CURRICULUM VITAE Martha Nell Smith February 2012 ADDRESSES

CURRICULUM VITAE Martha Nell Smith February 2012 ADDRESSES 502 Lincoln Avenue Takoma Park, Maryland 20912 (301) 270-8773

English Department University of Maryland College Park, Maryland 20742 (301) 405-8878

EDUCATION 1985 1982 1977

Ph.D., Rutgers University M.A., Rutgers University B.A., Livingston College, Rutgers University; Most Outstanding Student (selected for academic achievement)

EMPLOYMENT 1998-present

1999-2005 1997-1999 1992-1998 Fall 1994 1990-1994 1986-1992 1985-86 1979-85 1978-84

Professor of English, Distinguished Scholar-Teacher, University of Maryland Affiliate Professor of Women’s Studies, LGBT Studies, American Studies, Classics, Consortium on Race, Gender, Ethnicity (CRGE), Human-Computer Interaction Lab (HCIL), Theatre ADVANCE Professor, College of Arts and Humanities (2011-2012) Founding Director, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH), http://www.mith.umd.edu Co-Director, Honors Humanities, University of Maryland, College Park Associate Professor of English, University of Maryland, College Park Visiting Associate Professor, Ph.D. Program in English, Graduate School, City University of New York Associate Director of Graduate English, UMCP Assistant Professor, UMCP Instructor, Rutgers University Assistant Director, Writing Program; Director, College Avenue Writing Center, Rutgers College Lecturer, Rutgers University Teaching Assistant, Rutgers University

BOOKS Rowing in Eden: Rereading Emily Dickinson. A revaluation of the poet’s “publication” of her work. U of Texas Press, 1992. Honorable Mention, 1993, Hans Rosenhaupt Memorial Book Award, given biennially by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation for a Distinguished First Book Published in the Humanities. Excerpt reprinted in Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar, eds., Feminist Literary Theory and Criticism: A Norton Reader (W.W. Norton 2007).

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Comic Power in Emily Dickinson. Coauthored with Prof. Suzanne Juhasz, Univ. of Colorado, and Prof. Cristanne Miller, Chair, Department of English, University at Buffalo, SUNY. U of Texas Press, 1993. Best Books of 1993, Choice. Smith, “The Poet as Cartoonist” rpt. in New Century Views of Emily Dickinson, ed. Judith Farr. Prentice Hall, 1996. Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson’s Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson. An editorial, critical, and biographical study of the poet’s most prolific correspondence (essays by Martha Nell Smith, notes and texts coedited with Ellen Louise Hart, Univ. of California at Santa Cruz). Paris Press, 1998; Second edition published May 2005. Selected notices/reviews/interviews: “Two Belles of Amherst,” New York Times Book Review (December 13, 1998); Featured book, CNN.com (December 15, 1998); Interview, “To the Best of Our Knowledge,” (WPR, December 20, 1998); Valentine’s Week Choice, Washingtonpost.com (February 9, 1999); American Library Association’s Notable Books List 1999; Reviewed as “ubiquitous and influential” in New York Review of Books (April 11, 1999); “a must for American literature scholars and students at all levels,” Choice (1998); “illuminate[s] the inseparability of female creativity and profound relationships among women” in The Women’s Review of Books (November 1999). Companion to Emily Dickinson. Coedited with Mary Loeffelholz. Blackwell Publishers, 2008. 523 pp. “A rich collection of essays by well established and newer scholars” informed by “fundamental questions” that “unify its elegantly diverse points of view,” Emily Dickinson Journal (2009); “an essential addition to any university library where Dickinson's poetry is included on courses, at any level, and would add depth and breadth to public library collections where Dickinson’s poetry is already of significant interest” in Reference Reviews (November 2009); “The essays show the breadth, depth, and vitality of current scholarship in Dickinson studies. Indexed and selectively illustrated with black and white photographs, this volume merits a place alongside An Emily Dickinson Encyclopedia and The Emily Dickinson Handbook, but is unique in offering readers the benefits of digital collaboration” in the Emily Dickinson International Society Bulletin (Fall 2008). Emily Dickinson: A User’s Guide (56,000 words). Wiley-Blackwell Publishers, forthcoming Spring 2012. An introduction to the poet, her writings, their receptions, and our relation to poems. In process: Life Before Last: The Untold Story of Emily Dickinson’s Family. Edited with Jane Wald (Executive Director, Emily Dickinson Museum, Amherst) and Lara Vetter, Associate Professor, University of North Carolina Charlotte. With Barton Levi St. Armand, Professor Emeritus, Brown University, consultant. Previously unpublished autobiography by Martha Dickinson Bianchi in tandem with Annals of the Evergreens, a memoir by Susan Huntington Dickinson written for her children. Erotobiographies in American Popular Culture. Examines ways in which public erotic biographies inflect debates over cultural values (subjects include Bruce Springsteen, Martina Navratilova, Michael Jackson, Dolly Parton, and John Lennon). Under contract, U of Texas Press. Dickinson’s Women: Lives of Susan Dickinson (Vol. 1); Lives of Martha Dickinson Bianchi (Vol. 2), based on their poems, novels, short stories, correspondences, scrapbooks, notebooks, journals, and commonplace books housed in the Martha Dickinson Bianchi Collection, John Hay Library,

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Brown University; the Houghton Library, Harvard University; and Special Collections, the Frost Library, Amherst College, and on restoration of the Evergreens (Susan and Austin Dickinson’s home) as part of the Emily Dickinson Museum. DIGITAL RESOURCES (ONLINE) Emily Dickinson’s Correspondences: A Born-Digital Textual Inquiry. Coedited with Lara Vetter, with Ellen Louise Hart as consulting editor. A TEI (Text Encoding Initiative)-conformant XML interactive edition. University of Virginia Press, Rotunda New Digital Scholarship, December 2008. Featured at the Modern Language Association (MLA) Conference 2008 by the Poetry Executive Division. DICKINSON ELECTRONIC ARCHIVES. Executive Editor and Coordinator. Charlottesville: Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH), University of Virginia. Online. http://emilydickinson.org. Available: 1995 to the present. Subject of New York Times Magazine cover story (November 29, 1998). Research archive and testbed of articles responding to all of Dickinson’s writings to 99 or more correspondents, and critiquing markup strategies for digital editions, with textual, historical, and biographical notes. Produced with guest coeditors and developed with assistance from IATH (1994 to the present), and the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH; 1999 to the present). “Emily Dickinson Writing a Poem” (with Lara Vetter), “Dickinson, Cartoonist,” “The LetterPoem, a Dickinson Genre,” “Mutilations: What has been erased, inked over, cut away?” (with Jarom McDonald), “The Civil War, Class, and the Dickinsons: Emily Dickinson’s Confederate Uncle” are digital articles, samplers of born-digital critical inquiry. Online. http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/dickinson/. Available: 1996 to the present. WRITINGS BY SUSAN DICKINSON. Coedited with Laura Lauth and Lara Vetter. A critical edition of previously unpublished papers. Online. http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/dickinson/susan. Available: 1997 to the present. TITANIC OPERAS: A Poets’ Corner of Contemporary Responses to Dickinson’s Legacy. Coedited with Laura Lauth. A series of essays/exchanges on the influence of Dickinson’s work in collaboration with remarks by Adrienne Rich, Ruth Stone, Susan Howe, Amy Clampitt, Alicia Ostriker, Sandra Gilbert, Gwendolyn Brooks, Kathleen Fraser, Sharon Olds, Denise Levertov, Phillis Levin, Audre Lorde, Annie Finch, Fran Adler, Jan Freeman, Wendy Barker, and others. Online. http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/dickinson/titanic/index.html. Available: 1997 to the present. NED’S NOTEBOOK: Transcriptions of Dickinson Poetry. Consultant to first author Lara Vetter. A critical edition of the notebook of Emily Dickinson’s nephew working toward a volume featuring poems by Emily and poems by Susan Dickinson. Online. http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/dickinson/family/ned/table_of_contents.html. Available: 2000 to the present. THE CLASSROOM ELECTRIC: DICKINSON, WHITMAN, & AMERICAN CULTURE. A FIPSEsponsored project co-directed with Prof. Kenneth M. Price, University of Nebraska. Online. http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/fdw/. Available: 1998 to the present.

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“Emily Dickinson,” Microsoft Encarta Online Encyclopedia. http://encarta.msn.com. Available: 1998 to the present.

JOURNAL ISSUES Textual Cultures: Texts, Contexts, Interpretation 2.1 (Spring 2007), 172 pp. Guest editor for special issue featuring essays that focus on the interpretive consequences of any current or past editorial project and the mutual impact of editing and traditional or new historicism, history of the book, or feminist, Marxist, postcolonial, poststructural, multicultural or queer literary theory or analysis. Introduction “The Human Touch, Software of the Highest Order: Revisiting Editing as Interpretation” 2.1: 1-15. CHAPTERS IN BOOKS “Forever Young: Rereading Emily Dickinson,” Cambridge Companion to American Poetry, ed. Mark Richardson (Cambridge University Press 2013), forthcoming. “Editorial History (of Dickinson) I: Beginnings to 1855,” Emily Dickinson in Context, ed. Eliza Richards (Cambridge University Press 2012), forthcoming. “’Salvate la soldatessa Emily’: prima di affidarsi a una User’s Guide” (trans. Elisa Biagini), Emily Dickinson: “Ho sentito la vita con entrambe le mani,” a cura di Domenico De Martino e Elisa Biagini (Milano: Biblion edizioni, 2010), 14-19. “A Hazard of a Letter’s Fortunes: Epistolarity and the Technology of Audience in Emily Dickinson’s Correspondences,” in Reading Emily Dickinson’s Letters: Critical Essays, ed. Jane Donahue Eberwein and Cindy MacKenzie (University of Massachusetts Press, 2009), 239-256. “Enabling Undergraduates to Understand Advanced Humanities Research: Teaching with the Dickinson Electronic Archives,” in Teaching Language and Literature Online, ed. Ian Lancashire (New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 2009), 278-289. “Enabling Intellectual Collaboration: The Use of Wikis and Blogs,” (750 words), in Teaching Language and Literature Online, ed. Ian Lancashire (New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 2009), 428-430. “Public, Private Spheres: What Reading Emily Dickinson’s Mail Taught me about Civil Wars.” Companion to Emily Dickinson, ed. Martha Nell Smith and Mary Loeffelholz (Oxford, Malden, MA, and Carlton, Victoria, Australia: Blackwell Publishing, 2008), 58-78. “Elements of Blank, Formal Feelings, and An Autobiography of Chronic Pain” (3000 words), in ‘Wider Than the Sky’: Essays and Meditations on the Healing Power of Emily Dickinson, ed. Cynthia MacKenzie and Barbara Dana (Kent State University Press, 2007), 115-121. “’That Never Told CAN Be’: May Swenson’s Manuscript Witnesses” (5500 words), in Body My House: May Swenson’s Work and Life, ed. Paul Crumbley and Patricia M. Gantt (Utah State University Press, 2006), 107-120.

