Employment and Education
2019–2024: Martin J. Svaglic Chair of Textual Studies, Department of English, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL
2011–2019: Professor, Department of English, D’Youville College, Buffalo, NY
2006–2011: Associate Professor, Department of English, D’Youville College, Buffalo, NY
1999-2006: Assistant Professor, Department of English, D’Youville College, Buffalo, NY
1995–1998: Assistant Professor, Department of English, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA
1993: PhD, State University of New York, Buffalo, Department of English
1984: BA, Ithaca College, Department of English, summa cum laude
Selected Academic Prizes
2023: The Richard J. Finneran Prize, Society for Textual Scholarship, for Writing in Time: Emily Dickinson’s Master Hours.
2013: Textual Cultures Prize, for “Reportless Places: Facing the Modern Manuscript,” Textual Cultures, 6.2: 60–83.
2011: Textual Cultures Prize, for “Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan: Writing Otherwise,” Textual Cultures, 5.1: 1–45.
2001: Jo Ann Boydson Essay Prize, Association for Documentary Editing, for an Essay Review of R. W. Franklin’s The Poems of Emily Dickinson, in TEXT, 12: 255–63.
1999: Fredson Bowers Prize, Society for Textual Scholarship, for “‘Most Arrows’”: Autonomy and Intertextuality in Emily Dickinson’s Late Fragments,” in TEXT, 10: 41–74.
1996: Bibliographical Society of America Research Grant. Project Title: “Emily Dickinson’s Archive”
1994–1995: American Philosophical Society Research Grant. Project title: “Emily Dickinson’s Archive”
Teaching: Selected Graduate and Undergraduate Courses
Textual Studies; Editorial Theory; American Romanticism; C19 American Poetry; Dickinson; Writing I & II; American Literature, Part I; American Literature, Part II; Themes in American Literature; American Realism; American Renaissance; American Poetry; Emily Dickinson; Modern British and American Literature; World Literature I; Literary Criticism & Theory; Anthropocene Poetics.
Publications: Books
Writing in Time: The Master Hours of Emily Dickinson. Amherst: Amherst College Press, 2021.
The Gorgeous Nothings, an artist’s book on Emily Dickinson’s envelope poems, co-authored with Jen Bervin. New York: Granary Books, 2012/New Directions, 2013.
Ordinary Mysteries: The Common Journal of Nathaniel and Sophia Hawthorne, co-authored/edited by Nicholas Lawrence. Philadelphia, PA: The American Philosophical Society, 2006.
Emily Dickinson’s Open Folios: Scenes of Reading, Surfaces of Writing. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1995.
Publications: Digital Humanities Projects
Dickinson’s Birds: A Listening Machine, 2014. dickinsonsbirds.org.
Radical Scatters: An Electronic Archive of Emily Dickinson’s Late Fragments and Related Texts, 1870-1886, 1999/2007. http://cdrh.unl.edu/radicalscatters.
Journals, Special Issues
Emily Dickinson Electronic Archives 2, Co-editor (with Eliza Richards): “Lyrical Ecologies: Forays into the Field” @ http://www.emilydickinson.org/emily-dickinson-lyrical-ecologies-forays-into-the-field, 2017.
Emily Dickinson Electronic Archives 2, Contributing editor: “Ravished Slates: Re-visioning the ‘Lord Letters’ (A Scholarly Exploration of Material Evidence)” @ http://www.emilydickinson.org/ravished-slates-re-visioning-the-lord-letters, 2013.
Textual Cultures, 3.1, Corresponding editor: “Editing, Telepathy, Elegy: A Special Issue on the Work of W. Speed Hill,” 2008.
Studies in the Literary Imagination, 32.1, consulting co-editor: “The Poetics of the Archive,” 1999.
Publications: Articles & Book Chapters
“Unsilent Springs: Dearchivizing the Data Choirs of Dickinson’s Time-Shifted Birds,” in The Future of Digital Editing. Eds. Matt Cohen, et al. University of Minnesota Press, forthcoming 2024.
“Ghost Flowers: A Conversation with Amanda Marchand and Leah Sobsey,” The Emily Dickinson Journal, 32.2 (2023): 99–129.
