Books

Revised Lives: Walt Whitman and Nineteenth-Century Authorship (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory Series). New York and London: Routledge, 2004. Reviews. Procrastination: A Cultural History. In progress (under contract with Atria Division of Simon and Schuster, expected by 2009). Walt Whitman's Cities. (In progress). An Academic in America by "Thomas H. Benton." (In progress). The Legacy of the Rural Cemetery Movement in America. A photographic study (In progress). Articles in Journals and Books "Leaves of Grass (1855) and the Cities of Whitman's Memory." Leaves of Grass: The Sesquicentennial Essays. Susan Belasco, Ed Folsom, and Kenneth Price, eds. Lincoln: University of Nebraska, 2007. 199-223. "Whitman and the City." A Companion to Walt Whitman. Ed. Donald Kummings. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2006. 42-59. "Whitman's Philadelphia and Whitman's Camden: Retrospect and Prospect." Mickle Street Review: A Journal of Whitman and American Studies 17/18 (2005): online. "Edward Carpenter, Walt Whitman, and Working-Class 'Comradeship.'"  Mapping Male Sexuality: Nineteenth-Century England.  Eds. Jay Losey and William D. Brewer.  Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2000. 277-298. Noted in American Literary Scholarship (2000), 74. "A Question of 'Character': Visual Images and the Nineteenth-Century Construction of Edgar Allan Poe." Harvard Library Bulletin (Editorial Board: Bernard Bailyn, Lawrence Buell, Helen Vendler, et al) 7.3 (Fall 1996): 9-24. Noted in American Literary Scholarship (1996): 44-45. Introductions and Edited Chapters "James Russell Lowell" (5,000 words). Writers of the American Renaissance: An A-Z Guide. Ed. Denise Knight. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2004. 256-262. "Ralph Waldo Emerson" and "Walt Whitman." A House Divided: The Antebellum Slavery Debates in America. Ed. Mason I. Lowance.  Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002. 195-202, 225-233. "Ralph Waldo Emerson." Against Slavery: An Abolitionist Reader. Ed. Mason I. Lowance. New York: Penguin, 2000. 301-312. Encyclopedia Entries "Autobiography" (4,500 words). American History Through Literature, 1820-1870. Eds. Janet Gabler-Hover and Robert Sattelmeyer. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2005. 61-66. "Autobiography" and "Biography" (12,000 words). American History Through Literature, 1870-1920. Eds. Gary Scharnhorst and Thomas Quirk. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2006. 111-120, 150-158. "Walt Whitman" (800 words). American Masculinities: A Historical Encyclopedia. New York: Sage Publication, 2003. 497-498. "Ralph Waldo Emerson," "Winslow Homer," "James Russell Lowell," "Galusha Pennypacker" (with General John Marx), and "Walt Whitman" (10,000 words total). The Encyclopedia of the American Civil War: A Political, Social, and Military History. Ed. David S. Heidler, James McPherson, et al. 5 vols. Oxford: ABC-CLIO, 2000. 652-653, 991-992, 1229-1230, 1486-1487, 2101-2102. "Chronology," "American Phrenological Journal," "Associations, Clubs, Fellowships, Foundations, and Societies," "'Death's Valley,'" "Clifton Joseph Furness," "Life Illustrated," "Abraham Lincoln," "James Russell Lowell," "The North American Review," "James R. Osgood," "Philadelphia, Pennsylvania," "Putnam's Monthly," "George Washington," "Genealogy" (14,000 words total). In J. R. LeMaster and Donald D. Kummings, eds. Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia. New York: Garland, 1998. xiii-xix, 16, 37-40, 171, 244, 392-395, 412-413, 465-466, 492-493, 515-517, 562, 762, 807-812. Noted in American Literary Scholarship (1998), 63-65. Reviews "Walt Whitman" (6,000-word review of the year's publications), American Literary Scholarship (2007). Ed. Gary Scharnhorst. