Member Profiles

Projects: The eFiles Project; What Was Modernism (and Does It Still Matter?)

Specific Interests in Digital Research and American literature: Archiving material for large lecture classes

Projects: Herman Melville's Typee: A Fluid-text Edition, Melville Electronic Library

Specific Interests in Digital Research and American literature: Antebellum American literature, Herman Melville, textual scholarship, digital scholarly editing, fluid text analysis, and editing of revision.

Project: Editor, The Ah Quin Diary (10 volumes, 1877-1902)

Projects: Contributing Editor, Walt Whitman Archive

Specific Interests in Digital Research and American Literature: Archival politics; translation; digital representation in Indian country

Projects: Visible Knowledge Project, Digital Storytelling as a Signature Pedagogy in the New Humanities: A Multimedia Archive (website coming soon),

Specific Interests in Digital Research and American literature: digital storytelling in culture and history classrooms; multimedia authoring and student writing; teaching gender theory using multimedia; .

Projects: Editor, 19th-Century Digital Concord Archive,

Specific Interests in Digital Research and American Literature: 19th-century American literature and culture, with a particular emphasis on race, ethnicity, and gender, open source tools, spatial and geographic textual information, and digital scholarly editing.

Projects: Co-editor, Race and Children's Literature of the Gilded Age (not yet public)

Specific Interests in Digital Research and American Literature: Nineteenth-century American literature, especially Whitman and Dickinson; nineteenth-century print culture; editorial theory; digital scholarly editing

Projects: Head of the Scholars' Lab

Specific Interests in Digital Research and American Literature: 20th-century American poetry; transmedia narratives in mid-20th-century America; American mythologies and new media; user interfaces and scholarly argument; geospatial approaches to literary history.

Projects: The Willa Cather Archive (editor), The Walt Whitman Archive

Specific Interests in Digital Research and American literature: Late nineteenth-, early twentieth-century American literature, Willa Cather, arts communities, thematic research collections, digital scholarly editing, geospatial markup in the humanities

Projects: General Editor, The Charles Brockden Brown Electronic Archive and Scholarly Edition http://www.brockdenbrown.ucf.edu Co-Director, The Zora Neale Hurston Digital Archive http://www.zoranealehurston.ucf.edu

Specific Interests in Digital Research and American Literature: Early American literature, eighteenth-century periodical and print culture, Charles Brockden Brown, and digital representation.

Projects: Associate Professor, Antislavery Literature Project and Project Yao

Specific Interests in Digital Research and American Literature: American literature to 1900, literature of slavery.

Projects: Assistant Editor, The Walt Whitman Archive

Specific Interests in Digital Research and American Literature: Late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American literature; American periodicals.

Specific Interests in Digital Research and American Literature: Early American, Nineteenth-Century

Projects: Currently under the title Guardian Project

Specific Interests in Digital Research and American Literature: African American Literature, Early Black Evangelical Literature, Civil Rights Movement, Black Power Movement, Black Arts Literature, Audio/visual production in the interest of teaching literature

Projects: New Media Literacies, Gutenberg to Google [1], Book History and Media History [2]

Specific Interests in Digital Research and American Literature: Old media and new media, intellectual property, poetry and new media, the history of the book and media history, theory and method.

Projects: Nature in Words and Images wiki (under development)[4]

Specific Interests in Digital Research and American literature: Word/ image combinations; digital poetics

Projects: Literature Alive! in Second Life

Specific Interests in Virtual Humanities Modern and Contemporary American literature and culture, with a particular emphasis on narrative studies, teacher education, open source tools, web 2.0+, and the creation of immersive literary learning environments in virtual spaces like Second Life.

