Contributors
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Christopher Benfey is Mellon Professor of English at Mount Holyoke College. His work has appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The New Republic, and The New York Review of Books. He serves as art critic for the online magazine Slate. Benfey has published three books on the Gilded Age: The Double Life of Stephen Crane (1992), Degas in New Orleans (1997), and The Great Wave: Gilded Age Misfits, Japanese Eccentrics, and the Opening of Old Japan (2003). He has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the American Council of Learned Societies.
Páraic Finerty is a lecturer in English literature at the University of Portsmouth. He is author of Emily Dickinson's Shakespeare (University of Massachusetts Press, 2006). His current project is a study of transatlantic literary relations and ideas of masculinity.
Alfred Habeger is the author of numerous articles, essays, and reviews, and a solitary short story in the New Yorker. His books include Gender, Fantasy, and Realism in American Literature (1982), Henry James and the "Woman Business" (1989), The Father: A Life of Henry James, Sr. (1994), and My Wars Are Laid away in Books: The Life of Emily Dickinson (2001). Formerly a Professor of English at the University of Kansas, he now lives in rural Oregon, where he is completing a book about the fabulously mendacious Anna Leonowens, the model for the governess in The King and I.
Gunhild Kübler studied German and English Philology at the Universities of Heidelberg, Berlin (FU) and Zürich, where she received her Ph.D. in 1981. She writes literary criticism for "Neue Zürcher Zeitung," "Weltwoche" and "Neue Zürcher Zeitung am Sonntag." In addition to her recent volume of translations of Dickinson's poems, she is the author of articles and reviews on W.G. Sebald, Else Lasker-Schüler, Paul Celan, Milan Kundera, Alice Munro, J.M. Coetzee, Richard Ford, Javier Marias, Antonio Lobo Antunes, Elfriede Jelinek, Robert Schindel, Christa Wolf, Irmtraud Morgner, Brigitte Kronauer, Peter Bichsel, Thomas Hürlimann, Markus Werner and Adolf Muschg.
Christina Pugh is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago and author of Rotary (Word Press, 2004), winner of the Word Press First Book Prize. [End Page 119]
Marta L. Werner is Associate Professor of English at D'Youville College and the author/editor of Emily Dickinson's Open Folios: Scenes of Reading, Surfaces of Writing (1995), Radical Scatters: An Electronic Archive of Emily Dickinson's Late Fragments (1999; 2007); and co-author/editor (with Nicholas Lawrence) of Ordinary Mysteries: The Common Journal of Nathaniel and Sophia Hawthorne (2006). [End Page 120]
