Archive

The Whitman Studies Association has hosted panels at the annual meeting of the American Literature Association since 1989. Below you will find a list of past events.

2026

Walt Whitman in the Classroom: Teaching America’s Poet

Co-Chairs: Stefan Schöberlein, Texas A & M University—Central Texas, and Stephanie M. Blalock, University of Iowa

“Whitman in a Week…or Two: Introducing the ‘Father of Modern American Poetry,‘” — Kavita S. Hatwalkar, Central Methodist University
“Wound-dressing and Nursing in the Civil War Writing of Whitman and Alcott” — Maire Mullins, Pepperdine University
“The Art of Exampling: Whitman’s Refusal of the Great Man Theory” — Trevin Corsiglia, Washington University in St. Louis
“‘I stop somewhere waiting for you’: Teaching Whitman’s ‘Song of Myself’ as an Exploration of Radical Democracy” — Eric A. Wolfe, University of North Dakota

Whitman Studies on the 30th Anniversary of Betsy Erkkila and Jay Grossman’s Breaking Bounds: Whitman and American Cultural Studies

Chair: Edward Whitley, Lehigh University

Ed Folsom, University of Iowa
Meredith L. McGill, Rutgers University
Don James McLaughlin, University of Tulsa
Chelsea Miya, University of Guelph
Ivy Wilson, Northwestern University

Respondent: Jay Grossman, Northwestern University

2025

Walt Whitman and Visual Culture

Chair: Stephanie M. Blalock, University of Iowa

“Whitmania in the Classroom: Visual Remixes and Creative-Critical Synergies” — Maura D’Amore, St. Michael’s College
“Sites of Violence, Places of Memory: Representing the Civil War Prison Camp in Whitman’s Memoranda during the War and Specimen Days” — Tara C. Foley, Baylor University
“Against the End of Life: Aging and Immortality in Walt Whitman’s Portraits” — Satoshi Ohnishi, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
“Whales in Bronze: Whitman, Melville, and the Public Design of Reputation” — Tony McGowan, West Point

Whitman’s Legacies

Chair: Edward Whitley, Lehigh University

“‘A revelation of light and heat and identity’: How Jewish American Women Poets Have Shaped Walt Whitman” — Dara Barnat, Tel Aviv University
“Whitman’s Web: The Political Poet 2.0” — Micah Bateman, University of Iowa
“From the ‘Barbaric Yawp’ to Howl: Walt Whitman and Allen Ginsberg’s Queer Form” — Sarah Coduto, Stanford University
“The Visual Intimacy of Comrades: Reading the Visuality of ‘Whitman’s Men’” — Jan Maramot, University of California, Irvine

2024

Democracy and Gender in Alcott and Whitman

Chair: Stephanie M. Blalock, University of Iowa

“Androgynous Patriotism: Reconstituting Democracy through Trans Caregiver Narratives” — Eagan S. Dean, Rutgers University–New Brunswick
“Alcott and Whitman: Gender, Democracy, and … Circus” — David Carlyon, Independent Scholar
“From Orchard House to Central Park: Louisa May Alcott and Walt Whitman on Nature, Democracy, and Gender” — Marco Sioli, University of Milan

Respondent: Gregory Eiselein, Kansas State University

Correspondences: The Significance of Whitman’s Letters

Chair: Stefan Schöberlein, Texas A&M University–Central Texas

“Whitman’s Attitudes Toward Slavery in His Public and Private Letters” — Zachary Turpin, University of Idaho
“‘There is nothing to write ab’t—only the fact of writing to you’: Walt Whitman’s Late Life Correspondence as Self Documentation” — Brandon James O’Neil, Principia College
“The Walt Whitman Archive’s Correspondence Project: Some New Discoveries” — Stephanie M. Blalock, University of Iowa Libraries

2023

Walt Whitman and Trauma

Chair: Maire Mullins, Pepperdine University

“Whitman’s Trunk: Rethinking How Whitman Composed” — Kenneth M. Price, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and Kevin McMullen, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
“The Magnetic ‘Wound-Dresser’: National Trauma and Mesmeric Healing in Whitman’s Post-Civil War Poetry” — Catherine Waitinas, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
“Whitman’s ‘Wound-Dresser’ for First Responders” — Lisa New, Director and Host of PBS’s Poetry in America, and Director of the Center for Public Humanities, Arizona State University

