Contributors
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Tatiana Anikeeva teaches at Far Eastern National University, Vladivostok, Russia. She is engaged in the study of Emily Dickinson's poetry. Tatiana is currently working on her Ph.D. dissertation. In 2004 she wrote an introduction for a book of Emily Dickinson's poetry "Emily Dickinson: Conversation in the Soul's Language."
Faith Barrett is Assistant Professor of English at Lawrence University. She is currently working on a book project that analyzes American poetry written in response to the Civil War, including work by Dickinson, Piatt, Whitman, and Melville, as well as popular poetry and unpublished poems by soldiers.
Seo-Young Jennie Chu is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English at Harvard University. Her dissertation is titled "Lyric Mimesis: A New Conceptual Framework for the Study of Science Fiction."
Alfred Corn is the author of eight collections of poetry, most recently Contradictions (2002), as well as Stake: Selected Poems, 1972-1992 (1999). He has also written a widely regarded book on prosody, The Poem's Heartbeat (1997). The recipient of fellowships and prizes from the Guggenheim Foundation, the NEA, the Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, the Academy of American Poets, and Poetry magazine, he has taught at CUNY, Yale, and UCLA. He held the Amy Clampitt Residency in Lenox, MA, for 2004-2005, and taught at the Poetry School in London in 2005-2006.
Jane Donahue Eberwein, Distinguished Professor of English at Oakland University, author of Dickinson: Strategies of Limitation (1985), edited An Emily Dickinson Encyclopedia (1998). Her article, "'Where—Omnipresence—fly?': Calvinism as Impetus to Spiritual Amplitude," appeared in the preceding issue of the Emily Dickinson Journal.
Christine Gerhardt is Assistant Professor at the University of Dortmund, Germany, where she teaches 19th- and 20th-century American literature and culture. She has published on the Reconstruction era in American fiction, Whitman's Southern landscapes, and nature in African American literature, and is working [End Page 107] on an ecocritical comparison of Whitman's and Dickinson's poetry.
Melanie Hubbard was recently awarded an NEH Fellowship for 2006-2007 to pursue research and writing for her book-in-progress, "Emily Dickinson's Manuscripts in 19th Century Contexts."
Jennifer Leader is Assistant Professor at Duquesne University. Her areas of scholarship include nineteenth-century women writers, spirituality, and reform, and intersections between poetry, religious philosophy, and feminism. Most recently, her work has appeared in Twentieth-Century Literature and Early American Literature. She is completing a manuscript that re-examines the American typological tradition as it is traced through the lineage of Jonathan Edwards and re-appropriated by Emily Dickinson and Marianne Moore.
Pierre Nepveu was born in 1946 in Montreal. He is Professor of Québeçois Literature in the Département d'études françaises at the University of Montreal. Well-known as a critic and poet, his recent books include Le sens du soleil, poèmes, 1969-2002 (2005) and Lectures des lieux, essais (2004).
David Palmieri is completing his doctoral dissertation, "La Symbolisation de l'expérience: une étude des poésies du Nord-Est des États-Unis et du Québec, 1900-1965," in the Département d'études françaises at the University of Montreal. He has Masters Degrees from Ohio University and Harvard.
Magdalena Zapedowska is Assistant Professor of American literature at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland. She is finishing a book manuscript on nature and subjectivity in American and Polish romanticism and is working on a book project which studies Dickinson's poetry in the context of Levinas's thought. [End Page 108]
