Stephanie M. Blalock is an assistant professor in the School of Library & Information Science. 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). 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.