Aífe Murray Independent Scholar and Mixed Media Writer amregistry@radray.us http://dickinsondownstairs.com

 

Publications

 "A Yankee Poet’s Irish Headwaters" New Hibernia Review, 6:1 (Spring 2002) 9-17. (Scholarly article) To order: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/nhr/

 "HD/ED," Visiting Emily, U of Iowa, 2000 (& The American Voice #34, 1994: 93-94) (poem)

 "Send me something drawen on paper. How2, 1:3. February 2000. (essay)  http://www.scc.rutgers.edu/however/v1_3_2000/current/readings/murray.html

 The Encyclopedia of the Irish in America, edited by Michael Glazier, University of Notre Dame Press 1999 (entry on Margaret Maher).

 "Miss Margaret's Emily Dickinson," Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 24:3 (Spring 1999) 697-732 (scholarly essay).  To order or receive permission to reprint: http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/SIGNS/index.html

 "Promise: Land," Five Fingers Review #17, 1998: 161-169 (poessay)

 An Emily Dickinson Encyclopedia, edited by Jane D. Eberwein, Westport CT: Greenwood Press, 1998 (entries on Margaret Maher, Thomas Kelley, and Dickinson's funeral)

 "Kitchen Table Poetics," Titanic Operas: American Women Poets and EmilyDickinson, Dickinson Electronic Archives.  http://www.emilydickinson.org/maher/index.htm

 "My Stove and I," The American Voice #39, 1996: 68-77 (prose)

 "crumbling wall / youre letter" & "Margaret Maher, the hands that wash," Chain/2, 1995: 162-4 (poems)

 "I remember more than I am now," Fascicles, Volume 1. Mill Valley: Em Press, 1993. Fine letterpress edition (poem)

 "tracking," Everything is Real Except the Obvious. Mill Valley: Em Press, 1992: 88-97 (prose)

 Work in Progress

A book on the Dickinson servants and their impact on Dickinson's poetics
fiction, poetry, mixed form work

Research Interests

Homestead servants
Class, race and culture