Dr. William Pannapacker
Retired Faculty616.395.7000
William Pannapacker joined the 鶹Ƶ 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, 2015–2019
- Ruth and John Reed Faculty Achievement Award, 鶹Ƶ, 2017
- Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, $800,000 to create the Mellon Grand Challenges Initiative, 2016
- Provost’s Award for Service to the Academic Program, 鶹Ƶ, 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, 鶹Ƶ, 2003–2006
- Whiting Foundation Fellow, 1999–2000
- 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’s Philadelphia, in progress
- Revised Lives: Walt Whitman and Nineteenth-Century Authorship, Routledge, 2004
Selected Articles and Book Chapters:
- “‘Every Atom’: Reflections on Walt Whitman at 200,” North American Review, 2019
- “Werner Twertzog,” in Short Circuits: Aphorisms, Fragments, and Literary Anomalies, eds. James Lough and Alex Stein, Schaffner Press, 2018
- “Walt Whitman’s Philadelphia,” Walt Whitman In Context, eds. Ed Whitley and Joanna Levin, Cambridge University Press, 2017
- “Werner Twertzog Tweets,” Best American Nonrequired Reading, ed. Sarah Vowell, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017
- “Literary Magazines” and “Literary Societies,” , 2016
- “Life in a Liberal Arts College,” 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, 1998–2014
- “Taking the Liberal Arts Online in the Summer,” Chronicle of Higher Education, 2014
- “No More Digitally Challenged Liberal-Arts Majors,” Chronicle of Higher Education, 2014
- “Hacking and Yacking about the Digital Humanities,” Chronicle of Higher Education, 2013
- “Cultivating Partnerships in the Digital Humanities,” Chronicle of Higher Education, 2013
- “A Liberal Arts Foundation,” The New York Times, 2013
- “Stop Calling it ‘Digital Humanities,’” Chronicle of Higher Education, 2013
- “The Dark Side of the Digital Humanities” and “Rebooting Graduate Education,” Chronicle of Higher Education, 2013
- “No More Indiana Jones Warehouses,” Chronicle of Higher Education, 2012
- “Can ‘Neuro Lit Crit’ Save the Humanities?” The New York Times, 2010
- “The MLA and the Digital Humanities,” Chronicle of Higher Education, 2009
- “Walt Whitman,” American Literary Scholarship, Duke University Press, 2005–2009
- “Leaves of Grass (1855) and the Cities of Whitman’s Memory,” Leaves of Grass: The Sesquicentennial Essays, University of Nebraska Press, 2007
- “Whitman and the City,” A Companion to Walt Whitman, Blackwell Publishing, 2005
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