“The Material and Editorial Condition of Dickinson’s ‘Master’ Documents,” in The Oxford Handbook of Emily Dickinson. Eds. Cristanne Miller and Karen Sánchez-Eppler. 235–54. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.
“Sparrow Data: Dickinson’s Birds in the Skies of the Anthropocene,” The Emily Dickinson Journal, 30.1 (2021): 46–89.
“‘In cabinets – be shown –’: The Textual Scholar as Curator Not Editor,” Ecdotica,16 (2019): 63–85.
“Emily Dickinson: Manuscripts, Maps, and a Poetics of Cartography,” in Emily Dickinson: The Networked Recluse. Eds. Mike Kelly and Carolyn Vega. 89–112. Amherst: Amherst College Press, 2017. [This publication accompanies The Morgan Library’s exhibition: “‘I’m Nobody – Who are You’: The Life and Poetry of Emily Dickinson”, Jan. 20–May 21.]
“Transcriptions as Thin Maps,” in Emily Dickinson: The Networked Recluse. Eds. Mike Kelly and Carolyn Vega. 139–46. Amherst: Amherst College Press, 2017. [This publication accompanied The Morgan Library’s exhibition: “‘I’m Nobody – Who are You’: The Life and Poetry of Emily Dickinson”, Jan. 20–May 21.]
“Transcription and Transgression: A Conversation between with Susan Howe and Marta Werner,” in Emily Dickinson: The Networked Recluse. Eds. Mike Kelly and Carolyn Vega. 123–38. Amherst: Amherst College Press, 2017.
“Teaching Emily Dickinson Remotely,” The Emily Dickinson International Society Bulletin, 28 (2016).1: 6–8.
“The Weather (of) Documents,” English Studies Quarterly, 62.3 (2016): 480–529.
“Elsewhere: On Reading Cordelia Stanwood’s Bird Notebooks in the 21st Century,” ELH, 82.4 (2015): 1267–95.
“The Emily Dickinson Series. A Correspondence: Janet Malcolm & Marta Werner,” Granta Magazine, 126 (2014): 128–35. (See also “Janet Malcolm: The Emily Dickinson Series” at Lori Bookstein Fine Art, reviewed by Christopher Benfey in The New York Review of Books, Feb. 20, 2014; June 18, 2021 @ https://granta.com/remembering-janet-malcolm/)
“‘Itineraries of Escape’: Emily Dickinson’s Envelope Poems,” in The Gorgeous Nothings. Unpaginated. New York: Granary Books, 2012.
“Reportless Places: Facing the Modern Manuscript,” Textual Cultures, 6.2 (2012): 60–83.
“The World Will Not Come To A”: Hannah Weiner’s The Book Of Revelations, Jacket 2 (2011). https://jacket2.org/feature/hannah-weiners-book-revelations.
“Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan: Writing Otherwise,” Textual Cultures, 5.1 (2010): 1–45.
“Signals from a Distance: Editing, Telepathy, Elegy,” Textual Cultures, 3.1 (2008): 3–11.
“‘For Flash and Click and Suddenness’: Emily Dickinson and the Photography-Effect,” in The Blackwell Companion to Emily Dickinson. Eds. Martha Nell Smith and Mary Loeffelholz. 470–89. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
“‘A Woe of Ecstasy’: On the Electronic Editing of Emily Dickinson’s Late Fragments,” The Emily Dickinson Journal, 16.2 (2007): 52–80.
“Emily Dickinson’s Futures: ‘Unqualified to Scan,’” Jubilat, 11 (2007): 102–19.
“‘This is His–this is My Mystery’: The Common Journal of Nathaniel and Sophia Hawthorne, 1842–43,” in Reinventing the Peabody Sisters. Eds. Monika M. Elbert, Julie Hall, and Katharine Rodier. 3–22. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2006.
“The Third Way: J.C.C. Mays’s Fredson Bowers & the Irish Wolfhound and Susan Howe’s Kidnapped, TEXT, 16 (2006): 293–308.
“Entre censure et contre-écriture: Emily Dickinson, Traversée et traces de rature,” in Genèse, censure, autocensure, sous la directions de Catherine Viollet et Claire Bustarret. 131–48. Paris: CNRS Editions, 2005.
“Writing’s Other Scene: Crossing and Crossing Out in Emily Dickinson’s Manuscripts,” in TEXT, 17 (2004): 197–221.
