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.

Professional Appointments

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

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

Visiting Instructor, Georgia State University (1999-2000).

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

Instructor, Georgia State University (1992-1993; 1998-1999).

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.

Advanced TEI Seminar on Manuscript Encoding. NEH funded. University of Nebraska-Lincoln Center for Digital Research in the Humanities. October 2010.

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

Faculty Development Research Grant. University of Wisconsin Oshkosh. 2002-2003.

Dissertation Research Grant. Georgia State University. 1997.

26th Annual Institute for the Editing of Historical Documents. Sponsored by the NHPRC, the University of Wisconsin Madison, and the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Madison, WI. June 1997.

Publications

Books

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

“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. (An expanded version of the essay by the same title below).

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

“‘Let Me Do Nothing Smale’: Mary Moody Emerson and Women’s ‘Talking’ Manuscripts.” ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance 57.1-2 (2011): 21-48.

“The Almanacks of Mary Moody Emerson: A Scholarly Digital Edition.” Documentary Editing 31 (2010): 10-24. With Sandra Harbert Petrulionis.

“‘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.

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.

“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.” Writers of the American Renaissance: An A-t0-Z Guide. Ed. Denise D. Knight. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 2003. 400-403.

“William Ware.”  Dictionary of Literary Biography: The American Renaissance in New England.  Ed. Wesley Mott. 3rd Series. Vol. 235. Detroit: Bruccoli Clark Layman, 2001.  410-415.

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

Select Webinars, Conference Papers, and Presentations

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

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

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

“Mary Moody Emerson’s Almanacks and Women Writers Online: A Casebook on Collaboration.” With Sarah Connell. 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.

“Transcending ‘Aunt Mary’: Digital Scholarship and The Almanacks of Mary Moody Emerson.” With Sandra Harbert Petrulionis. ALA Annual Conference. Boston, MA. May 2013.

“Mary Moody Emerson’s Almanacks: Digital Editions and Imagined Endings.” MLA Annual Convention. Seattle, WA. January 2012

Roundtable on The Oxford Handbook of Transcendentalism: Nineteenth-Century Ideas, Twenty-First Century Approaches. ALA Annual Conference. Boston, MA. May 2011.

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

Textual Scholarship Service

MLA Prize for a Scholarly Edition and Morton N. Cohen Award Selection Committee. 2024-2027.

Advisory Board, eLaboratories. 2022-present.

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

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

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

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

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); Coeditor-in-Chief, Scholarly Editing (2019-present); 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 (Committee on Scholarly Editions, 2016-2020; co-chair, 2017-2019)
  • Poe Studies Association (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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