Contributors
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Erika Scheurer is Associate Professor of English and Director of Writing Across the Curriculum at the University of Saint Thomas in Saint Paul, Minnesota. As a teacher and scholar in Dickinson studies as well as in composition theory/ pedagogy, she is especially interested in exploring the intersections of these two fields.
Elizabeth Willis's books of poetry include Meteoric Flowers (Wesleyan, 2006), Turneresque (Burning Deck, 2003), and The Human Abstract (Penguin, 1995). Her essays on nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature and culture have appeared in Textual Practice, Contemporary Literature, Arizona Quarterly, and XCP: Cross-cultural Poetics. Recently she edited a collection of essays entitled Radical Vernacular: Lorine Niedecker and the Poetics of Place (University of Iowa Press, 2008). She teaches at Wesleyan University.
Benjamin Friedlander is the author of The Missing Occasion of Saying Yes and A Knot Is Not a Tangle (poetry), and of Simulcast: Four Experiments in Criticism. He is also the editor of Robert Creeley's Selected Poems, 1945-2005; Larry Eigner's Areas Lights Heights, Writings 1954-1989; and (with Donald Allen) Charles Olson's Collected Prose. He teaches poetry and poetics at the University of Maine where he is a member of the editorial collective of the National Poetry Foundation.
Wesley King is a doctoral candidate in English at the University of Virginia. His dissertation examines how discourses of the sublime influenced ideas about race in nineteenth-century American literature.
Jean-Jacques Thomas is Melodia E. Jones Chair in Romance Languages and Literatures at the University at Buffalo (SUNY). He has previously taught at the Université de Paris-8, at Columbia, and at Duke. He is a specialist of French and Francophone poetry and poetics and has published several books in French, English, and Spanish on modern poetry. He is a member of the MLA Executive Division "Linguistic Approaches to Literature," the Co-Director of the European journal Formules, and a member of the editorial board of Poetics Today.
Heinz Ickstadt is Professor Emeritus of American Literature at the Kennedy Institute of North American Studies, Free University Berlin. His recent publications include A History of the American Novel in the Twentieth Century (Der amerikanische Roman im 20.Jh.: Transformation des Mimetischen [1998]) and essays on late nineteenth-century American literature and culture, on the fiction and poetry of American [End Page 114] modernism and postmodernism, on American fiction and the poetry of the city as well as on the history and theory of American Studies. He also edited and co-edited several books on American literature and culture, among them a bi-lingual anthology of American poetry. He was president of the German Association of American Studies from 1990 until 1993 and president of the European Association of American Studies from 1996-2000.
Viktor Finkel is an independent scholar. He is the author of the books: The Portrait of a Crack (in Russian, 1981, 1985; in English and Hungarian, 1985); Poets of a Boundary (in Russian, 1999); Dickinson and Tsvetaeva: The Community of Poetic Souls (in Russian, 2003); and The Fifty-One Business Trip (short stories, in Russian, 2003). He has given nine lectures at the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL), on authors such as Emily Dickinson, Marina Tsvetaeva, Anna Akhmatova, and Boris Pasternak. He has published more than 300 articles in Russia, and 100 articles have been translated into English and published in such journals as Physics and Chemistry of Material Treatment; Strength of Materials; The Physics of Metals and Metallography; Mechanics of Solids; Industrial Laboratory, and others.
Vivian Pollak is Professor of English and of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Washington University in St. Louis, where she teaches courses on nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature and culture. Author of Dickinson: The Anxiety of Gender and of The Erotic Whitman, she has also edited A Poet's Parents: The Courtship Letters of Emily Norcross and Edward Dickinson and, most recently, A Historical Guide to Emily Dickinson. Her current book project is Choosing Traditions: American Women Poets After Dickinson. Pollak has served as President of the Emily Dickinson International Society and remains active in the group.
Melanie Hubbard is currently an independent scholar living in Ruskin...
