Edward Whitley has published essays on Walt Whitman and American poetry in such journals as ELH, Nineteenth-Century Literature, and The Walt Whitman Quarterly Review. His book, American Bards: Walt Whitman and Other Unlikely Candidates for National Poet, was published by the University of North Carolina Press in 2010. He is the co-director, with Robert Weidman, of The Vault at Pfaff’s, an online archive of the art and literature produced by the literary bohemians of antebellum New York, and the co-PI, with Andrew Jewell, on “The Crowded Page”, an NEH-funded digital project that uses Semantic Web technologies to study the workings of literary communities.