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Martha Ackmann teaches in the Women’s Studies Program at Mount Holyoke College. Her biographical essays on Dickinson have appeared recently in The Emily Dickinson Journal, The Emily Dickinson Handbook, and An Emily Dickinson Encyclopedia. She was the co-director of the third EDIS conference held at Mount Holyoke last summer and is co-founder and advisory editor of LEGACY: A Journal of American Women Writers. Ackmann’s columns on contemporary women’s issues have been published in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Chicago Tribune and many other newspapers across the country.

Paul Crumbley is Assistant Professor of English at Utah State University. He is the author of Inflections of the Pen: Dash and Voice in Emily Dickinson. His essay, “Dickinson’s Dialogic Voice,” appears in The Emily Dickinson Handbook. Crumbley is also Secretary of the Emily Dickinson International Society.

Ellen Louise Hart is the co-editor of Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson’s Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson and the General Editor of the Dickinson Electronic Archive (http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/dickinson). Within Dickinson studies she writes on manuscript study, editing theory, and textual scholarship. Hart teaches for the Writing Program, Educational Opportunity Programs, and the Literature Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She serves as the Treasurer of the Emily Dickinson International Society.

Mary Loeffelholz is a member of the English Department at Northeastern University, the editor of Studies in American Fiction, and the author of Dickinson and the Boundaries of Feminist Theory (1991) and Experimental Lives: Women and Literature 1900–1945, as well as essays on Dickinson, Margaret Fuller, Maria Lowell, Adrienne Rich, John Milton, and other topics. She is presently working on a book, From School to Salon, on nineteenth-century American women’s poetry.

Domhnall Mitchell is Professor of Nineteenth-Century American Literature at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim. He has published articles on Dickinson in American Literature and The Emily Dickinson Journal. His book, Emily Dickinson: Monarch of Perception, is due from the University of Massachusetts Press in the Fall of 1999.

Tim Morris directs the graduate programs in English at the University of Texas at Arlington. His newest book, You’re Only Young Twice: Children’s Literature and Film, will appear in Spring 2000 from University of Illinois Press.

Emily Seelbinder is Associate Professor of English at Queens College in Charlotte, NC. In addition to the courses mentioned in her essay, she teaches African American Literature, Non-Fiction Writing, and an interdisciplinary course entitled “The American Experience.” She is a frequent speaker on various topics, including Dickinson, for the North Carolina Humanities Council. During those rare intervals when she is not teaching, speaking, or organizing Dickinson song fests, she is at work on a study of Dickinson’s interpretation and use of scripture.

Martha Nell Smith is Director of MITH (Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities; http://www.mith.umd.edu) and Professor of English at the University of Maryland. Author or co-author of many articles and three books on Emily Dickinson (Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson’s Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson, Comic Power in Emily Dickinson, and Rowing in Eden:Rereading Emily Dickinson), she is the Coordinator of the Dickinson Electronic Archives (http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/dickinson).

Daneen Wardrop, Associate Professor of American literature at Western Michigan University, is the author of Emily Dickinson’s Gothic: Goblin with a Gauge (University of Iowa Press, 1996). She has contributed articles to Texas Studies in Literature and Language, ESQ, African American Review, and others. Currently she is working on a manuscript, “Beyond the Patronymic,” concerning the feminine poetics of Poe, Whitman, and Dickinson.

Shira Wolosky was an Associate Professor of English at Yale University before moving to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where she is a Full Professor of English and American Literature. She is author of Emily Dickinson, A Voice of War (Yale UP); Language Mysticism (Stanford UP); and, forthcoming, Poetry and Public Discourse: American Poetry 1855–1900 for the Cambridge History of American Literature, Vol. III; and The Art of Poetry (Oxford UP).

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