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CURRICULUM VITAE MATT COHEN [email protected] EDUCATION 2002: Ph.D., American Studies, The College of William and Mary in Virginia, Williamsburg, VA. Dissertation: “The Still Life: Domesticity, Subjectivity, and the Bachelor in Nineteenth- Century America” 1995: M.A., American Studies, The College of William and Mary. 1992: B.A., History, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH. TEACHING 2018-: University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Professor of English. Fellow in the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities. 2017-2018: University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Associate Professor of English. 2009-2017: University of Texas at Austin, Associate Professor of English. Affiliate faculty in American Studies, Comparative Literature, and Native American and Indigenous Studies. 2002-2009: Duke University, Assistant Professor of English. 2002 (spring): University of North Carolina-Greensboro, Lecturer in English. 1996-2001: The College of William and Mary, Graduate Instructor in American Studies; Lecturer in English. 1997 (fall): Virginia Commonwealth University, Lecturer in English. PUBLICATIONS MONOGRAPHS Whitman’s Drift: Imagining Literary Distribution. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2017. The Networked Wilderness: Communicating in Early New England. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010. Awarded 2010 Susanne M. Glasscock Humanities Book Prize for Interdisciplinary Scholarship. Chapter One, “Native Audiences,” reprinted in The Broadview Reader in Book History, ed. Michelle Levy and Tom Mole (Tonawanda: Broadview Press, 2015):

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CURRICULUM VITAE MATT COHEN [email protected] EDUCATION 2002: Ph.D., American Studies, The College of William and Mary in Virginia, Williamsburg, VA. Dissertation: “The Still Life: Domesticity, Subjectivity, and the Bachelor in Nineteenth-Century America” 1995: M.A., American Studies, The College of William and Mary. 1992: B.A., History, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH. TEACHING 2018-: University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Professor of English. Fellow in the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities. 2017-2018: University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Associate Professor of English. 2009-2017: University of Texas at Austin, Associate Professor of English. Affiliate faculty in American Studies, Comparative Literature, and Native American and Indigenous Studies. 2002-2009: Duke University, Assistant Professor of English. 2002 (spring): University of North Carolina-Greensboro, Lecturer in English. 1996-2001: The College of William and Mary, Graduate Instructor in American Studies; Lecturer in English. 1997 (fall): Virginia Commonwealth University, Lecturer in English. PUBLICATIONS MONOGRAPHS Whitman’s Drift: Imagining Literary Distribution. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2017. The Networked Wilderness: Communicating in Early New England. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010.

• Awarded 2010 Susanne M. Glasscock Humanities Book Prize for Interdisciplinary Scholarship.

• Chapter One, “Native Audiences,” reprinted in The Broadview Reader in Book History, ed. Michelle Levy and Tom Mole (Tonawanda: Broadview Press, 2015):

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417-438. EDITIONS AND EDITED VOLUMES In press, The New Whitman Studies: Twenty-First Century Critical Revisions. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Walt Whitman’s Marginalia and Annotations. Walt Whitman Archive. Kenneth M. Price and Ed Folsom, co-directors. 2015-2020. http://whitmanarchive.org/manuscripts/marginalia/index.html George Lippard, The Killers: A Narrative of Real Life in Philadelphia. Ed. Matt Cohen and Edlie L. Wong. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. Paperback 2016. With Jeffrey Glover, ed., Colonial Mediascapes: Sensory Worlds of the Early Americas. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2014. With Lars Hinrichs, ed., “Literature and Linguistics: Computation and Convergence,” a special issue of Texas Studies in Literature and Language 54.3 (Fall 2012). “Indigenous Editing,” special section for Textual Cultures 6.2 (2012): 109-146. With Rachel Price, ed., Poemas: Walt Whitman, trans. Álvaro Armando Vasseur (1912). Walt Whitman Archive. Kenneth M. Price and Ed Folsom, co-directors, 2007. http://www.whitmanarchive.org/published/index.html Brother Men: The Correspondence of Edgar Rice Burroughs and Herbert T. Weston. Durham: Duke University Press, 2005. With Walt Whitman in Camden: An Electronic Edition, 9 vols. Walt Whitman Archive. Kenneth M. Price and Ed Folsom, co-directors. 2004-2012. http://www.whitmanarchive.org/disciples ESSAYS Accepted, “Time and the Bibliographer: A Meditation on the Spirit of Book Studies.” Textual Cultures 13.1 (estimated 2020). “Introduction,” The New Whitman Studies, ed. Matt Cohen (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020), 1-14. With Nicole Gray, “Walt Whitman’s Leaves,” The New Whitman Studies, ed. Matt Cohen (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020), 161-181. With Robert A. Gross, “Building a National Literature: The United States 1800-1890,” A Companion to the History of the Book, 2nd ed., ed. Simon Eliot and Jonathan Rose (Wiley-Blackwell, 2019).

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“When Others Passing by Behold: Archives between Cultures,” in Ghosts of Transparency: Shadows Cast and Shadows Cast Out, ed. Michael R. Doyle, Selena Savić, and Vera Bühlmann. Applied Virtuality Series (Basel: Birkhäuser/De Gruyter, 2019): 281-297. “The Maps that Killed Alexander Posey,” Textual Cultures 12.1 (2019): 76-94. “The American South,” in Walt Whitman in Context, ed. Joanna Levin and Edward Whitley (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018): 48-56. With Alejandro Omidsalar, Ashley Palmer, and Stephanie Blalock, “Walt Whitman’s Poetry Reprints and the Study of Nineteenth-Century Literary Circulation.” Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 35.1 (2017): 1-44. “Archives and the Spirit of American Literary History,” American Literary History 29.2 (2017). 4000 words. “‘Between Friends and Enemies’: Moving Books and Locating Native Critique in Early Colonial America.” The World, the Text, and the Indian: Global Dimensions of Native American Literature. Ed. Scott Richard Lyons (Albany: SUNY Press, 2017): 103-127. With Aaron Dinin, “Keeping Tally with Meaning: Reading Numerals in Walt Whitman’s Manuscripts,” special issue on Whitman and mathematics, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 34.2 (2016): 120-145. “Walt Whitman’s Eidólon of Exile: Distribution and the Literary Imagination.” Censorship and Exile. Ed. Johanna Hartmann and Hubert Zapf. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2015. 221-242. “Believing in Piety: Spiritual Transformation across Cultures in Early New England.” Religious Transformations in the Early Modern Americas. Ed. Stephanie Kirk and Sarah Rivett. Philadelphia: The University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. 161-179. “A History of Books in the Indigenous Americas.” The World of Indigenous North America. Ed. Robert Warrior. New York: Routledge, 2014. 308-329. With Lars Hinrichs, “Introduction.” In “Literature and Linguistics: Computation and Convergence,” a special issue of Texas Studies in Literature and Language 54.3 (2012): 299-302. “The Codex and the Knife.” Textual Cultures 6.2 (Autumn 2011 [2012]): 109-118. “Lying Inventions: Native Dissimulation in Early Colonial New England.” Native Acts: American Indian Performance. Joshua David Bellin and Laura Mielke, eds. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2011. 27-52. “The New Life of the New Forms: American Literary Studies and the Digital Humanities.” The

