Education
PhD, English, University of Texas at Austin
MA, Library and Information Science, University of Iowa
MFA, Poetry, University of Iowa
BA, English, Washington University in St. Louis
Specializations
Digital Humanities; Cultural Heritage Informatics; Social Media; Archives; Book History; Online Reading; Literature and Creative Writing; Nineteenth-Century US Print Culture
Biography
His research focuses on American cultural heritage from small community archives to big social-media platforms. He is at work on a grant from the Institute of Museum & Library Services to investigate strategic practices and partnerships for coordinating robust community memory in rural communities, and his book project, Lyric Publics: The Uses of Poetry in American Social-Media Campaigns, charts the circulations of poets and poems on social-media during periods of political contest.
Recent Projects and Presentations
American Literature Association: Organizer/presider, “Book Data: Quantitative Methods in Literary Criticism and Book Studies” roundtable sponsored by the Digital Americanists Society, Boston, MA, May 2025.
American Language Association: “Whitman’s Web: The Political Poet 2.0,” “Whitman’s Legacies” panel sponsored by the Whitman Studies Association, Boston, MA, May 2025.
Modern Language Association: “Dickinson’s Misery 2.0: Dickinson Gone Viral,” “Dickinson and Visibility / Invisibility” panel sponsored by the Emily Dickinson International Society, New Orleans, LA, January 2025.
Co-Chair, Digital Humanities in Libraries Special Interest Group, Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH), 2025-2026.
“Public User Services and Technology,” OpenHawks Grant, $6,000, 2024.
Recent Publications
Bateman, Micah. “‘Periodt’: Emphatic Embodiment in Online Black Declaratives.” A History of Punctuation in English Literature, Vol. III, eds. Elizabeth Bonapfel, Mark Faulkner, Jeff Gutierrez, and John Lennard. Cambridge University Press, 2026: pp. 832–839.
Matheis, Caitlin & Bateman, Micah. (2024). Songs of Ourselves: The Circulations and Citations of Nineteenth-Century American Poetry on Twitter [Data set]. Princeton University. https://doi.org/10.34770/fbhp-c751 Bateman, Micah. “‘Distributed ‘Blackishness’’: The Uses of Black American Poets Among Candidates of the 2020 U.S. Democratic Primaries.” Book History. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024: pp. 186–224.
Bateman, Micah. “Whitman’s Web: The Political Poet 2.0.” Oxford Handbook of Walt Whitman, eds. Kenneth Price and Stefan Schöberlein. Oxford University Press, 2024: pp. 199–224.
