Book projects

Co-editor with Herbert Bergman, Stephanie M. Blalock, Stefan Schöberlein, Jason Stacy, and Zachary Turpin. The Complete Writings of Walt Whitman: The Journalism, Volume 4 [under contract with Peter Lang; expected 2028].

Co-editor with Herbert Bergman, Stephanie M. Blalock, Stefan Schöberlein, Jason Stacy, and Zachary Turpin. The Complete Writings of Walt Whitman: The Journalism, Volume 3 [under contract with Peter Lang; expected 2027].

With Stefan Schöberlein, Stephanie M. Blalock, and Jason Stacy. Walt Whitman, Journalist: Beyond the Poetic Foreground, 1856–1860 (Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming March 2027) [co-authored monograph].

Harriet Monroe, The Selected Poems of Harriet Monroe. Co-editor with Isabel Anderson, Grayce Baustert, Tommy Beemer, Saylor Behrens, Gabriel Bennett, Ariana Joy Cobler, Danni Cooper, Sophia Dao, Suzette Donovan, Stephen Exon, Mason Gadwood, Jared Ganshorn, Megan Hacker, Alexa Harrington, Aubrey Herzberg, Shaylee Hipsag, Emma Izzo, Madeleine Lewis, Reagan Maulick, Kevin McMullen, Terezie Moudra, Lilian Nguyen, Cole Osborne, Harvey Wiersma, and Ava Williams (Saluki Publishing, Southern Illinois University Press, 2026). [critical edition, co-edited with my Editing and Publishing class at UNL]

Susan Glaspell, Fidelity: An Annotated Edition. Co-editor with Sophie Anderson, Kayla Barnes, Ian Byington, Sam Cobb, Sarah Danielson, Hannah Dannar, Drew Fridrich, Eddie Geiler, Rylee Gregg, Marissa Hanley, Bella Hardy, Michael Hodge, Ben Jezewski, Jackson Kissler, Wally Langdon, Kevin McMullen, Madalyn Meyer, Zöe Olson, Angelina Pattavina, Gabriel Reiman, Grace Reiman, Halle Ross, Audrey Salber, Fatima Salman, McKenna Sender, Presley Shonka, Paige Trutna, and Tyler Wagner (Saluki Publishing, Southern Illinois University Press, 2025) [critical edition, co-edited with my Editing and Publishing class at UNL].

Selected Articles and Chapters

"Newsroom in Transition: Identifying Walt Whitman in the Brooklyn Daily Times, 1856-1859," forthcoming, American Periodicals. Co-authored with Stephanie M. Blalock, Stefan Schöberlein, and Jason Stacy. 

"Containing Multitudes: Interdisciplinary Student Research at the Whitman Archive," in Students in the Archives: Archival Pedagogy in Practice, ed. Heather Fox and Amanda Stuckey (University of Illinois Press, forthcoming fall 2026). Co-authored with Stephanie M. Blalock, Stefan Schöberlein, and Jason Stacy. 

"A Model for Creating and Publishing a Collaborative Critical Edition in the Classroom," Scholarly Editing 43 (July 2026). Co-authored with Sarah Danielson and Michael Hodge. 

"Taking a Page Out of Whitman's Scrapbook: Deconstructing and Reconstructing the Poet's Composition Process," in The Oxford Handbook of Walt Whitman, ed. Kenneth M. Price and Stefan Schöberlein (New York: Oxford UP, 2024). 

"'One of the grand works of the world': Walt Whitman's Advocacy for the Brooklyn Waterworks,1856-59," Technology and Culture 65.1 (January 2024): 235–261. Co-authored with Stephanie M. Blalock, Stefan Schöberlein, and Jason Stacy. 

"Walt Whitman's Trunk," Textual Cultures 16.2 (Fall 2023). Co-authored with Kenneth M. Price and Stefan Schöberlein. 

"Finding Whitman Between the Columns: A Trip into Nineteenth-Century Newsprint," C19 Podcast series, season 5, episode 5 (August 2022). Co-produced with Stefan Schöberlein, Stephanie M. Blalock, and Jason Stacy. 

"Walt Whitman, Editor at the New-York Atlas," Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 39.4 (Spring 2022): 189–204. Co-authored with Stephanie M. Blalock, Stefan Schöberlein, and Jason Stacy. 

