Wesley Raabe

Wesley Raabe is the Postdoctoral Fellow in Scholarly Information Resources at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln Libraries. He is developing a prototype web site and information architecture for a project on Abraham Lincoln, Walt Whitman, and Washington D.C. during the Civil War.

In August 2006, Wesley completed a Ph.D. in English Language and Literature at the University of Virginia. His dissertation is titled “Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin: an Electronic Edition of the National Era Version.”

He is developing a prototype web site and information architecture for a project called Civil War Washington: Studies in Transformation. See web site at http://cdrh.unl.edu/civilwardc/

Wesley’s publications include the following:

His dissertation, which is freely available online, includes an edition (with two image facsimile versions and two renderings of the encoded transcription) of Uncle Tom's Cabin: or, Life Among the Lowly. National Era. 5 Jun. 1851-1 Apr. 1852. Charlottesville: Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities. 2006. http://www.iath.virginia.edu/~wnr4c/index.htm.

He is the textual editor of Uncle Tom's Cabin: or, Life Among the Lowly. National Era. 5 Jun. 1851-1 Apr. 1852. Electronic Edition. Uncle Tom's Cabin & American Culture. Charlottesville: Stephen Railton; Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities; Electronic Text Center. 2006. http://www.iath.virginia.edu/utc/uncletom/erahp.html.

"The Text of 'Eli's Education': From Manuscript to St. Nicholas Magazine." Children's Literature (2006): 161-85. http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/childrens_literature/v034/34.1raabe.pdf

Rev. of Electronic Texts in the Humanities, by Susan Hockey. Text 15 (2003): 437-54.

"Isidora: Galdós's Depiction of a Prostitute." Revista Hispánica Moderna 49 (1996): 20-33.

Other Links:

Wesley is a former project assistant and technical editor at the William Blake Archive.

Wesley's web log is available at the following location: http://wraabe.wordpress.com/

Curriculum Vitae [PDF format]