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Blackwell Companion to American Literary Studies. Caroline Levander and Robert Levine, eds. London: Blackwell, 2011. 532-548. “Design and Politics in Electronic American Literary Archives.” The American Literature Scholar in the Digital Age. Amy Earhart and Andrew Jewell, eds. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2010. 228-249. “New England, Nonesuch.” American Literary History 22.2 (2010): 307-319. “Plantation Modernism.” Mississippi Quarterly 60.2 (Spring 2007 [c. 2008]): 385-411. “State of the Discipline: The History of the Book in New England.” Book History 11 (2008): 301-323. With Lauren Coats, John David Miles, Kinohi Nishikawa, and Rebecca Walsh. “Those We Don’t Speak Of: Indians in The Village.” PMLA 123.2 (2008): 358-374. “‘To Reach the Workmen Direct’: Horace Traubel and the 1855 Edition of Leaves of Grass.” In Leaves of Grass: The Sesquicentennial Essays. Susan Belasco, Ed Folsom, and Kenneth M. Price, eds. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007. 299-320. “Untranslatable? Making American Literature in Translation Digital.” Modern Language Studies 37.1 (Summer 2007): 43-53. “Tarzan the German-Eater.” Comparative American Studies 4.2 (2006): 151-174. “Traubel in Paradise.” Mickle Street Review 16 (2004). http://www.micklestreet.rutgers.edu/ “Morton’s Maypole and the Indians: Publishing in Early New England.” Book History 5 (2002): 1-18. “Making the View from Lookout Mountain: Sectionalism and National Visual Culture.” Prospects: An Annual Review of American Studies 25 (Winter 2000): 269-280. “Walt Whitman, the Bachelor, and Sexual Poetics.” Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 16.3-4 (Winter/Spring 1999): 145-152. “Martin Tupper, Walt Whitman, and the Early Reviews of Leaves of Grass.” Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 16.1 (Summer 1998): 23-31. TRANSLATIONS Whitman, Walt. “Song of Myself / El canto de mí mismo.” Trans. Matt Cohen, with Luis Ambroggio. WhitmanWeb. Iowa City: International Writing Program, University of Iowa, 2012-2013. https://iwp.uiowa.edu/whitmanweb/es/about-the-project

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With Nicole Gray and Rey Rocha, “‘Poets to Come’: An Introduction to the Spanish Translations,” Walt Whitman Archive, 2012. http://whitmanarchive.org/published/foreign/ Whitman, Walt. “‘Cantos Democráticos’ 14.” Trans. Matt Cohen. Walt Whitman Archive, 2012. http://www.whitmanarchive.org/published/foreign/poets/spanish/tei/med.00516.html First Spanish translation of “Chants Democratic 14,” from the 1860 Leaves of Grass. With Rachel Price, introduction and translation, “Álvaro Armando Vasseur’s Preface to the Sixth Edition of Walt Whitman: Poemas.” PMLA 123.2 (2008): 438-451. For the complete translation and the original Spanish text see Matt Cohen and Rachel Price, eds., “Preface to the Sixth Edition of Walt Whitman: Poemas,” Walt Whitman Archive, 2014. http://whitmanarchive.org/published/foreign/spanish/index.html SHORT WORKS AND DATA RESOURCES Ongoing. With Stephanie Blalock, Alejandro Omidsalar, and Ashley Palmer, Walt Whitman’s Poetry Reprints, 1838-1892. Spreadsheet and data visualizations available at https://www.whitmanarchive.org/labs/reprints/ Submitted, “Every Atom: Reflections on Whitman at 200, no. X,” The North American Review. Brian Clements, curator. In press, “Baby Talk: John Newton Johnson’s Walt Whitman,” in Hidden Literacies, ed. Christopher Hager and Hilary Wyss, Trinity University. In press, with Zainab Saleh, “Whitman and Islam,” The Walt Whitman Archive, “Whitman’s Annotations” section. “A Conversation with Lisa Brooks about Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip’s War,” Native American and Indigenous Studies 6.1 (2019): 157-164. “What Walt Whitman Might Think of Trump’s America,” New York Daily News (31 May 2019). https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-what-walt-whitman-might-make-of-trumps-america-20190531-zvbaa5ocindu3bulutbhxp22xq-story.html (Part of a group of pieces on the occasion of Whitman’s 200th birthday, also featuring Yusef Komunyakaa and Martin Buinicki.) “The New, New, New Philology,” a review of R. Howard Bloch, et al, eds., Rethinking the New Medievalism. electronic book review (January 2017). http://www.electronicbookreview.com/thread/fictionspresent/recalled “Feeling Used: Literary History without Reading,” a review of Michael C. Cohen, The Social Lives of Poems in Nineteenth-Century America. Reviews in American History 44 (2016) 575–580. “George Lippard’s The Killers.” The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia. Charlene Mires, editor-in-chief. 2015. http://philadelphiaencyclopedia.org/archive/killers-the-a-narrative-of-real-