“‘Post-Everything’: A preliminary response to David Greetham’s Textual Transgressions: Essays Toward the Construction of a Biobibliography,” TEXT, 15 (2003): 337–49.
“The Flights of A 821: De-archivizing the Proceedings of a Birdsong,” in Voice, Text and Hypertext: Emerging Practices in Textual Studies. Eds. Raimonda Modiano and Leroy Searle. 298–329. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2003.
“‘Most Arrows’”: Autonomy and Intertextuality in Emily Dickinson’s Late Fragments,” Text, 10 (1997): 41–74.
“Charlotte Brontë, Emily Dickinson, and the Tropes of Mastery,” Profils américains, 8 (1997): 49–80.
“‘Marge of Snow’: Excavations of Silence and the Space of Literature in Emily Brontë and Emily Dickinson,” Apex of the M, 1 (1994): 129–58.
“Divinations: Emily Dickinson’s Scriptive Economies,” in A Poetics of Criticism. Ed. Juliana Spahr. 87–96. Buffalo, NY: Leave Books, 1994.
“The Shot Bird’s Progress: A Meditation on the Master Letters,” in Emily Dickinson: Woman of Letters. Selected and arranged by Lewis Turco. 147–52. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1993.
Publications: Essay Reviews & Short Reviews
Essay review of Dickinson’s Fascicles: A Spectrum of Possibilities, eds. Paul Crumbley and Eleanor Elson Heginbotham, for Review 19 (2015). www.19.org/view_doc.php?index=394.
Essay Review of Eric Schoonover’s The Gloucester Suite and Other Poems, for The Nautilus: A Maritime Journal of Literature, History, and Culture, 3 (2012): 116–20.
Essay Review of William Spengemann’s Three American Poets, for Leviathan: The Journal of the Melville Society, 14.2 (2012): 81–87.
Essay Review of John Bryant’s Melville Unfolding, for Leviathan: The Journal of the Melville Society, 13.2 (2011): 106–12.
Essay Review of Sean Ross Meehan’s Mediating American Autobiography, for Biography, 32.2 (2009): 370–75.
Book Review of Meredith McGill’s The Culture of Reprinting, for Textual Cultures, 1.2 (2006): 172–75.
Book Review of Michael T. Gilmore’s Surface and Depth and Bill Brown’s A Sense of Things, for American Literature (2004): 622–24.
Essay Review of R. W. Franklin’s The Poems of Emily Dickinson, for TEXT, 12 (1999): 255–63.
Essay Review of Dorothy Oberhaus’s Emily Dickinson’s Fascicles: Method & Meaning, for New England Quarterly (1996): 672–78.
Essay Review of James Olney’s The Language(s) of Poetry, for Review, 17 (1995): 203–10.
Selected Media: Films, Exhibitions, Interviews
“Writing in Time: A Conversation with Marta Werner and Peter Gizzi,” The Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Amherst College, April 7, 2021. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1u_ndRjrja8LjK6IZI_DFp1-AJCyPlQuh/view?usp=sharing
Up to Astonishment: An exploration of Dickinson’s work with film-maker Benita Raphan, poet Susan Howe, and scholar Marta Werner, 2020. https://benitaraphan.com/uptoastonishment
Interview for “Talking History”, Irish Radio, 2019. https://www.newstalk.com/podcasts/page/1/filter?filter_selected=show-filter&show=talking-history&series=all.
My Letter to the World, a documentary about Emily Dickinson, directed by Sol Papadopoulos, Hurricane Films, Liverpool, UK, 2017. http://www.hurricanefilms.net/my-letter-to-the-world/. Featured scholar.
Interview with Jeffrey Brown for the PBS NewsHour, 2017. http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/finding-emily-dickinson-power-poetry/.
Interview with Nuria Sheehan, The Poetry Foundation, 2013. http://www.poetryfoundation.org/article/246768.
“Forever is Composed of Now –,” The Poetry Foundation, Chicago, IL, 2013. http://www.poetryfoundation.org/article/246664. Featured scholar / voice-over commentary on Emily Dickinson.
Conference & Panel Organization
Chair, Organizing Committee, for The Society for Textual Scholarship’s International Interdisciplinary Conference, hosted by Loyola University Chicago, May 26–28, 2022. Conference theme: Textual Scholarship and Cultural Mapping.
