Blake Bronson-Bartlett

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1 Blake Bronson-Bartlett The 308 English Philosophy Building Iowa City, IA EDUCATION Ph.D., English,, 2014 Dissertation: Whitman s Inscriptions: Writing-in-Transit and the Urban Networks of Nineteenth-Century America Director: Ed Folsom Committee: Kathleen Diffley, Adalaide Morris, Garrett Stewart, Barbara Eckstein B.A., English/French, CUNY, Hunter College, 2006, magna cum laude RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS Current Project Transcending Inscriptions: Writing Materials and the Concept of Writing in the Antebellum U.S. (in progress). Essays On Digitizing the Thomas Ollive Mabbott Papers : Primary Source Research, Text Editing, and Media History (under review with Poe Studies) The Journal Box: Thoreau, Archival Media and the Limits of Nature Writing (accepted by ESQ). From Loose Leaves to Readymades: Manuscript Books in the Age of Emerson and Whitman (under second review with J19). Whitman and Mathematics: An Introduction Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 34.2 (Fall 2016). "Whitman futur, ou l'avenir à venir: 'Poets to Come' in French Translation." With Éric Athenot. Walt Whitman Archive (

2 Digital Projects Mabbot Poe Online: A Resource for the Study of Edgar Allan Poe and the Editing of his Collected Writings by Thomas Ollive Mabbott,. Digital Scholarship & Publishing Studio, The (lib.uiowa.edu/mabbottpoe) Reviews & Editorial Work Review of Whitman among the Bohemians. Resources in American Literary Studies 39 (forthcoming). Walt Whitman. Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism 268 (Farmington Hills, MI: Gale, 2013) Walt Whitman: A Current Bibliography. With Ed Folsom. Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 30.1 (2012) Translations Mallarmé, Stéphane. Azure: Poems and Selections from the Livre. With Robert Fernandez (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2015). Reviews: Alex Ross for The New Yorker (April 11, 2016); Jerome Keeler for The Volta Blog (June 20, 2016). Other Publications Review of Bird Lovers, Backyard by Thalia Field. The Believer 9.2 (2011): 49. Interview with Christine Hume. The Seneca Review (online), CONFERENCE PAPERS AND SESSIONS Papers Whitman s Two Rivulets: Reconstructing a Reconstruction Text. American Literature Association Annual Conference, Boston, MA, Formatting Words in Color: Marking Up Whitman s Most Vibrant Notebooks. Digital Antiquarian Conference and Workshop. American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, MA, Thoreau s Box. Deep Time of the Nineteenth Century: A Literary Archaeology of Media and Objects. MLA Vancouver, Out of Doors Divided by Sun-Down : Thoreau s Journals and Calendars. Third Biennial C19 Conference. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2014.

3 Omnibus Jaunts and Accouchements : Whitman s Cosmopolitan Diction and Paris on the Streets of Antebellum New York City. The Third Annual Transatlantic Walt Whitman Association International Symposium. University of Macerata, Italy, The Doubly Perplexing Doctor Broderip: Rebecca Harding Davis s Waiting for the Verdict and Medical Reform During the Civil War. American Literature Association Annual Conference, San Francisco, CA, A reminiscence sing : The Transegmental Drift in Whitman s Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking. The Second Annual Transatlantic Walt Whitman Association International Symposium, Université François Rabelais, Tours, France, The Challenges of Whitman s Notebooks. American Literature Association Annual Conference, Boston, MA, Sessions Organizer, Blank Books, Unbound: A Roundtable Discussion on Scrapbooks, Diaries, Ledgers, Almanacs, and How Scholars Work with Them. Chair: Joel Myerson, Participants: Thomas Augst, Ellen Gruber-Garvey, Matthew Miller, Caitlin Rosenthal, and Karen Sanchez-Eppler. American Literature Association Annual Conference, Boston, MA, Chair, [Rebecca Harding] Davis and New England Literary Culture. American Literature Association Annual Conference, Boston, MA, HONORS AND AWARDS Post-Doctoral Teaching Fellowship, Technische Universität Dortmund Ballard/Seashore Dissertation-Year Fellowship,, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Summer Research Fellowship,, Ann Morse Scholarship for Study Abroad,, Romance Languages Prize for Academic Excellence, CUNY Hunter College, René Taupin scholarship for study abroad, CUNY Hunter College, TEACHING EXPERIENCE (all courses independently designed and taught) Poe & His World,, Iowa City, IA, Visiting Assistant Professor, 2017, 1 section. This course tracks the evolution of Edgar Allan Poe s career as a writer, from the early self-published books of poetry through his years as a magazine editor and widely circulated writer of tales and literary criticism. Class discussions as well as assignments draw upon online historical magazine archives as well as The Poe Society of Baltimore website. The version of this course taught at the culminated in an online exhibit based on the Mabbott Poe collection in the library s Special Collections.