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“Taking the ‘Man’ Out of the Humanities: How Feminism and Technology Are Transforming the Discipline,” Exploring Women's Studies: Looking Forward, Looking Back, ed. Carol Berkin, Carole Appel, Judith Pinch (Prentice Hall, 2005), 301-317. “Introduction: Digital Demands vs. Paper Pleas,” Who Wants Yesterday’s Papers? Essays on the Research Value of Printed Materials in the Digital Age, ed. Yvonne Carignan, Danielle Dumerer, Susan Klier Koutsky, Eric N. Lindquist, Kara M. McClurken, Douglas P. McElrath (Scarecrow Press, 2005), 39-43. “Les omissions ne sont pas des accidents: ratures et cancellations dans les manuscrits d’Emily Dickinson.” in La littérature à ses limites : genèse, censure, autocensure, textes rassemblés et présentés par Claire Bustarret et Catherine Viollet (Textes et Manuscrits, Éditions du C.N.R.S., 2005), 149-160. “Electronic Scholarly Editing,” A Companion to Digital Humanities, ed. Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, and John Unsworth (Blackwell Publishers, 2004), 306-322. “The Dickinson Electronic Archives Project: Evolutions of a Dynamic Edition,” Editing for the New Millennium: International Perspectives (a bilingual edition; English and German), ed. H.T.M. van Vliet and Bodo Plachta (Weidler Publishers, 2002), 163-180. “Susan & Emily Dickinson: Their Lives, in Letters,” Cambridge Companion to Emily Dickinson, ed. Wendy Martin (Cambridge U P, 2002), 51-73. “H.D.’s ‘The Tempest,’” The Tempest and its Travels, ed. Peter Hulme and William H. Sherman (Reaktion Books, 2000), 250-256. “Suppressing the Books of Susan in Emily Dickinson,” Epistolary Histories: Letters, Fiction, Culture, ed. Amanda Gilroy and Wil Verhoeven (U P of Virginia, 2000), 101-125. “Corporealizations of Dickinson and Interpretive Machines,” The Iconic Page in Manuscript, Print, and Digital Culture, ed. George Bornstein and Theresa Lynn Tinkle (U of Michigan P, 1998), 195221. “Editing Emily Dickinson’s Manuscripts,” The Emily Dickinson Handbook, ed. Roland Hagenbuchle, Gudrun Grabher, and Cristanne Miller (U of Massachusetts P, 1998), 113-137. “On Emily Dickinson,” The Best of The Harvard Gay and Lesbian Review, ed. Richard Schneider, Jr. (Temple UP, 1997), 191-197. “Whitman and Dickinson, 1993-94,” American Literary Scholarship 1994, ed. David Nordloh and Gary Scharnhorst (Duke U P, 1996), 63-92. “The Poet as Cartoonist: Pictures Sewed to Words,” Emily Dickinson: A Collection of Critical Essays, ed. Judith Farr; New Century Views, Richard Brodhead, Maynard Mack, Series Editors (PrenticeHall, 1996), 225-239. “Like a Laser Beam: My Ruth Stone,” The House is Made of Poetry: Essays on the Art of Ruth Stone, ed. Wendy Barker and Sandra M. Gilbert (Southern Illinois UP, 1995), 17-29.

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ARTICLES, Refereed & Invited “Cather, Dickinson, and Sexuality,” with Marilee Lindemann, Cather Studies 10 (2012), forthcoming. “The Humanities Are Not a Luxury: A Manifesto for the 21st Century,” Liberal Education 97.1 (Winter 2011), 48-55. “The Literary World Has Always Been Read/Write,” Afterward for Special Issue on Poetry, ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance 54 (2008): 269-281. “Software of the Highest Order: Revisiting Editing as Interpretation” (6,000 words), Textual Cultures 2.1 (Spring 2007): 1-15. “Surveying Our Divides, Discerning New Directions in Digital Humanities,” TEXT Techology: The Journal of Computer Text Processing, ed. Travis Kroeker 16.1 (2006), 71-91. “Democratizing Knowledge,” Humanities: The Magazine of the National Endowment for the Humanities (September/October 2005; 40th Anniversary Issue): 12-15. Also available: http://www.neh.gov/news/humanities/2005-09/democratizing.html. “Computing, Research, & Teaching: A Humanities Trifecta!” Liberal Education (Fall 2004): 14-23. “Emily Scissorhands: Reading Dickinson Reading,” Reading Notes: Variants 2/3, edited by the European Society for Textual Scholarship (Amsterdam: Rodopi Publishers, 2004), 279-291. “Computing: What’s American Literary Study Got to Do with IT?” American Literature 74.4 (December 2002): 833-857. “Because the Plunge from the Front Overturned Us: The Dickinson Electronic Archives Project (http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/dickinson),” Studies in the Literary Imagination 32.1 (Spring 1999): 133-151. “Literature” (with Catharine R. Stimpson & Marilee Lindemann), The Reader’s Companion to U.S. Women’s History, ed. Wilma Mankiller, Marysa Navarro, Gloria Steinem, Barbara K. Smith (Houghton Mifflin, 1998), 345-350. “Susan Huntington Gilbert Dickinson” (78-82), “Cartoons” (42-43), “Humor” 149-150), An Emily Dickinson Encyclopedia, ed. Jane Eberwein (Greenwood P, 1998). “Worlds of Possibility: A Hypermedia Archive of Dickinson’s Creative Work,” Emily Dickinson, Textes reunis par Antoine Caze, Profils americains 8 (1996): 159-171. “The Belle of the Belle of Amherst,” The Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review (Winter 1996): 25-27; rpt. in The Best of The Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review, ed. Richard Schneider, Jr. (Temple UP, 1997), 191-197. “A Hypermedia Archive of Dickinson’s Creative Work, Part II: Musings on the Screen and the Book,”

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The Emily Dickinson Journal 5.2 (Fall 1996): 18-25. “Poetry: Lesbian” (573-577), “American Literature: Lesbian, 1900-1969” (40-43), “Adrienne Rich” (602604), “Judy Grahn,” coauthored with Stacy Steinberg (345-346), Gay and Lesbian Literary Heritage, ed. Claude Summers (Henry Holt, 1995). “The Importance of a Hypermedia Archive of Dickinson’s Creative Work,” The Emily Dickinson Journal 4.1 (Spring 1995): 75-85. “Everywoman Her Own Theology: Alicia Ostriker, the Difference of Dickinson, and Influence,” Emily Dickinson International Society Bulletin 6.2 (November/December 1994): 6-7, 17-18. “Editing Emily Dickinson: A Report to the Society,” coauthored with Ellen Louise Hart, Emily Dickinson International Society Bulletin 6.1 (May/June 1994): 8-9, 13. “Toi Derricotte,” American Women Writers, ed. Carol Hurd Green and Mary Mason (Crossroad/Continuum, 1993), 5: 103-106. “Gender Issues in Textual Editing of Emily Dickinson,” Women’s Studies Quarterly 19.3 & 4 (Fall/Winter 1991): 78-111. “Sexual Mobilities in Bruce Springsteen: Performance as Commentary,” South Atlantic Quarterly 90 (Fall 1991): 833-854; rpt. in Present Tense: Rock & Roll and Culture (ed. Anthony DeCurtis, Duke UP, 1992), 197-218. “Not Each in Isolation,” H.D. Newsletter 2 (Spring 1988): 48-51; rpt. in part as “Nice Crystalline Stuff: Dickinson’s Influence on H.D.,” HOW(ever) (Winter 1988): 14-15. “‘To Fill a Gap’: What of Dickinson’s Has Been Erased, Cut Away, & Disguised?” special Emily Dickinson/H.D. centennial issue, San Jose Studies 13 (Fall 1987): 3-25. (Winner of the Bill Casey Award for Best Contribution in 1987.)

REVIEWS, NOTES, & Letters to the Editor (Selected) “After a Decade,” review essay (3500-4000 words) of R. W. Franklin, ed., The Poems of Emily Dickinson (1998), 3 vols., and The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Reading Edition (1999) for NineteenthCentury Literature, forthcoming Fall 2012. Review of Lyndall Gordon, Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family’s Feuds (2010) for The Emily Dickinson Journal 19:2 (December 2010): 107-110. “Emily Dickinson’s Fascicles,” The Oxford Companion to the Book, ed. Michael F. Suarez SJ and H.R. Woudhuysen, associate eds. Joan Shelley Rubin and Scott Casper (American topics) (Oxford UP 2009), 668. “From ‘Reconstructing Dickinson’s Relationship with Susan Huntington Gilbert Dickinson’” (excerpted from chaps. 4 & 5 of Rowing in Eden) in Feminist Literary Theory and Criticism, ed. Sandra M.

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Gilbert and Susan Gubar (W.W. Norton 2007), 933-938. Review of Virginia Jackson, Dickinson’s Misery: A Theory of Lyric Reading (2005) and Domhnall Mitchell, Measures of Possibility: Emily Dickinson’s Manuscripts (2005) for American Literature 79.2 (June 2007): 415-417. “On ‘Because I could not stop for Death,’” Poetry: An Introduction, Fourth Edition, ed. Michael Meyer. (Bedford/St. Martin’s 2004) and The Bedford Introduction to Literature, Seventh Edition, ed. Michael Meyer (Bedford, Freeman, & Worth, 2005). “On Franklin’s Gifts & Ghosts,” coauthored with Ellen Louise Hart, review essay (6500 words) of R.W. Franklin, ed. The Poems of Emily Dickinson (1998) for special issue of The Emily Dickinson Journal 8.2 (1999): 24-38. “Writing as Feminist Practice,” review of Rachel Blau DuPlessis, The Pink Guitar for Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature 13.2 (Fall 1994): 385-388. “Learning to Read Emily Dickinson,” review of Sharon Cameron, Choosing Not Choosing: Dickinson's Fascicles for The Emily Dickinson Journal 3.1 (1994): 107-109. “H. D. and the Flowering of the Rod,” review essay of H.D.: Woman and Poet (ed. Michael King), Susan Stanford Friedman, Psyche Reborn: The Emergence of H.D., Rachel Blau DuPlessis, H.D.: The Career of That Struggle, and H.D.: Selected Poems (ed. Louis Martz) for Lesbian and Gay Studies Newsletter 16 (November 1989): 11-17. “Dark Designs,” review essay of Emily Dickinson: A Poet’s Grammar by Cristanne Miller (Harvard UP 1987) and Lunacy of Light: Emily Dickinson and the Experience of Metaphor by Wendy Barker (Southern Illinois UP 1987), The Women’s Review of Books 5 (December 1987): 22-23.

LECTURES, PLENARY PANELS, INTERVIEWS, TALKS Invited Lectures, Plenaries, Interviews “Emily Rocks: Those Bells won’t ‘cool My Tramp,’” Plenary Address, Emily Rocks, Emily Dickinson International Society Annual Meeting, Case Western Reserve University, August 2012 “Digital Forensics and Texting Emily Dickinson,” Walter Harding Lecture, State University of New York (SUNY) at Geneseo, September 2011 “Who Was and Who Is Emily Dickinson, and What Are Her Texts?” Joseph S. Schick Lecture (with Ellen Louise Hart), Indiana State University, Terre Haute, September 2011 “Cather, Dickinson, and Sexuality,” Plenary Presentation with Marilee Lindemann, Cather International Seminar 2011, Smith College, June 20-25, 2011 “’Ah ’ the Sea!’: Reading Dickinson Erotically,” Emily Dickinson Museum. Emily Dickinson’s Poetry 102, The Big Read (April 2-May 21), May 10, 2011. (Sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), and Arts Midwest.)

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“Rereading Emily Dickinson, ICON, in the 21st Century” (trans. Antonella Cellai), Assessorato alla Cultura, Provincia di Firenze, keynote lecture for Emily Dickinson: Ho sentito la vita con entrambe le mani, Sala Luca Giordano, Palazzo Medici Riccardi, December 10, 2010 “The Humanities Are Not a Luxury: A Manifesto for the 21st Century,” Distinguished Scholar-Teacher Lecture, Ulrich Recital Hall, Tawes, UM, September 30, 2010 Interview on Emily Dickinson, A User’s Guide to celebrate Emily Dickinson’s birthday. Woman-Stirred Radio with Merry Gangemi. Vermont Public Radio, WDGR 91.1, December 10, 2009. Interview on Emily Dickinson’s Correspondences: A Born-Digital Textual Inquiry and on its Facebook group (http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=51553368462). Woman-Stirred Radio with Merry Gangemi. Vermont Public Radio, WDGR 91.1, April 23, 2009. “Dickinson’s Confederate Relations,” A Long Shadow: Emily Dickinson and Contemporary Poets, Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for Collaboration in the Arts and the English Department, University of Houston, October 22, 2008 “Enclaves: Perils and Possibilities,” Digital Humanities and the Disciplines Conference, Center for Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture, Rutgers University, October 2-3, 2008 “From Digital Humanities 1.0 to Humanities 2.0: Digital Scholarship in the University Tenure and Promotion Process,” Sixth Scholarly Communication Symposium, Georgetown University, March 26, 2008 “The Human Touch, Software of the Highest Order,” Keynote Address, Humanities 2.0: A Conference in the Digital Humanities, University of Texas Arlington, February 28-29, 2008. Interview celebrating Open Me Carefully’s 10th Year in print. Woman-Stirred Radio with Merry Gangemi. Vermont Public Radio, WDGR 91.1, December 5, 2007. “The Foundations and the Futures of Digital Humanities,” Plenary Roundtable, HASTAC International Conference, Duke University, April 19-21, 2007. “Wild Nights – Wild Nights: Reflections on Dickinson’s Legacy,” featured speaker for Writers in Performance, sponsored by College of the Woodlands and Montgomery County Literary Arts Council, Conroe, Texas, December 7, 2006. “Software of the Highest Order: Intellectual and Social Networks (the Human Touch),” Digital Textual Studies: Past, Present, and Future. Texas A & M University, October 19-21, 2006. “’The Imperative of Intimacy’: A Rumination Beginning with a Phrase by Ostriker,” Women, Poetry, and Politics: a Conference in Honor of Alicia Suskin Ostriker, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, April 2006. “On Producing Emily Dickinson’s Correspondences,” Creating Digital Documentary and Critical Editions Conference, Rotunda, University of Virginia Press, May 2005. “Poetry. Media. Dickinson & Co.: A User’s Guide,” Rutgers Seminar in the History of the Book, Rutgers

