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 humanities computing. As co-director of the Walt Whitman Archive, he is engaged in a long-term effort to edit Whitman's works on the Web.

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).

"Walt Whitman," with Ed Folsom. A 20,000 word biography for a Dictionary of Literary Biography volume devoted to antebellum writers (Gale, 2000). Available online at http://www.whitmanarchive.org/biography/biographymainindex.html

"Whitman and Dickinson" (co-authored with Daneen Wardrop), American Literary Scholarship: An Annual 1997 (Duke University Press, 1999), pp. 61-82.

"Charles Chesnutt, the Atlantic Monthly, and the Intersection of African-American Fiction and Elite Culture," in Periodical Literature in Nineteenth-Century America, ed. Kenneth M. Price and Susan Belasco Smith (University Press of Virginia, 1995).

"The Mediating 'Whitrnan' : Edith Wharton, Morton Fullerton, and the Problem of Comradeship, " Texas Studies in Literature and Language, 36 (Winter 1994), 380-402.

"Edith Wharton's Love Diary: Text and Contexts of 'The Life Apart'" (co-authored with Phyllis McBride) American Literature, 66 (Winter 1994), 663-88.