There will be two EDIS sessions at the 2004 MLA Annual conference:

"Dickinson and Biography" and "Dickinson and the Emersonian Tradition." Cristanne Miller will chair the biography session, with papers from Vivan Pollak ("Biography Teaches Us First: The Example of Emily Dickinson"), Ingrid Satelmajer ("Fracturing a Master Narrative, Reconstructing 'Sister Sue'"), and Amanda Gailey ("How Anthologists Made Dickinson into a Tolerable Woman Writer").

Paul Crumbley will chair the Emerson session, with papers from Fred White ("Emersonian Self Reliance as Dickinson Nightmare Scenarios"), Jennifer Leader("' We are molested equally I By immortality': Dickinson, Emerson and Double Consciousness"), and Tom Allen ("Emily Dickinson's Ordinary Language").