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University, March 2005. “Martha Dickinson Bianchi: Poet, Novelist, Pianist, Editor. . .Niece,” Amherst College & Emily Dickinson Museum, October 2004. “New Media and New Developments in the United States,” Calgary University, Canada, October 2004. “Surveying Our Divides, Discerning New Directions in Digital Humanities,” Plenary Address, Textologies: An Interdisciplinary Workshop on Multimedia Technologies, Ethics and Culture, McMaster University, Canada, October 2004 “That Never Told CAN Be: May Swenson’s Manuscript Witnesses,” Plenary for May Swenson Symposium, Utah State University, June 2004. “Making Transparent the Process of Constructing Knowledge for Intellectual Rigor,” Plenary address for Technology, Learning, and Intellectual Development: The Network for Academic Renewal Conference, Association of American Colleges & Universities (AAC&U), Cambridge, Massachusetts, October 31-November 1, 2003 “Building Communities and Knowledge through e-Collaboration,” Plenary address for faculty of Empire State College, Saratoga, New York, October 30, 2003. “Evolutions of Electronic Publishing: Dickinson, a User’s Guide,” Seminars of Electronic Editing, Royal Academy in Gent and University of Antwerp, Belgium, May 2003 “Dickinson: A User’s Guide,” The John D.M. Brown Lecture XVI, plus afternoon seminar for Literature and Sexuality honors seminar, Muhlenberg College, Pennsylvania, April 2003 “Dickinson: A User’s Guide,” Lecture to the College, plus day-long seminar for students and faculty on computing and vital changes to humanities research, teaching, and publication, Williams College, Williamstown, MA, November 2002 “Computing — What have the Humanities to do with IT?” Humanities Center, University of Nebraska, November 15, 2001 “MITH, Digital Studies, and New Directions in Humanities Scholarship,” Humanities Forum Lecture Series, Center for the Humanities, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, September 12, 2001 “The Dickinson Electronic Archives Project as a Scholarly Edition.” Colloquium on New Technology and the Future of Publishing. Strom Thurmond Institute, Clemson University, April 5, 2001 “The Dickinson Electronic Archives Project,” with Lara Vetter. A presentation to the Adriadne seminar investigating scholarly uses of information technology in the humanities at the Alice Berline Kaplan Center for the Humanities, Northwestern University, videoconferenced to the Franke Institute for the Humanities, University of Chicago, March 1, 2001 “The Dickinson Electronic Archives Project: Evolutions of a Dynamic Edition.” The Dutch Institute for Texteditions, Constantijn Huygens Institute and the University of Amsterdam. Royal Library, The Hague, December 8, 2000.

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“Les omissions ne sont pas des accidents: ratures et cancellations dans les manuscrits d'Emily Dickinson.” Institut des Textes et Manuscrits Modernes (I.T.E.M.), Paris, June 2000. “Omissions are not Accidents: Erasures & Cancellations in Emily Dickinson’s Manuscripts.” Washington Area Group for Print Culture Studies. Library of Congress, May 4, 2000. Interview. Studio Tulsa with Rich Fisher. National Public Radio, KWGS 89.5. February 28, 2000. “The Poetics of the Dickinson Electronic Archives and Beyond,” University of Tulsa, February 2000; The Pennsylvania State University, December 2000 “On the Dickinson Electronic Archives Project and MITH (Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities),” University of California at Berkeley, November 1999 “Titanic Operas: American Women’s Poetry and Dickinson’s Legacy,” Inaugural Lecture of the Emily Dickinson Lectureship in American Poetry, The Pennsylvania State University, October 1999 “Poetry and American Studies,” University of Washington, Seattle, May 1999 “Emily Dickinson’s Muse & Confidante: Making Open Me Carefully,” First Annual “At Home With Emily Dickinson” Spring Seminar, Dickinson Homestead, Amherst, April 1999 Interview. “To the Best of Our Knowledge,” Wisconsin Public Radio, December 20, 1998. “Postcolonial Textualities: Editing Whitman and Dickinson in a Time of Transition” (with Prof. Kenneth M. Price); and “History and Prospects of the Dickinson Archives,” Northwestern University, Evanston, May 1998 “The Site & the CD-ROMs: Developing the Dickinson Electronic Archives,” Emily Dickinson International Society Annual Meeting, Amherst, June 1997 “TEI or ?: Making the Dickinson Electronic Archives,” CHUG (Computers in the Humanities Users Group), Brown University, Providence, RI, March 1997 “Corporealizations of Dickinson and Interpretive Machines,” The Iconic Page in Manuscript, Print, and Digital Culture Conference, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor, October 1996 “The Screen & the Book: Developing a Hypermedia Archive of Dickinson’s Writings and Twenty-First Century Reading Practices,” invited lecture, College of William & Mary, March 1996 Interview, Tirol AM PULS (Austrian National Radio), August 5, 1995 “Interrogating Romantic Friendship and the Book of Susan in Emily Dickinson,” invited lecture, Friday Forum, PhD Program in English, CUNY Graduate Center, September 1994 “With the Exception of Shakespeare: The Importance of Susan Dickinson’s Collaborations with Emily Dickinson,” birthday lecture at the Dickinson Homestead, Amherst, December 1993 “From Garth Brooks to CNN: Martina Navratilova and Televisual Tolerance,” Looking Out/Looking

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Over: A Conference on Lesbian and Gay Male Film, University of California at Davis, May 1993 “From Manuscript to Print Translation: Editorial Issues and Literary Studies,” invited lecture, University of Illinois at Chicago, April 1991 “Gender Issues in Archival Research & Editing,” Women & Society Faculty Seminar at Columbia University, New York, May 1990 (invited lecture; Prof. Joan Scott, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, respondent) “Response to Betsy Erkkila’s ‘Emily Dickinson and the Wicked Sisters’: Toward a Theory of Female Influence,” Penn Mid-Atlantic Seminar for the Study of Women in Society, Univ. of Pennsylvania, March 1988 “Dickinson and Influence in American Women’s Poetry,” invited lecture sponsored by the Dept. of English and the Women's Studies Program, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, July 1987 “Orthography? Calligraphy? Just What Word Do We Want Here?” Guest Lecture, Dickinson Graduate Seminar, Rutgers University, March 1987 “The Life of the Text: The Publishing Saga of Emily Dickinson,” Emily Dickinson-H.D. Dual Centennial Colloquium, San Jose Poetry Center, San Jose State University, October 1986 “Epistolarity and Dickinson’s First Person Singular,” invited lecture, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts and the Univ. of Oregon, Eugene, January 1986 Conference Presentations “Editing Forgery, Scripting an Author: The Case of Emily Dickinson,” Modern Language Association (MLA), Boston, January 2013 “Emily Dickinson, Global Citizen: A Roundtable,” Society for the Study of American Women Writers (SSAWW), Denver, October 2012 “Editing Forgeries: Dickinson Documents and Implications for Editorial and Literary Histories, A Roundtable,” Society for Textual Scholarship (STS), University of Texas, Austin, May 30-June 2, 2012 “Constructing the Object of Her Affections, or Saving Private Emily (Dickinson)” for “Editors Confront Forgery and Deceit” Panel, Association for Documentary Editing (ADE), Salt Lake City, October 2011 “Enclaves: Perils and Possibilities Cont’d,” Society for Textual Scholarship (STS), Pennsylvania State University, March 2011 (update and extension of invited lecture, Rutgers Conference, October 2008) “Who was Dickinson’s ‘Master’? (or Is That a Good Question)?” Emily Dickinson International Society Annual Meeting, Amherst, MA, July 29-31, 2011

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“Enhancing Scholarly Editing and the Humanities Through Social Networking” for “Editorial Renaissance? Access to Literature and Scholarly Politics,” Access, Authority, and Identity Syposium, TILTS (Texas Institute for Literary and Textual Studies), University of Texas at Austin, February 3-6, 2011 Moderator, “Dickinson Forming History,” Panel Organized by the Emily Dickinson International Society (EDIS), Modern Language Association (MLA) Convention, Los Angeles, January 2011 “’Read Me’—‘Poetry is My Sermon – My Hope – My Solace – My Life’: Emily Dickinson in the Drawing Room” for “Emily Dickinson in Pieces” Panel, EDIS International Conference, Oxford University, August 2010 Moderator, “Dickinson, (Poetic) Identity, and Keats” Panel, EDIS International Conference, Oxford University, August 2010 Moderator, with Meredith McGill (Rutgers University) of two panels on “Nineteenth Century Literature and New Media,” presented in Pecha Kucha format, C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists, May 2010 “’Read Me’—‘Poetry is My Sermon – My Hope – My Solace – My Life’: Emily Dickinson in the Drawing Room” for “How to Read a Nineteenth-Century Poem” panel, C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists, May 2010 “Enclaves: Perils & Possibilities” for “Vision and Praxis: What Has (and Hasn’t) Digital Studies Done to Imagine a New 19th Century?” with Julie Enszer. C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists, May 2010 “Dickinson’s Confederate Relations,” Session Organized by the Emily Dickinson International Society (EDIS), Modern Language Association (MLA) Convention, Philadelphia, December 2009 Chair, Panel on Posthumous Keats, Conference Celebrating Maryland Poet Laureate and Distinguished University Professor Stanley Plumly, College Park, October 2009 Chair, “Writers Reading,” Emily Dickinson International Society (EDIS), Society for the Study of American Women Writers (SSAWW), Philadelphia, October 2009 “Emily Dickinson’s Correspondences: Teaching a ‘Born-Digital’ Text to ‘Born-Digital’ Students,” SSAWW, Philadelphia, October 2009 “The Art of Ruth Stone: The Art of Her Poetry, The Art of Editing, and the Art of Collaborating with a Major American Woman Writer: A Roundtable” SSAWW, Philadelphia, October 2009 “’Pharaoh’s Army Got Drownded’: From Madam Marie to Pete Seeger” (with Lenny Cassuto), Springsteen and American Roots Tradition, Glory Days: A Bruce Springsteen Symposium, Monmouth University, September 25-27, 2009 “Teaching a Nineteenth-Century Poet with Twenty-First Century Tools,” Seminar Leader, Emily Dickinson International Society Annual Meeting, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, July 30-August 2, 2009

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Moderator and Respondent, “Blogger Grrrls: Feminist Practices, New Media, and Knowledge Production,” Digital Humanities 2009, University of Maryland, College Park, June 2009 “Emily Dickinson’s Correspondences, a Dynamic Scholarly Edition,” New Editorial Practices in Digital Scholarly Editions, Society for Textual Scholarship, New York, March 2009 Moderator, “Blogger Grrrls: New Textualities and Knowledge Building,” Society for Textual Scholarship, New York, March 2009 Roundtable on Electronic Editing. Session organized by Poetry Executive Division, MLA Convention, San Francisco, December 2008 “Digitally Yours, or Dwelling in the Possibilities of Dynamic Editing” for “Editorial Futures” Panel organized by Literary Research Division, MLA Convention, San Francisco, December 2008 “Agora.Techno.Phobia.Philia2: Feminist Critical Inquiry, Knowledge Building, Digital Humanities.” Panel Organizer and Presenter, Digital Humanities 2008, University of Oulu, Finland, June 25-29 “Epistolary Dickinson, or Audience as a Writing Technology,” American Literature Association (ALA), San Francisco, May 2008 “Arkhe: Commencement, Commandment, Possibility as Place” for Society for Textual Scholarship (STS) “Archive Trouble” Panel, Modern Language Association (MLA) Convention, Chicago, December 2007 “Dickinson in Japan during the Post-World War II Occupation,” Emily Dickinson International Society (EDIS) Conference, Kyoto, Japan, 3-5 August 2007 “Agora.Techno.Phobia.Philia: Gender, Knowledge Building, and Digital Media.” Chair and presenter. Digital Humanities 2007, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Chair, “Queer Editing,” Society for Textual Scholarship (STS), New York, March 2007 “Multiply and Contradictorily Authoritative: Democratizing Editorial Methods and Rigor,” STS, New York, March 2007 “Back to the Future: Teaching Manuscripts to Undergraduates,” Pedagogy and Textual Studies Roundtable, STS, New York, March 2007 Chair, “Electronic Textual Editing: What’s Next?” Session sponsored by the MLA Committee on Scholarly Editions (CSE), MLA Convention, Philadelphia, December 2006 “Edition Wars,” Session sponsored by the MLA CSE, MLA Convention, Philadelphia, December 2006 “Lost Feminist Knowledges: Recovering Neglected Women Writers in a Major Author Archive,” Roundtable on Nineteenth-Century Women Writers and Web Resources, Society for the Study of American Women Writers (SSAWW), Philadelphia, November 2006

