Research & Publications
UMBC Language, Literacy, & Culture doctoral student Kevin A. Wisniewski was recently named a 2014 Michael Denker Chesapeake Chapter Fellow at the American Printing History Association. The fellowship is named after a former Chesapeake Chapter President.The fellowship offers one year’s membership and active participation in the association’s various activities throughout the Mid-Atlantic region, including a presentation of original research at an upcoming symposium on the history colonial printing and typography.
Wisniewski will also be presenting a paper at the upcoming American Literature Association’s annual meeting in Washington, D.C. with professors from Ohio University, the College of William and Mary, and the University of Massachusetts, May 22-25, in a panel entitled, “Graphic Humor in the 19th-Century Periodical.”
Finally, Wisniewski’s review of Michael David Cohen’s monograph Reconstructing the Campus: Higher Education and the American Civil War (University of Virginia Press, 2012) is forthcoming in the journal Civil War History, and he is awaiting the publication of sections he completed on the early American republic for a forthcoming online, Open Access American History textbook entitled American Yawp (http://www.americanyawp.com/).
The project is edited by Joseph Locke (University of Texas-Pan American) and Ben Wright (Rice University) and boasts an impressively Editorial Board that includes Edward Ayers, Kathleen Brown, Joyce Chaplin, Woody Holton, James Merrell, and Richard White.
Wisniewski will also be presenting a paper at the upcoming American Literature Association’s annual meeting in Washington, D.C. with professors from Ohio University, the College of William and Mary, and the University of Massachusetts, May 22-25, in a panel entitled, “Graphic Humor in the 19th-Century Periodical.”
Finally, Wisniewski’s review of Michael David Cohen’s monograph Reconstructing the Campus: Higher Education and the American Civil War (University of Virginia Press, 2012) is forthcoming in the journal Civil War History, and he is awaiting the publication of sections he completed on the early American republic for a forthcoming online, Open Access American History textbook entitled American Yawp (http://www.americanyawp.com/).
The project is edited by Joseph Locke (University of Texas-Pan American) and Ben Wright (Rice University) and boasts an impressively Editorial Board that includes Edward Ayers, Kathleen Brown, Joyce Chaplin, Woody Holton, James Merrell, and Richard White.
Posted: April 13, 2014, 3:50 PM
