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  • Contributors

Mutlu Konuk Blasing, Professor of English at Brown University, is the author of American Poetry (Yale, 1987) and Politics and Form in Postmodern Poetry (Cambridge, 1995).

Paul Crumbley is a member of the English faculty at Utah State University and is on the board of the Emily Dickinson International Society. He is the author of Inflections of the Pen: Dash and Voice in Emily Dickinson (Kentucky, 1996).

Joanne Feit Diehl is the author of Dickinson and the Romantic Imagination: Women Poets and the American Sublime, Elizabeth Bishop and Marianne Moore: The Psychodynamics of Creativity, and several essays on psychoanalysis and literary practice. She is currently working on a forthcoming book on object relations and the woman writer's voice.

Katharina Ernst majored in English Literature at the University of Zürich and wrote her doctoral thesis on "Death" in the Poetry of Emily Dickinson, published 1992. Her current field of research is the female subject as represented in heroines of twentieth-century novels and films by British female authors.

Joan Kirkby is Associate Professor of English and Cultural Studies at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. Her publications include The American Model: Influence and Independence in Australian Poetry (1986), Emily Dickinson (1991, 1993), Julia Kristeva: Modern Cultural Theorist (forthcoming), as well as several articles on American and Australian writing. She currently holds an Australian Research Council Large Grant for a project entitled "Emily Dickinson's Debate with the Nineteenth Century Intellectual Tradition" and a Macquarie University Research Grant for "Emily Dickinson's Lost Contexts: An Anthology of Dickinson's New England Contemporaries." [End Page 129]

Nancy Mayer is a doctoral student and instructor at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee. She is writing a dissertation on the ethics of sensibility in the work of Emily Dickinson and other late-Romantic women writers.

Michele Mock is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown. She has also contributed a profile of Lavinia Dickinson to the forthcoming Emily Dickinson Encyclopedia. Her previous publications include articles on Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Matilda Josyln Gage, Rebecca Harding Davis, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Ann Petry, Rosario Morales, and Toni Morrison, in addition to an essay that examines nineteenth-century dress reformation and body image. She is currently the Managing Editor of Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers.

Timothy Morris has published articles about Dickinson in Essays in Literature, American Literature, and Resources for American Literary Study. His books, Becoming Canonical in American Poetry and Making the Team: The Cultural Work of Baseball Fiction, are published by University of Illinois Press. He is Associate Professor of English at the University of Texas at Arlington.

Jonathan Morse is Professor of English at the University of Hawii at Manoa. In recent years, most of his publications have focused on the representation of history in language. Dickinson's language occupies two chapters of his 1990 book, Word by Word: The Language of Memory.

Peter Nesteruk has recently completed his doctorate and has taught American social history, literature, and history of ideas at a variety of British institutions, the most recent of which is Manchester Metropolitan University. His current research is divided between a book project provisionally titled, William Faulkner: An Aesthetic of Transgression, and articles on the interpretation of temporality, cycle, and rhythm in literature, art, and architecture. [End Page 130]

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