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“The Fate and Function of Digital Humanities Centers: A Roundtable,” special session sponsored by ACH, Digital Humanities Conference 2006, Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC)/Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH), Paris-Sorbonne, July 2006 “’Undiscovered Public Knowledge’: Mining for Patterns of Erotic Language in Emily Dickinson’s Correspondence with Susan Huntington (Gilbert) Dickinson,” 3rd author (with Matthew Kirschenbaum, MITH; Catherine Plaisant, Human-Computer Interaction Lab (HCIL), University of Maryland; Loretta Auvil, University of Illinois (UIUC); James Rose HCIL; Bei Yu, UIUC, Tanya Clement, English and Dickinson Electronic Archives (DEA), UM, Digital Humanities Conference 2006, ALLC/ACH, Paris-Sorbonne, July 2006. “Partnerships and Possibilities: Reimagining Scholarly Publications of the Dickinson Electronic Archives,” Association of American University Presses, New Orleans, June 2006. Featured in the Chronicle of Higher Education (June 19, 2006). Available: http://chronicle.com/daily/2006/06/2006061903n.htm “Exploring Erotics in Emily Dickinson’s Correspondence with Text Mining and Visual Interfaces,” 3rd author (with Catherine Plaisant & James Rose, HCIL, UM, Bei Yu & Loretta Auvil, UIUC, Matthew Kirschenbaum, MITH, Tanya Clement (DEA), Greg Lord, MITH, Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), Chapel Hill, North Carolina, June 11-16, 2006. Nominated for Vannevar Bush Best Paper 2006. http://jcdl2006.org/program/sessions/time-and-space/ Digital Americanist Roundtable, American Literature Association (ALA), San Francisco, May 2006 Chair, “Editing IS Interpretation: Dynamics of Literary History, Literary Theory II,” Session sponsored by the MLA CSE, MLA Convention, Washington, D.C. 2005 “Unknown Treasures of the Evergreens: ‘New’ Papers of the Dickinson Family,” Session sponsored by the Emily Dickinson International Society (EDIS), MLA Convention, Washington, D.C. 2005 “Citizen Comrade Bruce: Power and Uses of the Erotic in Springsteen,” Glory Days: A Bruce Springsteen Symposium, presented by Penn State University, hosted by Monmouth University, West Long Branch, New Jersey, September 2005 “Electronic Scholarly Editing: Early Reflections” (delivered in absentia), The Blackwell Companion to Digital Humanities: A Roundtable Discussion, ACH/ALLC 2005, Victoria, British Columbia, June 2005 “The Society for Textual Scholarship: The Next 20 Years,” Society for Textual Scholarship (STS) Plenary Roundtable, New York, March 2005 “Working Methods of the Dickinson Electronic Archives (DEA), Amplitudes & New Directions in Editing. Emily Dickinson International Society (EDIS) Conference, University of Hawaii at Hilo, August 2004. “Emily Dickinson’s Fluid Texts and the Philosophy of the Dickinson Electronic Archives Projects,” Society for the Study of American Women Writers (SSAWW), Ft. Worth, Texas, September 2003 Chair, “Interoperability and Preservation,” ACH/ALLC 2003, University of Georgia, June 2003

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“Computing: What’s Literary Study Got to do with IT?” Panel on Using the Web for Literary Research, Modern Language Association (MLA), New York, December 2002 “Emily Scissorhands: Reading Dickinson Reading,’” Reading Notes Colloquium sponsored by the European Society for Textual Scholarship, University of Antwerp, December 2002 (in absentia) “Computing: What’s African Studies Got to do with IT?” for Directions in Diaspora Research Roundtable sponsored by the David C. Driskell Center (UM), African Studies Association (ASA 45th Annual Meeting; Africa in the Information and Technology Age), Washington, DC, December 2002 Chair, “Cultural and Systemic Hypertext,” ALLC/ACH 2002, University of Tubingen, July 2002 Chair and 3rd author (with Susan Schreibman and Amit Kumar, MITH: and Lara Vetter and Jarom McDonald, Dickinson Electronic Archives and MITH), “MITH’s Lean, Mean Versioning Machine,” ALLC/ACH 2002, University of Tubingen, July 2002 Moderator & Contributor, “Digital Demand vs. Paper Pleas” Roundtable, for “Who Wants Yesterday’s Papers? A Symposium on the Research Value of Printed Materials in the Digital Age.” University of Maryland Libraries and University of Maryland College of Information Studies. March 1, 2002. “The Dickinson Electronic Archives Projects: Evolutions of Dynamic Edition(s),” MLA Publications Committee, MLA, New Orleans, December 2001 Chair & Moderator, “Configuring Cyberculture: New Directions in Cyberstudies and Cybercultural Production,” American Studies Association (ASA), Washington DC, November 2001 “Give Peace a Chance: A Proposal to End the ‘Dickinson Wars,’” remarks for a workshop on the Dickinson Electronic Archives and Technologies of Distribution—Voices, Audio Files, Manuscript Pages, Printed Pages, Screens, and Markup Files. Emily Dickinson International Society (EDIS) Conference, Trondheim, Norway, August 2001 “Toward a Dynamic, Generative Evaluation Toolbox: a Roundtable,” Association for Computers and the Humanities/Association for Linguistic and Literary Computing (ACH/ALLC), New York University, June 2001 “Who’s Afraid of Susan Dickinson? Feminism, Textual Theory, and a Hypertextual Critical Edition” (with Lara Vetter), Society for Textual Scholarship (STS), New York, April 2001 “Evolutions of Titanic Operas, Contemporary Responses to Dickinson’s Legacy,” Society for the Study of American Women Writers (SSAWW), San Antonio, February 2001 “Aaron Copeland, Emily Dickinson, & American Identity,” Aaron Copland and American Identity, Centennial Conference, University of Maryland, September 2000 “Making MITH a Reality, Beginning Year Two,”ALLC/ACH, University of Glasgow, July 2000 “Making MITH a Reality,” Digital Resources in the Humanities (DRH) Conference ’99, University of London, September 1999

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Roundtable on Archiving & Editing, EDIS Conference, Mt. Holyoke College, August 1999 Teaching & Theorizing Periodicals in Electronic Formats and Classrooms, A Roundtable, American Literature (ALA) Association, Baltimore, May 1999 “Omissions Are Not Accidents: Erasures & Cancellations in Emily Dickinson’s Manuscripts,” STS, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, April 1999 “On the Roundtable & Franklin’s Gifts,” Roundtable on R.W. Franklin’s New Poems of Emily Dickinson, MLA, San Francisco, December 1998 “Editing Dickinson in a Time of Transition,” DRH Conference ’98, University of Glasgow, Scotland, September 1998 “Sermon - Hope - Solace - Life: The Epistolary Poetics of Susan & Emily Dickinson” and “Elements of Blank, Formal Feelings, and the Hallowing of Pain in Emily Dickinson’s Writings,” read at ALA, San Diego, May 1998 Moderator, “Unfastening the Fascicles: A Roundtable Discussion,” MLA, Toronto, December 1997 “(Transatlantic Affiliations within) Susan and Emily Dickinson’s Literary Liaison,” for “The New Battle of the Books: American Women’s Dialogue with Europe,” American Renaissance Symposium of the ALA, Cancun, Mexico, December 1997 Chair, “Public Sex, Sexual Publics,” American Studies Association (ASA), Washington, D.C., Oct. 1997 “On the Dickinson Electronic Archives” for “Creating Digital Resources in the Humanities: The Work of Many Hands [at the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, U of Virginia],” DRH Conference ’97, Oxford, England, September 1997 “Making The Book of Susan & Emily Dickinson or Open Me Carefully,” STS Conference, the CUNY Graduate Center, New York, April 1997 “The Screen & the Book of Susan & Emily Dickinson,” MLA Convention, Washington, D.C., December 1996 “A Hypertextual Investigation of Emily Dickinson Writing a Poem,” for “Myths and Redefinitions of Literacy in the Age of the Computer” Plenary, CHANT (Committee for Creative Humanities Applications in New Technologies) Conference, UM, November 1996 “Ethan’s Scar: Gender Relations in The Searchers,” The Searchers after Forty Years Conference, UM, May 1996 “Marked for Erasure: Plausible Deniability from Liberace to Michael Jackson,” Popular Culture Association (PCA), Las Vegas, March 1996 Commentator, “The Intellectual Property Rebellion: Cultural and Technological Challenges to the Tradition,” ASA Conference, Pittsburgh, November 1995

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“Developing a Hypermedia Research Archive of Dickinson's Writings,” Plenary Chair for “Editing the Manuscripts” and Speaker, EDIS Conference, University of Innsbruck, Austria, August 1995 “Titanic Operas: Dickinson & Twentieth-Century Women Poets,” ALA Conference, Baltimore, June 1995 “Drag as Tact: Dolly Parton’s Hyperfeminine Hetero(?)sexuality,” PCA Conference, Philadelphia, April 1995 “The Book of Susan and Emily Dickinson: The Importance of a Hypermedia Research Archive,” presentation with Ellen Louise Hart, MLA Convention, San Diego, 1994 “Editing Dickinson’s Correspondence with Susan Dickinson” (Co-presentation with Ellen Louise Hart of University of California at Santa Cruz), ALA Conference, Baltimore, May 1993; ALA Symposium on Women Writers, San Antonio, October 1993; Editing After Poststructuralism Seminar, Folger Library, Washington, DC, October 1993 “Celebrity Bodies Politic,” Academic Knowledge & Political Power Conference, UM, November 1992 Moderator for American Women Poets and Dickinson Panel, and Moderator for Editing/Publication Panel, EDIS Conference, Washington, DC, October 1992 Moderator, Cynthia Griffin Wolff and Alicia Ostriker on “Dickinson and Influence,” ALA Conference, San Diego, May 1992 “Erotobiographies in Contemporary Culture: Navratilova and Springsteen,” Symposium on Sexualities, Dissidence, and Cultural Change, Center for Renaissance and Baroque Studies, UM, April 1992 “Dig Me Up With This Pen: Toi Derricotte’s Choice of Subjects,” ASA Conference, Baltimore, November 1991 “Springsteen’s ‘Tougher than the Rest’: Semiotic Product as Commentary,” Semiotic Society of America, October 1991 “At a Window Facing West: Dickinson’s Poetry Workshop,” ALA Conference, San Diego, May 1990 Chair, “Reading Dickinson’s Poems in Letters, Letters in Poems,” Northeastern Modern Language Association Convention (NEMLA), Toronto, April 1990 “‘Scalping is Not One of My Gifts’: Catharine Sedgwick and a Hopelessly Sentimental Fenimore Cooper,” MLA Convention, Washington, DC, 1989 “‘Everywoman Her Own Theology’: Gwendolyn Brooks and Alicia Ostriker, the Difference of Dickinson, and Influence,” MLA Convention, Washington, DC, 1989 “Naming the Beloved: Gender Mobility in Bruce Springsteen,” ASA Conference, Toronto, October 1989 “Uncle Moms: Costuming and Play and a Tradition of Women Writers,” MLA Convention, New Orleans, December 1988

