Wesley Raabe to edit Uncle Tom’s Cabin

The Collected Works of Harriet Beecher Stowe (CWHBS) has commissioned Wesley Raabe to edit Uncle Tom’s Cabin for volume 1, Antislavery Writings. Raabe is Associate Professor of English at Kent State University and a specialist in scholarly editing and digital publication. He currently serves as the Textual Editor of CWHBS and as a member of the Advisory Board of The Collected Works of Edith Wharton (also Oxford University Press). He is the editor of the letters of Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, mother to the poet Walt Whitman and serves on the advisory board of Scholarly Editing: The Annual of the Association for Documentary Editing. In addition to his scholarly articles on Uncle Tom’s Cabin, he is the editor of the National Era text of that novel on Uncle Tom’s Cabin & American Culture and the weekly installment re-issue from the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center blog.