4 Science Fiction: Dystopias,, Iowa City, IA, Visiting Assistant Professor, 2016, 1 section. This course begins with classics (Brave New World and 1984) and ends with recent works that blur the boundary between genre literature and literary fiction (Parable of the Sower and The Circle). Students in this class are asked to think historically about why dystopian fictions continue to speak to our present moment. Reading and Writing about the Novel,, Iowa City, IA, Visiting Assistant Professor, 2016, 1 section. This first-year course for English majors introduces students to the study of the novel in history and theory. Emphasis is placed on methods of interpretation and the composition of literary critical essays. In-class thesis writing and draft workshops allow students to develop their writing skills. Early American Oratory: Free Speech and Self Possession, Technische Universität Dortmund, Germany, Instructor, 2016, 1 section. This course provides a foundation for readings in colonial American literature by tracing a historical narrative of the exercise of public speech from the Puritan sermons of the late seventeenth century through the abolitionist, feminist, and Transcendentalist lectures of the antebellum decades. Literature in Times of Crisis: The American Civil War, Technische Universität Dortmund, Germany, Instructor, 2015/2016, 2 sections. Students read fiction, autobiography and documentary accounts from Douglass, Alcott, Whitman, and others, that account for the social and institutional transformations brought about by the Civil War. At the end of the semester, we follow the legacy of the war into the realism of Bierce and Crane. The Public Works: Writing and the American City, Technische Universität Dortmund, Germany, Instructor, 2014/2015, 2 sections. In this course on American Literature from 1830 to 1860, students explore primary sources from periodical databases, digital resources on manuscript history, and secondary literature on urban history and media studies, as they read the literature of canonical as well as under-read authors from the period. Documentary Poetics: Theories and Practices from Whitman to Goldsmith, Technische Universität Dortmund, Germany, Instructor, 2014/2015, 2 sections. In this course on literature from the late nineteenth through the twenty-first century, students develop research projects based on texts that attempts to affect immediate contact with a historical event and that respond to new media of their period, such as photography and sound recording. Written and Oral Communication, Technische Universität Dortmund, Germany, Instructor, , 6 sections. The goal of this course is to prepare students to write essays according to MLA guidelines in preparation for their first-year composition exam in English. Emphasis is placed on the formation of thesis statements and the development of arguments. Assignments include one oral presentation, short weekly assignments and a timed final essay exam. The Interpretation of Literature,, Iowa City, IA, Instructor, ; 2017, 8 sections. Readings assigned for this survey course span the English literary tradition from Shakespeare to contemporary authors. It is the required English literature course for all

5 undergraduates in the College of Arts and Sciences. Students write two essays and participate in group research projects using digital resources and archives. American Lives,, Iowa City, IA, Instructor, 2012, 1 section. Readings for this course on nineteenth-century American literature include canonical authors and under-read authors. Students write two essays, give one oral presentation, and participate in a final group project to be posted on the course website ( English Language Instruction, Epitech Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France, , 1 section. In three-hour classes each week, computer science students were given a brief lecture on reading strategies and were then asked to read texts. In-class reading was followed by group discussion. Online Teaching Moderator, Whitman s Civil War: Writing and Imaging Loss, Death and Disaster. Summer Responsibilities included posting of weekly discussion prompts, monitoring of student discussions and evaluation of student writing exercises. Teaching Assistant, Every Atom: Walt Whitman s Song of Myself, Winter Responsibilities included daily monitoring of the online discussion forums and leading three live Q&A discussions with registered participants. My teaching sessions can be viewed online: SERVICE Interviewer for outgoing exchange students, International Programs, TU Dortmund, 2014, Invited group project leader, Intensive Seminar on Cities Through Media, directed by Randi Gunzenhäuser, TU Dortmund Invited American English consultant, Intensive Translation Seminar on The First German Translation of Walt Whitman s 1855 Leave of Grass, directed by Walter Grünzweig, TU Dortmund OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE R esea rch a nd Editing Managing Editor, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review. Fall 2008-Summer Responsibilities included the editing of submissions with Dr. Ed Folsom, as well as line-editing proofs and seeing issues through the publication phase. I also supervised a staff of research assistants.

6 Research Assistant, Walt Whitman Archive. Fall 2007-Spring Responsibilities included the XML encoding of printed texts and manuscripts. Additionally, I assisted Dr. Folsom with his ongoing census of the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass. Sem ina rs Story in Theory. Mellon Fellowship Summer Research Seminar. Directed by Professor Garrett Stewart., Iowa City, Transatlantic Walt Whitman Association International Seminar and Symposium. Co-directed by Professors Ed Folsom, Betsy Erkkila, Eric Athenot, Mario Camboni, and Walter Gruenzweig. Technische Universität Dortmund. Dortmund, Germany, 2008 ORGANIZATIONS C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists (2014-present) Modern Language Association (2013-present) Society for the Study of Rebecca Harding Davis and Her World (2010-present) REFERENCES Professor Ed Folsom Professor Kathleen Diffley ed-folsom@uiowa.edu kathleen-diffley@uiowa.edu (319) (319) Professor Adalaide Morris (emeritus) dee-morris@uiowa.edu (319) Professor Barbara Eckstein barbara-eckstein@uiowa.edu Professor Garrett Stewart garrett-stewart@uiowa.edu Professor Walter Grünzweig Technische Universität Dortmund Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik walter.gruenzweig@udo.edu