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life-in-philadelphia/ “‘The Indians Told Them That Sickness Would Follow’: A Response to Miraculous Plagues,” and “Response to Cristobal Silva,” William & Mary Quarterly 3rd. ser. 70.4 (Oct 2013): 827-831; 847-48. “Indigenous Networks: Rethinking Print Culture through Early American Media.” Common-place 12.2 (January 2012). http://www.common-place.org With Todd Lapidus, “Speaking Matters.” Customer Contact Corporation papers (2011). http://www.c3corp.com/library/ With Todd Lapidus, “Speaking Consequentially--Memo.” Customer Contact Corporation papers (2011). http://www.c3corp.com/library/ With Todd Lapidus, “Speaking Consequentially, Part 1: Strong and Creative Speech.” Customer Contact Corporation papers (2011). http://www.c3corp.com/library/ With Lars Hinrichs, “White Paper: Reflections on ‘The Digital and the Human(ities),’ a Symposium Series at the University of Texas at Austin.” 2011. https://tilts2011.wordpress.com With Erica Fretwell and Kevin Webb, “White Paper: Interface Design for Static Multimedia Documents.” National Endowment for the Humanities, Office of Digital Humanities, 2009. http://www.neh.gov/ODH/ResourceLibrary/WhitePaperRepository/tabid/111/Default.aspx “Walt Whitman.” Royal Ballet program, London, U.K. Spring 2007. Critical biographical essay for ballet based on Whitman’s “Children of Adam” poems. Anonymous co-authored article, Inside Higher Ed, February 2006. http://www.insidehighered.com “Transgenic Deformation: Literary Translation and the Digital Archive.” Walt Whitman Archive (2006). http://whitmanarchive.org/about/articles/anc.00165.html “Roger Williams.” In Early Encounters in North America: Peoples, Cultures, and the Environment. Alexander Street Press, 2003. http://www.alexanderstreet2.com/eenalive/ “AdjunctSaver.com.” Chronicle of Higher Education. July 19, 2002. “Edgar Allan Poe,” “Mark Twain,” and “Washington Irving.” In International Biographical Dictionaries. Jeffrey Bell, ed. Westport: Greenwood Press, 2002. “The Reveries of a Bachelor.” In American Literature Archive. Subscription online resource. Gale Group, 2001. “Ian Fleming.” In The Encyclopedia of Crime and Mystery Fiction. Ed. Rosemary Herbert. New

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York: Oxford University Press, 1999. “Anne Parrish.” In The American National Biography. New York, Oxford University Press, 1999. “Whitman’s Short Stories.” In Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia. Ed. Donald Kummings. New York: Garland, 1998. “Art on the Edge.” William & Mary Magazine 63.2 (Fall 1995): 7-8. REVIEWS With Aubrey Plourde, review of Amanda Gailey, Proofs of Genius: Collected Editions from the American Revolution to the Digital Age. Textual Cultures 10.2 (2018): 166-169. With Elizabeth Sullivan, review of Alejandra Dubcovsky, Informed Power: Communication in the Early American South. The Journal of Interdisciplinary History 48.1 (2017): 16-17. Review of Jace Weaver, The Red Atlantic: American Indigenes and the Making of the Modern World, 1000-1927. Early American Literature 51.3 (2016): 707-712. With Hannah Alpert-Abrams, review of Yearbook of English Studies 45: The History of the Book. SHARP News 25.3 (Fall 2016). http://www.sharpweb.org/sharpnews/2016/08/21/ Review of Meredith Marie Neuman, Jeremiah’s Scribes: Creating Sermon Literature in Puritan New England. Modern Philology 113.1 (2015). http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/681153 Review of Mark Goble, Beautiful Circuits: Modernism and the Mediated Life. American Literary History. Online reviews section, series 1. Spring 2015. http://oxfordjournals.org/our_journals/alhist/matt%20cohen%20online%20review.pdf With Nicole Gray, “Danse Macabre: Death, Cultural History, and Colonization,” review of Erik R. Seeman, Death in the New World: Cross-Cultural Encounters, 1492-1800. The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 54 sup. (2013). http://ecti.english.illinois.edu/ With Meredith Coffey, review of Joel W. Martin and Mark A. Nicholas, eds., Native Americans, Christianity, and the Reshaping of the American Religious Landscape. The Journal of American Studies 46.1 (2012): E4 (pp. 1-2). With Lauren Grewe, review of Chris Teuton, Deep Waters: The Textual Continuum in American Indian Literature. Wíčazo Ša Review 26.2 (Fall 2011): 102-105. Review of Michael Robertson, Worshipping Walt: The Whitman Disciples. Biography (Winter 2009). Review of George Handley, New World Poetics: Nature and the Adamic Imagination of

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Whitman, Neruda, and Walcott. Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 26.1 (Summer 2008): 52-56. Review of E. Jennifer Monaghan, Learning to Read and Write in Colonial America. New England Quarterly 79.2 (2006): 311-313. With Kinohi Nishikawa, review of Pascale Casanova, The World Republic of Letters. SHARP News (Fall 2005). With Melinda DiStefano, review of Poets in the Public Sphere: The Emancipatory Project of American Women’s Poetry, 1800-1900 and Imagining Rhetoric: Composing Women of the Early United States. American Literature 76.4 (2004): 891-894. Review of the James Fenimore Cooper Society online archive, http://external.oneonta.edu/cooper/. The Journal of American History 91.2 (2004): 734-5. With John David Miles, review of Revolutionary Histories: Transatlantic Cultural Nationalism, 1775-1815; Fragments of Union: Making Connections in Scottish and American Writing; and The Devil and Doctor Dwight: Satire and Theology in the Early American Republic. American Literature 75.3 (2003): 653-656. GRANTS/AWARDS/OTHER ACADEMIC WORK 2001-: Contributing Editor, Walt Whitman Archive. Kenneth M. Price and Ed Folsom, Co-directors. 2018-: Co-editor, Charles Chesnutt Digital Archive, with Stephanie Browner and Kenneth M. Price. 2019-2021: With Stephanie Browner and Kenneth M. Price, National Endowment for the Humanities, Humanities Collections and Reference Resources Grant. Project: “Charles Chesnutt: A Digital Archive.” ($292,000) https://chesnuttarchive.org 2018-2019: National Endowment for the Humanities, Humanities Collections and Reference Resources Grant. Project: “Walt Whitman’s Annotations.” (Total budget $212,000) http://mcohenlab.wordpress.com/ 2017-2020: Consultant, “The 1855 Leaves of Grass: A Digital Variorum,” NEH-funded. 2017: Elected a Member of the American Antiquarian Society. 2017: National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship. Project: “Thinking Across Cultures in Early America.” 2016: Tom Cable Upper Division Teaching Award, Department of English, UT Austin. 2016-2017: Committee member, “DH@UT: Building a Digital Humanities Ecosystem for

