William Pannapacker

Who is William Pannapacker?

William Pannapacker is an American professor of English literature, an academic administrator, and a higher education journalist. He is the author of Revised Lives: Walt Whitman and Nineteenth-Century Authorship, and numerous articles on American literature and culture, higher education, and the Digital Humanities. He has been a columnist for The Chronicle of Higher Education since 1998, and he is a contributor to The New York Times and Slate Magazine. He is the Director of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Scholars Program in the Arts and Humanities at Hope College in Holland, Michigan and the Faculty Director of the Digital Liberal Arts Initiative of the Great Lakes Colleges Association. According to Harvard University's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, "in the world of education journalism, there are few opinion voices as potent as that of William Pannapacker."