Walt Whitman and Humor

Chair: Jason Stacy, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

“‘A Satirical Person’ in New Orleans: Whitman’s ‘Sketches of the Sidewalks and Levee’” — Stefan Schöberlein, Texas A&M University–Central Texas
“Gems about Walt Whitman in 19th-Century Newspapers: What We Learn from Taking Whitman Jokes Seriously” — Stephanie M. Blalock, University of Iowa Libraries
“Dragging Whitman: Online Jokes, Memes, and C@nonicity” — Micah Bateman, University of Iowa
“‘O Captain! My Captain!’: Whitman in Sitcom Classroom Scenes” — Caitlin Matheis, University of Iowa

2022

New Directions in Whitman Studies

Co-Chairs: Kenneth M. Price, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Stefan Schöberlein, Marshall University

“Walt Whitman: Poet of Prizefighters” — Matt Miller, Yeshiva University
“Walt Whitman and the Police” — Glenn Hendler, Fordham University
“Walt Whitman’s Archives” — Ashlyn Stewart, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and Matt Cohen, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Whitman Between the Columns—Finding the Anonymous Journalist: Round Table Discussion

Moderator: Jason Stacy, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

Stephanie M. Blalock, University of Iowa
Kevin McMullen, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Stefan Schöberlein, Marshall University
Zachary Turpin, University of Idaho

2021

The Walt Whitman Archive at 25 Years: A Round Table Discussion

Moderator: Ed Folsom, University of Iowa

Brett Barney, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Stephanie M. Blalock, University of Iowa
Matt Cohen, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
James O’Neil, University of Iowa
Kevin McMullen, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Kenneth M. Price, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Ashlyn Stewart, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Whitman and Women: A Round Table Discussion

Moderator: Catherine Waitinas, California Polytechnic State University

Gregory Eiselein, Kansas State University
Karen Karbiener, New York University
Maire Mullins, Pepperdine University
Bradley Nelson, City University of New York
Kenneth M. Price, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

2020

No conference — ALA 2020 was cancelled.

2019

Walt Whitman at 200: New Directions in Whitman Criticism

Chair: Kenneth M. Price, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

“Walt Whitman, Improviser” — Gerard Holmes, University of Maryland, College Park
“Whitman’s Geography Scrapbook: The Formation of the Poet’s Worldview” — Caterina Bernardini, Université Paris-Est Créteil Val de Marne, and Kevin McMullen, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
“Whitman’s Web / The Web’s Whitman” — Micah Bateman, University of Texas at Austin

Walt Whitman at 200: New Insights into Whitman’s Life

Chair: Ed Folsom, University of Iowa

“The Zeal of an ‘old heathen’: Making Sense of Whitman as a ‘Missionary to the Wounded’” — Kenneth M. Price, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
“Whitman’s Photographic Aesthetics and the 1889 ‘Birthday Edition’ of Leaves of Grass” — Ryan Stears, Binghamton University
“‘I am more interested than you know, Bill’: The Life and Times of Whitman’s ‘young friend’ and ‘scamp’ William Henry Duckett Jr.” — Brandon James O’Neil and Stephanie M. Blalock, University of Iowa

2018

Whitman and the Press

Co-chairs: Stefan Schöberlein, University of Iowa; Stephanie M. Blalock, University of Iowa

“Clerk Trouble: Masculinity and Consumerism in Whitman’s Print Culture” — Jason Stacy, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
“Whitman’s 1855 Preface as Bridge and Barrier” — Peter J. Bellis, University of Alabama at Birmingham
“The Poet of (Many Happy) Return(s): Whitman the Birthday Boy” — Micah Bateman, The University of Texas at Austin

2017

Whitman and Reconstruction I

Chair: Ed Folsom, University of Iowa

“Walt Whitman, Washington, March 10, 1873” — Michael C. Weisenburg, University of South Carolina
“Postbellum Proto-Eugenics in Whitman’s Reconstruction Writing” — Abby L. Goode, Plymouth State University
“Whitman’s Two Rivulets: Reconstructing a Reconstruction Text” — Blake Bronson-Bartlett, University of Iowa

