Ed Folsom

Ed Folsom (born 1947) is the Roy J. Carver Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Iowa. He is an American literary critic, textual scholar, and digital humanist, and considered one of the world's leading experts on the poet Walt Whitman.

Folsom is the author or editor of twelve books, most of which focus on Whitman and Leaves of Grass, though he has also written on Emily Dickinson, Allen Ginsberg, Langston Hughes, Herman Melville, W. S. Merwin, and others. Folsom's scholarship has been recognized with a Guggenheim Fellowship (2007–2008), three Choice Outstanding Academic Book awards, and an Independent Publisher Book Award. Folsom has lectured in over twelve countries

and, in 2023, was awarded an honorary doctorate from Technical University of Dortmund.