Dr. William Pannapacker

Retired Faculty
616.395.7000
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William Pannapacker joined the Hope College faculty in 2000. He is a professor of English and the Senior Director of Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Programs and Initiatives.

Areas of expertise

American literature and culture. Higher education.

Education

  • Ph.D., American civilization, Harvard University, 2000
  • A.M., English, Harvard University, 1995
  • M.A., English, University of Miami, 1993
  • B.A., English, Saint Joseph's University, 1990

Honors, grants and awards

  • Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, $800,000 to create the Mellon Community-Based Partnerships Initiative, 2019
  • DuMez Endowed Professor of English, 2015ɫɓ2019
  • Ruth and John Reed Faculty Achievement Award, Hope College, 2017
  • Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, $800,000 to create the Mellon Grand Challenges Initiative, 2016
  • Provostɫəs Award for Service to the Academic Program, Hope College, 2014
  • Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, $500,000 to expand and continue the Mellon Scholars Program, 2013
  • Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, $200,000 to found the Mellon Scholars Program in the Digital Liberal Arts, 2010
  • Towsley Research Scholar, Hope College, 2003ɫɓ2006
  • Whiting Foundation Fellow, 1999ɫɓ2000
  • Bowdoin Prize, Harvard University, 1994, 1999
  • Helen Choate Bell Prize for American Literature, Harvard University, 1995, 1998

Selected publications

Books

  • After Departments: Higher Education Without Disciplines, in progress
  • Walt Whitmanɫəs Philadelphia, in progress
  • Revised Lives: Walt Whitman and Nineteenth-Century Authorship, Routledge, 2004

Selected Articles and Book Chapters:

  • ɫɜɫɘEvery Atomɫə: Reflections on Walt Whitman at 200,ɫɝ North American Review, 2019
  • ɫɜWerner Twertzog,ɫɝ in Short Circuits: Aphorisms, Fragments, and Literary Anomalies, eds. James Lough and Alex Stein, Schaffner Press, 2018
  • ɫɜWalt Whitmanɫəs Philadelphia,ɫɝ Walt Whitman In Context, eds. Ed Whitley and Joanna Levin, Cambridge University Press, 2017
  • ɫɜWerner Twertzog Tweets,ɫɝ Best American Nonrequired Reading, ed. Sarah Vowell, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017
  • ɫɜLiterary Magazinesɫɝ and ɫɜLiterary Societies,ɫɝ , 2016
  • ɫɜLife in a Liberal Arts College,ɫɝ in How to Build an Academic Career in the Humanities, eds. Greg Semenza and Garrett Sullivan, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015
  • Monthly columnist and contributor, Chronicle of Higher Education, 1998ɫɓ2014
  • ɫɜTaking the Liberal Arts Online in the Summer,ɫɝ Chronicle of Higher Education, 2014
  • ɫɜNo More Digitally Challenged Liberal-Arts Majors,ɫɝ Chronicle of Higher Education, 2014
  • ɫɜHacking and Yacking about the Digital Humanities,ɫɝ Chronicle of Higher Education, 2013
  • ɫɜCultivating Partnerships in the Digital Humanities,ɫɝ Chronicle of Higher Education, 2013
  • ɫɜA Liberal Arts Foundation,ɫɝ The New York Times, 2013
  • ɫɜStop Calling it ɫɘDigital Humanities,ɫəɫɝ Chronicle of Higher Education, 2013
  • ɫɜThe Dark Side of the Digital Humanitiesɫɝ and ɫɜRebooting Graduate Education,ɫɝ Chronicle of Higher Education, 2013
  • ɫɜNo More Indiana Jones Warehouses,ɫɝ Chronicle of Higher Education, 2012
  • ɫɜCan ɫɘNeuro Lit Critɫə Save the Humanities?ɫɝ The New York Times, 2010
  • ɫɜThe MLA and the Digital Humanities,ɫɝ Chronicle of Higher Education, 2009
  • ɫɜWalt Whitman,ɫɝ American Literary Scholarship, Duke University Press, 2005ɫɓ2009
  • ɫɜLeaves of Grass (1855) and the Cities of Whitmanɫəs Memory,ɫɝ Leaves of Grass: The Sesquicentennial Essays, University of Nebraska Press, 2007
  • ɫɜWhitman and the City,ɫɝ A Companion to Walt Whitman, Blackwell Publishing, 2005

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Dr. William Pannapacker

Phone Number616.395.7000

Retired Faculty