Whitman and Reconstruction II

“A ‘Reconstructed Sociology’: Democratic Vistas and the American Social Science Movement” —Timothy Robbins, Graceland University
“Postbellum Reconstruction across the Pacific Ocean: Whitman and the Chinese Civil War” — Hsinmei Lin, University of Washington
“‘A yet more terrible and more deeply complicated problem’: Walt Whitman, Race, and Reconstruction” — Ed Folsom, University of Iowa

Walt Whitman in/and the Digital Humanities

“Animating Whitman’s Correspondence: Pedagogy and Practice” — Alex Ashland, University of Iowa
“‘Who Is He Who Would Become My Follower?’: Mapping Letters to and from Walt Whitman Using ArcGIS Pro” — Kyle Brett, Lehigh University
“‘A Hundred Years Hence’: Digital Eventualities and the Future of Whitman Studies” — Zachary Turpin, University of Idaho

2016

Early Whitman

“‘All those crude and boyish pieces [not so] quietly dropp’d in oblivion’: Re-Examining Walt Whitman’s Short Fiction” — Stephanie Blalock, University of Iowa
“‘The Inca’s Daughter’: Indian Removal, New York Theater, and the Sentimental Politics of Whitman’s Early Poetry” — Adam Bradford, Florida Atlantic University
“Walter Whitman, Adman: Three Newly Recovered Writings” — Karen Karbiener, New York University

Of War and Recovery: New Approaches to Whitman’s Specimen Days

Chair: Adam Bradford, Florida Atlantic University

“Whitman and the Problem of War-Writing: New Approaches to Drum-Taps and Specimen Days” — Kenneth Price, University of Nebraska
“‘Of Mere Daylight and the Skies’: Narratives of Disability and Recovery in Specimen Days” — Robert Scholnick, The College of William and Mary
“Developing Hypotheses of the Self: Evolution and Life Writing in Specimen Days” — Eileen McGinnis, Saint Edward’s University

2015

Walt Whitman and the Civil War: The Sesquicentennial of Drum-Taps

Chair: Jerome Loving, Texas A&M University

“In Whitman’s Hand: Uncovering an Alternative Paradigm of Inscription in Drum-Taps” — Sarah Anne Kuczynski, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
“‘Phantoms of Countless Lost’: The Nostalgia of Absent Limbs in Whitman’s War Poetry” — Lindsay Tuggle, University of Sydney
“‘The foulest crime’: Whitman, Melville, and the Cultural Life of a Phrase” — Ed Folsom, University of Iowa

Walt Whitman and Social Theory

Chair: Adam Bradford, Florida Atlantic University

“Robert E. Park Reading Walt Whitman: ‘Song of Myself’ as Human Ecology” — Timothy Robbins, University of Iowa
“‘The invigoration of the night’: Whitman’s ‘The Sleepers’ and the Political Life of Sleep” — Eric Hengstebeck, Northwestern University
“Correlating the Self and En Masse: The Spiritual Matrix of the Bhagavad-Gita in Walt Whitman’s Social Theory” — Kanwar Dinesh Singh, Government College, Himachal Pradesh University

2014

“I Want Something To Do”: Alcott, Whitman, and Nursing in the Nation’s Capital

Chairs: Ed Folsom, University of Iowa, and Sandra Harbert Petrulionis, Penn State Altoona

“Nursing’s Domestic Grotesque: Alcott, Whitman, and the Civil War Wounded” — Emily Waples, University of Michigan
“The Pail Tells the Tale: Blood, Nursing, and the Remade Nation” — Sören Fröhlich, University of California San Diego
“‘This Heart’s Geography’s Map’: Alcott and Whitman Sketching an Affective Landscape” — J.D. Isip, Texas A&M University-Commerce

Late Whitman: A Round Table Discussion

Chair: Ed Folsom, University of Iowa

“‘Something to Remember Me By’: The Politics of Immortality in Whitman’s Two Rivulets” — Adam Bradford, Florida Atlantic University
“‘Cold and tart-sweet’: The Body in Late Whitman” — Betsy Erkkila, Northwestern University
“Found Poetry and Whitman’s Late Writing” — Matt Miller, Yeshiva University
“Mourning and Grief in Whitman’s Later Poetry” — Maire Mullins, Pepperdine University
“Edward Dowden and the Invention of Whitman’s Late Style” — Anton Vander Zee, College of Charleston
“Rewriting Cosmological Geography: Whitman, Alexander von Humboldt, and ‘Passage to India’” — Rebecca Walsh, North Carolina State University