Specific Interests in Digital Research and American literature: American periodicals

Projects: A Drum Speaks

Specific Interests in Digital Research and American Literature: Native American studies, 19th century American studies, rethinking scholarship in the digital age

Projects: The Walt Whitman Archive (co-editor), Civil War Washington: Studies in Transformation (co-director)

Specific Interests in Digital Research and American literature: Late nineteenth-, early twentieth-century American literature and culture, thematic research collections, digital scholarly editing

Projects: Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin: an Electronic Edition of the National Era Version (editor), Uncle Tom's Cabin in the National Era (editor) at Stephen F. Railton's Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Culture

Specific Interests in Digital Research and American literature: Nineteenth-, and early twentieth-century American literature, periodicals, digital scholarly editing, theories of representation for information represented in textual and relational database form

Projects: Associate Editor, ebr: electronic book review; Online cas-e-book about Lynne Tillman

Specific Interests in Digital Research and American literature: 20th- and 21st-century American literature, digital scholarly editing, e-lit, literary interviews, literary networks, (post)modernism/(post)modernity, affect and materiality in literature

Projects: PAL: Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and Reference Guide - An Ongoing Project

For over ten years, this Meta Site has served and continues as a research and reference tool for high school and university students and teachers; it is especially helpful to those who have no or limited access to libraries and academic databases; international readers, interested in American literature, will also find this site helpful.

Table of Contents: Fully searchable, this online project is organized in chapters and appendices. The ten chapters represent the major literary and historical perspectives, cycles, or movements in American literature; each chapter has an introduction, a selected bibliography, and a list of representative authors. The twenty-two Appendices cover a range of helpful and specialized topics in genre studies, writing assignments, research topics, and perspectives related to American studies.

Alphabetical List of American Authors: This PAL site has individual pages on over 430 American authors. Except for a few, each author page has a listing of primary works, a selected bibliography, links to relevant sites, brief introductions, brief biographies, and study questions.

Projects: Literature Alive! in Second Life

Specific Interests in Virtual Humanities Interested in the creation of immersive literary learning environments in virtual spaces like Second Life.

Projects: Editor-in-Chief, "The Writings of James Fenimore Cooper," http://www.wjfc.org; President, "The James Fenimore Cooper Society," http://external.oneonta.edu/cooper/

Specific Interests in Digital Research and American Literature: Lance Schachterle's work as a Cooper scholar includes co-editing the CSE-approved scholarly texts of The Pioneers (1980), The Deerslayer (1987), and The Spy (2002), as well as several articles on textual issues in all three books. In 2002, Schachterle succeeded Kay Seymour House as Editor-in-Chief of "The Writings of James Fenimore Cooper," in which role he created a Web site (http://www.wjfc.org) and is arranging for publication of several more volumes. He is currently working with James Sappenfield and Barbara Bordalejo on a digital edition of The Bravo. Recent publications include “Cooper and his Collaborators: Recovering Cooper’s Final Intentions for his Fiction,” Studies in Bibliography, 56 (2003-04; really 2007), and "A Long False Start: The Rejected Chapters of Cooper's The Bravo (1831)," Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, 115 (2006). In July 2007 he was elected as the first president of the "James Fenimore Cooper Society, Inc."

Both the WJFC and JFCS websites make available obscure and hard to find Cooper texts in digital form, as well as more familiar ones. In 2008 we expect to begin making available there digital versions of a diplomatic transcript of the holograph of The Bravo.

Projects: Executive Editor, Dickinson Electronic Archives (DEA), Coeditor, Emily Dickinson's Correspondences: A Born-Digital Textual Inquiry

Specific Interests in Digital Research and American Literature: Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture; scholarly digital editing; queering American literature and culture and the digital; poetry and new media; archives, theories and practices; new media and knowledge production; thematic research collections, theories and practices.

Projects: Our Americas Archive, Digital Scholarship in the Humanities

Specific Interests in Digital Research and American literature: 19th-C American literature and culture, thematic research collections, scholarly digital editing, evaluating the impact of digital scholarship, text mining and visualization.

Projects: The Vault at Pfaff's: An Archive of Art and Literature by New York City's Nineteenth-Century Bohemians (co-editor)

Specific Interests in Digital Research and American literature: Nineteenth-century American literature and culture, thematic research collections, data visualization