Steering Committee

• Susan Belasco

  Professor of English, specializes in American nineteenth-century women's literature and popular culture, and is co-editor of the forthcoming Bedford two-volume anthology of American literature.

• Stephen C. Behrendt

  University Professor and George Holmes Professor of English, is a leading scholar of early nineteenth-century art, popular culture, and British Romantic literature, especially women's Romantic poetry.

• David Cahan

  Bessie Professor of History, is an expert on nineteenth-century German history, especially history of science.

• Wendy Katz

  Associate Professor of Art History, specializes in Antebellum United States genre art and landscape.

• Timothy Mahoney

  Professor of History and Director of the Plains Humanities Alliance, is a leading scholar in nineteenth-century American social history and urban studies.

• Christin Mamiya

  Professor of Art History, is the co-author of Art Through the Ages and an expert on popular art and culture of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

• Marshall Olds

  Cather Professor of Modern Languages and Literature, Director of International Affairs, and Editor of Nineteenth-Century French Studies, is a scholar of nineteenth-century French poetry and French realism.

• Kenneth M. Price

  Hillegass Professor of American Literature and Professor of English, is the Co-Director of the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities and Co-Director of the Walt Whitman Archive, a NEH-funded digital project.

• William Thomas

  John and Catherine Angle Chair in the Humanities and Professor of History, specializes in digital humanities and nineteenth-century United States history, and is co-author of The Valley of the Shadow and other award-winning digital sites on the Civil War experience.

• Harriet Turner

  Harold E. Spencer Professor of Modern Languages and Literature, is the co-author of the Cambridge Companion to the Spanish Novel as well as an expert on the realist novel in Spain.

• Katherine L. Walter

  Professor and Chair of Digital Initiatives and Special Collections is the Co-Director of the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities.

• Kenneth Winkle

  Sorensen Professor and Chair of History, is a scholar of Abraham Lincoln and nineteenth-century social and political history.

• John Wunder

  Professor of History, specializes in nineteenth-century legal history as well the American West and Native American history.

Advisory Committee

• Jerome McGann

  John Stewart Bryan University Professor and Professor of English at the University of Virginia, is the author of Radiant Textuality (2001) and other works on digital media and textuality, as well as works on Romantic literature.

• Andrew Miller

  Associate Professor of English and Director of the Victorian Studies program at Indiana University, is the co-editor of Victorian Studies and a scholar of nineteenth-century British literature.

• Mary Poovey

  Samuel Rudin University Professor of the Humanities and Director of the Institute for the History of the Production of Knowledge, New York University, specializes in nineteenth-century British and American literature as well as cultural history and theory.

• John Unsworth

  Dean and Professor of the Graduate School of Library and Information Sciences at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, was the first director of the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities and has published widely on digital scholarship.

• Dino Felluga

  Associate Professor of English at Purdue University, specializes in nineteenth-century British literature and critical theory.

Curriculum Advisory Committee

• Aleidine Moeller

  Edith S. Greer Professor of Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, is an expert on language teaching, curriculum, and education reform.

• Susan Wunder

  Associate Professor of Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, specializes in secondary social studies education and directs the Nebraska Partnership for American History Education.

• L. James Walter

  Associate Dean of the College of Education and Human Sciences and Professor of Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, is an expert on curriculum design.