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[[File:Editing Wikipedia brochure EN.pdf|thumb|180px|''Editing Wikipedia'' featuring Wadewitz as the face of Wikipedia]]
[[File:Media tribute to Adrianne Wadewitz, Occidental College.jpg|thumb|180px|A digital media tribute to Adrianne Wadewitz at Occidental College]]
'''Adrianne Wadewitz''' (January 6, 1977 – April 8, 2014) was an American feminist scholar of 18th-century British literature, a noted [[Wikipedian]], and commenter upon (particularly) gender issues in [[Wikipedia]].

== Biography ==
Adrianne Wadewitz was born on January 6, 1977, in [[Omaha, Nebraska]] to Betty M. and Nathan R. Wadewitz.<ref name="HASTAC"/> She studied [[English literature]] and received a degree in English from [[Columbia University]] in 1999.<ref name=nyt>{{cite web |url=http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/19/business/media/adrianne-wadewitz-37-wikipedia-editor-dies-after-rock-climbing-fall.html |title=Adrianne Wadewitz, 37, Wikipedia Editor, Dies After Rock Climbing Fall |last1=Cohen |first1=Noam |date=2014-04-18 |work=[[The New York Times]] |accessdate=2014-04-18}}</ref> In 2011 she obtained a [[Ph.D.]] from [[Indiana University]] and became a [[postdoctoral fellow]] at the Center for Digital Learning and Research at [[Occidental College]]. She was chosen as a Mellon Digital Scholarship Postdoctoral Fellow and a HASTAC scholar.<ref name=HASTAC>{{cite web |last=Davidson |first=Cathy |title=Remembering Adrianne Wadewitz: Scholar, Communicator, Teacher, Leader |url=https://www.hastac.org/blogs/cathy-davidson/2014/04/10/remembering-adrianne-wadewitz-scholar-communicator-teacher-leader |publisher=HASTAC |accessdate=23 April 2014}}</ref>

==Academic Career==
===Education===
Wadewitz received her [[Master's degree|Masters]] and [[Doctor of Philosophy|Doctoral]] degrees in British Literature with a minor in 18th-Century Studies from [[Indiana University]].<ref>{{cite web |url= http://oxy.academia.edu/AdrianneWadewitz/CurriculumVitae |title=Curriculum Vitae of Adrianne Wadewitz |work =Academia.edu |accessdate=23 April 2014}}</ref> Prior to pursuing her doctorate, she graduated [[Magna cum laude]] from [[Columbia University]].

While in graduate school, she completed both a [[Master's thesis]], “‘Doubting Thomas’: The Failure of Religious Appropriation in The Age of Reason” (2003)<ref>{{cite web |last = Wadewitz | first = Adrianne |title = “‘Doubting Thomas’: The Failure of Religious Appropriation in The Age of Reason” |url = http://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/6033513 |publisher = Indiana University |accessdate=23 April 2014}} </ref>, as well as her [[doctoral dissertation]], '''Spare the Sympathy, Spoil the Child:' Sensibility, Selfhood, and the Maturing Reader, 1775–1815'' (2011). <ref>{{citation|last= Wadewitz |first= Adrianne |year= 2011 |url= http://search.proquest.com/docview/884792113 |title='Spare the Sympathy, Spoil the Child:' Sensibility, Selfhood, and the Maturing Reader, 1775-1815 |page= vi| publisher= Dissertation Abstracts International |place= Ann Arbor, MI}}. Order Number 3466388. Indiana University. </ref>. The latter combined her research interests in archival work, children's literature, and gender studies. It argued that the kinds of subjectivity displayed in late eighteenth-century children's literature challenged "the dominant Lockean model" by drawing upon "Rousseau's theory of education and the discourse of sensibility to construct a 'sympathetic self.'...Significantly, this "sympathetic self" was available to both sexes and to children. Unlike other versions of the self based on sensibility, it was not predicated upon femininity. Moreover, maturation did not depend on age, but rather on one's state of mind; any person educated through this sympathetic literature could be an adult and participate in civic society through, for example, charitable acts." Moreover, in its conclusion, through its analysis of ""how childhood reading informed the reading of 'adult' novels by [[Jane Austen]]," it argued that "that contemporary readers of Austen would have read her novels 'didactically' and followed the structural patterns of the children's literature they grew up reading rather than seeing the irony we value today."<ref>{{cite web |url= http://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/11825375|last= Wadewitz |first= Adrianne |year= 2011 |title='Spare the Sympathy, Spoil the Child:' Sensibility, Selfhood, and the Maturing Reader, 1775-1815 |page= vi| publisher= IUCat | accessdate=23 April 2014}} </ref>.

