H. Lewis Ulman

Professor Ulman teaches courses in digital media, literature and environment studies, electronic textual editing, and rhetorical theory, history and criticism. He has authored Things, Thoughts, Words, and Actions: The Problem of Language in Late Eighteenth-Century British Rhetoric (SIUP, 1994), edited The Minutes of the Aberdeen Philosophical Society, 1758-1773 (Aberdeen UP, 1990), and published articles on eighteenth-century British philosophy and rhetoric, American nature writing, and digital media. Over the past seven years, he has collaborated with his students on four electronic textual editions of unpublished nineteenth-century American manuscripts. With Professor Cynthia L. Selfe, he co-founded and co-directs the Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives, a publicly available archive of over 2,400 personal literacy narratives in a variety of formats (text, video, audio) that document the literacy practices and values of contributors.

Selected digital media projects:
The Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives (DALN) (2008)
Samuel Sullivan Cox's 'Journal of a Tour to Europe,' 1851 (2007)
The Letters of William B. Anderson to Mary Louisa (Fischgens) Anderson, 1862–1864 (2006)
My Dear Elizabeth: Letters from Sophia Peabody Hawthorne to Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, ca. 1837-1868 (2004)
Editor, The ASLE Online Bibliography (2001-2010)
Louisa A. Doane's Journal of Two Ocean Voyages (1852-1853)