Kenneth M. Price, Hillegass University Professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, has co-directed The Walt Whitman Archive since 1995. He is a founding co-director of the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities at Nebraska. His previous books include Whitman and Tradition: The Poet in His Century (Yale, 1990), To Walt Whitman, America (North Carolina, 2004), and, with co-author Ed Folsom, Re-Scripting Walt Whitman (Blackwell, 2005). His most recent book is Whitman in Washington: Becoming the National Poet in the Federal City (Oxford, 2020). He has served as President of both the Society for Textual Scholarship and the Association for Documentary Editing.
Stefan Schöberlein is an Assistant Professor of English at Texas A&M University-Central Texas. He also serves as contributing editor for the Whitman Archive and associate editor of the Walt Whitman Quarterly Review. His scholarship related to Whitman has appeared in journals such as American Literature, College Literature, and Textual Cultures. He is the author of Writing the Brain: Material Minds and Literature, 1800-1880 (OUP, 2023).