The Willa Cather Archive
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About the Cather Archive


Staff

photograph of Andrew Jewell

Andrew Jewell, editor and designer of the Willa Cather Archive, is Associate Professor of Digital Projects at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries. Andy received his Ph.D. in American Literature in 2004 and has published on Cather, Walt Whitman, Mark Twain, and humanities computing and is co-editor, with Amy Earhart, of the forthcoming book The American Literature Scholar in the Digital Age. He is the co-editor of A Calendar of the Letters of Willa Cather: An Expanded, Electronic Edition and co-director of the Willa Cather Journalism project. He joined the Board of Governors of the Willa Cather Foundation in 2008. Since 2001, he has also been a part of the staff of the Walt Whitman Archive . If you have any questions or comments about the Cather Archive, please email Andy at .

photograph of Kari Ronning

Kari Ronning, co-director of the Willa Cather Journalism project, joined the Willa Cather Scholarly Edition as assistant editor in 1990. In addition to textual work, she was co-historical editor, with Susan J. Rosowski, of A Lost Lady, and historical editor of Obscure Destinies, and co-editor of Cather's University Days. Ronning began work on Cather's journalism several years ago in the belief that more complete texts would enable us to learn more about what Cather was doing, thinking, and feeling in these formative years of her writing career. A grant from the University of Nebraska's Digital Humanities Center in 2004 has enabled her to focus on the journalism more intensively.

photograph of Katherine Walter

Katherine Walter is chair of the Digital Initiatives & Special Collections (DISC) department in the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, and co-directs UNL's Center for Digital Research in the Humanities with Kenneth M. Price. She also co-directs The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition online edition, a joint project of the UNL Libraries and the University of Nebraska Press funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities Division of Public Programs. In addition, Walter served as co-principal investigator of the Virtual Archive of Walt Whitman's Manuscripts project funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the Walt Whitman Archive. She serves the Cather Archive broadly through her leadership of digital initiatives at UNL and as a consultant on the Willa Cather Journalism project.

photograph of Brian Pytlik Zillig

Brian Pytlik Zillig is Assistant Professor and Digital Initiatives Librarian at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His research is currently centered on textual analysis and visualization, and he is the creator of TokenX. Brian has developed a customized version of TokenX for the Cather Archive , allowing researchers to do sophisticated analysis of the entire corpus of Cather's fiction. Brian also advises and assists on many parts of the Cather Archive, particularly in the creation of XSLT stylesheets.

photograph of Vicki Martin

Vicki Martin is a Ph.D. student at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Retired after over thirty years of teaching English in the Nebraska community college system, she is currently a research assistant in the Electronic Text Center. Her interests include nineteenth-century American women's fiction, humanities computing, and her two grandchildren. Her work for the Cather project involves preparing texts for the Cather Archive, and she has been largely responsible for the digitization of Cather's periodical writings.

photograph of Hannah
                        German

Hannah German is a graduate student at Simmons College in Boston, MA. In 2007-2008 she was the Cather Circle intern with the Cather Project and worked on Cather's journalism among other projects. In 2008-2009 she worked on a UCARE project to create a bibliography of foreign editions and translations of Cather's work.

photograph of Kourtney
                    Smith

Kourtney Smith is a senior English major at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She was an intern in fall 2008 and worked on encoding Cather Studies 6 . She also encoded the Willa Cather Scholarly Edition of One of Ours.

