People/CharactersElizabeth Renker

Elizabeth Renker is an American English educator, presently at the Ohio State University. Elizabeth Renker's areas of scholarship include American literature of the long nineteenth century, particularly the era after the Civil War; American poetics; American cultural history, especially the social life of poetry across classes, cultures and levels of literacy; the history of English as a discipline, including "American literature" as a field; the history of the canon; the history of higher education; Herman Melville; and Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt.

She has designed and managed numerous digital humanities projects, including projects that collect and make available free to the public the early newspaper poems of Sarah Piatt, including many poems that are unavailable in any modern edition.
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OSU University webpage: https://english.osu.edu/people/renker....