Brett Barney

Brett Barney became interested in digital humanities when he was hired as a research assistant for the Walt Whitman Archive in 2000. Since joining the staff of the Center's predecessor the following year, he has worked on a variety of projects, including the Willa Cather Archive and the Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition Online. He is Research Assistant Professor at the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities and project manager and Senior Associate Editor of the Walt Whitman Archive.

He is nearing completion of a digital edition of the interviews of Walt Whitman, and he continues to nurture project ideas for digitizing the work of several lesser-known writers from the colonial and early Federal periods—aspirations that began during a doctoral program focused on postcolonial theory and nationalism in early American literature.

Publications include:

• Encyclopedia of American Literature, Volume II: The Age of Romanticism and Realism, 1816-1895. New York: Facts on File, 2007. [co-editor with Lisa Paddock]
• Critical Histories: Walt Whitman. ProQuest <http://www.proquest.com/> (forthcoming). [editor/compiler]
• "Nineteenth-Century Popular Culture." A Companion to Walt Whitman. Ed. Donald Kummings. Oxford: Blackwell, 2006. 233-256.
• "Ordering Chaos: An Integrated Guide and Online Archive of Walt Whitman's Poetry Manuscripts." Literary and Linguistic Computing 20 (June 2005): 205-217. [co-author with Mary Ellen Ducey, Andrew Jewell, Kenneth M. Price, Brian Pytlik Zillig, and Katherine L. Walter]
• "Whitman and Traditional Literary History: A Recently Recovered Dialogue." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 20:1 (Summer 2002). 30-35.
• "'Each Part and Tag of Me Is a Miracle': Reflections after Tagging the 1867 Leaves of Grass." Walt Whitman Archive <http://www.whitmanarchive.org/about/articles/anc.00002.html>