The Emily Dickinson International Society

EDIS Panel at the American Literature Association Annual Meeting at the Westin Copley Place, Boston on May 25-28, 2023.

“Dickinson, Dialect, Sovereignty, and Readership”
Organized by The Emily Dickinson International Society
Chair: Renée Bergland, Simmons University

Join Professors Amy Hollywood and Stephanie Paulsell of Harvard Divinity School and Vanessa Zoltan, co-host of

Winner of the 2022 Award for Best Undergraduate Essay: “A Fire that ‘Lasts’: Dickinson, Liminality and Potential Energy,” by Sophia Houghton, B.A. in English & Comparative Literature, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2021, advised by Eliza Richards. Sophia is attending Columbia University’s graduate program in English this year.

Abstract:

Winner of the 2022 EDIS Graduate Student Fellowship: Cheryl Weaver
Cheryl Weaver is completing her dissertation at the University at Buffalo on nineteenth-century American women's letters, with a concentration on Emily Dickinson’s epistolary network of young women. She has presented on her work at The Epistolary Research Network conference and will be presenting on Margaret Fuller’s letters at the Thoreau Society Gathering.


Project description:

Graduate students and early career scholars (who have received their degrees in the last eight years) are invited to apply to the Dickinson Critical Institute to take place 1-5 PM on Thursday July 20, 2023, in Amherst, Massachusetts on the day before the Emily Dickinson International Society (EDIS) Annual Meeting. The Critical Institute provides an opportunity for participants to workshop critical essays, chapters, or conference papers in small seminars with established Dickinson scholars.