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  • Contributors

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in response to the Civil War, including work by Dickinson, Piatt, Whitman, and Melville, as well as popular poetry and unpublished poems by soldiers.

Richard E. Brantley, Professor of English at the University of Florida, teaches courses in Romanticism, the History of Criticism, and the Bible as Literature. He recently published Experience and Faith: The Late-Romantic Imagination of Emily Dickinson (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004), which forms part of his series of arguments for the "spiritual sense" of Romantic Anglo-America, including Anglo-American Antiphony: The Late Romanticism of Tennyson and Emerson (UP of Florida, 1994). His Locke, Wesley, and the Method of English Romanticism (UP of Florida, 1984) won the Conference on Christianity and Literature Award.

James R. Guthrie is Professor of English at Wright State University. He is the author of Emily Dickinson's Vision (UP of Florida, 1998) and Above Time: Emerson's and Thoreau's Temporal Revolutions (U of Missouri P, 2001), as well as of several articles concerning Dickinson's writing.

Virginia Jackson, Professor of English at Tufts University, won the 2005 MLA Prize for a First Book and the Christian Gauss Award for Dickinson's Misery: A Theory of Lyric Reading (Princeton UP, 2005). She has also published numerous articles on Dickinson, Longfellow, and other writers, and is co-editor of The Poetess Archive (http://unixgen.muohio.edu/~poetess/index.html).

Jonathan Morse, Professor of English at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, is the author of Word by Word: The Language of Memory (Cornell UP, 1990) and many articles about modernist literature and Emily Dickinson. In 2004 he was site director for the Emily Dickinson International Society's conference in Hilo, Hawaii.

Melissa White is a doctoral candidate in English at the University of Virginia. Her dissertation examines the aesthetic challenges faced by modern readers of nineteenth-century American poetry. [End Page 109]

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