Co-chair, Organizing Committee, The Emily Dickinson International Society Annual Conference, Amherst College, August 2–4, 2018. Conference theme: Dickinson and Embodiment.
Co-chair, Organizing Committee, The Society for Textual Scholarship International Interdisciplinary Conference, New York University, March 14–17, 2007. Conference theme: Textual Environments, Cultures, Ruins.
Panel organizer & respondent. “In Another Medium: Transcription as Transaction,” Modern Language Association Conference, Chicago, January 3–6, 2019. This panel was selected to be part of the conference’s annual theme: “Textual Transactions.”
Panel organizer & respondent. “‘Of Strangers Is the Earth the Inn’: Still-Life, Scale, and Deep Time in Emily Dickinson,” Modern Language Association Conference, New York City, January 7, 2018. This panel was selected to be part of the conference’s annual theme: “States of Insecurity.”
Panel organizer & respondent. “‘Of Latitudes Unknown’: Towards a Poetics of Deep Mapping in Dickinson and Her Contemporaries,” Modern Language Association Conference, Philadelphia, Jan. 6, 2017. This session was selected to be part of the conference’s annual theme: “Boundary Conditions.”
Panel organizer & respondent. “Crossed Codes: Print’s Dream of the Digital Age; Digital’s Memory of the Age of Print,” Modern Language Association Conference, Boston, January 6–8, 2013.
Panel organizer & respondent. “Silent Night: The Archives of the Deaf and Blind,” Modern Language Association Conference, Los Angeles, January 7, 2011.
Panel organizer & respondent. “Strange Encounters: Meetings Between Students and Scholarly Editions in the 21st Century,” Modern Language Association Conference, Philadelphia, Dec. 27–30, 2009.
Panel organizer & respondent. “Editing Spaces in the Known and Unknown Worlds,” Modern Language Association Conference, San Francisco, Dec. 27–30, 2008.
Presentations: Plenary Talks, Invited Talks, Conference Talks, Master Classes
Emily Dickinson: A Trial of Love and Writing. Three Master Classes. Roundtable/The 92 Street Y, October 2023.
“A Certain Slant of Light in Trees; or Four Ways of Divining Dickinson’s Birds.” Plenary Talk. Society for Textual Scholarship International Interdisciplinary Conference, The New School, June 3, 2023.
“Unsilent Springs: The Archive as Listening Machine.” Invited talk. The University of Pittsburgh, April 11, 2023.
“‘It is very still in the World Now’: Dickinson’s Lyric Migrations.” Invited talk. Macalester College, March 5–7, 2023.
“‘What door – what / hour –’: Intercepting Dickinson’s Master Documents, or Experiments in Intimate Editing.” Plenary talk. Emily Dickinson International Society 2022 Conference, Seville, Spain, July 12–14, 2022.
“‘It was a quiet seeming Day –’ Dearchivizing the Data Choirs of Dickinson’s Time-Shifted Birds.” Plenary talk. The Walt Whitman Archive and the Future of Digital Scholarly Editing. The University of Nebraska, Lincoln, April 22, 2022
“Taking Leave: Adorno, Said, Dickinson.” Keynote. Center for Creativity Research, Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland, November 18, 2021.
“Dickinson’s Birds Passing Over.” Paper. Society for Textual Scholarship International Interdisciplinary Conference, May 19–22, 2021.
“‘With what body do they come’: Embodying Dickinson’s MSS through Transcription,” “Roundtable on Creative-Critical Editing.” Invited talk. Institute of English Studies, University of London, April 22, 2021. (https://www.ies.sas.ac.uk/events/conferences/creative-critical-editing-virtual-symposium)
“19th Century American Literature Seminar with Marta Werner.” Invited talk. Department of English, Columbia University, March 18, 2021.
“‘When what they sang for is undone’: Soundings of a Silent Spring in Dickinson’s Late Birds Poems.” Paper. Emily Dickinson International Society Annual Meeting, Virtual, July 31–Aug. 1, 2020.
“Editing Dickinson’s ‘Master’ Documents in a New Hour.” Paper. Modern Language Association Conference, Jan. 10, 2020.
“Reading the Archive in a Rapt Hour: Dickinson’s Master Documents.” Invited talk. University of Maryland, College Park, Oct. 4, 2019.
