English professor to lecture at W&J
Washington & Jefferson College’s Branton Lecture Series resumes Monday with “The Bohemians of Antebellum New York and the Networks of American Literary History,” a lecture by Edward Whitley, associate professor of English at Lehigh University.
The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will be held 7 p.m. in the media room of The Commons on the W&J campus.
“We were looking for an Americanist to speak this year, and his lecture is a good tie-in to several of our current classes here,” said Dana Shiller, chair of the English department at W&J. “Dr. (Carolyn) Kyler is teaching a class on Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson, and Dr. (Linda) Troost taught a digital humanities class in the fall. His visit to campus will fill a niche in a lot of ways.”
Whitley, who teaches courses in American literature, has published essays on Walt Whitman and American poetry in ELH, Nineteenth-Century Literature, ESQ, and The Walt Whitman Quarterly Review.
His book, American Bards: Walt Whitman and Other Unlikely Candidates for National Poet, was published by the University of North Carolina Press in 2010.
Whitman among the Bohemians, a collection of essays that he co-edited with Joanna Levin, will be published by the University of Iowa Press in the fall of 2014.
He also works in the field of digital humanities, and has published essays on digital scholarship in The American Literature Scholar in the Digital Age and Archive Journal.