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“The Poet as Cartoonist: Dickinson’s Orthography, Cutouts, and Sketches,” MLA Convention, New Orleans, December 1988 “Transcribing Dickinson’s Calligraphic Orthography: A Study in Translation,” NEMLA Convention, Wilmington, Delaware, March 1989 “Using Emily Dickinson to Tell the Story of Mabel Loomis Todd,” NEMLA Convention, Providence, R.I., March 1988 “Too Close for Comfort?: Sudden Death & Fictionalized Eroto-Biography,” MLA Convention, San Francisco, December 1987 Moderator, “‘Further...Than’ A Century,” Emily Dickinson Section, NEMLA Convention, Boston, April 1987 Moderator, “Women Workers in the Arts,” New Jersey Research Conference on Women, Institute for Research on Women and The Center for the American Woman and Politics, Rutgers University, May 1986 “Culture is Canaan, Cashmere is Calvary: Dickinson Invades the Sanctuary of Male Mythos,” National Women’s Studies Association Conference (NWSA), Urbana, 1986 “Mutilations and Erotic Emily Dickinson,” Emily Dickinson Centenary Section, NEMLA Convention, New Brunswick, 1986 “A ‘Beard,’ Thank God: Dickinson’s ‘Master’ Letters as Patriarchal Icons,” Striking Images: Feminist Theory, Practice, and Politics in the Arts Forum, MLA Convention, Chicago, 1985 “‘Immaculate White,’ the Daguerreotype, and The Belle of Amherst: Icons in the Industry and Canonization of Dickinson,” The Next Generation of Scholars Symposium, New York University, 1985, and Institute for Research on Women, Rutgers University, 1985 “‘With the Exception of Shakespeare’: Emily Dickinson’s Correspondence with Susan Gilbert,” NWSA Conference, New Brunswick, 1984. “Dissolution: The Fabric of Society in Alec Guinness’s Man in a White Suit,” Film and Society Forum, NEMLA, Pittsburgh, 1977 Talks for High School Teachers & Other Community Groups “Making MITH a Reality and Teaching with the Dickinson Electronic Archives,” NEH Faculty Workshop, Northern Virginia Community College, December 2007. “Poetry in the Twentieth-First Century,” Madeira School, McLean, Virginia, November 2003 “Making Open Me Carefully: Reflections on Susan Dickinson, Emily Dickinson’s Muse & Confidante,” LeisureWorld Book Review, Silver Spring, MD, May 1999 “Driving a Wedge into the World: Confluences in American Poetry” and Multimedia Workshop,

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CAST/Rutgers Summer Institute for High School Teachers, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, August 1996 “Developing Strategies for Teaching Multicultural Women's Poetry,” mid-year lecture for CAST (Center for Renaissance & Baroque Studies Alliance for Secondary School Teachers) series, Prince George’s County, February 1995 “Multicultural Perspectives on Contemporary Women’s Poetry,” introductory lecture for CAST series, Prince George’s County, November 1994 “Multicultural Poetry by Women,” introductory lecture for CAST televisual series, Channel 36, Baltimore, October 1993 “African-American Women’s Poetry,” introductory lecture for CAST closed-circuit interactive televisual series for Maryland high school teachers, Prince George’s County, October 1993 “Teaching in an Era of Multiculturalism,” Keynote Address, Faculty Orientation, Mercy High School, Baltimore, August 1991 “‘God Be with the Clown,’ Dickinson and the Importance of Humor” Seminar for High School Teachers, sponsored by Georgetown University, February 1987 Special Talks & Presentations at UM (Selected) On Being a Distinguished Scholar-Teacher, with Avis Cohen (Biology, Institute for Systems Research), for prospective students, sponsored by Phi Kappa Phi, Honors College, College Park Scholars, and Office for the Associate Provost of Academic Affairs, March 5, 2011 “What do we believe?” for Diversity, Democracy, and Higher Education: A Colloquy. Sponsored by the Office of Associate Provost for Equity and Diversity and the African American Studies Department, April 2010 “Rereading Emily Dickinson, Icon, in the 21st Century,” Presentation to Alumni of the English Department, December 2010 Moderator, “Queer Intersections Panel,” Hamsa, the Jewish LGBTQQIA organization, December 2010 “Remembering Forgotten Contributions,” Today@Maryland Interview with The Diamondback on the meaning of Women’s History Month, March 13, 2009 Methods New & Old in Humanities Interdisciplinary Research, Consortium on Race, Gender, & Ethnicity (CRGE) Colloquium, November 2002 Transforming Humanities Research & Teaching: a Conversation about Digital Studies, UM Faculty/Staff Club, Rossborough Inn, April 2002 Comments at Building Community Day Breakfast (on behalf of the President’s Commissions), with President C.D. Mote, Jr., and Angela Lagdameo, President, Student Government Association, October 2001

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“Pedagogy and Computing in the Humanities,”with George Williams, MITH Program Associate, Teaching with Technology Conference, Office of Information Technology (OIT) and Center for Teaching Excellence, April 2001 “Making MITH a Reality,” with Katie King and Jo Paoletti, MITH Fellows, David Silver and Jason Rhody, MITH Program Associates, Teaching with Technology Conference, Office of Information Technology (OIT) and Center for Teaching Excellence, April 2000. Winners of Innovation in Teaching with Technology Award 2000, Office of Information Technology, UM “Questions of Copyright, Intellectual Property, and Digital Productions for Research and for the Classroom,” Symposium, College of Arts & Humanities, October 1999 “Not Your Parents’ English Department,” presentation on digital resources with Neil Fraistat, President C.D. Mote’s Inauguration, April 1999 “Digital Resources & the Classroom,” Teaching with Technology Symposium, College of Arts & Humanities, March 1999 “Teaching Dickinson & Whitman in Manuscript, Print, and Digital Cultures,” Teaching with Technology Symposium, Academic Information Technology Services & Center for Teaching Excellence, March 1998. http://www.inform.umd.edu/TWT/spring98.html “On Writing The Life of Susan Dickinson and Editing Writings by Susan Dickinson online (http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/dickinson/susan/), AAUW Published Women’s Luncheon, Rossborough Inn, March 1998 “Theory and Practice of Online Text Editing,” with Prof. Neil Fraistat, for Afternoons at the Computer, CHANT (Committee for Creative Humanities Applications in New Technologies), February 1997 “Contemporary American Literature,” lecture with Prof. Marilee Lindemann, for visiting Russian scholars, Maryland English Institute, July 1996 “On Rowing in Eden, Comic Power, and Developing a Hypermedia Archive of Dickinson’s Writings,” AAUW Published Women’s Luncheon, Rossborough Inn, April 1996 “A Forum on Long-Term Gay/Lesbian Partnerships,” Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual Student Association, February 1996 “Textual Theory, Literary Study, and the Case of Emily Dickinson,” two invited lectures for English majors, February 1996 Faculty Reading sponsored by Sigma Tau Delta & the English Undergraduate Association, December 1995 “With Whom Do You Believe Your Lot is Cast?” Commencement Address, English Department Ceremonies, Spring 1994 “Technologies and the Transmission of Knowledge,” Comparative Literature Interdisciplinary Symposium, November 1993

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“Emily Scissorhands: Dickinson Cuts Up the Bible,” American Literature Colloquium, Department of English, March 1993 “Sexual Mores Past and Present,” Forum for Undergraduate Residence Life, AIDS Awareness Week, November 1990 “Gender, Poetics, and Textual Reproduction,” Collegiate Encounters, College of Arts & Humanities, March 1988 “Incorporating Feminist Perspectives into Our Classrooms,” Women’s Studies Graduate Support Network, Fall 1987 “Linking Rhetorical & Literary Theory,” Club Rhetoric, Fall 1987 “What Counts When a Text Has Been Erased, Cut Away & Disguised?” Lecture sponsored by the American Literature Section of the English Department, November 1986 “Contesting Emily Dickinsons,” a collaboration with Katie King, Women’s Studies Department, Women's Studies Research Forum, November 1986 “Why Literary Critics Should Never Stop Asking ‘What if?’” Lecture to Sigma Tau Delta, English Honor Society, October 1986

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ADVANCE Professor, College of Arts and Humanities, NSF-funded interdisciplinary Program for Inclusive Excellence (http://www.advance.umd.edu/) Distinguished Scholar-Teacher, University of Maryland Livingston College Distinguished Alumni Award, Rutgers University and Livingston Alumni Association, May 16, 2009 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e6wD4IgweA) “Metadata Offer New Knowledge” (MONK), $1,000,000 Mellon Foundation Grant with University of Illinois, Northwestern University, McMaster University, University of Nebraska, University of Alberta, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). (Local co-PI, with Matthew Kirchenbaum, MITH, and Catherine Plaisant, Human-Computer Interaction Lab, HCIL) General Research Board (GRB) Semester Fellowship, U of Maryland (Fall) “Web-based Text-Mining and Visualization for Humanities Digital Libraries,” $598,674 Mellon Foundation Grant with University of Illinois, University of Georgia, University of Virginia. (Local co-PI, with Matthew Kirschenbaum; $125,785 to University of Maryland) Maryland Humanities Council Grant for MITH/David C. Driskell Center Poetry Slam Honoring Gwendolyn Brooks, Maryland Day, 24 April 2004, $1,200. Co-PI with Eileen Julien, Driskell Center Director. Hecht’s Grant for MITH/Driskell Center Maryland Day Poetry Slam. $3,000. Co-PI with Eileen Julien. Robert W. Deutsch Foundation Grant for MITH Programmer, $150,000

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Featured in Honor Roll of Donors, University of Maryland, for meeting NEH Challenge. $1,270,571.52 raised by August 2001 Apple Distinguished Educator Award. Apple Computers. June 2000-2002. For outstanding work in humanities computing. Consortium on Race, Gender, Ethnicity Award, University of Maryland, for MITHologies Working Group. $5,000. Innovation in Teaching with Technology Award, MITH Team, $5,000 awarded by the Office of Information Technology, UM Co-Chair, Writing Committee, NEH Challenge Grant for the Maryland Institute in the Humanities (MITH), $410,000 awarded December 1998, contingent on four-to-one match. $1,650,853 certified by January 31, 2003. Omicron Delta Kappa (ODK) National Leadership Honor Society, elected by student nomination for outstanding scholarship, teaching, and mentorship FIPSE Grant, $177,000 awarded August 1997 for developing online resource, The Classroom Electric: Dickinson, Whitman, and American Culture (http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/fdw/); Project Co-Director, with Prof. Kenneth M. Price, College of William and Mary (now Hillegass Professor of 19th Century American Literature, University of Nebraska). Research Support Award, General Research Board, University of Maryland Networked Associate Fellowship, University of Virginia Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities Research Support Award, General Research Board, University of Maryland Best Books of 1993, Choice, for Comic Power in Emily Dickinson Honorable Mention, Hans Rosenhaupt Memorial Book Award for Distinguished First Book, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, for Rowing in Eden: Rereading Emily Dickinson National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for University Teachers (Spring & Fall) General Research Board Semester Fellowship, U of Maryland (Fall) NEH Travel to Collections Grant ACLS Grant-in-Aid Bill Casey Award for Best Contribution to San Jose Studies in 1987 Teacher/Mentor Award from Alpha Gamma Delta Sorority, UM, for Outstanding Scholastic Assistance Summer General Research Board Award, UM Summer General Research Board Award, UM Catherine Moynahan Prize for Best Graduate Essay, Rutgers University University Fellowship, Rutgers University Woodrow Wilson Women’s Studies Fellow Rutgers University Graduate School Research Award Most Outstanding Student, Livingston College, Rutgers University ACT Scholarship, Abilene Christian College, Abilene, Texas

EDITING/REVIEWING ACTIVITIES Advisory Board, Emily Dickinson: Digital Edition, Harvard University Press, 2012 to the present Editor, Special Issue: Revisiting Editing as Interpretation, Textual Cultures 2.1 (Spring 2007) Editorial Advisory Board, Textual Cultures, August 2005 to the present Editorial Advisory Board, Emily Dickinson Journal, August 2004 to the present

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Book Review Coeditor (With Marilee Lindemann), Resources for American Literary Study, 1992-1999 Reviewer/Consultant for various presses— U of Alabama P, Blackwell, U of California P, Cambridge UP, Columbia UP, U of Edinburgh P, U of Georgia P, Greenwood P, Harvard UP, Indiana UP, U of Kentucky P, St. Martin’s P, U of Michigan P, UP of New England, Oxford UP, Palgrave, U of Texas P, Yale UP, Wiley-Blackwell, U of Wisconsin P Reviewer/Consultant for American Literature, Feminist Studies, Nineteenth Century Studies, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, College English, ESQ, Literature Compass, PMLA, and other scholarly journals Editorial Board, Leviathan (a journal of Melville studies), 1998-present

