Curating Team
Content Leadership Team
Marie Arana
Author; Literary Critic; Senior Advisor to the Library of Congress
Dr. Reginald Gibbons
Francis Hooper Professor of Arts and Humanities, Northwestern University
Leonard Marcus
Author, Critic, and Children’s Book Historian
Max Rudin
Publisher for Library of America
Donna Seaman
Senior Editor, “Booklist,” American Library Association
Natasha Trethewey
Poet, US Poet Laureate 2012 and 2013
Subject Matter Experts
Susan Abbotson
Professor of English, Rhode Island College; Board member and former President, Arthur Miller Society; Performance Editor, Arthur Miller Journal; Author
Ted Atkinson
Associate Professor, Department of English, Mississippi State University; Author; Editor, Mississippi Quartlerly
Jonathan Barron
Department of English, University of Southern Missisippi; Director, The Robert Frost Society; Author
Ann Blair
Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor of History, Harvard University
Matthew M. Briones
Associate Professor of US History, University of Chicago; Specialist in Asian American and African American history
Lynn Brown
Retired middle school English teacher
Toni-Lee Capossela
Retired college writing professor; Former Director of the Stonehill College Writing Center
Cinnamon Catlin-Lugutko
President/CEO, Abbe Museum, Bar Harbor, ME; Specialist in Wabanaki Nation
Michael W. Clune
Samuel B. and Virginia C. Knight Professor of the Humanities, Department of English, Case Western Reserve University
Maureen Corrigan
The Nicky and Jamie Grant Distinguished Professor of the Practice of Literary Criticism at Georgetown University, Journalist, Author, and Literary Critic, The Washington Post, NPR
Wai Chee Dimock
William Lampson Professor of English & American Studies, Yale University; Author
Paul Durica
Director of Programs at Illinois Humanities
Thomas Dyja
Author
Roderick Ferguson
Professor of African American Studies, Gender & Women’s Studies, Co-Director of Racialized Body research cluster, University of Illinois, Chicago; Author
Shelley Fisher Fishkin
Joseph S. Atha Professor in Humanities, Stanford University
Dr. Ed Folsom
Roy J. Carver Professor of English, The University of Iowa; Editor, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review; Director, Walt Whitman Archive
Sandra Gilbert
Professor of English, University of California, Davis
Reed Gochberg
PhD Candidate, Department of English, Boston University
Jacqueline Goldsby
Professor of English & African American Studies, Yale University
Brad Gooch
Professor of English, William Paterson University; Author
David D. Hall
Bartlett Research Professor of New England Church History, Harvard Divinity School; Co-editor of The History of the Book in America
Ronne Hartfield
Writer; Museum Consultant
David Kipen
Getty/Annenberg Arts Fellow, University of Southern California
Jill Lepore
Author, New Yorker contributor, David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History and Harvard College Professor, Harvard University
Jessica Maciejewski
Chicago high school English teacher; Special Education training
Emily Orlando
Professor, Fairfield University; President, Edith Wharton Society; Author
Dr. Kimberly Parker
Engllish Department Faculty, Cambridge Rindge & Latin School
Robert Polito
Director, MFA Writing Program and Professor of Writing, The New School President, Poetry Foundation, 2012-2015
Leah Price
Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English, Harvard University
Jesse Raber
Adjunct Faculty, Loyola University Chicago and School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Kathryn Roberts
Doctoral Candidate, Department of English, Harvard University; Specialist in 20th- & 21st-century American literature, transatlantic modernism, regional & ethnic literary traditions
John Russick
Vice President for Interpretation and Education, Chicago History Museum
Carolyn Saper
Education Consultant Specializing in Children’s Literature and Curriculum
Bill Savage
Associate Professor of Instruction in English, Northwestern University
Will Shortz
Puzzle Master; NPR’s “Weekend Edition Sunday”; Crossword Editor, The New York Times
Grant Shreve
Doctoral Candidate, Department of English, Johns Hopkins University; specialist in 19th- & 20th- century literature, published in American Literature and Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies
Scott Slovic
Professor and Chair of English Department, University of Idaho; Specialist in environmental literature; Editor, ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment; Author
Dr. Werner Sollors
Retired Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English Literature and Professor of African and African American Studies, Harvard University
Ilan Stavans
Lewis-Sebring Professor in Latin American and Latino Culture, Amherst College
Todd Tietchen
Assistant Professor in English, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Cheryl Wall
Board of Governors Zora Neale Hurston Professor of English, Rutgers University; Editor of Their Eyes Were Watching God: A Casebook
David Weimer
Librarian for Cartographic Collections and Learning, Harvard Libraries, Harvard University
Ted Widmer, PhD
Speechwriter; Former Director and librarian of the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University
Ivy Wilson
Associate Professor of English and Director of American Studies, Northwestern University
Kelly Wisecup
Assistant Professor, Department of English, Northwestern University; Specialist in Native American Literature
Gary K. Wolfe
Professor of Humanities, Roosevelt University
Carol A. Worsham
Retired middle school English teacher, Cambridge Public Schools
Sunny Yudkoff
Senior Lecturer in Yiddish, Department of German Studies, University of Chicago