Marietta Messmer
Goettingen University - Germany
SFB 529
Humboldtallee 17
D-37073 Goettingen
mmessme@gwdg.de

Presentations and Publications

"Dickinson's Correspondence with Susan Gilbert Dickinson." ALA Convention, San Diego, CA, May 1998.

"Dickinson's Critical Reception in the 1890s," "Arlo Bates," "Helen Hunt Jackson," "Thomas Bailey Aldrich," and "Dickinson's Letters." The Emily Dickinson Encyclopedia. Ed, Jane Donahue Eberwein. New York: Greenwood Press, 1998.

"Emily Dickinson's Critical Reception in the 1890s: The Politics of Journalistic Criticism," MLA Convention, Washington, D.C., December 1996.

"Emily Dickinson's Critical Reception." The Emily Dickinson Handbook. Eds Gudrun Grabher,
Roland Hagenbüchle, Cristanne Miller. Cambridge: University of Massachusetts Press, 1998.

"Emily Dickinson's Exploration of the Limits of Logic: The Example of Her Puritan Heritage. The Emily Dickinson Journal 5.2 (1996): 127-133.

"Emily Dickinson's Exploration of the Limits of Logic: The Example of Her Puritan Heritage," EDIS International Society Conference, Innsbruck, Austria, August 1995.

Ridington, Candace. Rubicon. Birmingham, AL: Arlington Press, 1998. The Emily Dickinson Bulletin 9.2 (1997): 20-21. (book review).

Work in Progress

Revising Dissertation, "Reconstructing Dickinson's Epistolary Subject Positions," for publication.

Primary Research Interests

Dickinson's correspondence, personal letters in Colonial and Nineteenth-Century America.