About Us

John Bryant

John Bryant

Project Director and General Editor, Professor Emeritus of English, Hofstra University

Wyn Kelley

Wyn Kelley

Associate Director, Senior Lecturer in Literature, MIT.

Christopher Ohge

Christopher Ohge

Associate Director, Senior Lecturer, Institute of English Studies and Digital Humanities Research Hub, University of London

Miller C. Prosser

Miller C. Prosser

Miller C. Prosser. Associate Director of Digital Studies, member of CEDAR initiative, University of Chicago.

Sandra Schloen

Sandra Schloen

Sandra Schloen, head of the OCHRE Data Service, Forum for Digital Culture, University of Chicago.

Nicholas Laiacona

Nicholas Laiacona

President, Performant Software Solutions LLC

Jamie Folsom

Jamie Folsom

Vice President, Performant Software Solutions LLC

EDITORIAL BOARD

General Editor: John Bryant

Associate Editors: Wyn Kelley and Christopher Ohge

Co-editors: Colin Dewey, Timothy Marr, Gerard McGowan, Brian Yothers, Les Harrison and Haskell Springer

MEL RESEARCH GROUPS

Editions

Co-editors: John Bryant and Christopher Ohge

Projects: supervise editorial projects; develop metadata; supervise textual, contextual, and revision annotation.

Research Associates: John Bryant, Jaime Campomar, Rebecca Cheong, Dawn Coleman, Les Harrison, Wyn Kelley, Tony McGowan, Joseph Meyer, Christopher Ohge, Steve Olsen-Smith, Wesley Raabe, Steven Sill, Haskell Springer, John Walsh, John Wenke, Marta Werner

Adaptation and Adaptive Revision

Editor: John Bryant

Projects: Build descriptive bibliographies; strategize navigations for sources, adaptations, and translations.

Research Associates and Consultants: Pilar Martínez Benedi, Jaime Campomar, Daniel Göske, Joel Myerson, Steven Olsen-Smith, Gordon Poole, G. Thomas Tanselle

Melville Letters & Melville Family Correspondence

Co-editors: Christopher Ohge and Rebecca Cheong

Projects: Assemble correspondence metadata; transcribe letters

Art

Co-editors: Colin Dewey and Les Harrison

Projects: Moby-Dick and Art annotations; Melville’s print collection

Research Associates: Dennis Berthold, Les Harrison, Pilar Martinez Benedi, Christopher Sten, Robert K. Wallace

History

Co-editors: Timothy Marr and Tony McGowan

Projects: Person, Place, Event metadata, annotation and mapping of Battle-Pieces

Research Associates: Timothy Marr, Laura López Peña, Robert D. Madison, Cody Marrs, Christopher Ohge, Steve Rachman, Steven Olsen-Smith, Paul Wright

Travel

Co-editors: Wyn Kelley and Brian Yothers

Projects: Place metadata, mapping Melville’s geographical imagination, Melville in London (Itinerary)

Research Associates: Brad Bannon, Anthony Cohen, Mary K. Bercaw Edwards, Mary Isbell, Jeffrey Markham, Katie McGettigan, John Stromski, Brian Yothers

EDITORIAL CONSULTANTS

Laura Mandell (Miami of Ohio), Jerome J. McGann (Virginia), Joel Myerson (South Carolina), Bethany Nowviskie (Virginia), Daniel Pitti (IATH Virginia), Kenneth Price (Nebraska), Stephen Railton (Virginia), Martha Nell Smith (Maryland), Haskell Springer (Kansas), Andrew Stauffer (NINES, Virginia), and G. Thomas Tanselle (Guggenheim, emeritus), John Walsh (Indiana)

LIBRARY CONSULTANTS

Daniel Rubey (Dean Emeritus, Hofstra Library), Howard Graves (Assistant Dean, Library Systems), Leslie Morris (Houghton), Thomas Lannon (NYPL), John A. Walsh (Indiana University).

TECHNICAL CONSULTANTS

Nick Laiacona and Jamie Folsom (Performant Software Solutions), Syd Bauman (Northeastern), Julia Flanders (Northeastern), Kurt Fendt (MIT), Brian Ferris and Kevin Pechin (Hofstra IT)