Acknowledgments

This book emerged from an in-person event that took a small village to make happen. Thank you to Erin Chambers, Marco Abel, Claire Parfait, William G. Thomas III, Bob Wilhelm, Kevin McMullen, Brett Barney, and the staff of The Oven. Attendees of the symposium and the faculty and staff of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s Center for Digital Research in the Humanities also influenced the essays that follow: thanks to Steve Ramsay, Melissa Homestead, Karin Dalziel, Greg Tunink, Laura Weakly, Brian Pytlik Zillig, Carrie Heitman, Andy Jewell, Liz Lorang, and Emily Rau.

We are grateful to the staff of the University of Minnesota Press for their vision, guidance, support, and talent. Thank you, Doug Armato, Zenyse Miller, Terence Smyre, Mike Stoffel, Carla Valadez, and Eric Lundgren. We are grateful to Daniel Fielding for an insightful index. Thank you to Trevor Owens and an anonymous external reader for suggestions that improved the collection.

The publication of this book and its Manifold version was supported by a University of Nebraska–Lincoln College of Arts and Sciences research development grant. The symposium at UNL that preceded it, “The Walt Whitman Archive and the Futures of Digital Scholarly Editing,” was supported by the College of Arts and Sciences, the Office of Research and Economic Development, the university libraries, the Department of English, and the Hillegass University Professorship.