2013

Walt Whitman: New Insights

Chair: Kenneth Price, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

“‘We fathom you not – we love you’: Walt Whitman’s Social Ontology and Radical Democracy” — Ryan Cull, New Mexico State University
“‘Even the Heavens Are Not Stable’: Whitman and Rafinesque” — Robert Scholnick, College of William and Mary
“Gossip + Time = Scholarship: New Light on Whitman’s Bohemian Period from the Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries” — Edward Whitley, Lehigh University

Walt Whitman: Recovering Lost Influences

Chair: Jerome Loving, Texas A&M University

“‘Where the Spirit of Fellowship is Mortised’: The Walt Whitman-Herbert Spencer Center and the Arts and Crafts Socialists of To-Morrow” — Timothy Robbins, University of Iowa
“‘Through the lilac mists’: Whitman’s Presence in the Poetry of African American Women of the Harlem Renaissance” — Kevin McMullen, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
“Erasing Race: The Lost Black Presence in Whitman’s Civil War Writings” — Ed Folsom, University of Iowa

2012

Walt Whitman

Chair: Heidi Kim, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

“‘Ever in Darkness Marching’: Whitman’s Incorporation of Dante’s Inferno in His Civil War Poetry” — Joshua Matthews, Dordt College
“‘A flowing mouth and indicative hand’: The Poet as Printer’s Fist” — Eric Conrad, University of Iowa
“Bulosan, Okada, and Whitman’s Love between Men in Western Landscapes” — R.O.P. López, California State University, Northridge

2011

Walt Whitman Outside the Classroom

Chair: Jerome Loving, Texas A&M University

“‘The Dreadful Necessity of Victory’: Shifts in reception and performance of John Adams’ ‘The Wound-Dresser’” — Heidi Kathleen Kim, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
“The Rights of Them the Others are Down Upon: Whitman and the Tradition of the Poet-Advocate” — Martín Espada, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
“‘Who Learns My Lessons Complete?’: Bringing Poetry to Public Life” — Karen Karbiener, New York University

“Live Oak, with Moss,” “Calamus,” and “Democratic Vistas”: How Whitman Speaks to Current Cultural and Political Predicaments

Moderator: Kenneth M. Price, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Lawrence Buell, Harvard University
Betsy Erkkila, Northwestern University
Ed Folsom, University of Iowa
Ezra Greenspan, Southern Methodist University
Robert Scholnick, The College of William and Mary

2010

The Sesquicentennial of the 1860 Leaves of Grass: The Poems and Their Contexts

Chair: Ed Folsom, University of Iowa

“‘Tell what I meant by Calamus’: Walt Whitman’s Vision of Comradeship from Fred Vaughan to the Fred Gray Association” — Stephanie M. Blalock, University of Iowa
“Re-Scripting Southern Poetic Discourse in Whitman’s ‘Longings for Home’” — Jacob Wilkenfeld, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
“Birdsong in Whitman: Imagining the Role of the Poet” — Maire Mullins, Pepperdine University

The Sesquicentennial of the 1860 Leaves of Grass: The Book Itself

Chair: Jerome Loving, Texas A&M University

“‘In Full Bloom’: The Frontispiece Portrait to the 1860 edition of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass” — Ted Genoways, University of Virginia
“Whitman Editing Whitman” — Kenneth M. Price, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
“‘A spirt of my own seminal wet’: Spermatoid Design in Walt Whitman’s 1860 Leaves of Grass” — Ed Folsom, University of Iowa

2009

Walt Whitman and the Civil War: New Discoveries, New Directions: A Roundtable Discussion

“Whitman During the Lost Years of 1860-1862” — Ted Genoways, University of Virginia
“Whitman’s Civil War: Some Contexts for the Washington Years” — Kenneth M. Price, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
“Whitman’s Civil War Revisions of Leaves of Grass: Remediating the Blue Book” — Andrew Jewell and Matt Cohen
“The Challenges of Whitman’s Civil War Notebooks” — Blake Bronson-Bartlett, University of Iowa

