Ed Folsom, project co-director, is the Carver Professor of English at The University of Iowa. Since 1983, he has served as Editor of the Walt Whitman Quarterly Review. He directed "Walt Whitman: The Centennial Project," which was funded by the NEH and the Iowa Humanities Board. He is the editor of Walt Whitman: The Centennial Essays (Iowa, 1994); co-editor of Walt Whitman: The Measure of His Song (Holy Cow!, 1981, rev.ed., 1997) and Walt Whitman and the World (Iowa, 1996); and author of Walt Whitman's Native Representations (Cambridge, 1994). He co-authored with Kenneth Price Re-Scripting Walt Whitman: An Introduction to His Life and Work (Blackwell, 2005) and co-edited Leaves of Grass: The Sesquicentennial Essays (Nebraska, 2007). The Whitman Archive activities at Iowa are housed at the Obermann Center for Advanced Studies.

Kenneth M. Price, project co-director, is Hillegass University Professor of American literature at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He is the co-editor of books on James Weldon Johnson, George Santayana, and nineteenth-century periodical literature. He is also the co-editor of Dear Brother Walt: The Letters of Thomas Jefferson Whitman (Kent State, 1984); editor of Walt Whitman: The Contemporary Reviews (Cambridge, 1996); author of Whitman and Tradition: The Poet in His Century (Yale, 1990) and To Walt Whitman, America (North Carolina, 2004). In addition, Price co-edited with Susan Belasco and Ed Folsom Leaves of Grass: The Sesquicentennial Essays (Nebraska, 2007), and co-authored with Ed Folsom Re-Scripting Walt Whitman: An Introduction to His Life and Work (Blackwell, 2005).

Brett Barney, Senior Associate Editor of the Walt Whitman Archive, is Research Associate Professor in the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He co-edited Encyclopedia of American Literature, Volume II: The Age of Romanticism and Realism, 1816-1895 (Facts on File, 2008) and is currently editing a comprehensive collection of Whitman interviews and recollections.

Elizabeth Lorang is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of English and the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities at UNL. She is the project manager and a senior assistant editor of the Walt Whitman Archive and project manager of Civil War Washington. With Susan Belasco, she edited Whitman's Poems in Periodicals. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Documentary Editing, the Mickle Street Review, Victorian Periodicals Review, and the Walt Whitman Quarterly Review. She is currently at work on a book project, "The Art of Daily Life: Newspaper Poems in American Culture," and an accompanying digital project.

Susan Belasco is Professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She is the editor of Summer on the Lakes, in 1843 by Margaret Fuller (Illinois, 1991), and co-editor with Larry J. Reynolds of "These Sad but Glorious Days": Dispatches from Europe, 1846-1850 by Margaret Fuller (Yale, 1991); she is the editor of Ruth Hall by Fanny Fern (Penguin, 1996) and co-editor with Elizabeth Ammons of Approaches to Teaching Uncle Tom's Cabin, (MLA, 2000). With Kenneth Price she co-edited Periodical Literature in Nineteenth-Century America (Virginia, 1995). Recently Belasco co-edited, with Ed Folsom and Kenneth Price, Leaves of Grass: The Sesquicentennial Essays (Nebraska, 2007), and edited Stowe in Her Own Time (Iowa, 2009). For the Whitman Archive she is the editor of Whitman's Poems in Periodicals .

Katherine L. Walter is chair of Digital Initiatives & Special Collections (DISC) in the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) Libraries, and co-directs UNL's Center for Digital Research in the Humanities with Kenneth M. Price. Walter has been co-principal investigator of two Whitman-related research projects funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services: A Virtual Archive of Walt Whitman's Manuscripts and Interoperability of Metadata for Thematic Research Collections: A Model Based on The Walt Whitman Archive. She currently serves as co-chair of the steering committee of centerNet, an international network of digital humanities centers.

