The Emily Dickinson Journal

Midori Andō, a former Associate Professor of Showa Women's University in Tokyo, is now teaching English as a Lecturer in Hosei University and Meiji University in Tokyo. She has written many essays on Emily Dickinson in Japanese bulletins and magazines.

Martha Ackmann is Assistant Professor of Women's Studies at Mount Holyoke College and co-founder and current co-editor of LEGACY: A Journal of American Women Writers. She is completing a book on Dickinson's matrilineage.

Charles Altieri teaches Twentienth-century American poetry and literary theory at UC Berkeley. His most recent books are Painterly Abstraction in Modernist American Poetry (Penn State) and Subjective Agency (Blackwells). In the near future he is planning to finish a book on the end of postmodernism, then begin work towards one on theorizing the emotions.

Margarita Ardanaz teaches English and American literature at Complutense University, Madrid. Her PhD dissertation was on Emily Dickinson's Poetry. She has edited two collections of Dickinson's works: Poemas (1987) and Cartas (1996). She has been a Fullbright Researcher (1979-80) at Harvard and Boston Universities and at the Jones Library in Amherst.

Faith Barrett has an M.F.A. in poetry from the University of Iowa Writer's Workshop. She is in the Ph.D. program in Comparative Literature at the University of California at Berkeley and is currently writing a dissertation on the scene of address and the lyric voice in the poetry of Dickinson and Mallarmé.

Mark Bauerlein is Associate Professor of English at Emory University. He has written Whitman and the American Idiom (1991) and edited Purloined Letters: Originality and Repetition in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (1994).

Mary Carney is a doctoral student at the University of Georgia. She is currently working on war literature written by American and British women from the 1850s to the present.

Chanthana Chaichit is Associate Professor of English at the Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. She has published a series of American Literature: Historical and Analytical Approach in the Thai language. The seventh [End Page 305] volume (emphasis on Pound, Eliot, and Williams) will be published this year. At the EDIS conferences in Washington, D.C. and Innsbruck, she presented papers on problems in translating Dickinson and the paradoxical twist of Dickinson's being abroad, respectively.

Catherine Costa is an Assistant Professor of English at LaGuardia College (CUNY). Her dissertation, Dreaming a Golden Dream: The Female Poetics of Emily Dickinson, traces Dickinson's gendered poetics in relation to two of her foremothers, Helen Hunt Jackson and George Eliot. In 1995 at the Second International Dickinson Conference in Austria, she presented a paper on Eliot and Dickinson. To continue her full-length study of Eliot and Dickinson, she recently received a Professional Staff Congress grant to work at the Jones and Amherst College Libraries in the summer of 1996.

Paul Crumbley is a member of the English faculty at Utah State University and is on the Board of the Emily Dickinson International Society. His book, Inflections of the Pen: Dash and Voice in Emily Dickinson, will be published by the University Press of Kentucky in the fall of 1996.

Joanne Feit Diehl is the author of Dickinson and the Romantic Imagination, Women Poets and the American Sublime and Elizabeth Bishop and Marianne Moore: The Psychodynamics of Creativity She is currently at work on a project exploring the intersections of object relations psychoanalysis and literary interpretation.

William Dow is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of English at The American University of Paris, where he teaches American and comparative literature. He has published articles in the fields of American nineteenth-century literature and American twentieth-century fiction, appearing in such journals as Americana, Revue Françaises D'Etudes Américaines, Sud, The Hemingway Revue, Twentieth Century Literature, and Critique. He is currently working on a book-length study of contemporary American literature.

Jane Donahue Eberwein, Professor of English at Oakland University, is the author of Dickinson: Strategies of Limitation. With stalwart assistance from many other Dickinsonians, she is currently editing an Emily Dickinson Encyclopedia to be published by Greenwood Press. She was a founding member of the EDIS Board.

Marianne Erickson teaches in the Departments of Comparative...