“The Queen’s Hour: Reading Dickinson’s A 828.” Paper. Society for Textual Scholarship International Interdisciplinary Conference, New York University, March 22, 2019.
“Editing Inside Out: A Conversation with the New Editors of Textual Cultures.” Paper. Society for Textual Scholarship International Interdisciplinary Conference, New York University, March 20, 2019.
POETS & CRITICS.” Invited talk. A research project on experimental literary criticism hosted by Universités Paris Est Marne-la-Vallée, Paris 7 & 8, Institut Universitaire de France, and the Pratt Institute, NY, October 11–13, 2018.
“What Dickinson Heard: Soundings from the Outside-Inside.” Paper. Emily Dickinson International Society Annual Meeting, Amherst College, Aug. 10, 2017.
“‘She does not know a route’: Reading Dickinson’s Manuscripts.” Invited talk. NEH Summer Seminar: Dickinson: Poetry, Person, Place, Amherst, MA, July 11; July 25, 2017.
“‘Teazing the Want’: Transcribing Emily Dickinson’s Manuscripts.” Invited talk. Symposium for the Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Amherst College, March 29, 2017.
“‘The Continents were New’: Mapping Emily Dickinson.” Invited talk. The Morgan Library, NYC, Feb. 10, 2017.
“The Weather (of) Documents: Archive, Elements, and Elegy.” Keynote. Otterbein University, English Studies Conference, Nov 12, 2016.
“Weathering: Reading the Snell Family Meteorological Journal in the Long Days of the Anthropocene.” Invited talk. University of Rhode Island, April 11, 2016.
“The Weather of Emily Dickinson’s Manuscripts.” Keynote. The Emily Dickinson International Society Annual Meeting, Amherst College, Aug. 7, 2015.
“‘Experiment Escorts [Accosts] Us Last’: The Hazarding of Language in Dickinson’s Lyric Ends.” Invited talk. University of North Florida, Jacksonville, Oct. 2, 2014.
“‘These Tested Our Horizon’: Scanning the Distances in Dickinson’s Late Manuscripts.” Invited talk. West Virginia University, Sept. 24, 2014.
“Acts of Curation: The Curating of Poetry & The Poetics of Curating.” Invited talk. University of Buffalo, Poetics Plus, Sept. 19, 2014.
On Not Editing Cordelia Stanwood’s Bird Notebooks.” Paper. The Society for Textual Scholarship International Interdisciplinary Conference, March 20–22, 2014.
“‘Their High Appointment’: On Launching of The Gorgeous Nothings.” Invited talk. The Drawing Center, New York City, November 23, 2013. (See also Christopher Benfey’s review in the February 20, 2014 issue of The New York Review on “Dickinson/Walser: Pencil Sketches,” at the Drawing Center, November 21-January 12, 2014).
“‘Forever is composed of Nows’: Jen Bervin and Marta Werner on Emily Dickinson’s Envelope Poems.” Invited talk. The Poetry Foundation, Chicago, November 14, 2013.
“‘And sweeps the tenement[s] away’: Unhousing Emily Dickinson.” Invited talk. Textual Studies and the History of Books in American Literature: A Day Conference, Loyola University, Chicago, October 12, 2013.
“Their Period for Dawn: Editing Emily Dickinson’s Late Work in the 21st Century.” Paper. The Emily Dickinson International Society Conference, August 8-11, 2013.
“‘Through Telegraphic Signs’: Emily Dickinson’s Envelope Poems.” Paper. The Society for Textual Scholarship International Interdisciplinary Conference, March 5-8, 2013.
“‘An Exterior Melody Listens’: Hannah Weiner Writing (at) the End of the World.” Invited talk. Graduate Program in Textual Studies, University of Washington, Seattle, February 13, 2012.
“‘Those Fine and Private Things’: The Case of Emily Dickinson’s Late Letters.” Invited talk. Graduate Program in Textual Studies, University of Washington, Seattle, February 12, 2012.
“‘Reportless Places’: Towards a Definition of Late Style.” Invited talk. Graduate Program in Textual Studies, University of Washington, Seattle, February 11, 2012.
“Emily Dickinson’s Late Work: The Itinerary of Escape.” Invited talk. Poets House, New York City, Nov. 15, 2011.
