Stephanie M. Blalock teaches Metadata: Theories and Applications in SLIS. She is a Digital Humanities Librarian in the Digital Scholarship and Publishing Studio with the University of Iowa Libraries. She is the Iowa Project Manager for the Walt Whitman Archive and an Associate Editor for the Walt Whitman Quarterly Review.

She is the author of “GO TO PFAFF’S!”: The History of a Restaurant and Lager Beer Saloon, a peer-reviewed digital edition published by Lehigh University Press (2014). Her research interests include Walt Whitman, nineteenth-century periodicals and print culture, textual recovery, social reform movements, nineteenth-century humor, digital scholarly editing, project management, and the digital and public humanities. She has published numerous book chapters and articles on Walt Whitman and has worked on several projects for the Whitman Archive, including editing (with Nicole Gray) the Fiction Section of Whitman’s Published Works and managing the Archive’s Late-Life Correspondence section.