Emily Dickinson International Society

Emily Dickinson International Society
Announcements and Calls for Papers

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Bulletin Editorship To Open in 2009

Michael Kearns has informed the EDIS Board of Directors that he intends to step down as Editor of the Bulletin after the May/June 2009 issue. The Board is now looking for someone else to take over this demanding but very rewarding task. The basic qualifications are that the candidate be a member of EDIS in good standing and a resident of the United States (to facilitate mailing). The editor also must have excellent writing skills, be familiar with Dickinson’s biography and work, and be reasonably current with Dickinson scholarship. The position is unpaid, but all normal expenses are reimbursed. The position carries with it membership on the EDIS Board of Directors.

The Board of Directors is looking for a candidate who would be prepared to assume full responsibility for editing the Bulletin in summer 2009. Ideally the candidate would be able to work with Michael Kearns on the May/June 2009 issue before taking over the editorship.

To apply, please send a resume and a letter of interest to Michael Kearns at the Department of English, University of Southern Indiana, 8600 University Blvd., Evansville, IN 47712. He will be happy to answer inquiries at mkearns@usi.edu.

EDIS Scholar in Amherst Award 2007

The Emily Dickinson International Society (EDIS) is pleased to announce that the winner of the 2007 Scholar in Amherst Award is Aífe Murray, an Independent Scholar whose work on Emily Dickinson has been featured in Signs: A Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Visiting Emily: Contemporary Poems Inspired by the Life and Work of Emily Dickinson, and the Blackwell Companion to Emily Dickinson. The EDIS Award will enable Murray to complete the research for her forthcoming book, Maid as Muse: How Her Domestic Servants Changed Emily Dickinson’s Life and Language
(University Press of New England 2009).

Annual Membership Dues Renewal

You should have received your membership renewal forms from Johns Hopkins. We look forward to having you as a continuing member of the Emily Dickinson International Society as we enter our twentieth anniversary year. Membership information is available here.

2009 EDIS ANNUAL MEETING
July 30 - August 2, 2009
Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada

The 2009 Annual Meeting will take place in Regina, Saskatchewan, "The Queen City," from July 30 to August 2. The meeting's theme is "Emily Dickinson: Queen Without a Crown." Teaching discussions will be from several perspectives, demonstrated by award-winning instructors within our membership and including strategies for teaching children and using online resources.

Emily Dickinson International Society at MLA

The Emily Dickinson International Society will sponsor two sessions at the Modern Language Association annual conference in San Francisco, December 27-30, 2008. By tradition, one will be an "Open" panel, for which proposals from any area of Dickinson studies are welcome. This year's second panel will be "Dickinson as World Poet." Papers might present Dickinson in the context of contemporary transatlantic or hemispheric studies, as an inspiration or challenge to other world poets, as a global phenomenon, as translated and received in across the world, as a thinker/poet of the world or for the world.

Please submit proposals of 200-300 words as an email attachment to Jed Deppman (jdeppman@oberlin.edu) by March 28, 2008.

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