Contributors
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Natalie Adler is Visiting Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Brown University. Her current manuscript, “Beyond the Poetic Principle: Psychoanalysis and the Lyric,” discusses the affect behind theories of the lyric that calls readers to poetry’s defense. Her next project on Dickinson will examine her poems about bees in light of colony collapse disorder and queer refusals of futurity.
Dr. Li-hsin Hsu is Assistant Professor of English at National Chengchi University. She holds a PhD in Transatlantic Romanticism from the University of Edinburgh. This essay is a part of her project supported by the EDIS Scholar in Amherst Award (2014) and the Ministry of Science and Technology, R.O.C. (2014–2016). She has published in journals such as Cowrie, The Emily Dickinson Journal and Symbiosis. Her research interests include Dickinson studies, Transatlantic studies, Orientalism, reception history and ecocriticism. In 2014 she initiated a research team within her university called EARN (the Enlightenment and Romanticism Network), aiming at promoting interdisciplinary approaches to Enlightenment and Romantic studies across cultures and nations.
Elizabeth A. Petrino teaches American literature at Fairfield University. She is the author of Emily Dickinson and Her Contemporaries: American Women’s Verse, 1820– 1885 (1998), a prize-winning book on feminist pedagogy, and a forthcoming book, Reconsidering Lydia Sigourney: Critical Essays and Cultural Views, with Mary Louise Kete (2016). Her work on Emily Dickinson and nineteenth-century women’s poetry are also forthcoming in A History of American Women’s Poetry (Cambridge UP, 2016) and in The Blackwell Companion to American Literature, 1820–1914 (2017).
Vivian Pollak is Professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis, where she teaches courses in American literature and culture. Her books include Dickinson: The Anxiety of Gender, The Courtship Letters of Emily Norcross and Edward Dickinson, The Erotic Whitman, A Historical Guide to Emily Dickinson, and Our Emily Dickinsons: American Women Poets and the Intimacies of Difference (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016). A past president of the Emily Dickinson International Society, Pollak is a long-term board member and serves as chair of the EDIS Budget and Appropriations Committee. She is currently studying dream motifs in Dickinson’s fascicles. [End Page 59]
