Work . Since 1995 Folsom and Price have served as co-directors of the Walt Whitman Archive.

Gary Schmidgall , professor at Hunter College, City University of New York, is the author and editor of many books, including Walt Whitman: A Gay Life , Walt Whitman: Selected Poems 1855-1892 , Intimate with Walt: Selections from Whitman's Conversations with Horace Traubel, 1888-1892 , and Conserving Whitman's Fame: Walt Whitman in Horace Traubel's The Conservator, 1890-1919 , forthcoming in the Iowa Whitman Series.   He has also published books on Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde, and opera, and has been a long-time correspondent for Opera News .

David Schoonover , curator for the “Whitman Making Books / Books Making Whitman” exhibition, is the Curator of Rare Books at The University of Iowa.   After receiving his MLS at the University of Texas at Austin and his PhD from Princeton University (with a dissertation on American expatriates in Paris in the 1920s), he became a Scholar-Librarian at Northwestern University, then Curator of the American literature collection at the Beinecke Library at Yale.   He teaches courses on book history and literary publishing in the Iowa Center for the Book, and he is the editor of the Iowa Szathmary Culinary Arts Series for the University of Iowa Press.

Alan Trachtenberg is the Neil Gray, Jr., Professor Emeritus of English and American Studies at Yale University, where he taught for thirty-five years. Among his many distinguished contributions to American Studies are Shades of Hiawatha: Staging Indians, Making Americans, 1880-1930 ; Reading American Photographs ; The Incorporation of America ; and Brooklyn Bridge: Fact or Symbol .

 

 

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