Notes on Contributors

Editors

Martha Nell Smith is Professor of English and Founding Director of the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH <http://www.mith.umd.edu>) at the University of Maryland. Her numerous print publications include three award-winning books – Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson's Intimate Letters to Susan Dickinson, coauthored with Ellen Louise Hart (Paris Press 1998), Comic Power in Emily Dickinson, coauthored with Cristanne Miller and Suzanne Juhasz (Texas 1993), Rowing in Eden: Rereading Emily Dickinson (Texas 1992) – and more than 40 articles and essays. Besides co-editing this Companion to Emily Dickinson, she has also written Dickinson, A User's Guide for Blackwell (forthcoming in 2008). The recipient of numerous awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), the Mellon Foundation, and the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) for her work on Dickinson and in new media, Smith is also Coordinator and Executive Editor of the Dickinson Electronic Archives projects at the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH) at the University of Virginia <http://www.iath.virginia.edu/dickinson> or <http://emilydickinson.org>. With Lara Vetter, Smith is a general editor of Emily Dickinson's Correspondence: A Born-Digital Inquiry, forthcoming (December 2007) from the Mellon-sponsored Rotunda New Digital Scholarship, University of Virginia Press. With teams at the University of Illinois, University of Virginia, University of Nebraska, University of Alberta, and Northwestern University, Smith is working on two interrelated Mellon-sponsored data mining and visualization initiatives, NORA <http://www.noraproject.org> and MONK (Metadata Offer New Knowledge). Smith also serves on the editorial board and steering committee of NINES (Networked Interface for Nineteenth-Century Electronic Scholarship; <http://www.nines.org/>) and is on numerous advisory boards of digital literary projects such as The Poetess Archive <http://www.orgs.muohio.edu/womenpoets/poetess/> and Digital Dickens. A leader in innovations in academic publishing, Smith co-chairs the Modern Language Association (MLA)'s Committee on Scholarly Editions (CSE).

Mary Loeffelholz received her Ph.D. from Yale University and taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign before joining the English department of Northeastern University, where she is currently Professor of English and Associate Dean for Faculty and Director of the Graduate School, College of Arts and Sciences. She is the author of Dickinson and the Boundaries of Feminist Theory (University of Illinois Press 1991), From School to Salon: Reading Nineteenth-Century American Women's Poetry (Princeton University Press 2004), and of numerous essays on nineteenth-century American poetry and culture that have appeared in American Literary History, The New England Quarterly, The Emily Dickinson Journal, The Yale Journal of Criticism, Genders, and Legacy. She is the editor of Studies in American Fiction and of Volume D, 1914–1945, of The Norton Anthology of American Literature.

Contributors

Faith Barrett is an Assistant Professor of English at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin. With Cristanne Miller, she co-edited Words for the Hour: A New Anthology of American Civil War Poetry (University of Massachusetts Press 2005). She is currently working on a book manuscript that analyzes American poetry of the Civil War era, including work by Dickinson, Piatt, Whitman, and Melville, as well as popular poetry and unpublished poems by soldiers.

Renée Bergland is Professor of English and Gender/Cultural Studies at Simmons College in Boston. She is the author of The National Uncanny: Indian Ghosts and American Subjects (University Press of New England 2000) and Computer of Venus: Maria Mitchell and the Sexing of Science (Beacon, forthcoming); her current project, Emily Dickinson, Planetary Poet, examines the global Dickinson.

Max Cavitch is Associate Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of American Elegy: The Poetry of Mourning from the Puritans to Whitman (Minnesota 2007), and of essays on literary and visual culture in the journals American Literary History, American Literature, Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Early American Literature, Screen, and Victorian Poetry.

Sandra Chung is Professor of Linguistics, Fellow of Cowell College, and member of the Philosophy department at the University of California at Santa Cruz. Her primary area of research is syntactic theory and Austronesian languages. A Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America (Class of 2007), Chung has numerous articles on syntax, ergativity, Compositional Asymmetry, and prosody in Chamorro, a language of the Mariana Islands that is the main empirical focus of her research. With Ellen Louise Hart, she is working on analyses of Emily Dickinson's prosody.

Tanya Clement is an English Ph.D. candidate at the University of Maryland. Her focus of study is textual and digital studies as it pertains to applied humanities computing and modernist American literature. She has an M.F.A. in Fiction from the University of Virginia where she was also trained in humanities computing at the Electronic Text Center and the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH). At the University of Maryland, she has been both a Program Associate at the Maryland Institute for Technologies in the Humanities (MITH) and project manager for the Dickinson Electronic Archives (http://www.emilydickinson.org). Presently, she is a research associate for MONK (Metadata Offer New Knowledge at http://www.monkproject.org), a Mellon-funded project which seeks to integrate existing digital library collections and large-scale, cross-collection text mining and text analysis with rich visualization and social software capabilities.

Paul Crumbley is Associate Professor of English and American Studies at Utah State University. He is the author of Inflections of the Pen: Dash and Voice in Emily Dickinson (Kentucky 1997), coeditor of The Search for a Common Language: Environmental Writing and Education (Utah State 2005), and contributing editor for Body My House: May Swenson's Work and Life (Utah State 2006). Crumbley has published numerous essays on Dickinson and is currently completing a second book, Revolution in the Pod: Dickinson and the Politics of Personal Sovereignty.

A distinguished Professor Emeritus of English at the University of California, Davis, Sandra M. Gilbert has taught at Princeton and Stanford Universities, as well as Williams College, won NEH, Guggenheim, Rockefeller, and Soros Foundations fellowships, and held residencies at Yaddo, MacDowell, and Bellagio. A former president of the Modern Language Association (MLA), Professor Gilbert has authored numerous award-winning books of literary criticism and feminist theory, as well as seven books of poetry. With Susan Gubar, she has published a series of critical studies of women writers, beginning with Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination (Yale University Press 1979) and culminating in the three-volume study of women writers in the twentieth century, No Man's Land (Yale 1987, 1989, 1996), edited The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women (3rd edition 2007; 1st edition 1985), and most recently Feminist Literary Theory and Criticism (Norton 2007). Gilbert has also published seven books of poetry, most recently Belongings (Norton 2005).

Gudrun M. Grabher received her master's and doctoral degrees in English and American Studies, German, and Philosophy from the University of Innsbruck, Austria, and has served as Professor and Chair of the American Studies Department there since 1994. Her special fields of research include American poetry (Emily Dickinson, e.e. cummings, Sylvia Plath, Denise Levertov, A.R. Ammons); literary theory; comparative studies of literature and philosophy, and literature and the other arts; and more recently, Medical Humanities and Law and the Humanities in the USA. Grabher served as President of the Emily Dickinson International Society from 2004–2007 and is coeditor of the Emily Dickinson Handbook (University of Massachusetts Press 1998).

Ellen Louise Hart, editor and textual critic, writes about the history of Dickinson's manuscripts, and about prosody and the visual line in Dickinson's correspondences and verse. Her work has appeared in the Emily Dickinson International Society Bulletin, the Emily Dickinson Journal, Legacy, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, the Women's Review of Books, the Heath Anthology of American Literature, An Emily Dickinson Encyclopedia, and Wider Than the Sky: Essays and Meditations on the Healing Power of Emily Dickinson (Kent State University Press 2007). For Emily Dickinson's Correspondence: A Born-Digital Inquiry (Rotunda New Digital Scholarship from the University of Virginia Press), Hart serves as a primary coeditor of the notes and transcriptions of Dickinson's manuscripts. In...