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William Pannapacker joined the 暗网51 faculty in 2000. He is a professor of English and the Senior Director of Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Programs and Initiatives.

Areas of expertise

American literature and culture. Higher education.

Education

• Ph.D., American civilization, Harvard University, 2000
• A.M., English, Harvard University, 1995
• M.A., English, University of Miami, 1993
• B.A., English, Saint Joseph's University, 1990

Honors, grants and awards

• Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, $800,000 to create the Mellon Community-Based Partnerships Initiative, 2019
• DuMez Endowed Professor of English, 2015鈥�2019
• Ruth and John Reed Faculty Achievement Award, 暗网51, 2017
• Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, $800,000 to create the Mellon Grand Challenges Initiative, 2016
• Provost鈥檚 Award for Service to the Academic Program, 暗网51, 2014
• Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, $500,000 to expand and continue the Mellon Scholars Program, 2013
• Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, $200,000 to found the Mellon Scholars Program in the Digital Liberal Arts, 2010
• Towsley Research Scholar, 暗网51, 2003鈥�2006
• Whiting Foundation Fellow, 1999鈥�2000
• Bowdoin Prize, Harvard University, 1994, 1999
• Helen Choate Bell Prize for American Literature, Harvard University, 1995, 1998

Selected publications

Books

• After Departments: Higher Education Without Disciplines, in progress
• Walt Whitman鈥檚 Philadelphia, in progress
• Revised Lives: Walt Whitman and Nineteenth-Century Authorship, Routledge, 2004

Selected Articles and Book Chapters:

• 鈥溾�楨very Atom鈥�: Reflections on Walt Whitman at 200,鈥� North American Review, 2019
• 鈥淲erner Twertzog,鈥� in Short Circuits: Aphorisms, Fragments, and Literary Anomalies, eds. James Lough and Alex Stein, Schaffner Press, 2018
• 鈥淲alt Whitman鈥檚 Philadelphia,鈥� Walt Whitman In Context, eds. Ed Whitley and Joanna Levin, Cambridge University Press, 2017
• 鈥淲erner Twertzog Tweets,鈥� Best American Nonrequired Reading, ed. Sarah Vowell, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017
• 鈥淟iterary Magazines鈥� and 鈥淟iterary Societies,鈥� , 2016
• 鈥淟ife in a Liberal Arts College,鈥� in How to Build an Academic Career in the Humanities, eds. Greg Semenza and Garrett Sullivan, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015
• Monthly columnist and contributor, Chronicle of Higher Education, 1998鈥�2014
• 鈥淭aking the Liberal Arts Online in the Summer,鈥� Chronicle of Higher Education, 2014
• 鈥淣o More Digitally Challenged Liberal-Arts Majors,鈥� Chronicle of Higher Education, 2014
• 鈥淗acking and Yacking about the Digital Humanities,鈥� Chronicle of Higher Education, 2013
• 鈥淐ultivating Partnerships in the Digital Humanities,鈥� Chronicle of Higher Education, 2013
• 鈥淎 Liberal Arts Foundation,鈥� The New York Times, 2013
• 鈥淪top Calling it 鈥楧igital Humanities,鈥欌�� Chronicle of Higher Education, 2013
• 鈥淭he Dark Side of the Digital Humanities鈥� and 鈥淩ebooting Graduate Education,鈥� Chronicle of Higher Education, 2013
• 鈥淣o More Indiana Jones Warehouses,鈥� Chronicle of Higher Education, 2012
• 鈥淐an 鈥楴euro Lit Crit鈥� Save the Humanities?鈥� The New York Times, 2010
• 鈥淭he MLA and the Digital Humanities,鈥� Chronicle of Higher Education, 2009
• 鈥淲alt Whitman,鈥� American Literary Scholarship, Duke University Press, 2005鈥�2009
• 鈥淟eaves of Grass (1855) and the Cities of Whitman鈥檚 Memory,鈥� Leaves of Grass: The Sesquicentennial Essays, University of Nebraska Press, 2007
• 鈥淲hitman and the City,鈥� A Companion to Walt Whitman, Blackwell Publishing, 2005

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