Research Interests
Modernism and Poetry; American Literature and Culture; Theories of Gender and Sexuality; Digital Humanities
Research Projects
Current
I am a research associate on a grant application to the Canadian SSHRC for a project that aims to create scholarly editions of the four long poems H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) wrote in her late career. This project will produce an edition with both print and electronic components.
I am on the Advisory Board of the Emily Dickinson Archives project.
Past
In graduate school, I managed a large website called the Emily Dickinson Archives, supervising undergraduate and graduate students who worked with me on the site. I also advised faculty in a number of disciplines on their digital humanities projects.
After graduate school, I held a postdoctoral fellowship on a project entitled Cultural Heritage Language Technologies. For this project, I was co-investigator on an NEH Preservation and Assess grant.
During my tenure at UNCC, I published a co-edited electronic scholarly edition of Emily Dickinson’s correspondence with the University of Virginia Press, as well as an article on electronic editing in the Blackwell Companion to Emily Dickinson. At UNCC, I also served on the Humanities and Technologies task force, and I worked with the Center for Humanities, Technology, and Science, and later with the Complexity Institute.
Teaching Projects
Current
Past
One of my 4000/5000-level courses, entitled “American Poetry: Text and Image,” incorporates units on poetry in an electronic environment, including the digitized manuscripts of Walt Whitman’s “Song of MySelf” and Emily Dickinson’s verse as well as contemporary poetry that is born-digital.