William Pannapacker | |
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| Nationality | American |
| Education | Ph.D., History of American Civilization, Harvard University, 1999; A.M in English and American Literature at Harvard University, 1995; M.A. in English at University of Miami, 1993; a B.A. in English at Saint Joseph's University, 1990. |
| Occupation(s) | Professor emeritus of English, higher education journalist, consultant, administrator, and fundraiser. |
| Employer(s) | Chicago Jesuit Academy, Hope College, Harvard University |
| Organization(s) | Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Great Lakes Colleges Association. |
| Known for | Columnist for The Chronicle of Higher Education, professor emeritus of English, expertise on American literature, urban studies, church-affiliated education, online learning, social media, general education reforms, grand challenges, community-based partnerships, multi-institutional collaborations, high-impact learning practices, arts and humanities foundations, institutional change, and diversity, equity, and inclusion. |
William Pannapacker is a professor emeritus of English and a higher education journalist, consultant, administrator, and fundraiser.[1] He is the author of Revised Lives: Walt Whitman and Nineteenth-Century Authorship, and numerous articles on literature, higher education, and the Digital Humanities published by Cambridge University Press, Duke, Harvard, Princeton, and Routledge.[1] He was a regular columnist for The Chronicle of Higher Education from 1998 to 2014, and he has been a contributor to The New York Times, The North American Review and Slate Magazine.[1] Pannapacker has received $2.3 million in grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. He was the founding director of the Mellon Scholars Program in the Arts and Humanities at Hope College in Holland, Michigan, from 2009 to 2016; the director of the Digital Liberal Arts Initiative of the Great Lakes Colleges Association, from 2013 to 2015; the DuMez Professor of English, from 2015 to 2019; senior director of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grand Challenges Presidential Initiative, from 2016 to 2019, and Professor and Senior Director of Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Programs and Initiatives at Hope College, from 2019-2022.