"'This damned Act': Walt Whitman and the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850," Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 37.1 (Summer/Fall 2019): 1-45. 

"Turning Over Fresh Leaves: A Reconsideration of Fanny Fern's Periodical Writing," Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 35.2 (Winter 2018): 141–165.    

Digital Archives and Editions

 

Fanny Fern in The New York Ledger (digital archive of Fanny Fern's newspaper writings, http://fannyfern.org; project passed peer review by NINES, October 2022): Co-creator and editor.

Digital edition of Walt Whitman's Geography Scrapbook, The Walt Whitman Archive (https://whitmanarchive.org/manuscripts/marginalia/index-scrapbook.html): Co-Editor, with Matt Cohen, Caterina Bernardini, Ashlyn Stewart, and Caitlin Henry; published in 2020. 

Selected Conference Papers and Presentations

"Scoping and Organizing a Capacious Digital Edition" (co-authored with Brett Barney and Ashlyn Stewart), European Society of Textual Scholarship annual conference, Lublin, Poland, May 2026

"Manuprint in the Age of Digitization" (co-authored with Brett Barney and Ashlyn Stewart; delivered by Barney and Stewart), European Society of Textual Scholarship annual conference, Tours, France, April 2025

"Recovering Glaspell's Fidelity: A Model for Creating a Collaborative Critical Edition in the Classroom," Modern Language Association convention, New Orleans, LA, January 2025 

"Taking a Page Out of Whitman's Scrapbook: Deconstructing and Reconstructing the Poet's Composition Process," Conference of C19: The Society of Nineteenth Century Americanists, Pasadena, CA, March 2024

"Whitman's Trunk: Rethinking How Whitman Composed" (co-authored with Kenneth M. Price and Stefan Schöberlein; delivered by Price), American Literature Association, Boston, MA, May 2023

Roundtable participant, "Whitman Between the Columns—Finding the Anonymous Journalist," American Literature Association, Chicago, IL, May 2022

"Whitman's Trunk: Rethinking How Whitman Composed" (co-authored with Kenneth M. Price and Stefan Schöberlein; delivered by me),  Society for Textual Scholarship Conference, Chicago, IL, May 2022

"The Walt Whitman Archive at 25 Years: A Round Table Discussion," American Literature Association, Boston, MA, July 2021 (virtual participant)

"The Digital Zoomanities: Fostering collegiality and keeping up morale as a project manager in the age of COVID-19," Project Management in the Humanities Conference at DHSI, virtual conference, June 2021

"Whitman Reads New York,"12^th International Walt Whitman Week Symposium, New York, NY, June 2019

"Whitman's Geography Scrapbook: The Formation of the Poet's Worldview" (co-authored with Caterina Bernardini, Caitlin Henry, and Matt Cohen), American Literature Association, Boston, MA, May 2019

"'Stick Your Hands in Your Pockets Jonathan': Slaves, Kings, and Absent Bodies in Whitman," 9^th International Walt Whitman Week Symposium, Exeter, England, June 2016

"Why FannyPacks Are Cool: Fanny Fern in The New York Ledger as a Template for Digital Publication," Nineteenth Century Studies Association, Lincoln, NE, April 2016

"Fanny Fern in The New York Ledger: A Case for the Comprehensive Treatment of Fern's Journalism," Joint Conference of the Society for Textual Scholarship and the Association of Documentary Editing, Lincoln, NE, June 2015

"Fanny Fern in The New York Ledger," Kansas State University Digital Humanities Symposium, Manhattan, KS, February 2015 

"Who Watches This, Watches a Man: Walt Whitman in Educational Films," 7^th International Walt Whitman Week Symposium, Bamberg, Germany, July 2014

"From Whitman's 'jetblack sunrise' to Grimké's 'moving black against the sun': New Light on Black Responses to Leaves," 9^th International Melville Conference: "Melville and         Whitman in Washington," Washington, DC, June 2013

"'Through the lilac mists': Whitman's Presence in the Poetry of African American Women of the Harlem Renaissance," American Literature Association, Boston, MA, May 2013

Areas of Interest

Nineteenth-century American literature and culture

Periodical literature

Digital humanities

Editorial theory

Textual recovery