Curriculum Vitae

Education

1999  Ph.D., English. Georgia State University.

  • Dissertation: “Sarah Helen Whitman’s Literary Criticism: A Critical Edition”

1992  M.A., English. Georgia State University. Atlanta, GA.

1987  B.A., English, magna cum laude. Randolph-Macon Woman’s College.

Select Professional Appointments

Commissioner, National Historical Publications and Records Commission, 2025-present.

Editor-in-Chief, Scholarly Editing: The Annual of the Association for Documentary Editing. 2019-present.

Independent Consultant, The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau, University of California Santa Barbara (2009-2014).

Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh (2000-2005).

Editorial & Production Manager, Journal Office, The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau (1996-1999).

Select Grants, Fellowships, and Awards

National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Scholarly Editions Grant and We the People designee. “The Almanacks of Mary Moody Emerson: A Scholarly Digital Edition.” 2010-2013 ($230,000); 2013-2016 ($290,000).

NEH Collaborative Research Grant. “Transatlantic Readership and the Construction of Women’s Literary History.” With the Women Writers Project. 2011-2013.

Ralph Waldo Emerson Memorial Association Short Term Fellowship. Houghton Library, Harvard University. 2008.

Publications

Books

Margaret Fuller: Collected Writings. Ed. with Brigitte Bailey and Megan Marshall. New York: Library of America, 2025.

The Almanacks of Mary Moody Emerson: A Scholarly Digital Edition. Ed. with Sandra Harbert Petrulionis. Women Writers Online. In progress. Twenty Almanack folders have been published to date. Six folders can also be viewed in a public prototype interface. An open-access visualizing interface for the project can also be viewed: “Intertextual Referencing in the Almanacks of Mary Moody Emerson: Visualization for Close and Distant Reading.”

Stanton in Her Own Time: A Biographical Chronicle of Her Life, Drawn from Recollections, Interviews, and Memoirs by Family, Friends, and Associates Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2016.

Select Articles, Chapters, and Online Exhibits

“The Mind and Heart of Margaret Fuller: Three Editors on Assembling the Definitive Edition of a Singular Voice.” Interview with Brigitte Bailey and Megan Marshall: Library of America. February 2025.

“Scholarly Editing: Fostering Communities of Recovery.” eLabs Online Webinar with the Artist Marcia X and Katie Blizzard. April 2024.

“ADE: How They Are Engaging New Audiences and Diversifying the Field of Editing.” Online webinar with Jennifer Stertzer. Association of Southeastern Research Libraries Webinar. February 2021.

“Storytelling in the 21st Century: The Feminist Author Society in the Era of Trump.” The Concord Saunterer: A Journal of Thoreau Studies N.S. 28 (2020): 191-199.

“Mary Moody Emerson as Reader and Reviewer.” With Sarah Connell and Sandra Harbert Petrulionis. Women Writers in Context. 2017.

“The Youngest Person in Concord: Mary Moody Emerson Was a Thinker, a Writer, and an Inspiration to All Who Knew Her.” With Sandra Harbert Petrulionis. NEH Humanities 38 (Winter 2017): 12-15, 42-43.

“‘Let Me Do Nothing Smale’: Mary Moody Emerson and Women’s ‘Talking’ Manuscripts.” Toward a Female Genealogy of Transcendentalism. Ed. Jana L. Argersinger and Phyllis Cole. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2014. 35-56.

“‘Somthing more than material’: Nonverbal Conversation in Mary Moody Emerson’s Almanacks.” Resources for American Literary Study 35 (2010): 29-67. Published 2012.

“‘This Slender Foundation . . . Made Me Immortal’: Sarah Helen Whitman vs. Poe’s Helen.”  Poe Studies 32 (1999): 8-26.

“The Limits of Sexual Emancipation: Feminism and Jane Campion’s Mythology of Love.”  Interdisciplinary Literary Studies: A Journal of Criticism and Theory 1 (1999): 1-22.

Select Reference Articles

“Emerson’s Unoriginality and the Commonplace Books of Mary Moody Emerson and Margaret Fuller.” Oxford Handbook of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Ed. Christopher Hanlon. New York: Oxford University Press, 2024. 372-394.

“Family.” Emerson in Context. Ed. Wesley T. Mott. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. 155-162.

“Conversations.” The Oxford Handbook to Transcendentalism. Ed. Joel Myerson, Sandra Harbert Petrulionis, and Laura Dassow Walls. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. 348-360.

