The Staff of the Willa Cather Archive

Andrew Jewell, editor of the Willa Cather Archive, is Assistant 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. 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. 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 ajewell2@unl.edu.

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.

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.

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 is currently working with Andrew Jewell to develop a customized version of TokenX for the Cather Archive, allowing researchers to do sophisticated analysis of the entire corpus of Cather's fiction (available summer 2007). Brian also advises and assists on many parts of the Cather Archive, particularly in the creation of XSLT stylesheets.

Zach Bajaber works at UNL's Center for Digital Research in the Humanities as the digital resources designer. He is central to much of the technical design and functionality of the Cather Archive, especially the Calendar of Letters and the search engine for the journalism. Zach also serves as a consultant on a range of technical and design issues for the Cather Archive.

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.

Karen Pietsch is a senior English and Advertising major at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She is currently working on a UCARE research project about Cather's student days. She is also an amateur recreational pie-baker.

Hannah German is a junior English major at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She is currently the Cather Circle intern with the Cather Project and works on Cather's journalism among other projects.

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.

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 works as a Research Assistant for the Geographic Chronology project, which will offer a map-based visualization of Cather's lifetime of travel.

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.

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).

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