Edward Whitley, founder of the Mellon Foundation at Lehigh University. will lead a discussion on "Digital Humanities and Community Engagement." Whitley is the author of the book, "American Bards: Walt Whitman and Other Unlikely Candidates for National Poet," the co-author of the book, "Teaching with the Norton Anthology of American Literature," a contributor to the groundbreaking book, "The American Literature Scholar in the Digital Age," and one of the creators of new Internet site, "The Vault at Pfaff's: An Archive of Art and Literature by the Bohemians of Antebellum New York." On Thursday, he will discuss the changes to both scholarship and teaching in the humanities with the advent of new digital technologies.
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