===Academic Publications===
In 2009, she was a co-editor with Pamela Gay-White.for a special issue on [[didacticism]] in eighteenth-century children’s literature in the academic journal, ''[http://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/lion_and_the_unicorn/ The Lion and the Unicorn].''<ref> Pamela Gay-White and Adrianne Wadewitz. [http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/lion_and_the_unicorn/toc/uni.33.2.html "Introduction: "Performing the Didactic"]." The Lion and the Unicorn 33.2 (2009): v-vii. Project MUSE. Web. 23 Apr. 2014.</ref>

Her publications include:
* "[https://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/bookbird/v052/52.1.wadewitz.html A Doctor for Who(m)?: Queer Temporalities and the Sexualized Child]," with Mica Hilson ''[http://www.ibby.org/index.php?id=1035 Bookbird: A Journal of International Children's Literature]'' 52. 1 (January 2014): pp. 63-76 <ref>{{cite |last=Wadewitz |first=Adrianne and Mica Hilson |title= "A Doctor for Who(m)?: Queer Temporalities and the Sexualized Child." |url=http://muse.jhu.edu/ |publisher= ''Bookbird: A Journal of International Children's Literature'' 52.1 (2014): 63-76. }}</ref>
* “[[User:Awadewit/TeachingEssay|Wiki-hacking: Opening up the Academy with Wikipedia]],”with Anne Ellen Geller and Jon Beasley-Murray ''[http://hackingtheacademy.org/ Hacking the Academy]''. Eds. Tom Scheinfeldt and Dan Cohen. [[University of Michigan Press]] (2011).<ref>{{citation |last = Scheinfeldt | first = Tom and Dan Cohen | title = Hacking the Academy |publisher = Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, George Mason University | url = http://hackingtheacademy.org/lectures-classrooms-and-the-curriculum/ | accessdate=23 April 2014}} </ref>
* "[http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/lion_and_the_unicorn/toc/uni.33.2.html Introduction: 'Performing the Didactic],'" with Pamela Gay-White. ''The Lion and the Unicorn'' 33.2 (2009): v-vii.<ref> Pamela Gay-White. and Adrianne Wadewitz. [http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/lion_and_the_unicorn/toc/uni.33.2.html "Introduction: "Performing the Didactic"]." The Lion and the Unicorn 33.2 (2009): v-vii. Project MUSE. Web. 23 Apr. 2014.</ref>

The following were forthcoming at the time of her death:
* “Providential empiricism: Shaping the self in eighteenth-century children’s literature,” ''[http://www.amspressinc.com/rae.html Religion in the Age of Enlightenment]'' 5 (Forthcoming Fall 2014)
* "Crowdsourcing History: The Shape of Historical Uncertainty and Dispute on Wikipedia," with Alex Stinson ''[http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rrhi20 Rethinking History: The Journal of Theory and Practice]'' (Forthcoming Spring 2014)
* "The Narrated Mind: Children's Literature and the Creation of the Self in Late Eighteenth-Century Literature." ''Beyond Sense and Sensibility: Moral Formation in the Late Eighteenth Century''. Ed. Peggy Thompson. Bucknell University Press. (Forthcoming Spring 2014)
* "Where the Wild Things Are: Navigating the Advantages and Challenges of Teaching with Wikipedia." ''Technology in the Literature Class: Assignments and Materials''. Ed. Timothy Hetland. Bedford/St. Martin's Press. (Forthcoming Fall 2013) <ref>{{cite web |url= http://oxy.academia.edu/AdrianneWadewitz/CurriculumVitae |title=Curriculum Vitae of Adrianne Wadewitz |work =Academia.edu |accessdate=23 April 2014}}</ref>

=== Digital humanities===
In 2009, Wadewitz began putting ''[[The New England Primer]]'' online, culminating in a permanent online exhibit in 2012, with text and annotated transcriptions.<ref>[http://cdlrsandbox.org/neprimer/index.html New England Primer] exhibit and analysis, 2012. Retrieved April 21, 2014.</ref>

She published on topics including 18th-century children's literature, ambiguity in historical scholarship, and use of Wikipedia in the classroom.<ref name=works>[http://works.bepress.com/adrianne_wadewitz/doctype.html Selected Works of Adrienne Wadewitz], bepress. Retrieved April 21, 2014.</ref>{{self-published inline|date=April 2014}}

In her doctoral dissertation, '''Spare the Sympathy, Spoil the Child:' Sensibility, Selfhood, and the Maturing Reader, 1775–1815'' (2011), Wadewitz studied the use of language and discursive strategies such as embedded narratives in children's books by [[Mary Wollstonecraft]], [[Anna Laetitia Barbauld]], [[Charlotte Smith]], [[Maria Edgeworth]], and others. She argued that through such reading, the child was supported in the construction of a "sympathetic self" that was "collective, benevolent, and imaginative."<ref>{{citation|last= Wadewitz |first= Adrianne |year= 2011 |url= http://search.proquest.com/docview/884792113 |title='Spare the Sympathy, Spoil the Child:' Sensibility, Selfhood, and the Maturing Reader, 1775-1815 |page= vi| publisher= Dissertation Abstracts International |place= Ann Arbor, MI}}. Order Number 3466388. Indiana University. </ref>