“Encoding Melville.” Paper. Melville Camp 3, Boston, MIT, Oct. 13–15, 2013.
“‘Close Your Eyes and the Hidden’: Revelation and Concealment in Hannah Weiner’s Book Of Revelations.” Paper. Society for Textual Scholarship International Interdisciplinary Conference, March 16–19, 2011.
“New Directions in Textual Scholarship: A Roundtable.” Paper. Society for Textual Scholarship International Interdisciplinary Conference, March 16–19, 2011.
“‘Letting Everything Go Was At Last’: Hannah Weiner Late Poetics.” Invited talk. Poetics Plus, University at Buffalo, Poetry Collection, Oct. 29, 2010.
“The Disorder of Things.” Paper. C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists, May 20–23, 2010.
“On Looking at Two MSS Leaves from Melville’s Billy Budd: Report from a sub-sub-sub encoder.” Paper. Melville Electronic Library Summit (MEL Camp 2), Hofstra University, April 23, 2010.
“Night Archives: Helen Keller and the Deaf-Blind Textual Condition.” Invited talk. Dept. of English, Chicago-Loyola University, March 17, 2010.
“Re-launching Radical Scatters.” Paper. Society for Textual Scholarship International Interdisciplinary Conference, March 18–21, 2009.
“Night Page Torn Word Missing: Reflections on Modern Manuscripts.” Paper. Society for Textual Scholarship International Interdisciplinary Conference, March 18–21, 2009.
“Helen Keller: Writing Otherwise.” Invited talk. Symposium on Textual Studies, DeMontfort University, Leicester, UK, May 25, 2007.
“The Eye of Type: Helen Keller, Collaboration, and the Ocularcentrism of Textual Editing.” Paper. Society for Textual Scholarship International Interdisciplinary Conference, March 14–17, 2007.
“The Hazards of Language: Dickinson and Late Style.” Invited talk. CUNY Graduate Center, NYC, March 13, 2007.
“‘A Woe of Ecstasy’: The Electronic Editing of Emily Dickinson’s Late Fragments.” Invited talk. The University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK, Sept. 29, 2006.
“Allegories of Collaboration: The Common Journal of Nathaniel and Sophia Hawthorne” and “Interpretive Consequences of Textual Scholarship: Emily Dickinson’s Late Fragments.” Invited talks. Graduate Program in Textual Studies, University of Washington, Seattle, November 7–8, 2005.
“Late Dickinson: MSS in the Amherst College Library.” Invited talk. Amherst College Archives and Special Collections, April 22–23, 2005.
“‘History Rest in Me a Clue’: Delia Bacon, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and the Politics of Textual Evidence.” Paper. Society for Textual Scholarship International Interdisciplinary Conference, March 16–19, 2005.
“Allegories of Collaboration: Public and Private in the Hawthorne Common Journal.” Keynote. Craft, Critique, Culture Conference, University of Iowa, April 2–4, 2004.
“Dirty Textuality: The Hawthornes’ Common Journal.” Paper. Modern Language Association Conference, December 28, 2003.
“Women and the Small Press: Some Footnotes.” Paper. CLMP Conference, October 10–11, 2003.
“Emily Dickinson’s Futures: ‘Unqualified to Scan.” Paper. The Society for Textual Scholarship’s International Interdisciplinary Conference, New York, NY, March 19–22, 2003.
“Nathaniel and Sophia Hawthornes’ Common Journal.” Paper. SHARP Conference, July 14–17, 2002.
“wife. I could not comprehend why: Nathaniel and Sophia Hawthornes’ Common Journal.” Paper. Nathaniel Hawthorne Society Conference, June 20–23, 2002.
“Women and their [Air] in the Distance: Emily Dickinson and the Photography-Effect.” Paper. Emily Dickinson International Society Conference, August 3–5, 2001.
“‘Flash – Bolt – Click’: Dickinson and Spirit Photography.” Paper. FIPSE, University of Maryland, College Park, July 10–14, 2001.
“‘Canceled like dawn in comprehensive day’: Radical Skepticism in Dickinson’s Late, Canceled Drafts.” Invited talk. Pennsylvania State University, April 5, 2001.
“Collaboration in the Graduate Classroom.” Paper. FIPSE, University of Maryland, College Park, June 26, 2000.