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, forthcoming in 2009. "Walt Whitman" (6,000-word review of the year's publications), American Literary Scholarship (2006). Ed. David Nordloh. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press,2008. 73-83. To Walt Whitman, America (2004) by Kenneth M. Price (5,000-words), Mickle Street Review: A Journal of Whitman and American Studies. 19/20 (2008): online. "Walt Whitman Archive" (2,800 words). Resources for American Literary Study. Eds. Jackson Bryer and Richard Kopley. Vol. 31 (2007): 319-325. "Walt Whitman" (6,000-word review of the year's publications), American Literary Scholarship (2005). Ed. Gary Scharnhorst. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2007. 75-87. Looking into Walt Whitman: American Art, 1850-1920 (2006) by Ruth Bohan (3,500 words). Walt Whitman Quarterly Review (Spring 2007): 221-228. Walt Whitman and the Class Struggle (2006) by Andrew Lawson (2,500 words). Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 24.1 (Summer 2006): 37-41. Venting Steam in the Blogosphere, a review of The Valve, a literary Weblog (2,000 words). Chronicle of Higher Education 51.47 (29 July 2005): B8. Transatlantic Connections: Whitman U.S. Whitman U.K. (2005) by M. Wynn Thomas (3,000 words). Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 23.1-2 (Summer/Fall 2005): 65-69. First City: Philadelphia and the Forging of Historical Memory by Gary B. Nash (2,000 words). Mickle Street Review: A Journal of Whitman and American Studies 15.1 (2002). Academic Journalism and Activist Writings "Growing Where You Are" by "Thomas H. Benton." Chronicle of Higher Education (22 May 2009). "Hell's Classroom: What Faculty Members Can Learn from Gordon Ramsay" by "Thomas H. Benton." Chronicle of Higher Education (17 April 2009). "Just Don't Go, Part II" by "Thomas H. Benton." Chronicle of Higher Education (13 March 2009): C1, C4 and online. "How to Procrastinate Like Leonardo da Vinci." Chronicle Review 55.24 (20 February 2009): B4 and online. "Graduate School in the Humanities: Just Don't Go" by "Thomas H. Benton." Chronicle of Higher Education (30 January 2009): C1-C4 and online. "Revisiting Natural Science" by "Thomas H. Benton." Chronicle of Higher Education (12 December 2008): C1-C4 and online. "Do Students' Online Ratings of Courses 'Suck' (or 'Rock')?" by "Thomas H. Benton." Chronicle of Higher Education (7 November 2008): C1-C4 and online. "Yearning After Books" by "Thomas H. Benton." Chronicle of Higher Education (10 October 2008): C1-C4 and online. "On Stupidity, Part 2" by "Thomas H. Benton." Chronicle of Higher Education (5 September 2008): C1-C4 and online. "On Stupidity" by "Thomas H. Benton." Chronicle of Higher Education (1 August 2008): C1-C4 and online. "Summer Camp for Digital Humanists" by "Thomas H. Benton." Chronicle of Higher Education (27 June 2008): C1-C4 and online. "The Professor as Pitchman" by "Thomas H. Benton." Chronicle of Higher Education (30 May 2008): C1-C4 and online. "What's in a Name?" by "Thomas H. Benton." Chronicle of Higher Education (28 April 2008): C2-C3 and online. "How the University Works: Required Reading on the Future of Academe" by "Thomas H. Benton." Chronicle of Higher Education (4 April 2008): C1, C4 and online. "The Academic Zodiac" by "Thomas H. Benton." Chronicle of Higher Education (3 March 2008): C1, C4 and online. "Shelf Life."Chronicle Review 54.21 (1 February 2008): B22 and online. "The Year of Dressing Formally" by "Thomas H. Benton." Chronicle of Higher Education (25 January 2008): C1, C4 and online. "A Class Traitor in Academe" by "Thomas H. Benton." Chronicle