Achievements
Posted: Wednesday, June 28, 2017Thomas J. Reigstad, Professor Emeritus, English
Thomas Reigstad, professor emeritus of English, was an invited panelist at the Association for Documentary Editing’s 2017 annual conference, held June 22–24 in Buffalo. Reigstad presented “The Tale of the Lost Huckleberry Finn Manuscript” as part of the special session “Scholarly Editors and the Law,” chaired by Salvatore Martoche, retired State Supreme Court appellate justice. Fellow panelists discussed recovering stolen Thomas Edison documents and recovering North Carolina’s copy of the Bill of Rights. Other conference speakers included the editor of the Mary Baker Eddy Papers, the associate editor of the Ulysses S. Grant Papers, the managing editor of the Samuel Beckett Digital Manuscript Project, and the editor of the Papers of Martin Van Buren.