“Emily Dickinson’s Other Hand: Modalities of Cancellation in the Late Writings.” Invited talk. ITEM Lecture Series, Paris, France, June 10, 2000.
“Virtual Itineraries: Screening Dickinson’s Late Writings.” Invited talk. University of Kentucky, Lexington, March 8, 2000.
“Woundsite: Whitman, Dickinson, and the Civil War.” Paper. FIPSE, University of Maryland, College Park, July 8–11, 1999.
“The Canceled Page: Writings Other Scene in 19th-century American Poetry.” Paper. Society for Textual Scholarship’s International Interdisciplinary Conference, April 15–18, 1999.
“‘Difference Has Begun’: Notes on R. W. Franklin’s The Poems of Emily Dickinson: A Variorum.” Paper. Modern Language Association Conference, December 27–30, 1998.
“Seeing Text as Textualites: Fluidity and Process in Whitman and Dickinson.” Paper. FIPSE, College of William & Mary, June 18–21, 1998.
“Encoding Emily Dickinson.” Invited talk. Thunderweb Electronic Editing Collective, University of Maryland, College Park, April 3, 1998.
“‘Faraway, Upclose!’: Dickinson at Second Sight.” Invited talk, Voice, Text and Hypertext at the Millennium, Inaugural Conference in Textual Studies, University of Washington, Seattle, October 29-November 1, 1997.
“Fragments/Fractals: Screening Emily Dickinson.” Invited talk. The Poetics Program, SUNY–Buffalo, September 30, 1997.
“The Interpretation of Radical Scatters: Preface to an Electronic Archive of Dickinson’s Late Fragments.” Paper. Society for Textual Scholarship’s International Interdisciplinary Conference, April 10–12, 1997.
“Pinning as Drafting in Dickinson’s Late Writings.” Paper. Northeast Modern Language Association Conference, April 4–5, 1997.
“Emily Dickinson’s Paper Birds.” Paper. Modern Language Association Conference, December 27–30, 1996.
“Lifting Our (Undeveloped) Eyes from the Page.” Invited talk. Iconic Page Conference, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, October 11–12, 1996.
“Outposts & Fragments: Emily Dickinson’s Late Compositions.” Invited talk. Colloquium on Textual Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, March 27–28, 1995.
“Lyric Non-discourse: Emily Dickinson’s Prose Fragments.” Paper. Society of Textual Scholarship’s International Interdisciplinary Conference, April 6–8, 1995.
“Open Folios: A Preface to an Unfinished Edition of Emily Dickinson’s Late Writings.” Paper. Modern Language Association Conference, December 30, 1994.
“The Living Letter: Emily Dickinson as Amanuensis.” Paper. American Literature Association Conference, May 28–30, 1993.
“Emily Dickinson’s Flyleaves: The Compositions of the 1870s and 1880s.” Paper. Emily Dickinson International Society Conference, October 22–24, 1992.
Scholarly Community
Society for Textual Scholarship (David Greetham Prize Committee Chair, 2023; Textual Cultures Working Group Chair, 2021–2022; STS Sustainability Committee, 2021–2022; Textual Cultures Essay Prize Committee Chair, 2015; Fredson Bowers Prize Committee, 2003, 2009; Executive Board Member, 2004–present)Textual Cultures (Editor-in-Chief, 2018–present; Editorial Board Member, 2010–present)
Emily Dickinson International Society (EDIS Awards Committee, 2022–2023; Executive Board Member, 2014–2020; Member, 1995-present)
The Emily Dickinson Journal (Editorial Board, 2011–present)
Emily Dickinson Archive, The Houghton Library (Advisory Board Member, 2012–2014)
Dickinson Electronic Archives 2 (Founding Editor, Editorial Board Member, 2012–present)
Modern Language Association (Committee on Scholarly Editions, 2009–2011; elected Co-Chair 2010–11)
Melville Electronic Library (Editorial Board Member, 2010–2012)
Open Source Corpora Data Studio, dir. Laura C. Mandell (Advisory Board Member, 2023–present)
Association for Documentary Editing (JoAnn Boydston Prize Committee, 2003–2006, 2007)
Professional Associations
Society of Textual Scholarship (STS)
Emily Dickinson International Society (EDIS)