Dr. William Pannapacker

Retired Faculty
616.395.7000
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William Pannapacker joined the 快猫短视频 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, 快猫短视频, 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, 快猫短视频, 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, 快猫短视频, 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 The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia, 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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Dr. William Pannapacker

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