| Paul Crumbley
Independent Scholar Professor of English Utah State University paul.crumbley@usu.edu |
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Crumbley, Paul. “Winds of Will”: Emily Dickinson and the Sovereignty of Democratic Thought. Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, forthcoming (May 2010).
Crumbley, Paul and Patricia M. Gantt, eds. “Body My House”: May Swenson’s Work and Life. Logan, Utah: Utah State U P, 2006.
Crumbley, Paul and Melody Graulich, eds. The Search for a Common Language: Environmental Writing and Education. Logan, Utah: Utah State U P, 2005.
Crumbley, Paul. Inflections of the Pen: Dash and Voice in Emily Dickinson. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1997.
Recent Articles
Crumbley, Paul. “Dickinson’s Correspondence and the Politics of Gift-Based Circulation.” Reading Dickinson’s Correspondence: Critical Essays. Eds. Jane Donahue Eberwein and Cindy MacKenzie. Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 2009. 28-55.
Crumbley, Paul. “’Repentance’ and May Swenson’s Return to the Faith” and “Rebirth and the Spiritual Frontier in the Poetry of May Swenson.” Literature and Belief 26.2 (2006) [Actually published 2008]: 109-11; 133-42.
Crumbley, Paul. “Dickinson’s Uses of Spiritualism: The ‘Nature’ of Democratic Belief.” The Blackwell Companion to Emily Dickinson. Ed. Mary Loeffelholz and Martha Nell Smith. London: Blackwell, 2008. 235-57.
Crumbley, Paul. “May Swenson and Other Animals: Her Poetics of Natural Selection.” “Body My House”: May Swenson’s Work and Life. Ed. Paul Crumbley and Patricia M. Gantt. Logan, Utah: Utah State U P, 2006. 138-56.
Crumbley, Paul. “The ‘Purple Democrat’: Emily Dickinson and the Sovereignty of Democratic Consent.” (Anti-) Americanisms. American Studies in Austria. Vol. 2 Ed. Astrid Fellner, Klaus Rieser, Hanna Wallinger. Vienna: Lit Verlag, 2004. 74-88
Works in Progress
A collection of essays on Dickinson’s fascicles.
Research Interests
Emily Dickinson, May Swenson, American poetry, nature/environmental writing