Kyle Barton is a Ph.D. student in the English Department at the University of Iowa. His research focuses on issues of gender and inheritance in nineteenth-century literature. He is currently transcribing contemporary reviews of Whitman’s poetry for the Archive.

Blake Bronson-Bartlett is an English Ph.D. candidate at the University of Iowa. He has worked on the transcription, encoding, and annotation of Whitman's correspondence and notebooks for the Whitman Archive. He is currently working on machine readable transcriptions of Two Rivulets and early French translations of Whitman's poetry and prose for the Archive. His interests include urban studies, Franco-American cultural studies, and nineteenth-century French and American verse.

Janel Cayer is Ph.D.student in the English Department at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln specializing in nineteenth-century American literature and culture, with an emphasis on the antebellum period. Janel's doctoral research approaches literatures of the U.S. War with Mexico from an interdisciplinary perspective, examining the ways in which this war shaped the nineteenth-century American cultural and literary imagination. Her work for the Whitman Archive currently includes cleaning up database records, and she has also assisted with transcription and encoding of various Whitman-related materials.

Matt Cohen, Associate Professor in the Department of English at University of Texas at Austin, focuses on tool development and digital archival theory. With the assistance of a major grant from the NEH, he is doing work on "Walt Whitman's Annotations," a project that will develop markup approaches for Whitman's marginalia. In addition, he is currently working as the editor in charge of adding Horace Traubel's nine-volume With Walt Whitman in Camden to the Whitman Archive. With Rachel Price, he edited and introduced the Archive's digital version of Álvaro Armando Vasseur's 1912 selection from Leaves of Grass, the first book-length translation of Leaves into Spanish.

Eric Conrad is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of English at the University of Iowa and the managing editor of the Walt Whitman Quarterly Review. His past duties for the Archive include transcribing, encoding, and annotating Whitman's correspondence. Currently Eric is preparing a transcription of and introduction to Leaves of Grass Imprints and expanding the Archive's searchable bibliography and collection of contemporary reviews. His dissertation will contextualize Whitman's marketing strategies (for his poetry and celebrity) within the broader trends of literary promotion during the second half of the nineteenth century.

Nicole Gray is a Ph.D. student in the Department of English at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research focuses on intersections between sound, text, and nineteenth-century reform. She is currently working on the transcription and encoding of Whitman's annotations.

Lauren Grewe is a Ph.D. student in English at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research focuses on American Indian literature and American poetry, with a particular interest in the nineteenth century. Her work for the Whitman Archive consists of transcribing and encoding Whitman’s annotations and marginalia.

Chaya Huber is a student at Yeshiva University's Stern College for Women, where she studies Computer Science. As an editorial assistant, she uses her background in both computer science and the Yiddish language to help complete the Archive's translations project for the Yiddish translation of Leaves of Grass.

Eder Jaramillo is a first year Ph.D. student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His area of interest is Renaissance Studies with an emphasis on Shakespeare. Currently he is exploring Shakespeare’ place and resounding influence in Latin American literature and film. He is also interested in a second specialization in Latin American, and Latina/Chicano literature. At the Whitman Archive, Eder is working on processing images of correspondence.

Andrew Jewell is the editor of Whitman's Blue Book and a contributing editor for the Whitman Archive. In addition, Andy is editor of the Willa Cather Archive, co-editor of The American Literature Scholar in the Digital Age, and writer of several articles on American literature and digital humanities. He received his Ph.D. in American literature and is Associate Professor of Digital Projects at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries as well as a faculty fellow at the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities at UNL.

Nima Najafi Kianfar is a second-year Ph.D. student in English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln with a specialization in Poetry. He’s also working on a collateral field in Film Theory, which he intends to turn into a second specialization. His current poetic focus and research interests involve Iran. As an editorial assistant with the Whitman Archive, Nima currently is transcribing letters Whitman penned as a scribe in the Attorney General's office.

