Smith, Martha Nell

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SMITH, Martha Nell

SMITH, Martha Nell. American, b. 1953. Genres: Literary criticism and history. Career: Writer. Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, assistant director of writing program, 1985-86; University of Maryland, College Park, assistant professor, 1986-92, associate professor, 1992-98, associate director of graduate English, 1990-94; professor of English, 1998-. Director, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, 1999-. Publications: Rowing in Eden: Rereading Emily Dickinson, 1992; (with S. Juhasz and C. Miller) Comic Power in Emily Dickinson, 1993; (ed., with E.L. Hart) Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson's Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson, 1998; Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson, 1998. Contributor to books and journals on topics such as humanities computing, Emily Dickinson, and textual studies. Address: Department of English, University of Maryland, 3101 Susquehanna Hall, College Park, MD 20742, U.S.A.

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