of Higher Education (9 November 2007): C1-C4 and online. "The James Bond Lifestyle Seminar for Professors" by "Thomas H. Benton." Chronicle of Higher Education (10 October 2007): online. "The Annual Labor Shortage Hoax" by "Thomas H. Benton." Chronicle of Higher Education (4 September 2007): C2-C4 and online. "What I've Learned from Recorded Lectures" by "Thomas H. Benton." Chronicle of Higher Education (6 August 2007): C1-C4 and online. "Authoritative Online Editions" by "Thomas H. Benton." Chronicle of Higher Education (6 July 2007): C2-C3 and online. "My Three Offices" by "Thomas H. Benton." Chronicle of Higher Education (4 June 2007): C1, C4 and online. "Remedial Civility Training" by "Thomas H. Benton." Chronicle of Higher Education (7 May 2007): C2, C4 and online. "The Inescapability of Your Past." Chronicle Review 53.33 (20 April 2007): B11 and online. "50 Columns Later" by "Thomas H. Benton." Chronicle of Higher Education (3 March 2007): C1, C4 and online. "Red Hot Library Lust" by "Thomas H. Benton." Chronicle of Higher Education (16 February 2007): C1, C4 and online. "A Christmas Present from the MLA" by "Thomas H. Benton." Chronicle of Higher Education (19 January 2007): C1, C4 and online. "14 Things to Do Before You Retire" by "Thomas H. Benton." Chronicle of Higher Education (6 November 2006): C1, C4 and online. "Decline of the Natural-History Museum" by "Thomas H. Benton." Chronicle of Higher Education (9 October 2006): C2, C4 and online. "On the Death of my Father" by "Thomas H. Benton." Chronicle of Higher Education (11 September 2006): C2, and online. "A Professor and a Pilgrim" by "Thomas H. Benton." Chronicle of Higher Education (8 August 2006): C1, C4, and online. "Goodbye, Mr. Keating" by "Thomas H. Benton." Chronicle of Higher Education (7 July 2006): C1, C4, and online. "A Tough-Love Manifesto for Professors" by "Thomas H. Benton." Chronicle of Higher Education (9 June 2006): C1, C4, and online. "The 7 Deadly Sins of Professors" by "Thomas H. Benton." Chronicle of Higher Education (12 May 2006): C1, C4, and online. "The 7 Deadly Sins of Students" by "Thomas H. Benton." Chronicle of Higher Education (14 April 2006): C1, C4, and online. "Some Thoughts on Receiving Tenure" by "Thomas H. Benton." Chronicle of Higher Education (17 March 2006): C1, C4, and online. "Leaving the Village" by "Thomas H. Benton." Chronicle of Higher Education (13 February 2006): C1, C4, and online. "Don't Call Me Thomas" by "Thomas H. Benton." Chronicle of Higher Education (16 January 2006): C1, C4, and online. "For Professor's Children, The Case for Home Schooling." Chronicle of Higher Education (16 December 2005): Review Section and online. "Reference Works and Academic Celebrity" by "Thomas H. Benton." Chronicle of Higher Education (5 December 2005): C1, C4, and online. "Principled Mediocrity" by "Thomas H. Benton." Chronicle of Higher Education (7 November 2005): C1, C4, and online. "Productive Procrastination" by "Thomas H. Benton." Chronicle of Higher Education (10 October 2005): C1, C4, and online. "Saving Secondhand Bookstores" by "Thomas H. Benton." Chronicle of Higher Education (12 September 2005): C1, C4, and online. "Stacks' Appeal" by "Thomas H. Benton." Chronicle of Higher Education (18 July 2005): C1, C4, and online. "Let the Experiment be Made" by "Thomas H. Benton." Chronicle of Higher Education (27 June 2005): C1, C4, and online. "All Humanists Will Be Assimilated" by "Thomas H. Benton." Chronicle of Higher Education (31 May 2005): C1, C4 and online. "Life After the Death of Theory" by "Thomas H. Benton." Chronicle of Higher Education (29 April 2005): C1, C4 and online. "The Worst Building on the Campus" by "Thomas H. Benton." Chronicle of