Kenneth M. Price
Hillegass University Professor of American Literature
Co-director, Center for Digital Research in the Humanities
Ph.D, University of Chicago, 1981
Department of English
Andrews 336C
Lincoln, NE 68588-0333
(402) 472-0293
kprice2@unl.edu
Research and Teaching Interests
Ken Price teaches courses in American literature and culture. He has special interests in Walt Whitman, nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American literature, American periodicals, and digital humanities. With Ed Folsom, he co-directs the Walt Whitman Archive, a long-term effort to edit Whitman's works on the Web. With Kenneth Winkle and Susan Lawrence, he co-directs Civil War Washington, a project that studies the transformation during a national crisis. With Katherine Walter, he co-directs the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities.
Electronic Projects
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities
Books and Selected Articles
Leaves of Grass: The Sesquicentennial essays, ed. with Susan Belasco and Ed Folsom (University of Nebraska Press, 2007).
Re-Scripting Walt Whitman: An Introduction to His Life and Work, co-authored with Ed Folsom (Blackwell, 2005).
To Walt Whitman, America (University of North Carolina Press, 2004).
Critical Essays on James Weldon Johnson, ed. with Lawrence J. Oliver (G. K. Hall, 1997).
Walt Whitman: The Contemporary Reviews (Cambridge University Press, 1996).
Periodical Literature in Nineteenth-Century America, ed. with Susan Belasco Smith (University Press of Virginia, 1995).
Critical Essays on George Santayana, ed. with Robert C. Leitz, III (G.K. Hall, 1991).
Whitman and Tradition: The Poet in His Century (Yale University Press, 1990).
Dear Brother Walt: The Letters of Thomas Jefferson Whitman, ed. with Dennis Berthold (The Kent State University Press, 1984)