Stacey Berry is a Ph.D. student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where she studies twentieth-century American literature. Her research focuses on violence, space, and indentity in the post-1945 American novel. She is an assistant editor of the Walt Whitman Archive and has created a transcription tool "unScripting Whitman" for the Archive. She has also contributed to other digital projects in process at the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities at UNL. Currently, she is writing her dissertation entitled "The War Zone: a Dialectic of Space and Oppression in Post-1945 American Fiction."
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A note on the URL for this site: "Code Six" is a fictional Vietnam war veteran who appears in William T. Vollmann's novel Whores for Gloria. In military slang the term Six refers to "my 6 o'clock" or the space directly behind; the back; a signal to provide cover for a soldier's back or the rear of an operation. Vollmann's Code Six acts as a friend, confidant, and adviser to, Jimmy, the main character, also a veteran struggling with life after the war; Code Six quite literally has Jimmy's back.