Higher Education (1 April 2005): C3 and online. "A God in Colchester" by "Thomas H. Benton." Chronicle of Higher Education (28 February 2005): C2-C3 and online. "Conference Man Returns to the MLA" by "Thomas H. Benton." Chronicle of Higher Education (31 January 2005): C1-C2 and online. "My Secret Stash of Books on Tape" by "Thomas H. Benton." Chronicle of Higher Education (3 January 2005): C3 and online. "Tireless Research Assistants" by "Thomas H. Benton." Chronicle of Higher Education 51.13 (22 November 2004): C1-C2 and online. "My Own Private Library" by "Thomas H. Benton." Chronicle of Higher Education 51.9 (25 October 2004): C1-C2 and online. "Missing Summer Already" by "Thomas H. Benton." Chronicle of Higher Education 51.5 (27 September 2004): C2-C3 and online. "On Being a Fat Professor" by "Thomas H. Benton." Chronicle of Higher Education 51.1 (30 August 2004): C2-C3 and online. "An Adviser Without Advice" by "Thomas H. Benton." Chronicle of Higher Education 50.42 (19 July 2004): C2-C3 and online. "Is Graduate School a Cult?" by "Thomas H. Benton." Chronicle of Higher Education 50.42 (28 June 2004): C3 and online. "Shyness and Academe" by "Thomas H. Benton." Chronicle of Higher Education 50.38 (24 May 2004): C2-C3 and online. "Real Estate and Your Academic Career" by "Thomas H. Benton." Chronicle of Higher Education 50.34 (26 April 2004): C2-C3 and online. "Remembering the Old Lions" by "Thomas H. Benton." Chronicle of Higher Education 50.30 (29 March 2004): C2-C3 and online. "In Praise of Eccentric Professors" by "Thomas H. Benton." Chronicle of Higher Education 50.26 (5 March 2004): C2 and online. "Ignoring My Inner Lawyer" by "Thomas H. Benton." Chronicle of Higher Education 50.22 (2 February 2004): C1 and online. "When Our Students Don't Respect Us" by "Thomas H. Benton." Chronicle of Higher Education 50.18 (9 January 2004): C1, C4 and online. "College and the Fall" by "Thomas H. Benton." Chronicle of Higher Education 50.10 (27 October 2003): C2 and online. "The Five 'Virtues' of Successful Graduate Students." By "Thomas H. Benton." Chronicle of Higher Education 50.2 (2 September 2003): C3 and online. "If You Must Go to Graduate School . . ." By "Thomas Hart Benton." Chronicle of Higher Education 49.45 (17 July 2003): C3-C4 and online. "So You Want to Go to Grad School?" By "Thomas Hart Benton." Chronicle of Higher Education 49.39 (3 June 2003): C3-C4 and online. "A Superhero's Perspective on the MLA Convention." By "Thomas Hart Benton." Chronicle of Higher Education (20 December 2002). "Should We Stop Fooling Ourselves About Money?" By "Thomas Hart Benton." Chronicle of Higher Education (14 November 2002). "Reunion Blues." By "Thomas Hart Benton." Chronicle of Higher Education (6 May 2002). " Being a Professor and a Parent." By "Thomas Hart Benton." Chronicle of Higher Education (14 March 2002). " From Literary Theory to Grace Before Meals." By "Thomas Hart Benton." Chronicle of Higher Education (5 February 2002). "Leaving the Big City for Small-Town College Life." By "Thomas Hart Benton." Chronicle of Higher Education (3 December 2001). "The Adjunct Rip-Off: Ten Reasons Why the Overuse of Adjuncts Hurts Students." Chronicle of Higher Education (1 December 2000). "Hope, or a New Life on the Tenure Track." Chronicle of Higher Education (16 June 2000). "Beyond Anger: Revitalizing the Culture of Higher Education." Chronicle of Higher Education (11 June 1999). "How to Accept Being Rejected." Chronicle of Higher Education (16 April 1999). "Building a Secondary Career." Chronicle of Higher Education (19 March 1999). "How to Finish a Dissertation Without the Agony." Chronicle of Higher Education (19 February 1999). "The Speech That Ended My Academic