COURSES TAUGHT IN THE 1990s & beyond ENGL 631 - AUTOBIOGRAPHICS, AVATARS, ALIASES, ARCHIVES, AESTHETICS, ETHICS, ANONYMOUS: Queer Rereading Practices and Theories of Life Writing in the Facebook Era ENGL 359E/LGBT 359E – Queer Autobiographics in the Age of Facebook (F10) ENGL 313 – American Literature (S10) ENGL 438D – Major American Writers. Dickinson & Whitman (F09) ENGL 748D – Archives.Media.Dickinson.Poetry (F09) ENGL 250 – Introduction to Literature by Women (S05, S07, F07, S08, S09, S10, F10, F11); http://www.mith2.umd.edu/courses/engl250/ ENGL 379K – Women Writing During Wartime (F08), with Jason Rudy; extension of Semester on War and Representation of War, College of Arts & Humanities ENGL 668B – Feminist Criticism & Theory in the 21st Century: Readings in Modern Literary Theory (F08) ENGL 359B – Queer Poetics, or Gay is Very American (S08) ENGL 379N – Women & Comedy (S07, S11); extension of Semester on Comedy and Humor Initiative, College of Arts & Humanities ENGL 748 - Poetry. Media. Dickinson & Co. (F04 & F07); http://www.mith2.umd.edu/engl748a/ ENGL 435 - America Sexual Poetics (S04), http://www.emilydickinson.org/nosearch/asp2004; American Sexual Poetics Revisited (S09, F11) ENGL 748 - Dickinson, A User’s Guide (S03) Graduate Seminar in May Swenson: Mapping the Word. Utah State University, June 2002. Maryland Teachers as Scholars Program - for public school teachers offered by the College of Arts & Humanities, UM, and Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, Thinking and Learning with the Dickinson Electronic Archives Projects (F01 & F02). ENGL 748 - Poetry & Media: Aural Traditions and Textual Transmissions (F01); http://www.mith.umd.edu/courses/poetrymedia/ ENGL 758 - Digitizing Literary History (S01); http://www.mith.umd.edu/courses/diglit2001/s01syll.html ENGL 748 - America in the Nineteenth Century, Virtually Yours (F99 & S00); http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/dickinson/classroom/spring00/s00syll.html ENGL 399 & ENGL 748 - American Autobiographics (F98) ENGL 439 & ENGL 748 - Dickinson & Whitman in Manuscript, Print, and Digital Cultures (F97 & S98); see http://www.emilydickinson.org/classroom/fall97.html & http://www.emilydickinson.org/classroom/spring98/s98intro.html ENGL 626 - Readings in American Literature to 1865 (F96) ENGL 379A (CMLT 498Q) - Gay is Very American: Introduction to Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual Literatures (F96, F97) ENGL 748 - American Autobiographics (S96 & S98)

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ENGL 748 - Dickinson & American Sexual Poetics at the FinS de Siecle (S96) ENGL 435 - American Poetry: Sexual Poetics Revisited (S96) ENGL 601 - Literary Research & Critical Contexts (F95) ENGL 431 - American Literature 1810-1865 (F95) ENGL 627 - Readings in American Literature 1865-1914 (S95) ENGL 748 - Dickinson, H.D., Susan Howe, & Alicia Ostriker: Textual Reproduction as Feminist Practice(S95) CUNY U 860 - American Sexual Poetics Revisited (F94) ENGL 748 - American Sexual Poetics Revisited (S94) ENGL 435 - American Sexual Poetics Revisited (S94); “Poetic Justice,” feature story in The Detroit News (May 27, 1994) 1F, 4F ENGL 748 - American Sexual Poetics Revisited: Lost Histories (F93) ENGL 601 - Bibliography & Methods (F93) ENGL 758 - Blake, Dickinson, & the Politics of Textual Reproduction (S93; team-taught with Professor Neil Fraistat) ENGL 601 - Bibliography & Methods (F92) ENGL 748 - Dickinson & Contemporary Women’s Poetry (S92) ENGL 439 - Whitman, Dickinson, & Nineteenth-Century American Poetry (F91) ENGL 899 - Dissertation Workshop (F91) ENGL 399 - Pioneer Women in American Literature (S91) CAST Institute in Multicultural Literatures for Maryland & New Jersey High School Teachers, Rutgers University (S96) CAST Institute in Multicultural Poetry by Women, Prince George’s County High School Teachers (F94) Year-long CAST Literature Lecture Series, Baltimore Public Television, Multicultural Poetry by Women (F & S94) Interactive CAST Lecture, African-American Women’s Poetry, Prince George’s County and remote sites around the state (F93) CAST Institute in American Women’s Poetry, High School Teachers on Maryland’s Eastern Shore (S93) CAST Institute in Multiculturalism in American Women’s Poetry for Montgomery County High School Teachers (F92 & S93) CAST Institute in American Women Poetry for Baltimore County High School Teachers (F90 & S91; team-taught with Professor Margaret Reid of Morgan State University) DIRECTOR, Dissertations & Theses; PRIMARY ADVISOR, Qualifying Examinations In process: Aaron Dinin, PhD, Reading and Writing in a Digital Age Julie Enszer, PhD (WMST), Lesbian Poetry Archive (co-directed with Deborah Rosenfelt, WMST). Awards for dissertation work: Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation Women’s Studies Fellowship 2012-2013; Snouffer Dissertation Fellowship, College of Arts & Humanities 2011-2012 (Wylie University Fellowship declined); Schlesinger Library Grant, Harvard University, May 2011; Jacob K. Goldhaber Travel Award, January 2011; Mary Lily Research Grant, Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History and Culture, Duke University, March 2010; Duberman Fellowship, New York Public Library, March 2010 Bridget Todd, MA, “Stevie Smith’s Latent Feminisms”

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Completed: Laura Lauth, PhD (2011), “’Strange and Absurd Words’: Translation as Ethics and Poetics in the Transcultural U.S. 1830-1915”; College of Arts & Humanities Distinguished Dissertation, nominated for University Distinguished Dissertation Leonardo Flores, PhD (2010), “Typing the Dancing Signifier: Jim Andrews’ (Vis)Poetics” (co-directed with Matthew Kirschenbaum); Associate Dean of Assessment and Educational Technologies and Associate Professor of English at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez Carol Dorsey, PhD (2005), “Self-fashioning (Im)Possibilities: A Literary Tapestry of Women at Work in Nineteenth-Century America”; Visiting Assistant Professor of Humanities, Hood College, 2005Amy Hobbs, PhD (2005), “The World, Our Home: The Rhetorical Vision of Women’s Clubs in American Literature, 1870-1920”; Assistant Professor, Central State University (Ohio), 2006Ed Whitley, PhD (2004), “American Bards: Whitman, Antebellum Poetry, and the Limits of Nationality” (co-directed with Robert S. Levine); winner of annual Carl Bode Prize for Best Dissertation in American Literature, UM; Assistant Professor of English, Lehigh University, 2004Ingrid Satelmajer, PhD (2004), “Remapping Dickinson and Periodical Studies” Lara Vetter, PhD (2003), “Theorizing Modernism: H.D. and Mina Loy’s Visionary Prose”; winner of annual Carl Bode Prize for Best Dissertation in American Literature, UM; Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Missouri at Kansas City, 2003-2005; Assistant Professor of English, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 2005Kristin Comment, PhD (2002), “Beyond ‘Romantic Friendship’: Female Homoeroticism in NineteenthCentury American Literature”; Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts Lowell, 2003-2005; AP Senior English, Belmont High School, Belmont, MA, 2005Adrienne McCormick, PhD (1998), “Practicing Poetry, Producing Theory: Op/positional Poetics in Contemporary Multi-Ethnic Poetries”; Associate Professor of English, Chair of English Department, Director of Women’s Studies, State University of New York at Fredonia Annette Debo, PhD (1998), “America in H.D.’s Palimpsest: Place, Race, and Gender in Her Early Poetry and Prose”; winner of annual Carl Bode Prize for Best Dissertation in American Literature, UM; Associate Professor of English, Director of Literature Program, Western Carolina University Dali Tan, PhD (1997; Comparative Literature), “Exploring Intersections Between Gender and Culture: Rereading Li Qingzhao and Emily Dickinson”; Landon School, Bethesda, Maryland Laura Dickinson, PhD (1996), “‘A House that Tries to Be Haunted’: Emily Dickinson’s Poetics of Transgression” Megan Taylor, PhD (1993), “A Straining in the Text: Women Writers and the Deconstruction of the Sentimental Plot, 1845-1900”; Vice President, Hewlett-Packard Betty Day, PhD (1992), “‘This Comes of Writing Poetry’: The Public and Private Voices of Lydia Sigourney”; Librarian IV, University of Maryland at College Park Joan Burke, PhD (1991; codirected with Prof. Joseph Wittreich), “‘In Another Dimension’: H.D. in Prophetic Tradition”; Professor Emerita of English, State University of New York at Fredonia Brooke Tyson, MA (2010), “Writing Outside of the Lines: Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, and A Homosexual Tradition in American Letters” Aaron Dinin, MA (2009), “Digital (In)Humanities: Re-reading Digital Archives as a Form of Cultural Expression Brooke Bull, MA (2008), “She herself is the écriture feminine: the feminine palimpsest in Helen in Egypt Amy Cavanaugh, MA (2008), “Emily Dickinson and the Spasmodics” Rebecca McCary, MA (2008), “’You Can’t Stop There’: A Reconsideration of Publishing Race in the Later Works of Gwendolyn Brooks” Nikki Case, MA (2005), “Fragmenting a Lyric Voice and Constructing Narrative Identity in Christina Rossetti’s Time Flies” Kevin Fries, MLS (2005), Independent Study, “Bridging Digital Archives and Digital Humanities”

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Jason Morris, MA (2005), Independent Study, “Jazz Night in Southwest: A Multimedia Documentary” Tanya Clement, MA (2004), “A Digital Regiving: Editing the Sweetest Messages in the Dickinson Electronic Archives” Dresden Koons, MA (2003), “Virginia Woolf, The Waves, and the Web: ‘The Semi-Transparent Envelope, or Luminous Halo, Surrounding Us from the Beginning of Consciousness to the End’” Elizabeth Martin, MA (2003), “The Civil War: A Force in the Life of Emily Dickinson” Julia Sutliff, MA (1998), “Matters of Importance: The Power of Women’s Agency in the Civil War Story of Cornelia Peake MacDonald” Leslie Waters, MA (1998), “An Overview of Criticism on Women in Anne Tyler’s Novels” Adrianne Vandenheuvel, MA (1996), “Changing the Cycle: The Mother-Daughter Bond and the Formation of the Daughter’s Identity” Chris Conlon, MA (1995), “‘Fox-Teeth in Your Heart’: Inscriptions of Sexual Love in the Poetry of Tennessee Williams” Valerie Fudge, MA (1994), “Sexuality and Identity Construction in Allen Ginsberg's ‘Howl’ and ‘Kaddish’” Holly Stewart, MA (1994), “Revisionist Mythmaking in Anne Sexton and Olga Broumas” Julia Zoch, MA (1994), on Fanny Fern and the Independent Woman Patricia Porcarelli, MA (1993), “Rachel Blau DuPlessis and the Boundless Text” Michael Shubra, MA (1993), “Developing a Hypermedia Archive of Dickinson's ‘Safe in their Alabaster Chambers’” Maria Karafilis, MA (1993), “Delirium and Development of the Self: A Means of Realizing Forms of Female Identity in Kincaid, Marshall, Rhys, and Atwood” Cherie Thompson, MA (1993), on patterns of reading and the construction of Sylvia Plath Mary Noel, MA (1992), “Elizabeth Bishop: Narratology and the Narrative Poem” Alice Yang Moore, MA (1989), on contemporary Asian-American Women Writers Kara Estelle, Honors (2012), “Power and Control in Vladimir Nabakov’s Lolita and Ada.” Joshua B. Winskowski, Honors (2010), “’A word to the wise guy’: Naked Lunch as a ‘How-To’ Weapon for Political Resistance.” English Honors Thesis Award Winner. Erik Blankinship, Honors (1997), “Clay Camp: Interactive Media and Children’s Literature” (http://www.dolphin.org/erik/CLAY/) Solomon Sarang, Honors (1997), “Panel-to-Panel and Person-to-Person: Graphic Novels and Realism: Explications of Blood of Palomar, Stuck Rubber Baby, and Maus I & II” Jennifer Cunningham, Honors (1995), “The Exit of Love in H.D.’s Poetics: Staging the Script of ‘Hymen’” Brenda Mezick, Honors (1988) Diane Vance, Honors (1988) Susan Fleischmann, Honors (1987) PRIMARY ADVISOR, Individual Studies Majors Lydia Belzer, B.A., Magna Cum Laude (December 2000), Legal Foundations Joshua Perkey, B.A. (December 2000), New Media Networks and Society

