Amanda Gailey

Amanda Gailey is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She specializes in digital text editing and nineteenth-century American literature, and regularly teaches classes in both of these areas.

Amanda is Vice-President of Digital Americanists (www.digitalamericanists.org), co-editor of the Americanist board of NINES (www.nines.org), and co-chair of the special interest group on manuscript encoding for the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI). She has contributed to such digital projects as the Walt Whitman Archive(www.whitmanarchive.org) and the Spenser Archive (spenserarchive.org). Currently she is creating (with Gerald Early and D.B. Dowd) an archive of Gilded Age children's literature that explores how materials marketed to juvenile audiences shaped notions of racial difference. Her publications include articles on digital editorial theory and editing Whitman and Dickinson.

Amanda holds a PhD in Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Digital Text Editing from UNL. She worked at the Humanities Digital Workshop at Washington University in St. Louis and taught American literature and digital humanities at the University of Georgia before joining the faculty at the University of Nebraska.