Contributors
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Daniel L. Manheim is Professor of English at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky. He is the author of articles on Emily Dickinson's early poetry and he is working on a book about the development of her poetic voice.
Marianne Noble is Associate Professor of Literature at American University. She is the author of The Masochistic Pleasures of Sentimental Literature (Princeton UP, 2000) and numerous articles. She is currently co-editing with Jed Deppman a collection of essays entitled Dickinson and Philosophy, and she is writing a book entitled Sympathy and the Quest for Genuine Human Contact in American Romantic Literature.
Joan Kirkby is Senior Research Fellow in Interdisciplinary Women's Studies at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. She has published widely on American and Australian literatures and psychoanalytic theory. Most recent publications include "Emily Dickinson and the Work of Mourning" (Wider than the Sky, 2007); "Walt Whitman and the War on Terror" (Interrogating the War on Terror, 2007); "Swedenborg, Mesmer and the Spiritualist Sciences" (Frankenstein's Science, 2008); and "'Into Van Dieman's Land': Emily Dickinson in Australia" (The International Reception of Emily Dickinson, 2009). She is currently working on "Emily Dickinson's Death Poems" and other aspects of darwinizing.
David Cody is Professor of English at Hartwick College, where he specializes in nineteenth-century American and British literature and culture. His articles on Hawthorne, Melville, Dickinson, Poe, Whitman, Cooper, Henry Adams, Conan Doyle, Faulkner, and Wells have appeared in journals including the New England Quarterly; Modern Language Studies; ESQ; the Nathaniel Hawthorne Review; the Melville Log; the Emily Dickinson Journal; the Journal of Modern Literature; Essex Institute Historical Collections, the Sherlock Holmes Review; and Language and Culture, as well as in books and annual volumes including Bloom's Modern Critical Views; Literature in the Early American Republic; and Reading Cooper, Teaching Cooper.
Shannon L. Thomas is a PhD candidate at The Ohio State University, where she is completing her dissertation on nineteenth-century American women poets. Her project explores women poets' aesthetic agendas within the context of American periodical culture. She teaches American literature and composition at Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio. [End Page 113]
Elizabeth Petrino is Associate Professor at Fairfield University in Fairfield, Connecticut. She is the author of Emily Dickinson and Her Contemporaries: American Women's Verse, 1820-1885 (UP of New England, 1998), and a co-editor of Jesuit and Feminist Education: Intersections in Teaching & Learning for the Twenty-First Century (Fordham UP, 2010, forthcoming). She has published articles on Emily Dickinson and her American female literary peers in the Emily Dickinson Journal, ATQ: 19th C. American Literature and Culture, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, and Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers. Currently, her research explores nineteenth-century American women's social protest literature, particularly the work of Lydia Sigourney, a popular poet, essayist, and reformer.
Margaret H. Freeman is Professor Emeritus at Los Angeles Valley College and Co-Director of the Myrifield Institute for Cognition and the Arts. She served as president of the Emily Dickinson International Society from 1988 to 1992. Her research interests include the poetry of Emily Dickinson, cognitive aesthetics, and poetic iconicity.
Linda Freedman is Keasbey Research Fellow in American Studies at Selwyn College, Cambridge. She studied English Literature at Magdalen College, Oxford before moving to King's College, London, where she received an MA with distinction in English in 2004 and a PhD in 2007. Her first book, The Religious Imagination of Emily Dickinson, is with publishers and she is currently working on the question of William Blake's place in the American imagination. Her related interests and publications include romanticism; nineteenth- and twentieth-century English and American literature, with a strong focus on poetry; transatlantic relations; and the interdisciplinary connections between literature, theology and the visual arts.
Christina Pugh is Associate Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is the author of two books of poems: Rotary (Word Press, 2004, winner of the Word Press First Book Prize) and Restoration (Northwestern UP, 2008). Her criticism has appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares, the Emily Dickinson Journal, and other publications. [End Page 114]