2008

Whitman and the Civil War

Chair: Ed Folsom, University of Iowa

“Whitman and the Body in War” — Helene Littmann, University College of the Fraser Valley
“Re-collecting Soldiers: Whitman and the Appreciation of Human Value” — Adam Bradford, University of Iowa
“Lyric War: Ethics and Citizenship in Drum-Taps” — Munia Bhaumik, University of California, Berkeley

Whitman and Periodicals

Chair: Kenneth M. Price, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

“Whitman’s History-Making Falmouth Camp Notebook: Constructing the Civil War for the New York Times and Drum-Taps” — Joshua Matthews, University of Iowa
“Genteel Walt Whitman: ‘American Poetry’ in 1876” — Michael Cohen, Macalester College
“Interviewing Whitman: The Press in the Poet’s Home” — Brett Barney, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

2007

Walt Whitman and Twentieth-Century American Writers

Chair: Kenneth M. Price, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

“His Fifteen Minutes: Edgar Lee Masters as the New Walt Whitman in 1915” — Jerome Loving, Texas A&M University
“So Long, So Long: Walt Whitman, Langston Hughes, and the Art of Longing” — Ed Folsom, University of Iowa
“A Poetics of Present Things: Charles Olson’s Maximus Poems and His Reading of ‘Crossing Brooklyn Ferry’” — Jeffrey Gardiner, Independent Scholar

2006

Walt Whitman Making Books

Chair: Kenneth M. Price, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

“What We Now Know about the Making of the 1855 Leaves of Grass That We Did Not Know Last Year: Results of the First Census of Whitman’s First Edition” — Ed Folsom, University of Iowa
“‘The Volcanic Upheavel of the Nation’: Whitman and the American Book Industry in the Early Months of the Civil War” — Ted Genoways, University of Virginia
“The 1881-82 Edition of Leaves of Grass: Foreground and Background” — Jerome Loving, Texas A&M University

2005

Walt Whitman and Black America

Chair: George Hutchinson, Indiana University, Bloomington

“Off-White: Whitman and the (Local) Color of Democracy” — Ivy Wilson, University of Notre Dame
“The Lost Negress of ‘Song of Myself’ and the Jolly Young Wench of Civil War Washington” — Kenneth M. Price, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
“Rethinking Whitman and Race: Walt’s Post-1855 Colonization Scheme” — Martin Klammer, Luther College

Respondent: Ed Folsom, University of Iowa

“Imagining Democracy: Leaves of Grass 1855” — Round Table Discussion

Moderator: Betsy Erkkila, Northwestern University

Wai Chee Dimock, Yale University
Ed Folsom, University of Iowa
Leo Marx, MIT
Bruce Robbins, Columbia University
Doris Sommer, Harvard University
Alan Trachtenberg, Yale University

2004

Walt Whitman

Chair: Michael Robertson, College of New Jersey

“‘I too, raising my voice, join the ranks of this pageant’: Whitman’s Performance as the American Poet in ‘A Broadway Pageant’” — Edward Whitley, University of Maryland, College Park
“Perils and Politics of Exhibit Interpretation: An Inside Narrative” — Joann P. Krieg, Hofstra University
“The Many Deaths of ‘Walt Whitman’” — Harold Aspiz, California State University, Long Beach

From Access to Interpretation: Current Work and Future Possibilities at the Whitman Archive: A Roundtable

Chair: Kenneth M. Price, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Matt Cohen, Duke University
Matthew Miller, University of Iowa
Heather Morton, University of Virginia
Andrew Jewell, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Amanda Gailey, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Global Whitman

Chair: Betsy Erkkila, Northwestern University

“On the Public Road Again: Whitman in Morocco” — Brian T. Edwards, Northwestern University
“Naturalizing Whitman, Nationalizing Whitman” — Ed Folsom, University of Iowa
“The Mexican American War in ‘Song of Myself’: The Limits to Globalizing Whitman” — Donald E. Pease, Dartmouth College

2003

Whitman Studies Association Panel 1

Chair: Ed Folsom, University of Iowa and the Whitman Studies Association

“Publicity and Intimacy in Whitman’s Calamus Poems” — David Blake, College of New Jersey
“The Civil War and One’s Self” — Eldrid Herrington, University College, Dublin
“‘Forth from the War Emerging’: Hegelian Synthesis and Civil Unity in Whitman’s Civil War Poetry” — Carolyn T. Morningstar, University of York

