U of Iowa Song of Myself project
The idea behind the project was to have a conversation, across languages, borders, and time zones, about the multiple meanings of this foundational text. For 52 weeks between fall of 2012 and 2013, Professor Ed Folsom, co-director of the Whitman Archive and Christopher Merrill, director of the International Writing Program, exchanged a foreword and an afterword to each section, then posed a question inspired by the reading. The readers answered these in the Comments section of each section, or on the pages of WhitmanWeb’s social media. In 2016 Folsom’s and Merrill’s commentaries were published alongside Whitman’s poem by the University of Iowa Press.
In 2014, professors Folsom and Merrill co-taught an interactive online study of “Song of Myself” as a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC). The video lectures from Every Atom: Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself" are now accessible in IWP’s MOOC-Pack Library.
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