William A. Pannapacker, Education and Professional Development

Harvard University
Ph.D., History of American Civilization, 1999.  
Fields of Concentration: American Literature (major), English Literature, Cultural Criticism and the History of the Book, American History, Art and Architecture. Foreign Language Examinations: German and French. Dissertation: "Studies in the Changing Constructions of Authorial Identity in Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American Literature." Advisers: Lawrence Buell, Werner Sollors, and Sacvan Bercovitch.


M.A., English, 1997.


University of Miami

M.A., English, 1993. Thesis: "Poetics, Politics, and Self Promotion: Walt Whitman and Abraham Lincoln."  Advisers: Peter Bellis, Joseph Alkana, and Gregory Bush.



Saint Joseph's University

B.A., English, 1990. General and Departmental Honors.


American Antiquarian Society

Summer Seminars in the History of the Book. "Bibliography and the History of the Book" (1994, with Michael Winship, David Hall, and Roger Stoddard). "Reading Culture, Reading Books" (1995, with Robert Gross and Mary Kelley).


Great Lakes College Association Leadership and Innovation Institute, Ann Arbor, 2007.


Digital Humanities Summer Institute, University of Victoria, 2008.