Writing about the use of Wikipedia in education, she argued that in addition to traditional writing and research skills, students should develop skills in media and technological literacy. Reflecting on the construction of knowledge, she emphasized the need to assess sources; distinguish between fact-based and persuasive writing; and be aware of authority and legitimacy. She promoted the development of curricula that included collaborative writing, development of writing skills in the context of a “community of practice”, and writing for a global readership.{{cn|date=April 2014}}

===18th-Century Studies Scholarship===
In addition to her Digital Humanities work, with frequently overlapped with her work as a scholar of eighteenth-century British literature, Wadewitz was an active member of the [[American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies]] (ASECS). In 2005, she presented the paper, “[http://asecs.press.jhu.edu/Wadewitz.htm Sermonizing Women: Christian Civic Virtue and the Public Sphere],” as part of the panel, The Public Sphere and Literary Form. <ref>{{cite web |last=Wadewitz |first = Adrianne | title = "Sermonizing Women: Christian Civic Virtue and the Public Sphere” Panel 73: The Public Sphere and Literary Form American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, March 2005, Las Vegas, NV.|url = http://asecs.press.jhu.edu/Wadewitz.htm | accessdate=23 April 2014}}</ref> At the 2007 meeting, she presented her paper “Sticks and Stones: Violence and the Creation of the Self in Late Eighteenth-Century Children’s Literature.” <ref>Conference Program. American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, March 2007, Atlanta, GA.</ref> She was a speaker on the roundtable, [http://eighteenthcentury.org/2010/03/12/asecs-2010-a-few-details-a-few-ideas/ The Digital Eighteenth Century 2.0,] at the 2010 meeting<ref>
[http://asecs.press.jhu.edu/2010%20Program.pdf Conference Program]. American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, March 2010, Albuquerque, NM </ref><ref>Williams, George H. “[http://eighteenthcentury.org/2010/03/12/asecs-2010-a-few-details-a-few-ideas/ ASECS 2010: A Few Details, a Few Ideas]." ''EighteenthCentury.org.''12 March 2010 Web. 24 Apr. 2014.</ref> On the panel, The Mind of the Child in the Eighteenth Century, she presented"The Narrated Mind: Children's Literature and the Creation of the Self in Late Eighteenth-Century England." <ref>[http://asecs.press.jhu.edu/Book%201.pdf Conference Program]. American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. March 2012. San Antonio, TX.</ref> She presented at 2013 annual meeting on her work on [http://cdlrsandbox.org/neprimer/ The New England Primer] in the paper, "Pixelated Primer: The New England Primer as Textbook and Website" on the panel Mediating Education: Textbooks and teaching Technologies, and was a respondent on the Digital Humanities Caucus Panel, Publicity and the Public Sphere.<ref>[http://asecs.press.jhu.edu/Weekly%20Announcements/2013%20Annual%20Meeting%20tentative%20program.pdf Conference Program]. American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. March 2013. Cleveland, OH, </ref>

==Wikipedia editing and advocacy==
Wadewitz made her first edit on Wikipedia in 2004 and went on to create articles on female writers and scholars, several of them becoming [[Wikipedia:Featured articles|featured articles]]. She made nearly 50,000 edits in all.<ref name=nyt />

As a major promoter of getting more women to edit Wikipedia to help end [[systematic bias]], she said, "We need more female editors, more feminists (who can be editors of any gender), and more editors willing to work on content related to women. The single most underrepresented group on Wikipedia is married women of color with children."<ref name="college">{{cite web |url=http://college.usatoday.com/2014/03/26/universities-re-write-wikipedia-to-fill-holes-include-women/ |title=Universities 're-write' Wikipedia to fill holes, include women |work=[[USA Today]] |date=26 March 2014 |accessdate=20 April 2014 |author=Mehrotra, Karishma}}</ref>

She increasingly became seen as an authority on Wikipedia, and particularly on the encyclopedia's gender issues, and was cited as such by organizations such as the BBC.<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26828726 |title=How can Wikipedia woo women editors? |first=Lynsea |last=Garrison |date=April 7, 2014 |accessdate=April 21, 2014 |publisher=[[BBC]]}}</ref>

Wadewitz also served on the board of the [[Wiki Education Foundation]], whose Board Chair and Executive Director noted that "her impact on work promoting Wikipedia as a teaching tool can be seen throughout the Education Program."<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiki_Education_Foundation/Adrianne |title=Wikipedia:Wiki Education Foundation/Adrianne |first1=Diana |last1=Strassmann |first2= Frank |last2=Schulenberg|date=April 10, 2014 |accessdate=April 23, 2014 |publisher=Wikimedia Foundation}}</ref>

