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  • Contributors

Jonathan Creasy was born and raised in Los Angeles. He is a musician, writer, and scholar. He has studied and worked at the Universität der Küntste Berlin, the Freie Universität Berlin, and at Trinity College, Dublin.

Jane Donahue Eberwein is Distinguished Professor of English, emerita, at Oakland University and co-editor, with Stephanie Farrar and Cristanne Miller, of Dickinson in Her Own Time (to be published in December by the University of Iowa Press). She also edited An Emily Dickinson Encyclopedia.

E. Thomas Finan teaches humanities at Boston University. He has published on topics in American literature and culture in Philosophy & Rhetoric and The Atlantic. He is the author of a short story collection, The Other Side (2010).

Jonnie G. Guerra is a senior advisor for the Council of Independent Colleges and former provost and vice president for academic affairs at Cabrini College. She has been a member of the Emily Dickinson International Society board of directors since 1992 and has twice served as society president. Guerra has published and presented on adaptations of Emily Dickinson’s life and work in the arts and theater, and she edits the Poet to Poet series for the EDIS Bulletin. She lives in West Lafayette, Indiana.

Heinz Ickstadt is Professor of American Literature at the Kennedy Institute of North American Studies, Free University Berlin, emeritus since 2003. He has published on late nineteenth-century American literature and culture, on the fiction and poetry of American modernism and postmodernism; also on the history and theory of American Studies. He edited and co-edited several books on American literature and culture, among them a bilingual anthology of American poetry and the first English / German edition of Pound’s The Cantos (2012).

Ena Jung is an independent scholar in Chicago, Il. She received her PhD in Comparative Literary Studies and German Literature and Critical Thought from Northwestern University. She has authored “…ellipses…epilepsies…” (Modern Austrian Literature 2009) and is working on the history and theorization of diacritical marks and on early German cinema. Other research interests include literary and critical theory, poetry and poetics, narrative theory, translation theory, nineteenth-century American literature, and eighteenth- to twentieth-century German literature. [End Page 113]

Stefan Schöberlein is a doctoral candidate in English at the University of Iowa and the managing editor of the Walt Whitman Quarterly Review. His current research focuses on the intersections of science and literature in the American nineteenth century.

Martha Nell Smith is Distinguished Scholar-Teacher, Professor of English, and Founding Director of the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH http://www.mith.umd.edu) at the University of Maryland. Besides publishing more than 40 Dickinson-related articles, Smith is the author/coeditor of five books on Dickinson (most recently the forthcoming Dickinson, A User’s Guide). Smith is also Executive Editor of the Dickinson Electronic Archives (http://emilydickinson.org), coeditor of Emily Dickinson’s Correspondences: A Born-Digital Textual Inquiry (http://rotunda.upress.virginia.edu/edc/), and serves on the Advisory Board of the Houghton Library/Harvard University Press Emily Dickinson Archive (http://www.edickinson.org/).

Shira Wolosky (Ph.D. Princeton University) was an Associate Professor of English at Yale before moving to the Hebrew University, where she is Professor of American Literature. Her books include Emily Dickinson: A Voice of War; Language Mysticism; The Art of Poetry; The Cambridge History IV: Nineteenth-Century American Poetry; Feminist Theory Across Disciplines: Feminist Community; The Riddles of Harry Potter; Poetry and Public Discourse, as well as other writings. Her awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, fellowships at the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton, at NYU Law School, at the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies, and the Drue Heinz Visiting Professorship at Oxford. [End Page 114]

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