Dr. William Pannapacker

William Pannapacker joined the 麻豆视频 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, 麻豆视频, 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, 麻豆视频, 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, 麻豆视频, 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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