==Later life and death==
Wadewitz enjoyed [[rock climbing]], which she described as enabling "a new narrative about herself beyond that of a bookish, piano-playing Wikipedia contributor."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/19/business/media/adrianne-wadewitz-37-wikipedia-editor-dies-after-rock-climbing-fall.html |title=Adrianne Wadewitz, 37, Wikipedia Editor, Dies After Rock Climbing Fall |last1=Cohen |first1=Noam |date=2014-04-18 |work=[[The New York Times]] |accessdate=2014-04-18}} See {{citation|url=https://www.hastac.org/blogs/wadewitz/2013/08/12/what-i-learned-worst-student-class |last=Wadewitz |first=Adrianne |chapter=What I learned as the worst student in the class |title= HASTAC |date= August 12, 2013}}.</ref>

On April 8, 2014, she died from head injuries sustained a week earlier in a rock climbing fall at [[Joshua Tree National Park]], while [[rappel]]ing the ''Cathouse'' formation in the ''Lost Horse'' area.<ref>[http://blog.pe.com/breaking-news/2014/03/31/joshua-tree-national-park-accidents-hospitalize-2-climbers-motorcyclist/ The Press-Enterprise, ''JOSHUA TREE NATIONAL PARK: Accidents hospitalize 2 climbers, motorcyclist'']</ref>{{better source|date=April 2014}}<ref name=supertopo>{{cite web |title=Recent Climber Death in JTree? |url=http://www.supertopo.com/climbers-forum/2384845/Recent-Climber-Death-in-JTree |publisher=supertopo.com |accessdate=21 April 2014}}</ref>{{better source|date=April 2014}}<ref name=mountainproject>{{cite web |title=Adrianne Wadewitz, 37, Wikipedia Editor, Dies After Rock Climbing Fall |url=http://www.mountainproject.com/v/adrianne-wadewitz-37-wikipedia-editor-dies-after-rock-climbing-fall/108872020 |publisher=mountainproject.com |accessdate=21 April 2014}}</ref>{{better source|date=April 2014}}

Wadewitz's death, and her work on Wikipedia, received coverage from news outlets such as the ''[[New York Times]]''<ref name=nyt /> and ''[[The Desert Sun]]''.<ref name=desertsun>{{cite web|url=http://www.desertsun.com/story/news/local/2014/04/18/wikipedia-editor-dies-palm-springs-following-fall-joshua-tree-national-park/7890685/|title=Wikipedia editor Adrianne Wadewitz dies in Palm Springs|last1=Newkirk|first1=Barrett|date=2014-04-18|work=[[The Desert Sun]]|accessdate=2014-04-18}}</ref> [[Sue Gardner]], the executive director of the [[Wikimedia Foundation]], described Wadewitz's death as a "huge loss" and said she may have been Wikipedia's "single biggest contributor on ... female authors [and] women's history".<ref name=nyt />

== Doctoral dissertation ==
* {{citation|last= Wadewitz |first= Adrianne |year= 2011 |url= http://search.proquest.com/docview/884792113 |title='Spare the Sympathy, Spoil the Child:' Sensibility, Selfhood, and the Maturing Reader, 1775-1815 | publisher= Dissertation Abstracts International |place= Ann Arbor, MI}}. Order Number 3466388. Indiana University.

== References ==
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== External links ==
{{wikidata|Adrianne Wadewitz}}
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* [https://www.hastac.org/blogs/wadewitz Wadewitz's blog] on the [[HASTAC|Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory]] website
* Alex Juhasz and Anne Balsamo, [http://femtechnet.newschool.edu/blog/adrianne-wadewitz/ Tribute to Adrianne Wadewitz], [[The New School]], FemTechNet blog, April 10, 2014.

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Adrianne Wadewitz

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[[File:Editing Wikipedia brochure EN.pdf|thumb|180px|''Editing Wikipedia'' featuring Wadewitz as the face of Wikipedia]]
[[File:Media tribute to Adrianne Wadewitz, Occidental College.jpg|thumb|180px|A digital media tribute to Adrianne Wadewitz at Occidental College]]
'''Adrianne Wadewitz''' (January 6, 1977 – April 8, 2014) was an American feminist scholar of 18th-century British literature, a noted [[Wikipedian]], and commenter upon (particularly) gender issues in [[Wikipedia]].

== Biography ==
Adrianne Wadewitz was born on January 6, 1977, in [[Omaha, Nebraska]] to Betty M. and Nathan R. Wadewitz.<ref name="HASTAC"/> She studied [[English literature]] and received a degree in English from [[Columbia University]] in 1999.<ref name=nyt>{{cite web |url=http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/19/business/media/adrianne-wadewitz-37-wikipedia-editor-dies-after-rock-climbing-fall.html |title=Adrianne Wadewitz, 37, Wikipedia Editor, Dies After Rock Climbing Fall |last1=Cohen |first1=Noam |date=2014-04-18 |work=[[The New York Times]] |accessdate=2014-04-18}}</ref> In 2011 she obtained a [[Ph.D.]] from [[Indiana University]] and became a [[postdoctoral fellow]] at the Center for Digital Learning and Research at [[Occidental College]]. She was chosen as a Mellon Digital Scholarship Postdoctoral Fellow and a HASTAC scholar.<ref name=HASTAC>{{cite web |last=Davidson |first=Cathy |title=Remembering Adrianne Wadewitz: Scholar, Communicator, Teacher, Leader |url=https://www.hastac.org/blogs/cathy-davidson/2014/04/10/remembering-adrianne-wadewitz-scholar-communicator-teacher-leader |publisher=HASTAC |accessdate=23 April 2014}}</ref>

