2014 Seminar Faculty
The
team of international instructors in Bamberg will be:
Betsy
Erkkila: Professor of American literary and cultural studies at
Northwestern University; author of Walt
Whitman Among the French: Poet and Myth (1980) and Whitman
the Political Poet (1996); co-editor, with Jay Grossmann,
of Breaking
Bounds: Whitman and American Cultural Studies (1996);
editor of Walt
Whitman’s Songs of Male Intimacy and Love (2011).
Ed
Folsom: Professor of American Literature at the University of
Iowa; co-director of the online Whitman Archive; editor of the Walt
Whitman Quarterly Review; author, co-author and editor of
over 20 Whitman-related books, including, most recently, Walt
Whitman’s Democratic Vistas: A Facsimile of the Original Edition
(2010), Re-Scripting
Walt Whitman (2007) co-authored with
Kenneth M. Price, Whitman
Making Books / Books Making Whitman (2005), and Whitman
East and West: New Contexts for Reading Walt Whitman (2002).
Walter
Grünzweig: Professor American Literature and Culture at the
University of Dortmund, Germany; author of Constructing
the German Walt Whitman (1995) and Walt Whitmann:
Die deutschsprachige Rezeption als interkulturelles Phänomen
(1991); contributor to, amongst others, Breaking
Bounds: Whitman and American Cultural Studies (1996),
Whitman East &
West: New Contexts for Reading Walt Whitman (2002), and A
Companion to Walt Whitman (2009).
Peter
J. L. Riley: Early career fellow in American Literature at the
University of Oxford, UK; author of “Leaves of Grass and Real
Estate,” published in the Walt
Whitman Quarterly Review; co-founder and committee member
of the British Association of Nineteenth-Century Americanists;
currently working on the book project Moonlighting
Modernity: American Poets at Work.