Career." Chronicle of Higher Education (22 January 1999). "Scholarly Associations Must Face the True Causes of the Academic Job Crisis." With Mark Kelley and Ed Wiltse. Chronicle of Higher Education (18 Dec. 1998): B4 and online. "Gatekeepers to 'The Life.'" Chronicle of Higher Education. (11 December 1998). "Should Graduate Students Be More Selective About Where They Apply?" Chronicle of Higher Education (13 November 1998). "A Graduate Student's Life." Chronicle of Higher Education (16 October 1998). "Arrested at the MLA Convention: An Interview with Louis Kampf." Workplace: The Journal for Academic Labor 1.2 (1998): On-line. Selected Media Appearances "Procrastinating Everything." Sunday Morning with Charles Osgood. CBS (12 April 2009). Patricia Cohen, "Doctoral Candidates Anticipate Hard Times." New York Times (6 March 2009). Matthew Miller, "MSU Profs Need to Teach Etiquette, Too: Educators Don't Want Informality to Erode Authority" Lansing State Journal (19 January 2009). Emma Johnson, "Will Grad School Pay Off?" MSN Money (25 June 2008). Includes audio interview. Richard Harrold, "The Perfect Read Can Turn Up Anywhere" The Holland Sentinel (18 January 2008): A1-A2 with online photo gallery. Interviewed for "Halftime" radio program on Walt Whitman, WFUR (Grand Rapids, MI) (broadcast 17 September 2005). Interviewed for television program on Walt Whitman, "State of the Arts" (Click for Quicktime Movie Clip), New Jersey Public Television (broadcast 6 May 2005). Episode nominated for a NY Emmy for Arts Programming (2006). Penelope Trunk, "Grad School is Not for Everyone" (as "Thomas H. Benton"). The Boston Globe (3 April 2005). Amanda M. Hulce, "Summer Classes Make History Relevant" The Holland Sentinel (22 July 2004): B1. Anya Kamenetz, "Wanted: Really Smart Suckers" (quoted as "Thomas H. Benton"). The Village Voice (27 April 2004). Jeanne Sahadi, "Grad School: Is It Worth It?" (quoted as "Thomas H. Benton"). CNN/Money (3 September 2003). "Thomas Benton [aka William Pannapacker] on Graduate School" (portion of radio interview) with Miranda Dunn. College Media News (3 June 2003). Gabriela Montell, "How to Write a Statement of Teaching Philosophy." Chronicle of Higher Education (27 March 2003). Gabriela Montell, "What's Your Philosophy on Teaching, and Does it Matter?" Chronicle of Higher Education (27 March 2003). Paul Noel, "Scholars Scour Ebay." Christian Science Monitor (14 January 2003). Elaine Tassy, "Fright Films: There Are Reasons We Love To Be Spooked . . ." The Grand Rapids Press (27 October 2002): F1, F5. Christopher Cumo, "Community College Jobs: Ph.D. Holders Need Not Apply." Adjunct Advocate (July/August 2002): 16-17. Ana Marie Cox, "Study Shows Colleges' Dependence on Their Part-Time Instructors." Chronicle of Higher Education (1 December 2000). Chris Cumo, "COVERSTORY: 'Distance Education, Resistance is Futile'." The Adjunct Advocate (March/April 2000). Lynn Sacco, "If We're So Smart, Why are We Still in School?" ASA Newsletter (March 2000). Alvin Powell, "The Passion and Perils of Book Collecting." Harvard Gazette (29 April 1999). Barry Yeoman, "Academic Apprentices: Still an Ideal?" Duke Magazine (21 June 1999). Annalee Newitz, "The Labor of the Cultural Underclass." The Minnesota Review n.s. 50-51 (1999). Sarah Boxer, "Down and Out in Academia, or: Profs and Proles." New York Times (16 January 1999). Courtney Leatherman, "Graduate Students Win Concessions at Contentious MLA Meeting." Chronicle of Higher Education (8 January 1999). Courtney Leatherman and Robin Wilson, "Embittered by a Bleak Job Market, Graduate Students Take On the MLA." Chronicle of Higher Education (18 December 1998). © 2003 Hope College, Holland, Michigan 49423 616.395.7000