People:

Project Director:

Amy Earhart, Department of English, Texas A&M University, College Station.

Earhart works with digital humanities and 19th-century American literature and culture, with a particular emphasis on race, ethnicity, and gender. Earhart will be starting as an Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University, Fall 2008. Her work has appeared in Reinventing the Peabody Sisters (Iowa UP), ATQ: American Transcendental Quarterly, Resources in American Literary Study, and online sites. She is co-editing an upcoming edition of Digital Humanities Quarterly, “Digital Textual Studies:  Past, Present and Future" with Maura Ives and the collection of essays The American Literature Scholar in the Digital Age with Andrew Jewell, currently under contract at the University of Michigan. She is at work on a monograph titled Reading the Digital Archive: Text, Technology, and Literary Place in 19th-Century Concord.

Technology Staff:

• James Smith (2007-Present)

Graduate Students:

• Sun Joo Lee (2007)
• Sichun Song (2007)
• Bridgit McCafferty (2007-Present)
• Robert Wyckoff (2006-Present)

The 19th-Century Digital Concord Advisory Board includes:

• Ronald Bosco, University at Albany, the State University of Albany
• Joel Myerson, the University of South Carolina
• Sandra Harbert Petrulionis, Penn State Altoona
• Larry Reynolds, Texas A&M University
• Anita Tekle, Town Clerk, Concord Massachusetts
• Leslie Wilson, Curator of the Concord Free Public Library