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Mary Bazemore, PhD (WMST), “The Political Economy of Modern Marriage in the United States” Michelle Boswell, PhD, “Victorian Literature and Science” Amy Karp, PhD, “Speaking from a Strange Place: Sarah Schulman, Elizabeth Wurtzel, Ilene Chaiken, Amy Bloom and the Refiguring of Contemporary Bodies of Jewish American Women’s Assimilation” Jennifer Landon, PhD, American Women Artists and Modernism Lisa Lewnes, PhD, American Literature, 1840-1940; Immigrant and Mixed-Race Identities Natalie Phillips, PhD, “Re-writing Nationality in an Era of Empire: Women’s English-Language Poetry and National Identity in the Nineteenth Century” Sarah Sillin, PhD, Narrative in the Long 19th Century and Sentiment, Domesticity, and Global Visions in 19th-Century Novels Deborah Thurlow, DMA, Voice Marie Troppe, PhD, “Black Benefactors and White Recipients: Counternarratives of Benevolence in Nineteenth-Century American Texts” Completed: Robert Lyle Hernandez, III (AMST; December 2011), “Archival Body/Archival Space: Queer Remains of the Chicano Art Movement, Los Angeles, 1969-2009” Mirona Magearu, PhD (CMLT; May 2010), “Digital Poetry: Comparative Textual Performances in TransMedial Spaces” Rebecca Krefting, PhD (AMST; May 2010), “Laughter in the Final Instance: The Cultural Economy of Humor (Or why women aren’t perceived to be as funny as men)”; visiting assistant professor, Skidmore College, 2010 to the present Susanne Silvia Navarre, PhD (CMLT, Rutgers University; May 2010), “’The Poetics of Everyday Life’: The Sublime as an Aesthetic Force in the Lyric Poetry of Emily Dickinson and Annette von Droste-Hülshoff” Savneet Talwar, PhD (AMST; May 2010), “Mary Coble: Performance Art and the Politics of the Archive” Tanya Clement, PhD (2009), “The Makings of Digital Modernism: Rereading Gertrude Stein’s The Making of Americans and Poetry by Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven” Asha Srinivasan, PhD (Doctor of Musical Arts; 2008) Alexandra Socarides, PhD (Rutgers University; May 2007), “Lyric Contexts: Emily Dickinson and the Problem of Genre” Martha Bari, PhD (Art History; 2007), “Mass Media is the Message: Yoko Ono and John Lennon’s 1969 Year of Peace” Yi-Chen Chen, DMA (Doctor of Musical Arts; 2006), “Nautilus [electronic resource]: for flute/piccolo and computer-processed sound” April Householder, PhD (2006; Comparative Literature), “The Brave Stepped Back: The Life and Times of Laskarina Bouboulina” Geoffrey Schramm, PhD (2006), “Male Homosocialities in Nineteenth-Century American Literature” Elisa Warford, PhD (2006), “Americans in the Golden State: The Rhetoric of Identity in Four California Social Protest Novels” Hyun Kyung Kim, DMA (Doctor of Musical Arts; 2005), “Incipit for Flute and Computer” Traci Abbott, PhD (2004), “Good Girls, Vamps, and Jezebels: The Construction of Female Desire in Larsen, Hurst, Hurston and Cather” Liora Moriel, PhD (2003; Comparative Literature), “The Celluloid Jew: Passing for American in U.S. Film and Fiction, 1927-1947”

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Seth Clark Silberman, PhD (2003; Comparative Literature), “‘Youse awful queer, chappie’: Reading Black Queer Vernacular in Black Literatures of the Americas” Steve Canaday, PhD (2002), “Underground Celebrity: Sam Shepard and the Paradox of Off-Off Broadway” Leona Sevick, PhD (2002), “Protest and Accomodation: Willa Cather’s Anti-Modernism” Lisl Zach, PhD (2002; College of Information Studies), “When is ‘Enough’ Enough? An Investigation of the Information-Seeking and Stopping Behavior of Senior Arts Administrators” Stacy Steinberg, PhD (2001), “For Love or Money: Women’s Wage Labor and Domestic Ideals in Antebellum American Texts” Phillip Beard, PhD (2000), “Fitzgerald’s Nostalgia and the Twilight of the American Sublime” Lena Koski, PhD (2000; Abo Akademi University, Finland) Carlos Schroder, PhD (1999; Comparative Literature), “The Garden of Forking Tongues: The Politics of (sexual orientation in the) Translation of Poetry by Minnie Bruce Pratt and María Elena Walsh” Lee Burcham, PhD (1999), “The Intercourse with Heaven and Earth: Emerson’s Rhetoric of Power and Love” Stephanie Lovelady, PhD (1999; Comparative Literature), “Inside out: Immigration and Female Coming of Age in Willa Cather, Martha Ostenso, Margaret Atwood, Ana Castillo, Cristina Garcia, Barbara Kingsolver, and Julia Alvarez” Joelle Biele, PhD (1998), “‘Revise, Revise’: Elizabeth Bishop’s Writing Process” Barbara Stephanic, PhD (1997; American Studies), “Clarence Cook as Art Critic, Advocate for Professionalism, Educator, and Arbiter of Taste in America” Ann Steinecke, PhD (1997), “Revolt from the Village: Place and Anxiety in Modern American Fiction” Stacy Coyle, PhD (1997), “Poetic Couplings and the Modern Poetic Moment: Dickinson/Whitman, H. D./Pound, Bishop/Lowell” Natasha Sajé, PhD (1995), “’Artful Artlessness’: Reading the Coquette in the Novel, 1724-1913” Walter Holland, PhD (1994; CUNY Graduate School), Examination in Modern Poetry Saundra Maley, PhD (1994), “Solitary Apprenticeship: James Wright and German Poetry” Shirley Parry, PhD (1994), “Shadows of Resistance: Ambivalence toward Community in the Novels of Paule Marshall” Susan Rosen, PhD (1994), “Houses of Words in the American Northwest” Lorraine Sprecher, PhD (1994), “My Dissertation by Gertrude Stein: Gertrude Stein, Incest, and Assorted Fiction” Annette Oxindine, PhD (1993), “The Semiotics of Sapphistry in Virginia Woolf’s Fiction” Laraine Sommela, PhD (1993; SUNY-Stony Brook) Eleanor Heginbotham, PhD (1992), “Dwelling in Possibilities: The Fascicles of Emily Dickinson”; Professor Emerita, Concordia University, St. Paul, Minnesota Renee Curry, PhD (1991), “Please Come Flying: The Augural Poems of Elizabeth Bishop”; Dean, College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, California State University Monterey Bay, 2002 to the present Donald E. Hall, PhD (1991), “The Literature of Threat: Feminism and English Male Novelists, 1840-70”; Jackson Family Distinguished Chair, Professor of English, West Virginia University, 2004 to the present Cheryl Melkun, PhD (1991) Phyllis Betz, PhD (1990), “Balancing the Centuries: The Literary Career of Margaret Deland” Veronica Stewart, PhD (1990; SUNY-Stony Brook), “Emily Dickinson and the Rhetoric of Conversion” Kitty Wu, PhD (1990), “Cultural Ideology and Aesthetic Choices: A Study of Three Works by ChineseAmerican Women - Diana Chang, Bette Bao Lord, and Maxine H. Kingston” Monika Bilby, PhD (1989), “‘Heroick Vertue’: Changing Ideas of Feminine Greatness in the Heroic Drama of the Late Seventeenth Century”

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PhD Qualifying Exams only: Director: Amber Cohen, PhD, “Vital Signs: The Body’s Dis-ease in Contemporary American Poetry” (co-directed with Elizabeth Arnold) Alyson Doulos, PhD, English (2008), “Residual Sentiments: Sentimentality in Late Twentieth-Century American Literature 1975-2000” (co-directed with Linda Kauffman) Tricia Slusser, PhD, English (2006), on metafictions and American women writers; is contract specialist for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Reader: Kevin Jessar, PhD, English (2005) Laura Wells, PhD, British Literature 1730-1840 & Sublime of the Text (2005) Anne Kaufman, PhD, English (2003) Andrew Rennick, PhD, American Literature 1764-1861 & Discourse of Abolitionism (1998) Jason Rhody, PhD, Narrative & Expression in the Digital Age (2002) Catherine Romagnolo, PhD, English (2003) Jennifer Rowe, PhD, Twentieth-Century American Poetry & Prose; Contemporary Poetry & Poetics (2006) Marc Ruppel, PhD, Narrative, Media & Consciousness in Twentieth-Century American Literature (2005) Todd Solomon, PhD (1998)

MA Theses: Barry Dima, MA (2010), “Smelling the Bright Cold: Benjy’s Synaesthesia” Michelle Boswell, MA (2008), “Mathematical Poetics, Poetical Mathematics” Edmond Chang, MA (2005) Deborah Hamilton, MA (2004) Kate Munning, MA (2002), “Invisible Ink” Danielle Hatchett, MA (2001) Magdelyn Hammond, MFA (1999) Daniel Blasi, MFA (1997) Evan Shubin, MFA (1997) Catherine Romagnolo, MA (1997) Carlos Schroder, MA (1996; Comparative Literature) Seth Silberman, MA (1996; Comparative Literature) Rennie Childress, MA (1994; American Studies), “Richard Watson Gilbert and the Emergence of Modern American Nationalism: Literary Culture and Racism in the Post-Reconstruction United States Linda Dove, MA (1994) Claire Pettengill, MA (1994) Sara Becker, MFA (1993) Karen Iker, MA (1993) Jeffrey Kochan, MA (1993) Sara (Sally) Rosen, MFA (1993) Adrienne Willis-Dorsey, MA (1993) Amy Gibson, MFA (1992) Joseph Pilaro, MA (1992)

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Vasiliki Theodoropoulos, MFA (1990) Honors: Hannah Wenger, Honors (2010), “The American Novelist in Search of Freedom: Gender and Agency in Moby-Dick and The Awakening” Madeleine Lincoln, Honors (2010) Nancy Cushing, Honors (2005), “’How One We Grow’: Readers, Encounters, and the Ariel Editions” Patty Hutton, Honors (1999) Jennifer Major, Honors (1999) Shelby O’Brien, Honors (1994) SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION Advisory Board, Texas Manuscript Cultures, a digital social history of Texas and Texans. Coordinated at Texas Tech University, Spring 2012 to the present Final Selection Committee, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, Women’s Studies Grants, 2000-2010, 2012Programme Committee, Annotation of Corpora for Research in the Humanities (ACRH), University of Lisbon, November 2012 Promotion Review, The New School for Social Research, Spring 2012 Promotion Review, College of Arts and Sciences, Emory University, Fall 2011 Tenure/Promotion Review, University of California at Irvine, Spring 2011 Communications Committee, C19: The Society for Nineteenth-Century Americanists, Fall 2010 to the present Vice President, Emily Dickinson International Society (EDIS), 2011 to the present Chair, Selection Committee, Scholar in Amherst Award, Emily Dickinson International Society (EDIS), 2008-2010 Chair, Selection Committee, Emily Dickinson International Society (EDIS) Graduate Fellowships, 2008-2010; Committee Members 2005-2010 Treasurer, Emily Dickinson International Society (EDIS), 1988-1995 Founding Board Member, Emily Dickinson International Society (EDIS), 1988 to the present Tenure/Promotion Review, Brigham Young University, Fall 2010 Reviewer, Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI), Leading Edge/New Initiatives Fund, Digital Humanities, December 2008, April 2009 Expert Advisory Panel, “Drafts” Project Examining Creative Process, Institute for Dynamic Educational Advancement (IDEA), http://www.idea.org/ Advisory Panel, Preserving the History and Archives of Livingston College, Rutgers University, 2009 to the present Promotion Review, Yeshiva University (New York), Fall 2009 Tenure/Promotion Review, University of Texas at Austin, Fall 2009 Reviewer, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), Winter 2009 Promotion Review, Santa Clara University, Fall 2008 Promotion Review, University of Guelph, Ontario, Fall 2008 Tenure/Promotion Review, Duke University, Fall 2008 Promotion Reviews (2), University of Oslo, Norway, Summer 2008 Advisory Board, C19, a new society for nineteenth-century Americanists, Century for American Literary Studies, Pennsylvania State University, January 2008 to the present Promotion Review, University of Pittsburgh, Spring 2008

