Section: A042B
Rethinking Dickinson's Lyrics

Presider: Elizabeth Petrino, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of English, and Co-Director of American Studies, Fairfield University

1. Vivian Pollak, Washington University, “Helen Hunt Jackson, Emily Dickinson, and New Woman Poetries, 1865-1900: The Contemporary Reviews”
2. Aidan Patricia Thompson, State University of New York at Albany, “Emily Dickinson's Art of Uncertainty and Discord”
3. Jessica L. Jessee, University of Kansas, “‘An Orator of Feather unto an Audience of Fuzz’: Sermonic Oratory and the Reluctant Convert”

Section: A042C
Dickinson, Frost, and Regionalism

Presiders: Elizabeth Petrino, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of English, and Co-Director of American Studies, Fairfield University
Tyler Hoffman, Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director, Rutgers University, Camden

1. Karen L. Kilcup, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, “Discerning Dickinson in the Twilight Era”
2. Juliana Chow, University of California, Berkeley, “Tracings in Dickinson and Frost; or, on Regionalist Litotes”
3. Margaret H. Freeman, Myrifield Institute for Cognition and the Arts, “Momentary Stays, Exploding Forces: The Poetics of Emily Dickinson and Robert Frost”