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Innovative Research in the Liberal Arts.” Tanya Clement, PI. Chosen for funding in University of Texas Vice Provost for Research Pop-Up Institute grant competition. (Total budget $70,000) 2011-2014: National Endowment for the Humanities, Humanities Collections and Reference Resources Grant. Project: “Walt Whitman’s Annotations.” (Total budget $366,000) http://mcohenlab.wordpress.com/ 2010-2011: Co-director (with Lars Hinrichs), Texas Institute for Literary and Textual Studies. 2010: Susanne M. Glasscock Humanities Book Prize for Interdisciplinary Scholarship, for The Networked Wilderness: Communicating in Early New England, Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research, Texas A&M University ($1000) 2010-2011: LAITS grant, with Jason Baldridge, “Geobrowsing for Digital Humanities,” University of Texas at Austin ($18,800) May 2011: Obermann Fellow, Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, University of Iowa. Summer 2011 Research Seminar, “Walt Whitman International: Literary Translation and the Digital Archive.” Iowa City, IA. 2009: University Co-operative Society Subvention Grant, for The Networked Wilderness: Communicating in Early New England, University of Texas at Austin ($3372.15) 2008-09: Donald D. Harrington Fellow, University of Texas at Austin. 2008: National Endowment for the Humanities Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant. Project: “Interface Development for Static Multimedia Documents.” Sept. 1, 2007-Dec. 30, 2008. http://mcohenlab.wordpress.com/ ($46,577.00) 2008: Arts and Sciences Research Council Conference Grant, Duke University, for “Early Colonial Mediascapes: An Interdisciplinary Symposium.” ($5,000.00) 2007, 2008: Arts and Sciences Research Council Research Grants, Duke University, project: “Native Audiences: Communicating in Early New England” ($1,500.00; $800.00) 2007: Wye Fellow, Wye Summer Faculty Seminar, “Citizenship and Democracy,” The Aspen Institute. 2006: Fellow, American Council of Learned Societies. Project: “Positioning the Word in Early New England.” 2005-06: National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow (long-term), Newberry Library, Chicago, IL. Project: “Positioning the Word in Early New England.” 2005-06: Faculty Fellowship, Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Emory University (declined)

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2005-06: Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of English, Duke University 2004, 2005: Arts and Sciences Research Council Research Grant, Duke University, project: “With Walt Whitman in Camden: A Digital Edition.” ($7,000.00) 2004-05: Faculty Fellow, Duke Center for Instructional Technologies, project: “Digital Textualities.” Co-PI with Allison Dushane. ($3750.00) 2004: Reese Fellow in American Bibliography and the History of the Book (short-term), the Huntington Research Library, San Marino, CA. 2003: Arts and Sciences Research Council Research Grant, Duke University, project: “Brother Men: The Correspondence of Edgar Rice Burroughs and Herbert T. Weston.” ($2,500.00) 2003: Mini-grant, Duke Center for Instructional Technologies, for preparation of proposal to NEH Scholarly Editions program, “With Walt Whitman in Camden.” ($500.00) 2002: Mini-grant, Duke Center for Instructional Technologies, for “With Walt Whitman in Camden: A Digital Edition.” ($500.00) 2002: SHARP Best Graduate Student Essay Award, Book History, for “Morton’s Maypole and the Indians: Publishing in Early New England.” 1997-2001: Project consultant at the Walt Whitman Hypertext Archive. Designed and edited web pages (including HTML and SGML encoding, OCR, image scanning and editing, proofing, archive design and theory, Linux system administration), bibliographic analysis, data entry, grant writing. Helped organize and coordinate 1998 summer conference under FIPSE grant (“The Classroom Electric”; http://www.iath.virginia.edu/fdw/). 2001: Minor Research Grant, College of William and Mary. 1999-2001: Senior Departmental Liaison to the Departments of Art/Art History, Music, Theatre, Speech and Dance, Information Technology at the College of William and Mary. Assisted faculty in integrating classroom and web technologies into curriculum. 1998-99: Dissertation Fellowship in American Studies at the College of William and Mary. June 1997: Mellon Seminar in Postmodern Theory and Practice, directed by James Axtell, College of William and Mary. July 1996: College of William and Mary summer research grant, American Studies. Fall 1995: Research assistant for Kenneth M. Price ed., Walt Whitman: The Contemporary Reviews, American Critical Archives 9 (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1996). 1994-2002: Grants for conference presentations from William and Mary Conference Fund,

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American Studies Program, Office of the Dean of Research and Graduate Studies. CONFERENCE ORGANIZING June 2017: Committee member, HILT 2017 and Pop-Up Institute: “DH@UT: Building a Digital Humanities Ecosystem for Innovative Research in the Liberal Arts” May 2014: Host committee member, Native American and Indigenous Studies Association 2014 conference, Austin, TX. http://conferences.la.utexas.edu/naisa2014/ April 2014: Program committee member, 1st Inaugural Conference of the Texas Digital Humanities Consortium, Houston, TX. http://www.txdhc.org/ May-June 2012: Co-organizer, with Coleman Hutchison, of STS2012, an international meeting of the Society for Textual Scholarship, University of Texas at Austin. https://textualorg.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/sts-program-20122.pdf February, March, and May 2011: Co-director, with Lars Hinrichs, “The Digital and the Human(ities),” Texas Institute for Literary and Textual Studies, University of Texas at Austin. https://tilts2011.wordpress.com February 7, 2009: Organizer, “Race, Ethnicity, and the History of the Book: A Symposium.” Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin. February 2008: Co-organizer, with Jeffrey Glover, “Early American Mediascapes: A Symposium,” Duke University, Durham, NC. ADDRESSES February 2015: Plenary address, “Over the Roofs of the World: Politics of Freeness in Literary Digital Archives.” Exploring the Digital Medium Symposium: Cross Disciplinary Collaboration in the Digital Humanities. Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS. February 2012: “Dig Yourself back in That Hole: Destroying, Preserving.” Plenary address, Preservation Research Exchange symposium. University of Texas School of Information, Austin, TX. February 2011: “Pieties, Parasites, and Disciplines.” Glasscock Interdisciplinary Book Prize Lecture, Glasscock Humanities Center, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX. September 2007: “Walt Whitman from Nebraska to the World,” University of Nebraska Three Millionth Volume Celebration, UNL Libraries, Lincoln, NE. August 2006: Keynote address, Edgar Rice Burroughs convention, Rockville, MD. LECTURES