==Academic Career==
===Education===
Wadewitz received her [[Master's degree|Masters]] and [[Doctor of Philosophy|Doctoral]] degrees in British Literature with a minor in 18th-Century Studies from [[Indiana University]].<ref>{{cite web |url= http://oxy.academia.edu/AdrianneWadewitz/CurriculumVitae |title=Curriculum Vitae of Adrianne Wadewitz |work =Academia.edu |accessdate=23 April 2014}}</ref> Prior to pursuing her doctorate, she graduated [[Magna cum laude]] from [[Columbia University]].

While in graduate school, she completed both a [[Master's thesis]], “‘Doubting Thomas’: The Failure of Religious Appropriation in The Age of Reason” (2003)<ref>{{cite web |last = Wadewitz | first = Adrianne |title = “‘Doubting Thomas’: The Failure of Religious Appropriation in The Age of Reason” |url = http://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/6033513 |publisher = Indiana University |accessdate=23 April 2014}} </ref>, as well as her [[doctoral dissertation]], '''Spare the Sympathy, Spoil the Child:' Sensibility, Selfhood, and the Maturing Reader, 1775–1815'' (2011). <ref>{{citation|last= Wadewitz |first= Adrianne |year= 2011 |url= http://search.proquest.com/docview/884792113 |title='Spare the Sympathy, Spoil the Child:' Sensibility, Selfhood, and the Maturing Reader, 1775-1815 |page= vi| publisher= Dissertation Abstracts International |place= Ann Arbor, MI}}. Order Number 3466388. Indiana University. </ref>. The latter combined her research interests in archival work, children's literature, and gender studies. It argued that the kinds of subjectivity displayed in late eighteenth-century children's literature challenged "the dominant Lockean model" by drawing upon "Rousseau's theory of education and the discourse of sensibility to construct a 'sympathetic self.'...Significantly, this "sympathetic self" was available to both sexes and to children. Unlike other versions of the self based on sensibility, it was not predicated upon femininity. Moreover, maturation did not depend on age, but rather on one's state of mind; any person educated through this sympathetic literature could be an adult and participate in civic society through, for example, charitable acts." Moreover, in its conclusion, through its analysis of ""how childhood reading informed the reading of 'adult' novels by [[Jane Austen]]," it argued that "that contemporary readers of Austen would have read her novels 'didactically' and followed the structural patterns of the children's literature they grew up reading rather than seeing the irony we value today."<ref>{{cite web |url= http://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/11825375|last= Wadewitz |first= Adrianne |year= 2011 |title='Spare the Sympathy, Spoil the Child:' Sensibility, Selfhood, and the Maturing Reader, 1775-1815 |page= vi| publisher= IUCat | accessdate=23 April 2014}} </ref>.

===Academic Publications===
In 2009, she was a co-editor with Pamela Gay-White.for a special issue on [[didacticism]] in eighteenth-century children’s literature in the academic journal, ''[http://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/lion_and_the_unicorn/ The Lion and the Unicorn].''<ref> Pamela Gay-White and Adrianne Wadewitz. [http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/lion_and_the_unicorn/toc/uni.33.2.html "Introduction: "Performing the Didactic"]." The Lion and the Unicorn 33.2 (2009): v-vii. Project MUSE. Web. 23 Apr. 2014.</ref>

Her publications include:
* "[https://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/bookbird/v052/52.1.wadewitz.html A Doctor for Who(m)?: Queer Temporalities and the Sexualized Child]," with Mica Hilson ''[http://www.ibby.org/index.php?id=1035 Bookbird: A Journal of International Children's Literature]'' 52. 1 (January 2014): pp. 63-76 <ref>{{cite |last=Wadewitz |first=Adrianne and Mica Hilson |title= "A Doctor for Who(m)?: Queer Temporalities and the Sexualized Child." |url=http://muse.jhu.edu/ |publisher= ''Bookbird: A Journal of International Children's Literature'' 52.1 (2014): 63-76. }}</ref>
* “[[User:Awadewit/TeachingEssay|Wiki-hacking: Opening up the Academy with Wikipedia]],”with Anne Ellen Geller and Jon Beasley-Murray ''[http://hackingtheacademy.org/ Hacking the Academy]''. Eds. Tom Scheinfeldt and Dan Cohen. [[University of Michigan Press]] (2011).<ref>{{citation |last = Scheinfeldt | first = Tom and Dan Cohen | title = Hacking the Academy |publisher = Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, George Mason University | url = http://hackingtheacademy.org/lectures-classrooms-and-the-curriculum/ | accessdate=23 April 2014}} </ref>
* "[http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/lion_and_the_unicorn/toc/uni.33.2.html Introduction: 'Performing the Didactic],'" with Pamela Gay-White. ''The Lion and the Unicorn'' 33.2 (2009): v-vii.<ref> Pamela Gay-White. and Adrianne Wadewitz. [http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/lion_and_the_unicorn/toc/uni.33.2.html "Introduction: "Performing the Didactic"]." The Lion and the Unicorn 33.2 (2009): v-vii. Project MUSE. Web. 23 Apr. 2014.</ref>

