Samantha Gilmore

Samantha Gilmore is a doctoral student, concentrating on Nineteenth Century Studies and Digital Humanities, at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her scholarship focuses on early-to-mid nineteenth-century American literary and historical studies, archival research, and manuscript culture. Her dissertation analyzes short-lived early American periodicals from 1765 to 1865. Samantha holds a B.A. in English from Penn State University and a M.A. in English from West Virginia University, where she taught first-year composition and research writing. Currently, she works as a teaching assistant in the English department and as a research assistant for The Walt Whitman Archive and The Charles Chesnutt Digital Archive at UNL, as well as for The Almanacks of Mary Moody Emerson: A Scholarly Digital Edition with Northeastern University’s Women Writers Project.