{"id":28,"date":"2012-10-16T03:22:45","date_gmt":"2012-10-16T03:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/widewideworldblog.org\/?page_id=28"},"modified":"2012-10-16T03:22:45","modified_gmt":"2012-10-16T03:22:45","slug":"staff","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/widewideworld\/staff\/","title":{"rendered":"Staff"},"content":{"rendered":"

Project Director<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Jessica DeSpain<\/strong> is an Assistant Professor of American literature at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. She studies nineteenth-century transatlantic reprinting and metaphors linking the body and text. DeSpain’s book\u00a0Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Reprinting and the Embodied Book<\/em>\u00a0was published in 2014.\u00a0She started researching the transatlantic reprint history of\u00a0The Wide, Wide World<\/em> in 2006 as part of her Center for the Book final project at the University of Iowa. Since moving the project to SIUE in 2008, DeSpain has been working with with a team of students each semester to complete the project.<\/p>\n

Editorial Staff<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Jill Anderson<\/strong> is an Associate Professor and the Program Director for secondary English Education in the Department of English Language and Literature at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. Anderson’s research specializes in the American novel from the early republic to the antebellum period with an emphasis on transatlantic intertextuality and the female heroine.<\/p>\n

Melissa White\u00a0<\/strong>is a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Skidmore College who \u00a0studies nineteenth-century American literature and textual studies. White is a Bibliographical Society student prizewinner for her book collection of The Wide, Wide World<\/i>,which she subsequently donated to the University of Virginia\u2019s special collections. White is an experienced editor of two digital projects and was a staff member and project manager for the pioneering Rossetti Archive<\/i><\/a> from 2002-2005.<\/p>\n

Jennifer Brady\u00a0<\/strong>is a Lecturer in the Committee on Degrees in History and Literature at Harvard University and the Assistant Director of Studies in the America Field. She specializes in reader reception, book history, and the sentimental novel. She has written extensively about Warner\u2019s fans and recently published a piece about this work in Commonplace.<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n

Editorial Board<\/strong><\/h2>\n

John Bryant\u00a0<\/strong>is a full Professor at Hofstra University and the author of The Fluid Text, <\/i>the theory of editorial practice that underpins the design of this project. <\/i>Bryant is the primary investigator for a NEH Scholarly Editions Grant that is supporting the development of The Melville Electronic Library<\/a>.<\/i>
\n<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n

Julia Flanders\u00a0<\/strong>is the Director of Northeastern University\u2019s Women Writers Project<\/a> (WWP), one of the most comprehensive digital collections of women\u2019s writings available online, and an active member of the Text Encoding Initiative. Flanders is currently the primary investigator on an NEH Scholarly Editions Grant, Cultures of Reception, <\/i>that puts women\u2019s writing in the context of transatlantic reception history through the editing of reviews, letters, and journals.<\/p>\n

Andrew Stauffer\u00a0<\/strong>is a Professor at the University of Virginia, specializing in Romantic poetry. Stauffer is also the director of NINES<\/a> a federated collection and peer-reviewing body for nineteenth-century digital humanities projects.<\/p>\n

Current Project Team Members<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Gabriel Borders
\nSummer 2015-Current<\/p>\n

Elizabeth Korinke
\nFall 2015-Current<\/p>\n

Ben Ostermeier
\nSpring 2014-Current<\/p>\n

Merissa Voyles
\nSummer 2016-Current<\/p>\n

Melissa White
\nSummer 2016-Current<\/p>\n

Past Project Team Members<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Heather Asbeck
\nSpring 2014-Fall 2015<\/p>\n

Carmen Connors
\nSpring 2014<\/p>\n

Brianne Foster
\nFall 2011-Spring 2012<\/p>\n

Tiffany Fry
\nSpring 2014<\/p>\n

Despina Hartley
\nSpring 2014<\/p>\n

Brianne Harris
\nFall 2012-Fall 2015<\/p>\n

Kayla Hayes
\nFall 2011-Spring 2013<\/p>\n

Kiley Herndon
\nSpring 2014<\/p>\n

Consuella Kelly
\nFall 2011-Spring 2012<\/p>\n

Christy Koester
\nFall 2011-Spring 2013<\/p>\n

Jessalyn Ludwig
\nFall 2012-Spring 2013<\/p>\n

Molly Marcum
\nSpring 2013-Spring 2014<\/p>\n

Kristin Mefford
\nFall 2013<\/p>\n

Jennifer Roberts
\nFall 2012-Summer 2015<\/p>\n

Kelly Walsh
\nFall 2010-Spring 2012<\/p>\n

Kate Workman
\nFall 2013-Spring 2015<\/p>\n

Wendy Wyrostek
\nFall 2010-Spring 2011<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Project Director Jessica DeSpain is an Assistant Professor of American literature at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. She studies nineteenth-century transatlantic reprinting and metaphors linking the body and text. DeSpain’s book\u00a0Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Reprinting and the Embodied Book\u00a0was published in 2014.\u00a0She started … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_sb_is_suggestion_mode":false,"_sb_show_suggestion_boards":false,"_sb_show_comment_boards":false,"_sb_suggestion_history":"","_sb_update_block_changes":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-28","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/widewideworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/widewideworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/widewideworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/widewideworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/widewideworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/widewideworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/widewideworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}