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PANNAPACKER,
WILLIAM,
Associate Professor (2000); Director of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Scholars Program in the Arts and Humanities; Academic
Computing Advisory Team; Representative, Great Lakes College Association; Advisor, Newberry
Library Program.
Education: B.A., St. Joseph's University (1990); M.A., University of Miami (1993); M.A., Harvard University (1997); Ph.D., Harvard University (1999).
Interests: Literature in English (esp. 19th-century American), History of the Book, Life Writing, Walt Whitman, Urban Studies and Literary Geography, Atlantic Studies, Instructional Technology and the Digital Humanities, Academic Administration and Culture.
Selected Works: Revised Lives: Walt Whitman and Nineteenth-Century Authorship (Routledge, 2004); numerous shorter publications on American literature and culture; contributing editor, American Literary Scholarship (Duke, 2005-); monthly columnist and feature writer, Chronicle of Higher Education (1998-).
Distinctions: Towsley Research Scholar (Hope, 2003-06); NY Emmy-nominated PBS Program, American Originals (2005); Whiting Foundation Fellow (1998-99); Bowdoin Prize (Harvard, 1994, 1999); Bell Prize (Harvard, 1995, 1998).
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Revised
Lives: Walt Whitman and Nineteenth-Century Authorship (New
York and London: Routledge, 2004).
Revised Lives examines self-representation in
U.S. culture from the American Revolution through the nineteenth
century. Drawing on studies of the history of the book and
Pierre Bourdieu's sociology, this book focuses on the processes
of national development, the self-construction of authorial
personae, and the appropriation of authors by interpretive
communities. Special emphasis is given to Walt Whitman, but
other figures are treated at length: P. T. Barnum, Edward Carpenter,
Frederick Douglass, Benjamin Franklin, and Edgar Allan Poe. |