The following were forthcoming at the time of her death:
* “Providential empiricism: Shaping the self in eighteenth-century children’s literature,” ''[http://www.amspressinc.com/rae.html Religion in the Age of Enlightenment]'' 5 (Forthcoming Fall 2014)
* "Crowdsourcing History: The Shape of Historical Uncertainty and Dispute on Wikipedia," with Alex Stinson ''[http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rrhi20 Rethinking History: The Journal of Theory and Practice]'' (Forthcoming Spring 2014)
* "The Narrated Mind: Children's Literature and the Creation of the Self in Late Eighteenth-Century Literature." ''Beyond Sense and Sensibility: Moral Formation in the Late Eighteenth Century''. Ed. Peggy Thompson. Bucknell University Press. (Forthcoming Spring 2014)
* "Where the Wild Things Are: Navigating the Advantages and Challenges of Teaching with Wikipedia." ''Technology in the Literature Class: Assignments and Materials''. Ed. Timothy Hetland. Bedford/St. Martin's Press. (Forthcoming Fall 2013) <ref>{{cite web |url= http://oxy.academia.edu/AdrianneWadewitz/CurriculumVitae |title=Curriculum Vitae of Adrianne Wadewitz |work =Academia.edu |accessdate=23 April 2014}}</ref>

=== Digital humanities===
In 2009, Wadewitz began putting ''[[The New England Primer]]'' online, culminating in a permanent online exhibit in 2012, with text and annotated transcriptions.<ref>[http://cdlrsandbox.org/neprimer/index.html New England Primer] exhibit and analysis, 2012. Retrieved April 21, 2014.</ref>

She published on topics including 18th-century children's literature, ambiguity in historical scholarship, and use of Wikipedia in the classroom.<ref name=works>[http://works.bepress.com/adrianne_wadewitz/doctype.html Selected Works of Adrienne Wadewitz], bepress. Retrieved April 21, 2014.</ref>{{self-published inline|date=April 2014}}

In her doctoral dissertation, '''Spare the Sympathy, Spoil the Child:' Sensibility, Selfhood, and the Maturing Reader, 1775–1815'' (2011), Wadewitz studied the use of language and discursive strategies such as embedded narratives in children's books by [[Mary Wollstonecraft]], [[Anna Laetitia Barbauld]], [[Charlotte Smith]], [[Maria Edgeworth]], and others. She argued that through such reading, the child was supported in the construction of a "sympathetic self" that was "collective, benevolent, and imaginative."<ref>{{citation|last= Wadewitz |first= Adrianne |year= 2011 |url= http://search.proquest.com/docview/884792113 |title='Spare the Sympathy, Spoil the Child:' Sensibility, Selfhood, and the Maturing Reader, 1775-1815 |page= vi| publisher= Dissertation Abstracts International |place= Ann Arbor, MI}}. Order Number 3466388. Indiana University. </ref>

Writing about the use of Wikipedia in education, she argued that in addition to traditional writing and research skills, students should develop skills in media and technological literacy. Reflecting on the construction of knowledge, she emphasized the need to assess sources; distinguish between fact-based and persuasive writing; and be aware of authority and legitimacy. She promoted the development of curricula that included collaborative writing, development of writing skills in the context of a “community of practice”, and writing for a global readership.{{cn|date=April 2014}}