“Sarah Helen Whitman.”  Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Source Book.  Ed. Denise Knight.  Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1997.  468-473.

Select Conference Papers and Presentations

“Margaret Fuller’s Unpublished Journal Fragments.” MLA Annual Conference. New Orleans, Louisiana. January 2025.

“Advancing Knowledge Beyond the Academy: Scholarly Editing and Its Diverse Communities.” DH 2024 Conference. Washington, DC. August 2024.

“Editing Emerson: A Roundtable.” ALA Annual Conference. Boston, MA. May 2023.

“Mary Moody Emerson’s Almanacks and Women Writers Online: A Casebook on Collaboration.” With Sarah Connell. ALA Annual Conference. Boston, MA. May 2019.

“Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Women’s Reproductive Rights.” ALA Annual Conference. Boston, MA. May 2019.

“Recovering Resistance and Retreat: Elizabeth Cady Stanton on Women’s Reproductive Rights.” SSAWW Triennial Conference. Denver, Colorado. November 2018.

“Beautiful Foes: A Roundtable Discussion of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Affiliations with Women.” ALA Annual Conference. Boston, MA. May 2017.

“Mary Moody Emerson’s Almanacks: How Digital Horizons Advance Teaching and Research.” With Sandra Harbert Petrulionis. ALA Annual Conference. Boston, MA. May 2015.

“The Days of Their Lives: Using Diaries, Journals, and an ‘Almanack’ to Recover the Past.” Invited speaker at New England Biography Seminar.  Massachusetts Historical Society. March 2014.

“The Oxford Handbook of Transcendentalism: Nineteenth-Century Ideas, Twenty-First Century Approaches.” Roundtable, with Sandra Harbert Petrulionis. ALA Annual Conference. Boston, MA. May 2011.

“TEI Infrastructure and Untidy Manuscripts: Editorial Challenges and Possibilities in Mary Moody Emerson’s Almanacks.” Women Writers Project Advanced TEI Seminar in Manuscript Encoding. University of Nebraska-Lincoln Center for Digital Research in the Humanities. October 2010.

“‘I defy tomorrow’: Mary Moody Emerson, Women’s Writing, and Revolutions in the Archive.” With Sandra Harbert Petrulionis. “Women in the Archive,” A Brown Women Writers Project Conference. Providence, RI. March 2009.

“‘Communing with Waldo’s Spirit Is Only Expanding Mine’: Emerson’s Influence on Intellectual Women in Providence, Rhode Island.”  The Summer Institute at the Orchard House.  Concord, MA. July 2003.

“The Material Creation of a Woman Author: Sarah Helen Whitman and the Editions of Edgar Poe and His Critics.”  Society for Textual Scholarship Conference. New York City, NY. April 2001.

“Biographical Mythologies: The Case of Sarah Helen Whitman.”  International Edgar Allan Poe Conference. Richmond, VA. October 1999.

“Editing Thoreau in the 21st Century.”  Thoreau Society Conference. Concord, MA. July 1997.

Textual Scholarship Service

Advisory Board. eLaboratories. 2022-present.

NEH-NHPRC Online Convening on Next-Generation Historical and Scholarly Editions. 2020.

Steering Committee, Recovery Hub for American Women Writers. 2019-present.

Advisory Board, Margaret Fuller Transnational Archive. 2016-present.

Member (2016-20) and Co-chair (2017-19), MLA Committee on Scholarly Editions. 2016-2020.

Professional Affiliations and Offices

  • Association for Documentary Editing (Nominating Committee, 2015-2016; Chair, 2018-1019); Councilor-at-Large, 2012-2015; Program Committee, 2009-2010, 2012-2013, 2019-2020; Chair, Boydston Prize Award Committee, 2013-2014); President-Elect (2020-2021); President (2021-2022); Past-President (2022-2023).
  • Digital Americanists
  • Louisa May Alcott Society
  • Margaret Fuller Society (Treasurer, 2016-2020)
  • Modern Language Association  (MLA Prize for a Scholarly Edition and Morton N. Cohen Award Selection Committee, 2024-2027)
  • Poe Studies Association (Editorial Board, Edgar Allan Poe Review, 2012-2015; Member-at-Large, 2004-2006)
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Society (Advisory Board, 2013-2016; Barbara L. Packer Fellowship Committee, 2018-2020; Chair, 2020)
  • Society for the Study of American Women Writers
  • Thoreau Society

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