Rosanna Dell Henning is a senior English major at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. During 2009-2010 she is working on a UCARE project to help expand the digital version of the Calendar of Letters on the Willa Cather Archive.

photograph of Stacy Rickel

Stacy Rickel is a Programmer/Analyst in the Computing Operations and Research Services department of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries. She has designed an maintained a database for annotations as part of the Cather Journalism project and has also built a database for use on the Geographic Chronology of Cather's life.

photograph of Amanda Kuhnel

Amanda Kuhnel received a Master of Arts in English Literature from the Universtiy of Mississippi in 2006 and is currently completing a Masters of Library and Information Studies at University at Buffalo. She worked as a Research Assistant for the Geographic Chronology project.

photograph of Sabrina Ehmke Sergeant

Sabrina Ehmke Sergeant is a PhD student in English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and is interested in twentieth century women's literature. She is the editorial assistant for A Calendar of the Letters of Willa Cather: An Expanded, Digital Edition.

photograph of Guy
                    Reynolds

Guy Reynolds, advisory editor for the Willa Cather Journalism project, is professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Director of the Cather Project, and general editor of the Cather Scholarly Edition and Cather Studies . He is the author of two books, Willa Cather in Context: Progress, Race, Empire (1996) and Twentieth-Century American Women's Fiction (1999). His most recent work is an extensive compendium of Cather scholarship, Willa Cather: Critical Assessments (2003).

photograph of Mary Ellen Ducey

Mary Ellen Ducey is Associate Professor and University Archivist/Special Collections Librarian at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. In her position, she is the primary steward of the UNL Libraries' extensive Cather collections, which includes thousands of manuscripts, books, photographs, and letters, and she is the co-author of "The Willa Cather Collections: Interpretation, Genealogy, and History" with Carmella Orosco. Her work on the Archive includes preparing of hundreds of Cather and Cather-related photographs for digital presentation

Contributing Scholars

Mark Madigan has identified people and places in many photographs from Cather's 1902 trip to France. He has made identifications and significantly assisted with descriptions to the following images: 242, 243, 244, 245, 246, 250, 252, 253, 254, 255, 256, 386, 386.1, 388, 389, 448, 477, and 479. He has also contributed information for the Bibliography of Translations of Willa Cather's Work.
John J. Murphy has identified New Mexico churches appearing in Cather's photographs of the Southwest, including 2376 (with thanks to Marina Ochoa, Director of the Archdiocesan Museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico) and 2377.
Janis P. Stout, as co-editor of A Calendar of the Letters of Willa Cather: An Expanded, Electronic Edition, reviews new letter summaries and acts as a consultant on a variety of issues, particularly with the correspondence.

Over the years, several other people have contributed to the Cather Archive, and they are listed alphabetically below. Currently, only those who worked with the present editorial staff (since 2004) are consistently mentioned; one day, we hope all who ever contributed to the project will be listed here. Ekaterina Apostolova (HTML and XML encoding, proofreading) 2006-2007
Zach Bajaber (technical consultant, designer of Calendar of Letters functionality and interface, and part of the team designing the Geographic Chronology of Willa Cather's Life) 2005-2008
Brett Barney (digital projects editor) 2002-2003; (advisor) 2005-
Perrin Carrell (article transcription) 2007-2007
Rachael Carter (XML encoding of the Scholarly Edition of Alexander's Bridge) 2009
Paul Fajman (XML encoding, book photography, image processing) 2004-2005
Erika Hamilton (XML encoding) 2002-2003
Lenora Hanson (scanning, development of citation guidelines) 2007
Aaron Hillyer (XML encoding) 2004-2005
Lacey Lennard (editorial assistant on the Cather Journalism project) 2008-2009
Liz Lorang (electronic edition of S.S. McClure's My Autobiography ) 2006
Karen Pietsch (image scanning, transcription, and XML encoding) 2007-2008
Ben Poehlman (image scanning and XML encoding) 2007
Susan Rosowski (founder and editor who served until her death) 1997-2004
Katie Sisneros (XML encoding of Cather Studies 7) 2009
Anastasia Smallcomb (XML encoding) 2004-2005
Sarah Weinert (XML encoding, page scanning, and preparation of Guide to Citing the Willa Cather Archive) 2008
Jennifer Welsch (editorial assistant on the Cather Journalism project and electronic edition of S.S. McClure's My Autobiography ) 2004-2006