===18th-Century Studies Scholarship===
In addition to her Digital Humanities work, with frequently overlapped with her work as a scholar of eighteenth-century British literature, Wadewitz was an active member of the [[American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies]] (ASECS). In 2005, she presented the paper, “[http://asecs.press.jhu.edu/Wadewitz.htm Sermonizing Women: Christian Civic Virtue and the Public Sphere],” as part of the panel, The Public Sphere and Literary Form. <ref>{{cite web |last=Wadewitz |first = Adrianne | title = "Sermonizing Women: Christian Civic Virtue and the Public Sphere” Panel 73: The Public Sphere and Literary Form American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, March 2005, Las Vegas, NV.|url = http://asecs.press.jhu.edu/Wadewitz.htm | accessdate=23 April 2014}}</ref> At the 2007 meeting, she presented her paper “Sticks and Stones: Violence and the Creation of the Self in Late Eighteenth-Century Children’s Literature.” <ref>Conference Program. American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, March 2007, Atlanta, GA.</ref> She was a speaker on the roundtable, [http://eighteenthcentury.org/2010/03/12/asecs-2010-a-few-details-a-few-ideas/ The Digital Eighteenth Century 2.0,] at the 2010 meeting<ref>
[http://asecs.press.jhu.edu/2010%20Program.pdf Conference Program]. American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, March 2010, Albuquerque, NM </ref><ref>Williams, George H. “[http://eighteenthcentury.org/2010/03/12/asecs-2010-a-few-details-a-few-ideas/ ASECS 2010: A Few Details, a Few Ideas]." ''EighteenthCentury.org.''12 March 2010 Web. 24 Apr. 2014.</ref> On the panel, The Mind of the Child in the Eighteenth Century, she presented"The Narrated Mind: Children's Literature and the Creation of the Self in Late Eighteenth-Century England." <ref>[http://asecs.press.jhu.edu/Book%201.pdf Conference Program]. American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. March 2012. San Antonio, TX.</ref> She presented at 2013 annual meeting on her work on [http://cdlrsandbox.org/neprimer/ The New England Primer] in the paper, "Pixelated Primer: The New England Primer as Textbook and Website" on the panel Mediating Education: Textbooks and teaching Technologies, and was a respondent on the Digital Humanities Caucus Panel, Publicity and the Public Sphere.<ref>[http://asecs.press.jhu.edu/Weekly%20Announcements/2013%20Annual%20Meeting%20tentative%20program.pdf Conference Program]. American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. March 2013. Cleveland, OH, </ref>

Other eighteenth-century studies related conference presentations include:
*"The ABCs of Sensibility: The Literacy of Feeling." Society for the History of Children and Youth. June 2011. New York, NY.
*“Of Mice and Men: Discipline, Sympathy, and the Self in Late Eighteenth-Century Children’s Literature.” Modern Critical Approaches to Children’s Literature, March 2007, Nashville, TN.
*“The Sympathetic Self: Wollstonecraft and Barbauld’s Religious Sensibilities.” Children’s Literature Association, June 2006, Manhattan Beach, CA.
* “The Conservatism of 1784: Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire and ‘Representative Publicness.’” South Central Modern Language Association, October 2004, New Orleans, LA.
*“Performed Subjectivity: The Absence of Interiority in Pamela.” Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies, October 2003, Newport Beach, CA.
* “The Overdetermining Religious Rhetoric(s) of Blake’s and Paine’s Theosophies.” British Association for Romantic Studies, July 2003, Coventry, England.

==Wikipedia editing and advocacy==
Wadewitz made her first edit on Wikipedia in 2004 and went on to create articles on female writers and scholars, several of them becoming [[Wikipedia:Featured articles|featured articles]]. She made nearly 50,000 edits in all.<ref name=nyt />

As a major promoter of getting more women to edit Wikipedia to help end [[systematic bias]], she said, "We need more female editors, more feminists (who can be editors of any gender), and more editors willing to work on content related to women. The single most underrepresented group on Wikipedia is married women of color with children."<ref name="college">{{cite web |url=http://college.usatoday.com/2014/03/26/universities-re-write-wikipedia-to-fill-holes-include-women/ |title=Universities 're-write' Wikipedia to fill holes, include women |work=[[USA Today]] |date=26 March 2014 |accessdate=20 April 2014 |author=Mehrotra, Karishma}}</ref>

She increasingly became seen as an authority on Wikipedia, and particularly on the encyclopedia's gender issues, and was cited as such by organizations such as the BBC.<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26828726 |title=How can Wikipedia woo women editors? |first=Lynsea |last=Garrison |date=April 7, 2014 |accessdate=April 21, 2014 |publisher=[[BBC]]}}</ref>

Wadewitz also served on the board of the [[Wiki Education Foundation]], whose Board Chair and Executive Director noted that "her impact on work promoting Wikipedia as a teaching tool can be seen throughout the Education Program."<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiki_Education_Foundation/Adrianne |title=Wikipedia:Wiki Education Foundation/Adrianne |first1=Diana |last1=Strassmann |first2= Frank |last2=Schulenberg|date=April 10, 2014 |accessdate=April 23, 2014 |publisher=Wikimedia Foundation}}</ref>

==Later life and death==
Wadewitz enjoyed [[rock climbing]], which she described as enabling "a new narrative about herself beyond that of a bookish, piano-playing Wikipedia contributor."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/19/business/media/adrianne-wadewitz-37-wikipedia-editor-dies-after-rock-climbing-fall.html |title=Adrianne Wadewitz, 37, Wikipedia Editor, Dies After Rock Climbing Fall |last1=Cohen |first1=Noam |date=2014-04-18 |work=[[The New York Times]] |accessdate=2014-04-18}} See {{citation|url=https://www.hastac.org/blogs/wadewitz/2013/08/12/what-i-learned-worst-student-class |last=Wadewitz |first=Adrianne |chapter=What I learned as the worst student in the class |title= HASTAC |date= August 12, 2013}}.</ref>