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November 2019: “Walt Whitman’s Leaves.” Co-authored with Nicole Gray. Textual Scholarship Symposium. Loyola University, Chicago, IL. June 2019: “From Margin to Method: Walt Whitman, Novelty, and Humanities Computing.” Whitman at 200 Symposium, University of Iowa, Iowa City. April 2018: “Time and the Bibliographer: A Meditation on the Spirit of Textual Scholarship.” Breslauer Lecture, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA. February 2015: “Walt Whitman’s Drift: Distribution, Imagination, Method.” West Virginia University Department of English, Morgantown, WV. May 2014: “Tradition and the Collaborating Humanist: A Conversation.” English Department, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS. May 2014: “Editing Walt Whitman’s Marginalia Today: Digital Humanities Methods at the Edge.” Hall Center Digital Humanities Lecture Series, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS. March 2014: “Silence and Circulation in Olaudah Equiano’s Interesting Narrative.” Simpson Center for the Humanities’ Histories and Futures of the Book Winter 2014 Lecture Series and Society for Textual Scholarship Annual Meeting, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. November 2013: “A Brief History of Books in Indigenous North America.” Toronto Centre for the Book Lecture Series. University of Toronto, Canada. (Invited) Podcast at the Toronto Review of Books, http://www.torontoreviewofbooks.com/2013/11/podcast-brief-history-books-indigenous-north-america-matt-cohen/ September 2012: “Till the Spirit Revealed It: A History of Books in Native North America.” Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC, Canada. May 2010: “The Networked Wilderness,” University of California at Riverside, History Department, Riverside, CA. April 2010: “‘The Earth to be Spann’d’: American Studies and Digital Humanities,” Rice University, Houston, TX. July 2009: “Matériel and History in the Electronic Archive,” McNeil Center for Early American Studies, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. March 2008: “The New Life of the New Forms: Nineteenth-Century Literature and the Digital Humanities,” Department of English, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA. October 2006: “‘Those We Don’t Speak Of’: Indians in The Village,” St. Mary’s College of Maryland, MD.

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May 2006: “Whitman without Borders,” Newberry Teachers’ Consortium, Chicago, IL. May 2006: “Good Noise from New England,” University of Chicago, Chicago, IL. April 2006: “What Chemistry! Walt Whitman’s <body> Electronic,” Northwestern University, Evanston, IL. January 2006: “Native Audiences: Rethinking Communication in Early America,” W.M. Scholl Center for Family and Community History, Chicago, IL. November 2005: “Puritan Space: Theology, Communication, and the Political Economy of Settlement,” Newberry Library Seminar, Chicago, IL. OTHER PRESENTATIONS January 2020: Panel organizer and presider, “Reading Whitman Anew.” Modern Language Association, Seattle, WA. September 2019: Panel moderator, “Risky Business: Navigating Trust around the British Atlantic.” Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture Digital Collections Symposium, Washington, DC. June 2019: Panelist, Whitman at 200: The Symposium. University of Iowa, Iowa City. June 2019: Panel chair, “Locally-grounded, Globally-Networked: Scales of Vast Early America.” Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture Annual Conference. Pittsburgh, PA. May 2019: With Caterina Bernardini, Caitlin Henry, and Kevin McMullen, “Whitman's Geography Scrapbook: The Formation of the Poet’s Worldview.” American Literature Association, Boston, MA. (Presentation done by Bernardini and McMullen.) April 2019: “Walt Whitman’s Baby Talk.” “Hidden Literacies” symposium, Trinity University, Hartford, CT. March 2019: With Nicole Gray, “Printers of the Kosmos: Reimagining How Leaves of Grass Came to Be,” Whitman at 200: Looking Back, Looking Forward, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. April 2018: “Whitman in Unexpected Places.” Americanist Research Colloquium, University of California at Los Angeles, CA. March 2018: Panel respondent, “Untangling ‘Difficult Collaborations’: Nineteenth-Century Archives in the Climate of Twenty-First Century Classrooms,” C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists, Albuquerque, NM.

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October 2017: Roundtable moderator, “Authorship,” Bibliography among the Disciplines Conference, Philadelphia, PA. October 2017: “Turning Back.” Panelist for “Literary Criticism: 25 Years Later,” Returning the Gift Native & Indigenous Literary Festival, Norman, OK. March 2017: Panelist, colloquy on Abram Van Engen’s Sensational Puritans, ASECS annual conference, Minneapolis, MN. March 2017: “Remembering Miles Standish.” Roundtable presentation for “Memory, Amnesia, Commemoration in Early American Studies,” Society of Early Americanists Annual Meeting, Tulsa, OK. January 2017: “The Deep Maps That Killed Alexander Posey,” Modern Language Association, Philadelphia, PA. January 2017: Presider and co-organizer, with Jonathan Sachs and Jayne Lewis, “Post-American Literature.” Modern Language Association, Philadelphia, PA. July 2016: “‘Whence came ye? And whither are ye bound?’: Toward a Multimedia Literary History,” Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, New Haven, CT. January 2016: Presider and co-organizer, “Reexamining New World Encounters: Archives across Cultures,” and co-organizer, “Reexamining New World Encounters: Where Do We Go from Here?”; Modern Language Association, Austin, TX. June 2015: “Five Facets of Silence.” Roundtable on “Silence in the Archives.” Society of Early Americanists/Omohundro Institute Biennial Conference, Chicago, IL. May 2015: “Three Fantasies of the Archives: A Comment,” The Digital Antiquarian conference and workshop, American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, MA. April 2015: “Rethinking Reciprocity.” Symposium presentation for Entangled Trajectories: Integrating Native American and European Histories. George Washington University, The Early Americas Working Group, the Kislak Family Foundation, and the Mexican Cultural Institute. Washington, D.C. January 2015: Co-organizer of two panels, “Bibliography for the 21st Century” (with Dawn Childress and Patricia Hswe), and “Here and After: Periodization and American Literary Studies” (with Ivy Wilson). Modern Language Association, Vancouver, BC, Canada. July 2014: “The Restless Marge: Textual Mobility in Whitman’s Annotations.” 7th International Walt Whitman Symposium, “Whitman Across Genres.” University of Bamberg, Germany. May 2014: “Native Writing and Activism: A Comment.” Native American and Indigenous Studies Association Annual Conference. Austin, Texas.