Kathryn Kruger is an assistant editor of the Walt Whitman Archive and a Ph.D. student in the Department of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Currently, Kathryn is working on the finding guides to Whitman's poetry manuscripts, and she has also assisted with the encoding and transcribing of Whitman's Civil War correspondence. Kathryn's doctoral research focuses on the crosscurrents of religion and literature in the nineteenth-century British novel.

Ashley Lawson is a third-year doctoral student in English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln specializing in the study of early twentieth-century literature, Modernism, and women's writing, with an interdisciplinary interest in twentieth-century visual arts and gender studies. Prior to moving to Lincoln, Ashley taught composition, literature, and gender studies at West Virginia Wesleyan College for three years after receiving her Masters degree from the University of Rochester. As an editorial assistant, she currently transcribes and encodes prose manuscripts.

Kevin McMullen is an M.A. student in English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His area of interest is nineteenth-century American literature, particularly poetry, with an emphasis on Walt Whitman. Kevin’s duties at the Archive include transcribing and encoding Whitman’s scribal documents from the poet’s years working in the Attorney General’s office.

Matt Miller is an Assistant Professor of English at Yeshiva University. A contributing editor for the Whitman Archive, he is currently working on Yiddish translations of Whitman. From 2002 to 2008, he created searchable databases of bibliographic citations for Whitman criticism and images of Whitman, encoded Whitman's notebooks, and supervised encoding projects at the University of Iowa. He is the author of Collage of Myself: Walt Whitman and the Making of Leaves of Grass (Nebraska, 2010).

Wesley Raabe is an Assistant Professor of Textual Editing and American Literature at Kent State University. He is the editor of the National Era text of Uncle Tom's Cabin for Uncle Tom's Cabin & American Culture and is at work on "Uncle Tom's Cabin: A Digital Critical Edition." As a contributing editor for the Whitman Archive, he is editing the letters of Louisa Van Velsor Whitman.

Beverley Rilett is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and an assistant editor with the Whitman Archive. Her field of interest is nineteenth- and early twentieth-century British literature, with a focus on biographical reassessments of the literary work of several major authors, including Virginia Woolf and George Eliot. Bev joined the Archive staff in 2008, and performs various tasks, including ordering and processing digital scans, and transcribing, encoding, and annotating correspondence and prose manuscripts.

John Schwaninger is a junior undergraduate student in English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, with a specialization in fiction writing. He also acts as a junior editor for Laurus, a publication that prints an annual collection of UNL student writing and art. As an undergraduate research assistant for the Whitman Archive, John is transcribing letters for which Whitman acted as a scribe in the Attorney General's office.

Vanessa Steinroetter is an Assistant Professor of English at Washburn University and a contributing editor for the Whitman Archive. From 2007 to 2011, she served first as an editorial assistant, working on digitizing, annotating, and editing Whitman's Civil War correspondence and the contemporary reviews of his works, and then as the project coordinator of the Archive's translation section. She has also encoded and transcribed printed translations of Whitman's poetry and prose in German and, at present, is managing the online publication of translations into other languages and preparing further German translations for publication on the Archive.

Joshua Ware is a Ph.D. student in creative writing at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He is the co-author of the chapbook I, NE: Iterations of the Junco (Small Fires Press, 2009), as well as the author of A Series of Ad Hoc Permutations (Scantily Clad Press) and Excavations (Further Adventure Press). His work has appeared in over sixty national journals, including Colorado Review, New American Writing, New Orleans Review, and Quarterly West. Joshua's primary responsibilities at the Whitman Archive include transcribing and encoding xml files of Whitman's printed, prose works and creating xslt style-sheets for rendering the source material online; he also aided in the development of the archive's database, as well as the creation of Ruby programs that automate many day-to-day Archive tasks.

Brian Pytlik Zillig is Digital Initiatives Librarian at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Among various contributions to the Archive, he has done much of the work to display our XML-encoded texts using XSLT stylesheets.