On April 8, 2014, she died from head injuries sustained a week earlier in a rock climbing fall at [[Joshua Tree National Park]], while [[rappel]]ing the ''Cathouse'' formation in the ''Lost Horse'' area.<ref>[http://blog.pe.com/breaking-news/2014/03/31/joshua-tree-national-park-accidents-hospitalize-2-climbers-motorcyclist/ The Press-Enterprise, ''JOSHUA TREE NATIONAL PARK: Accidents hospitalize 2 climbers, motorcyclist'']</ref>{{better source|date=April 2014}}<ref name=supertopo>{{cite web |title=Recent Climber Death in JTree? |url=http://www.supertopo.com/climbers-forum/2384845/Recent-Climber-Death-in-JTree |publisher=supertopo.com |accessdate=21 April 2014}}</ref>{{better source|date=April 2014}}<ref name=mountainproject>{{cite web |title=Adrianne Wadewitz, 37, Wikipedia Editor, Dies After Rock Climbing Fall |url=http://www.mountainproject.com/v/adrianne-wadewitz-37-wikipedia-editor-dies-after-rock-climbing-fall/108872020 |publisher=mountainproject.com |accessdate=21 April 2014}}</ref>{{better source|date=April 2014}}

Wadewitz's death, and her work on Wikipedia, received coverage from news outlets such as the ''[[New York Times]]''<ref name=nyt /> and ''[[The Desert Sun]]''.<ref name=desertsun>{{cite web|url=http://www.desertsun.com/story/news/local/2014/04/18/wikipedia-editor-dies-palm-springs-following-fall-joshua-tree-national-park/7890685/|title=Wikipedia editor Adrianne Wadewitz dies in Palm Springs|last1=Newkirk|first1=Barrett|date=2014-04-18|work=[[The Desert Sun]]|accessdate=2014-04-18}}</ref> [[Sue Gardner]], the executive director of the [[Wikimedia Foundation]], described Wadewitz's death as a "huge loss" and said she may have been Wikipedia's "single biggest contributor on ... female authors [and] women's history".<ref name=nyt />

== Doctoral dissertation ==
* {{citation|last= Wadewitz |first= Adrianne |year= 2011 |url= http://search.proquest.com/docview/884792113 |title='Spare the Sympathy, Spoil the Child:' Sensibility, Selfhood, and the Maturing Reader, 1775-1815 | publisher= Dissertation Abstracts International |place= Ann Arbor, MI}}. Order Number 3466388. Indiana University.

== References ==
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== External links ==
{{wikidata|Adrianne Wadewitz}}
{{commons category|Adrianne Wadewitz}}
{{Wikisource author|Adrianne Wadewitz}}
* [https://www.hastac.org/blogs/wadewitz Wadewitz's blog] on the [[HASTAC|Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory]] website
* Alex Juhasz and Anne Balsamo, [http://femtechnet.newschool.edu/blog/adrianne-wadewitz/ Tribute to Adrianne Wadewitz], [[The New School]], FemTechNet blog, April 10, 2014.

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Adrianne Wadewitz

2014-04-23T22:54:18Z

70.134.226.155: I looked at the digitized dissertation - the abstract covers 3 pages (vi-viii); order number is not cataloging; it's just for ordering a copy from ProQuest

Adrianne Wadewitz

2014-04-23T22:33:28Z

70.134.226.155: fixed citation glitch

Adrianne Wadewitz

2014-04-23T21:18:35Z

70.134.226.155: merged footnotes

Adrianne Wadewitz

2014-04-23T21:16:06Z

70.134.226.155: /* Digital humanities */ substituted cite to Dissertation Abstracts International

Adrianne Wadewitz

2014-04-23T21:11:02Z

70.134.226.155: /* Wikipedia editing and advocacy */ the source is in the footnote; it doesn't also need to be in the text + it sounds defensive

Adrianne Wadewitz

2014-04-23T21:09:17Z

70.134.226.155: /* Later life and death */ disentangled footnotes

Adrianne Wadewitz

2014-04-23T16:02:30Z

70.134.226.155: a thesis may not be self-published, but this website used as a source is; please take it to the talk page

Adrianne Wadewitz

2014-04-23T15:23:29Z

70.134.226.155: Undid revision 605464311 by Modernist (talk)use common sense and see talk page

Adrianne Wadewitz

2014-04-23T13:57:16Z

70.134.226.155: /* Later life and death */ see talk page

Adrianne Wadewitz

2014-04-23T13:39:30Z

70.134.226.155: /* Doctoral dissertation */ changed external link in text to proper citation

Adrianne Wadewitz

2014-04-23T13:27:26Z

70.134.226.155: /* Later life and death */ WP:RS it's absolutely clear that message boards and forums are not reliable sources

Adrianne Wadewitz

2014-04-23T13:21:12Z

70.134.226.155: /* Digital humanities */ more of the same

Adrianne Wadewitz

2014-04-23T13:19:50Z

70.134.226.155: /* Digital humanities */ see talk page

Adrianne Wadewitz

2014-04-23T13:12:25Z

70.134.226.155: /* Digital humanities */ see talk page