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April 2014: “The Social Future of the History of the Book.” The Futures of Book History symposium. Center for 17th- and 18th-Century Studies, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library. University of California, Los Angeles, CA. January 2014: Panel chair and co-organizer, with Shevaun Watson, “Early American Networks of Writing.” Modern Language Association, Chicago, IL. May 2013: “Walt Whitman’s Eidólon of Exile.” Censorship and Exile: A Symposium. University of Augsburg, Germany. May 2013: “‘Between Friends and Enemies’: Locating Early Native American Criticism.” Globalizing the Word: Transnationalism and the Making of Native American Literature. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. February 2013: Panelist, “Colloquium on Miraculous Plagues,” Society of Early Americanists, Savannah, GA. June 2012: “‘Quickly Weary of Repentance’: Colonization, Translation, and Patience.” Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture conference, The Huntington, San Marino, CA. March 2012: Roundtable participant: “Re-Editing the Canon.” “Editing America” symposium. Center for American Literary Studies, Pennsylvania State University. March 2012: Panel chair, “Diggable Data, Scalable Reading, and New Humanities Scholarship.” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, San Antonio, TX. January 2012: “Book History and the Indigenous Americas.” Modern Language Association, Seattle, WA. January 2012: Respondent, “Space and Writing in Native America.” Modern Language Association, Seattle, WA. September 2011: “‘When Others Passing by Behold’: Archives between Cultures.” Frontiers of New Media. University of Utah, UT. November 2011: “Believing in Piety,” Religious Transformations symposium, McNeil Center for Early American Studies, Philadelphia, PA. March 2011: Roundtable participant, “Colloquium on The Networked Wilderness,” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vancouver, BC, Canada. March 2011: With Travis Brown, “Labor Saving Machinery and the Tasks of Textual Studies,” Society for Textual Scholarship, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA.

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January 2011: Chair and organizer, “Indigenous Textual Studies” panel, Modern Language Association, Los Angeles, CA. January 2011: Roundtable participant, “New Directions in Early American Studies,” Modern Language Association, Los Angeles, CA. May 2010: “Digitization and Colonization,” American Literature Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA. April 2010: With Travis Brown, “‘Laborsaving Machinery’ for the Tasks of Textual Studies,” Bibliography and Textual Studies Group, University of Texas at Austin. April 2009: “Hol(e)y Books in Indian Country,” Religious Transformations in the Early Americas, Washington University, St. Louis, MO. March 2009: With Erica N. Fretwell, “Interface Design for Static Multimedia Documents,” Society for Textual Scholarship, New York, NY. March 2009: “New England, Nonesuch,” Society of Early Americanists, Hamilton, Bermuda. October 2008: “Piety and the Parasite,” American Studies Association, Albuquerque, NM. October 2008: “XMLPolitik,” Bibliography and Textual Studies Group, University of Texas at Austin. May 2008: “Digital Humanities Archives and the Politics of Access,” American Literature Association, San Francisco, CA. April 2008: “More Virtuality into Play: Digitizing Colonial American Archives.” Roundtable panelist, “More Materials into Play,” Prophetstown Revisited: Summit on Early Native American Studies, West Lafayette, IN. June 2007: “Seeing and Believing in Pequot Country,” Society of Early Americanists, Williamsburg, VA. March 2007: “Whitman on Edge: Digitizing Manuscript Marginalia,” Society for Textual Scholarship, New York, NY. December 2006: “Transgenic Deformation: Literary Translation and the Digital Archive,” Modern Language Association, Philadelphia, PA. May 2006: “Prospects for Digital American Literary Study: A Round Table,” participant, American Literature Association, San Francisco, CA. March 2006: Panel chair, “Contested Space at the Time of King Philip’s War,” Early American Cartographies conference, Newberry Library, Chicago, IL.

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December 2005: “I Too Am Untranslatable: The Whitman Archive at Duke University,” Modern Language Association, Washington, D.C. November 2005: Chair and Commentator, “Intimate Traffic: Private Personhood and Public Persona in Nineteenth-Century America,” American Studies Association, Washington, D.C. September 2005: “With Friends like Tarzan…,” Engaging Faculty Series, Duke University Libraries, Durham, NC. August 2005: “Vox Clamantis in de Certeau: Roger Williams and Native American Mobility,” International American Studies Association Second World Congress, Ottawa, Canada. March 2005: “To Reach the Workmen Direct: Horace Traubel and the 1855 Edition of Leaves of Grass,” Leaves of Grass 150th Anniversary Conference, Lincoln, NE. December 2004: “Cosmopuritans,” Modern Language Association, Philadelphia, PA. November 2004: Panelist, “Colonial American Studies in the National Context,” Beyond Colonial Studies, Providence, RI. July 2004: “Preserving This Compost,” Conservation Conference, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries, Chapel Hill, NC. May 2004: “Remediating Whitman: The Electronic Edition of Horace Traubel’s With Walt Whitman in Camden,” American Literature Association, San Francisco, CA. April 2004: “Publishing Walt Whitman’s <body>,” John Hope Franklin Institute, Duke University, Durham, NC. October 2003: “William Bradford’s Hystery,” American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Hartford, CT. June 2003: “Positioning the Word in Early New England,” Omohundro Institute for Early American Culture Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA. (With Carolyn Podruchny, panel organizer, “Loci of Enunciation in Early North America”) May 2003: “Tarzan der Deutschenfresser: Edgar Rice Burroughs and Global Popular Authorship,” International American Studies Association World Congress, Leiden, Netherlands. April 2003: “Thomas Morton’s Native Audience,” Society of Early Americanists Biennial Conference, Providence, RI. February 2003: “Plantation Modernism: Region and Globalization in the Fiction of Virginia Frazer Boyle,” Southern American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Tallahassee, FL.

