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My research and teaching focus on nineteenth-century American literature, especially poetry and its readership(s) during the period. Much of my scholarship has been about Emily Dickinson, most recently "Emily Dickinson and the Reading Life" in Dickinson and Audience, ed. Martin Orzeck and Robert Weisbuch (U of Michigan P, 1996). I became interested in reading as a social act while collecting poetry reveiws for Emily Dickinson's Reception in the 1890s: A Documentary History (U Pittsburgh P, 1989). Several years ago I found myself increasingly curious about an overlooked genre, travel writing. My 1996 graduate seminar, "Identity and Desire in American Literary Travel," focuses on non-fiction but invites students to apply travel theory, and post-colonial and queer theory, to all types of writing about journeys, including poetry and fiction. |
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