Consulting Editor, Southern Spaces
Emory Center for Digital Scholarship

Jesse P. Karlsberg is Post-Doctoral Fellow in Digital Humanities Publishing at the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship. Jesse’s research examines connections between race, place, folklorization, and American music focusing on the editions of The Sacred Harp—a shape-note tunebook first published in Georgia in 1844—and their attendant music culture. Jesse is the editor of Original Sacred Harp: Centennial Edition (Pitts Theology Library and Sacred Harp Publishing Company, 2015), a facsimile reprint of a 1911 edition of The Sacred Harp with a new introduction. He is the lead scholar of Readux, a tool for annotating and publishing digital critical editions, and is series editor of Vernacular Sacred Music in America, a collection of editions using the platform. He is the consulting editor of Southern Spaces, a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary, open-access journal about real and imagined spaces and places of the US South and their global connections.