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April 2002: “‘The Sweet Influences of His Good Heart’: The Bachelor’s Restorative Deviance,” Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Annual Conference, Fairfax, VA. April 2002: “‘Asmodeus in the Quarters’: Black and White Manhood Reconstructed,” College English Association, Cincinnati, OH. March 2002: “Inside the Bachelor’s Drawer(s): Trompe l’Oeil, Gender, Audience,” Popular Culture/American Culture Association Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada. January 2002: Panel commentator, “The Politics of ‘Manhood’: Individual Negotiations of a Social Construction,” American Studies Graduate Student Annual Conference, Williamsburg, VA. July 2001: “Thomas Morton’s Paradise: The Maypole and Print Cultures,” Society for the History of Authorship, Readership, and Publishing (SHARP) Annual Conference, Williamsburg, VA. March 2001: “‘Awful Privacy’: Intimacy, Subjectivity, and the Middle-Class Interior,” Harvard Interdisciplinary Gender Studies Conference, Cambridge, MA. October 2000: “Mystery as Hypertext: Poe’s ‘The Mystery of Marie Roget,’” with Michael M. Cohen, American Culture Association of the South Annual Meeting, Nashville, TN. March 2000: “Counting Men: Gender and Quantitative Method in Cultural Studies,” Cultural Studies Symposium, Manhattan, KS. November 1999: “Virtual Philosophy? Considerations for Technology and the Humanities,” Monroe Scholars Lunch Presentation, Williamsburg, VA. May 1999: “Opportunities for Linux in Higher Education in the Humanities,” Linux Expo 1999, Raleigh, North Carolina. November 1998: “Queering Frank Churchill: Emma, Clueless, and Sexuality,” with James D. Earnest, South Central Modern Language Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA. October 1998: “Walt Whitman, the Bachelor, and Sexual Poetics,” The Many Cultures of Walt Whitman, Rutgers-Camden, NJ. November 1997: Organized panel, “Picturing the South: Sectionalism and National Visual Culture,” and presented “Picturing the View from Lookout Mountain: James Cameron and the Whiteside Family,” American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC. March 1997: “Madness and Narrative in Part II of Don Quixote,” with Michael M. Cohen, Popular Culture/American Culture Association Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX. October 1996: “A Portrait of the Ideal: James Cameron’s Portrait of the Whiteside Family,”

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American Culture Association of the South Annual Meeting, Savannah, GA. March 1996: “Gilding Age: The Fore-edge Decorated Book in America,” Commonwealth Center for the Study of American Culture lunch lecture, Williamsburg, VA. February 1996: “Fore-edge Paintings: Texts and Contexts,” South Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA. February 1995: “Erasing Race: The Novels of Amelia E. Johnson,” National Association of African-American Studies Annual Conference, Petersburg, VA. April 1995: “‘This Is Not An Exit’: The Politics of Madness in Bret Easton Ellis’s American Psycho,” Popular Culture/American Culture Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA. November 1994: Co-organized panel on African American cultural history with Marland Buckner, and presented “‘A Credit to Their Race’: Economics and Identity in Harper, Hopkins and Chesnutt,” Canadian Association of American Studies Annual Conference, Ottawa, Canada. April 1994: “‘It’s In My Nature’: A Lacanian Reading of The Crying Game,” Popular Culture/American Culture Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL. March 1991: “The Crossroads Myth Is Alive and Well and Living in White Music,” Popular Culture/American Culture Association Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX. INTERVIEWS 2018: Natalie Saenz, “Cohen Lab Allows Students to Work on Walt Whitman Digitization Projects,” The Daily Nebraskan (7 December 2018) http://www.dailynebraskan.com/news/cohen-lab-allows-students-to-work-on-walt-whitman-digitization/article_b0269fd8-f9c7-11e8-9d2b-a3158023d8b9.html 2016: Interviewed by Daniel Allott for “Walt Whitman Built Free Verse and Freedom into His Poetry,” Investor’s Business Daily (21 March 2016) http://www.investors.com/news/management/leaders-and-success/walt-whitman-built-democracy-into-his-poetry/ 2014: “Author Q&A: Matt Cohen and Edlie Wong,” The Penn Press Log, 19 Aug. 2014. http://pennpress.typepad.com/pennpresslog/2014/08/author-qa-matt-cohen-and-edie-wong.html 2013 (aired 17 Nov. and 24 Nov.): Arts Review feature on The Networked Wilderness, with Bob Phillips and Jianfei He. Aboriginal Voices Radio. Toronto, Canada. Radio and internet broadcast. https://soundcloud.com/matt_cohen/sets/matt-cohen-interviewed-by-bob 2012: Interviewed by Scott E. Smith for “Burroughs Turned Tarzan into a Multimedia Sensation,” Investor’s Business Daily (15 May 2012). http://www.investors.com/news/management/leaders-and-success/edgar-burroughs-made-tarzan-

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king-of-publishing-jungle/ RECENT SERVICE COMMUNITY, DEPARTMENT, UNIVERSITY 2018-2021: Member, Chair’s Advisory Committee, UNL Department of English 2019-2020: Member, UNL Student Conduct Board 2019: Member, UNL College of Arts and Sciences Promotion Committee 2018: Member, English Department Ad Hoc Search Committee, Children’s Literature 2018-2019: Member, UNL University Convocations Committee October 2018: “The Charles Chesnutt Digital Archive,” lightning presentation with undergraduate UCare awardee Bianca Swift, Nebraska Forum for Digital Humanities, UNL. 2017-2018: CDRH committee to compose Vision and Mission statements. 2009-2017: University of Texas at Austin, departmental and university-wide committees. 2016-17: UT COLA Curriculum innovation committee; with Tanya Clement and Lars Hinrichs, designed Digital Humanities undergraduate certificate and graduate portfolio programs. 2016: Co-designer, Joint MA/MSIS program between the Department of English and the School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin. First admissions 2017. https://www.ischool.utexas.edu/programs/dual_degrees## 2010-2014: Advisory Council member, Native American and Indigenous Studies, University of Texas at Austin. 2015-2017: Advisory Board, “Reading the First Books: Multilingual, Early Modern OCR for Primeros Libros,” University of Texas at Austin and the Initiative for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture at Texas A&M University. Funded by a National Endowment for the Humanities Digital Humanities Implementation grant, 2015-2016. 2012-: Board of Directors, Weston Foundation. President, 2019-present. 2007-: President and co-founder, Weston Boys Entertainment, Inc.; Vice-President and co-founder, Weston Boys Publishing, LLC. 2013: Poetry reading, P.S. Reading Series, University of Texas English Department, spring. 2002-2009: Duke University, departmental and university-wide committees.