Whitman Studies Association Panel 2

Chair: Jerome Loving, Texas A&M University and the Whitman Studies Association

“Whitman’s ‘Byronic Portrait’: The Strange History of the Frontispiece to the First Boston Edition of Leaves of Grass” — Ted Genoways, University of Iowa
“Constructing Whitman’s Sexuality” — Michael Robertson, College of New Jersey
“Pocket Whitmans: The Publications of Haldeman-Julius and the Council on Books in Wartime” — Kenneth M. Price, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

2002

Whitman Studies Association Panel

Chair: Ezra Greenspan, University of South Carolina and the Whitman Studies Association

“‘Failing to fetch me at first, keep encouraged’: Whitman and Electronic Editing:” — Brett Barney, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
“Whitman Beyond Borders: Expansionism and Imperialist Desire” — Ivy Wilson, Yale University
“Walt Whitman’s Washington Reading List” — Martin Murray, Independent Scholar

2001

Whitman Studies Association Panel 1

Chair: Ed Folsom, University of Iowa and the Walt Whitman Studies Association

“Public Love: Whitman and Political Theory” — Betsy Erkkila, Northwestern University
“Whitman at the Movies: Representing Whitman in Reagan’s America” — Kenneth M. Price, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
“The Voluptuous Earth and the Fall of the Redwood Tree: Whitman’s Personification of Nature” — M. Jimmie Killingsworth, Texas A&M University

Whitman Studies Association Panel 2

Chair: Jerome Loving, Texas A&M University and the Whitman Society

“It All Started This Past Summer–: Unfolding Leaves” — Sherry Ceniza, Texas Tech University

“‘Terrible, Beautiful Days’: Whitman as Semifictional Character in Three Stories” — Nick Mason-Browne, Coe College

“‘The riddle and the untying of the riddle’: Mysticism, Reading and Song of Myself” — Steve Marsden, Texas A&M University

1998

Whitman Studies Association Panel

“Mixed Bloods: Revolution, Boundaries, Mongrels” — Betsy Erkkila, University of Pennsylvania

1996

Whitman Studies Association Panel 1

[Presentation introducing the Walt Whitman Archive] — Kenneth M. Price, University of Nebraska–Lincoln

1994

Whitman Studies Association Panel 1

Chair: Jerome Loving, Texas A&M University

“Reflections on Specimen Days” — James Cox, Dartmouth University
“Whitman and the Uses of Quakerism” — Susan Dean, Bryn Mawr College
“Whitman and Binary America” — Terence Martin, Indiana University

Whitman Studies Association Panel 2

Chair: Ed Folsom, University of Iowa

“Helena Born and Helen Tufts Bailie: Feminists, Socialists, Advocates of Leaves of Grass” — Sherry Ceniza, Texas Tech University
“Self-Promotion and Crisis in Whitman’s Poetic Development” — M. Jimmie Killingsworth, Texas A&M University
“Free Soil, Emerson, and the Birth of the ‘Poet of Slaves’” — Martin Klammer, Luther College

1993

Whitman Studies Association Panel

Chair: Ed Folsom, University of Iowa

“‘The Original Eye’: Whitman, Schelling, and the Return to Origins” — Robert Scholnick, College of William and Mary
“The Holloway Biography” — Jerome Loving, Texas A&M University
“Rethinking Whitman in Kingston’s Tripmaster Monkey” — Kenneth Price, Texas A&M University

1992

Whitman Studies Association Panel

“Whitman and the Homosexual Republic” — Betsy Erkkila, University of Pennsylvania

1991

Whitman Studies Association Panel

Moderator: Jerome Loving, California State University, Fresno

“The Beautiful and the Sublime in Whitman” — Calvin Bedient, University of California, Los Angeles
“Harvard’s Response to Whitman” — Kenneth Price, Texas A&M University
“Whitman’s Reconstructive Poetics in ‘Ethiopia Saluting the Colors’” — Ed Folsom, University of Iowa
“Nineteenth-Century Women’s Responses to the 1860 Leaves of Grass” — Sherry Ceniza, Texas Tech University

1989

Whitman Studies Association Panel

Organizer: Jerome Loving

“Walt Whitman and the Law” — Harold Aspiz, California State University, Long Beach
“Whitman and Baseball” — Ed Folsom, University of Iowa
“Whitman’s Body Poetic” — John Carlos Rowe, University of California, Irvine