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Tenure/Promotion Review, McMaster University (Canada), Fall 2007 Tenure/Promotion Review, Arizona State University, Fall 2007 Panelist, National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), Spring 2007 Co-Chair, Committee on Scholarly Editions (CSE), Modern Language Association (MLA), July 2006June 2008 Advisory Board, Melville Electronic Library (MEL), Fall 2008 to the present; Electronic Melville Committee, 1997-present Advisory Board, The Poetess Archive (http://unixgen.muohio.edu/~poetess/), Spring 2006 to the present Advisory Board, Digital Dickens, Fall 2006 to the present Reviewer, Digital Humanities Conference Proposals, 2006 to the present Selection Committee, Scholar in Amherst Award, Emily Dickinson International Society (EDIS), 2006 to the present Review Panel, Open Archive Initiative, Digital Library Federation (DLF), February 2005 to the present Tenure/Promotion Review, Tufts University, Fall 2006 Tenure/Promotion Review, University of Pennsylvania, Fall 2006 Executive Council, NINES (Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-Century Electronic Scholarship; http://nines.org), 2004 to the present Americanist Editorial Board, NINES (Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-Century Electronic Scholarship; http://nines.org), 2004 to the present Reviewer of The Pennsylvania State University, Middle States Commission on Higher Education, Fall 2004 Committee on Scholarly Editions (CSE), Modern Language Association (MLA), July 2004-June 2008 Tenure/Promotion Review, Fairfield University, Fall 2004 Scholars’ Advisory Board, Digital Library Federation (DLF), June 2004 to the present Review Panel on Cyberinfrastructure in the Humanities and Social Sciences, American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), February 2004 Reviewer/Consultant for American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), July 2003April 2004 Advisory Board, Humanities Computing Summer Institute, Malaspina University-College, Nanaimo, BC, Canada, Spring 2003Tenure Review for New York University, November 2003 Promotion Review for Full Professor, The Pennsylvania State University, October 2003 Reviewer/Consultant, grants.gov, summer 2003 Founding Member, HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory), University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI), June 2003 (MITH, in partnership with the John Hope Franklin Institute, Duke; the Stanford Humanities Laboratory; UCHRI; and the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH), U of Virginia Tenure Review for Northwestern University, September 2002 Executive Council, Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH), 2001-2004 Systemic Reform Expert Panel, Advisory Committee for Preparing Tomorrow’s Teachers to Use Technology Program, U.S. Department of Educaton, 2001Promotion Review for Senior Lecturer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Fall 2001 Reviewer, Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH)/Association for Linguistic and Literary Computing (ALLC) Joint Conference proposals, 2000-2005 Tenure Review for University of Utah, September 2000 Tenure Review for Ohio State University, September 2000 Tenure Review for West Virginia University, October 1999 Tenure Review for American University, January 1999 Research Proposal Review for Utah State University, March 1998 & 1999 Chair, Elections Committee of Modern Language Association, 1998

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Elections Committee of Modern Language Association, one of seven members elected by Delegate Assembly, 1997-1998 Tenure Review for University of St. Thomas, October 1997 Advisory Board, The Walt Whitman Archive (http://www.whitmanarchive.org), 1996-present Reviewer/Consultant, NEH Grants, 1993-present Reviewer/Consultant, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, Women’s Studies Grants, 1994-1998; Final Selection Committee, 1999-present Full Professor Promotion review consultant for U of Colorado, Boulder, 1994 Course Coordinator, “Different Voices: Teaching Multicultural Poetry by Women” and “Dialogues, Dialectics, and Discourses: Traditions in American Women’s Poetry,” for CAST (Center Alliance for Secondary School Teachers and Texts), offered by Center for Renaissance & Baroque Studies for teachers in Montgomery County, 1992-93, and in Baltimore County, 1990-91 Consultant, American Association of University Women Fellowship Program, 1988-1991 Consultant, Dundalk Community College, developing NEH “Problems in American Thought” course, Summer 1987 SERVICE TO THE UNIVERSITY Chair-Elect & Chair, University Senate, 2011-2013 Distinguished Dissertation Award Selection Committee 2012 Chair, Committee on Committees, 2011-2012 Facilities Council, 2011-2012 Nominations Committee, 2011-2012 Kirwan Awards Committee 2012 Chair, Full Professor Promotion Subcommittee for Katie King (Katherine R. King), WMST, 2011-2012 Search Committee for Vice President and Chief Information Officer, 2010-2011 Senate Executive Committee, University Senate, May 2010-2013 Honor Review Board Member, Fall 2010 Committee on Academic Procedures and Standards (APAS), 2009-2011 Faculty Representative, College of Arts and Humanities, University Senate, May 2009-May 2012 Chair, University Library Council (ULC), Reporting to Provost, Dean of Libraries, Senate Executive Committee, 2008-2011 Senate Representative, Information Technology Council (advisory to Chief Information Officer), 20072008 Participant, Library Summit on results of 2005 LibQUAL+TM survey, October 2007 Search Committee for Assistant or Associate Professor, LGBT Studies Program, Fall 2006-Spring 2007 Internal Advisory Board, CLiMB (Computational Linguistics for Metadata Building), Center for Research on Information Access, Columbia University, and College of Information Studies, UM, 2004-2008 Library Resources/Non-Print Media Committee, Freeman Foundation Grant for East Asian Undergraduate Curriculum Development, 2002-2005 Web-based Resources Committee, Freeman Foundation Grant for East Asian Undergraduate Curriculum Development, 2002-2005 LGBT Studies Program Oversight Committee, Spring 2002 to the present Vice President of Research and Dean of Graduate School Search Committee, 2001-2002 UM Web Portal Advisory Committee, 2001-2002 Senior Vice President of Academic Affairs and Provost Search Committee, University of Maryland (UM), Spring 2001 Dean of Information Studies Search Committee, UM, Spring 2001

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Selection Committee, UM Innovation in Teaching with Technology (UMITT) Awards, Office of Information Technology, Spring 2001 Search Committee, Coordinator, Electronic Text and Imagining Center, UM Libraries, Fall 2000 Search Committee, Instructional Development Coordinator, MITH, UM Libraries, Fall 2000 Diversity Panel, Advisory to the President, UM, Spring 2000 Distinguished Speakers Series Selection Committee, UM, 2000Co-Chair, Maryland Institute in the Humanities (MITH) Interim Steering Committee, 1998-1999 Coauthor, NEH Challenge Grant for the Maryland Institute in the Humanities (MITH), $410,000 awarded December 1998 Search Committee for University Ombuds Officer, President’s Office, Spring 1999 Committee to Review Robert Hampton, Dean of Undergraduate Studies, Spring 1999 Chair, Mary Savage Snouffer Dissertation Fellowship Selection Committee, College of Arts & Humanities, Spring 1999, Spring 2000, Spring 2001 Coordinator of Coalition of President’s Commissions, Spring 1999-Spring 2000 President’s Commission on Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender Issues, 1997Chair, 1998-2001 President’s Commission on Women’s Issues, 1998-2000 Committee on New Technologies, College of Arts & Humanities, 1997-2005 General Research Board (awarding faculty grants and fellowships), UM, 1995-1998 Graduate Council Committee on Qualifications of Regular Graduate Faculty, Spring 1996 Committee on American Studies, UM, 1996-1998 Committee for Creative Humanities Applications in New Technologies (CHANT), UM, 1995-1999 Electronic Information Center Advisory Group, 1995-1998 Search Committee, Computer Consultant for College of Arts & Humanities, 1996 Chair, Search Committee for Chair of American Studies Department, UM, Spring 1995 Arts & Humanities Working Group (course development and approval), 1994-97; Convener, 1997-98 Chair, Graduate School Committee on Academic Standards, UM, 1992-94 Graduate Council, UM, 1991-94 Search Committee for Assistant to the Director, Visual Press, Research Center for Arts & Humanities, Fall 1988 Arts & Humanities Planning Committee, College of Arts & Humanities, UM, Spring 1988 Programming Committee, Women’s Studies, UM, 1987-88, 1986-87 Steering Committee, Women’s Studies, UM, Spring 1987 Rutgers College Fellow & Composition Committee, 1985-86 SERVICE TO THE DEPARTMENT Search Committee, Associate professor or advanced assistant professor, nineteenth-century AfricanAmerican literature, 2009-2010 Faculty Mentor, Introduction to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Literature (ENGL265), Fall 2009 Coordinating Committee, 2008-2010 Graduate Studies Advisory Committee, 2008-2009 Ad hoc Committee to develop Center for English and Comparative Studies, Fall 2007 Chair, Promotion Subcommittee for William A. Cohen, 2007-08 Final Selection Committee, Kinnaird Prize for Best Essay by a PhD Candidate, Spring 2007 APT Subcommittee for Matthew Kirschenbaum, 2006-07 Faculty Mentor for Introduction to Literature by Women (ENGL250), 2006-08, 2009-2010 Faculty Mentor for Matthew Kirschenbaum, 2005-07 Faculty Liaison to University Libraries, 2002 to the present

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Second-Year Review for Assistant Professor Matthew Kirschenbaum, Spring 2003 Selection Committee for Kinnaird Prize for Best PhD Essay, English Department, 1995, 2001 Search Committee, Assistant Professor of Digital Studies, English, Fall 2000 Undergraduate Committee, Fall 2000-Spring 2003 Nominated Meghan Duffy, English BA 1999, who won the Rebecca Williams Award for Commitment to Social Change, Counseling and Personnel Services, UM Ad-hoc Committee on Department Web Page Design, Fall 1998 Search Committee for Assistant Professor in African-American Literature, Fall 1998-Spring 1999 Search Committee for Assistant Professor in American Literature to 1800, Fall 1997-Spring 1998 Placement Committee, Graduate English, UMCP, Fall 1997 QCB Travel Grants Selection Committee, Graduate Student Research and Travel, Spring 1997, Fall 1997, Fall 1998; Chair, Spring 1999, Spring 2000 Graduate Examinations Review Committee, Fall 1997 Faculty Liaison, Incoming M.A. & Ph.D. Students, Fall 1996-Spring 1999 Ph.D. Admissions Committee, 1990-94, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2004, 2006 Chair, American Literature Area Group, 1997-2000 Chair, Women & Literature Area Group, 1994-96 Selection Committee for Bode Prize for Best Dissertation in American Literature, Spring 1996 Second-Year Review Committee for Assistant Professor William Cohen, Spring 1995 Selection Committee for Pelzcar Dissertation Fellowship, Spring 1995 Examiner for American Literature, M.A. Comprehensives, Standing Committee, 1993-1996 Chair, Graduate Committee, Department Self Study, Spring 1993 Second-Year Review Committee for Assistant Professor Elaine Upton, Spring 1993 Coordinating Committee, 1990-92, Spring 1989, 1987-88 Graduate Committee, 1990-94 Personnel Committee, 1990-92, Spring 1989, 1987-88 Salary Review Committee, 1993-95, 1990-92, Spring 1989, 1987-88 Honors Committee, Spring 1989, 1987-88 Search Committee for Department Chair, Spring 1988 Ad-Hoc Committee on Teaching Loads, 1987-88 Examiner, Ph.D. Orals Standing Committee, 1987-88 Search Committee for Assistant Professor in African American Literature, 1990-91 Search Committee for Associate or Full Professor in Women’s Literature, Feminist Theory, 1987-88 Search Committee for Assistant Professor in modern British or American Literature, specializing in feminist criticism, 1986-87 Travel Committee, 1987-88, 1986-87 Faculty Advisor, English Undergraduate Association, 1987-88 Departmental Self-Study Committee, 1986-87 LANGUAGES Reading knowledge of German and Latin