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12016-08-20T13:28:12-07:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650a720011image_header2016-08-23T14:19:05-07:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650aDigital PaxtonThe Digital Paxton would not be possible without the inestimable support of institutional collaborators at the Library Company of Philadelphia, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, and the Alliance for Networking Visual Culture.
Craig Dietrich, Information Design Director, Vectors and ANVC
Curtis Fletcher, Project Manager, ANVC
Erik Loyer, Co-PI, Creative Director, Vectors and ANVC
Tara McPherson, Lead PI, ANVC
About the Creator Will Fenton is the Albert M. Greenfield Foundation Dissertation Fellow at the Library Company of Philadelphia, an MLA Proseminar Fellow, and a doctoral candidate at Fordham University where he specializes in early-American literature and the Digital Humanities. His dissertation, “Unpeaceable Kingdom: Fighting Quakers, Revolutionary Violence, and the Antebellum Novel,” examines the discrepancy between fictional representations of fighting Quakers and their historical practices of pacifism and political participation.
Will has served as the Director of the Writing Center at Fordham University Lincoln Center, Editor of Eloquentia Perfecta, and a Teaching Fellow. He is the recipient of a Haverford Gest Fellowship, HASTAC Scholarship, as well as Fordham's Innovative Pedagogy Scholarship and Digital Start-Up Grant. His work has appeared in Slate, Inside Higher Ed, and PC Magazine, for which he writes a biweekly column, “The Autodidact,” on educational technology.