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TO THE PROFESSION 2019-2022: Member, Board of Governors, the New Variorum Shakespeare. 2017-2019: Member, MLA Working Group on the New Variorum Shakespeare. 2018-: Editorial Board, Textual Cultures. 2016-: Editorial Board, Book History and Print Cultures series. David Carter, ser. ed., Anthem Press, U.K. 2015-: Advisory Board, Lapidus Digital Initiative, Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, College of William and Mary, VA. 2015-2020: Editorial Board, Early American Literature. 2015-: Advisory Board, Joyce Word Dictionary. http://www.joycewords.com/ 2014-: Editorial Board, “New Directions in Book History,” monograph series. Shafquat Towheed and Jonathan Rose, ser. eds., Palgrave Macmillan, U.K. 2011-: Advisory Board, “Impressions: The Book Arts, the Book Trades, and New Media,” monograph series. Matthew P. Brown, ser. ed., University of Iowa Press. 2009-: Executive Board, Society for Textual Scholarship; Secretary, 2014-16. 2009-: Advisory Board, Civil War Washington Project, University of Nebraska. 2005-: Advisory Board, Bedford Anthology of American Literature, Bedford/St. Martin’s Press. 2016: Early American Literature monograph prize committee. 2013-2018: Division Executive Committee, American Literature to 1800, Modern Language Association; Chair 2016. 2009-2014: Discussion Group Executive Committee, Bibliography and Textual Studies, Modern Language Association; Chair 2013. 2013: Chair, Nominating Committee, American Literature Section of the Modern Language Association. 2013-15: Member, Richard Beale Davis Prize committee, awarded by the journal Early American Literature and the MLA American Literature to 1800 Division.

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2011-13: Member, Richard J. Finneran Prize committee, awarded by the Society for Textual Scholarship. 2006-2011: Editorial Board, Our Americas Archive Partnership, Rice University and Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities. 2005-07: Regional Representative, Modern Language Association. DOCTORAL STUDENTS Currently directing: Phillip Howells (English PhD, UNL, co-director with Adrian Wisnicki); Linda Garcia-Merchant (English PhD, co-director with Amelia María de la Luz Montes). 2019: Valerie Sirenko (Instructor, Seattle Pacific University). Co-directed with Gretchen

Murphy, English, University of Texas. “Property, Agency, and the Last Will and Testament in American Literature, 1790-1925.”

2018: Alejandro Omidsalar (Assistant Professor, Allan Hancock College, Sta. Maria, CA). Co-

directed with Heather Houser, English, University of Texas. “Other Gods, Other Powers: Numinous Horror in American Literature.”

2017: Aubrey Plourde (Lecturer, University of Texas at Austin). Co-directed with Allen

MacDuffie, English, University of Texas. “Recursive Reading: Victorian Children’s Literature and the Secular Imagination.”

2017: Hannah Alpert-Abrams, Comparative Literature, University of Texas (National

Endowment for the Humanities, Office of Digital Humanities, Washington, DC). “Unreadable Books: Early Colonial Mexican Documents in Circulation.”

2017: Lauren Grewe (HS English Teacher, Owasso Public Schools, Tulsa, OK). Co-directed

with James Cox, English, University of Texas. “‘Woven Alike with Meaning’: Sovereignty and Form in Native North American Poetry, 1800-1910.”

2014: Ty Alyea (Director of Search Marketing Product, Service Direct Co., Austin, TX). Co-

directed with Martin Kevorkian, English, University of Texas. “Rituals of Diagnosis: Insanity, Medicine, and Violence in the American Novel, 1799-1861.”

2014: Rachel Schneider (Assistant Teaching Professor, Missouri S&T, Rolla, MO). Co-directed

with Lance Bertelsen, English, University of Texas. “Some Versions of the Fragment, 1700-1800.”

2013: Julia Delacroix (Assoc. Editor, Teaching Tolerance, Southern Poverty Law Center, AL).

Co-directed with Lisa Moore, English, University of Texas. “Writing with an Iron Pen: Gender and Genre in Early American Elegy.”

2011: Molly Hardy (National Endowment for the Humanities, Division of Preservation and

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Access, Washington, DC). Co-directed with Lisa Moore, English, University of Texas. “Imperial Authorship and Eighteenth-Century Transatlantic Literary Production.”

Current committee member: Christy Hyman (History PhD, UNL), Nick Courtright (English PhD,

UT), Micah Bateman (English, PhD UT), Andrew Del Mastro (English PhD, UNL). Past committee member: Caitlin Henry (English MA, UNL); many students at UT and Duke. UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH Honors Thesis Supervision 2017: Joshua Heaps, “Within the Interstices: A Thesis about Almost Nothing” (UT) 2017: Anthony Cartlidge, “Never Mind the Canon Wheres the Sex Pistols? Class, Canon, and

Counterculture” (UT). Awarded the departmental Adele Steiner Burleson Thesis Prize. 2016: Elizabeth Sullivan, “Trifles Overseas: Reciprocity and the Colonial Book in the Narratives

of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca and Thomas Harriot” (UT) Funded Undergraduate Research Mentorship 2019-20: Bianca Swift, “Digitizing Charles Chesnutt’s Correspondence and Essays” (UNL

UCare) 2018-19: Regan Chasek, “Data Visualization of Nineteenth-Century Periodical Poetry

Reprinting: A Practicum with the Walt Whitman Archive” (UNL UCare) 2016: Sera Kong, “Walt Whitman’s Reprints” (UT Honors) WEBSITES Cohen Lab projects site: http://mcohenlab.wordpress.com/ TILTS 2011: The Digital and the Human(ities): https://tilts2011.wordpress.com/ The Charles Chesnutt Digital Archive: https://chesnuttarchive.org/ The Walt Whitman Archive: http://www.whitmanarchive.org/ Walt Whitman’s Poetry Reprints, 1838-1892: https://www.whitmanarchive.org/labs/reprints/ DH@UT Pop-Up Institute, 2017: http://sites.utexas.edu/utdh/