This fall, students in Mara Scanlon and Brady Earnhart’s Digital Whitman class are collaborating with students at three other universities to explore the life and work of Walt Whitman. Students at each school will be investigating a different aspect of Whitman’s life, with the UMW class focusing on Whitman’s time in the South during the Civil War. Students at New York City College of Technology (CUNY) and NYU will focus their investigation on Whitman’s relationship with the city of New York. Meanwhile, at Rutgers University, students will be explore the poet’s late career, when he spent his final decades in Camden, New Jersey.

The entire cohort will build a digital presence for their work, sharing their discoveries and collaborating on projects. Supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the project will result in a persistent online repository of primary source materials from particular locations that Whitman inhabited.

UMW Class Website: http://marywash.lookingforwhitman.org/

Looking for Whitman Site: http://lookingforwhitman.org

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