Eliza Richards

PUBLICATIONS

Book-length work-in-progress: Correspondent Lines: Poetry and Journalism in the US Civil War

Book:
Gender and the Poetics of Reception in Poe’s Circle. Cambridge Univ. Press, 2004. More information online here.

Essays and Chapters:
"'Death's Surprise, Stamped Visible': Emily Dickinson and Civil War Photography." Amerikastudien/American Studies 54.1 (2009): 13-33.

"Correspondent Lines: Poetry and Journalism in the US Civil War." ESQ 54.1-4 (2008): 144-169.

“‘How News Must Feel When Traveling’: Dickinson and Civil War Media.” Blackwell’s Companion to Emily Dickinson. Ed. Martha Nell Smith and Mary Loeffelholz (forthcoming 2006).

“Poe, Women Poets, and Print Circulation.” Teaching Nineteenth-Century American Poetry. Ed. Paula Bennett and Karen Kilcup. “Options for Teaching” series (Modern Language Association, forthcoming 2006).

"'The Poetess' and Nineteenth-Century American Women Poets." Co-authored with Virginia Jackson. Poetess Archive Journal 1.1 (April 2007). Peer-reviewed online journal at http://unixgen.muohio.edu/~poetess/PAJournal/index.html.

“Outsourcing ‘The Raven’: Retroactive Origins.” Victorian Poetry, 43.2 (2005): 205-221.

“Women’s Place in Poe Studies.” Poe Studies, 33.1 and 33.2 (2000): 10-14.

 “Lyric Telegraphy: Women Poets, Spiritualist Poetics, and the ‘Phantom Voice’ of Poe.” The Yale Journal of Criticism, 12.2 (1999): 269-94.

“‘The Poetess’ and Poe’s Performance of the Feminine.” Arizona Quarterly, 55.2 (1999): 1-29. Reproduced in Thomson Gale Literature Resource Center (online resource).   

HONORS AND AWARDS

Fellow, National Humanities Center, 2010-2011.

Association of Graduate English Students Award for Excellence in Mentoring on the M.A. Level, 2005-2006.

Spray-Randleigh Research Fellowship. UNC-Chapel Hill, 2004.

American Antiquarian Society-National Endowment for the Humanities Research Fellowship. 2002-2003.

Gitner Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. College-wide teaching award. Boston University, May 2002.

Humanities Foundation Junior Faculty Fellowship. Boston University, Fall 2001.

Institute for the Humanities Graduate Fellowship. One-year dissertation research fellowship. Univ. of Michigan, 1995-1996.

Graduate Committee Summer Grant. English Department. Univ. of Michigan, Summer 1995.

Rackham Dissertation Grant. Funding for travel to archives. Univ. of Michigan, 1994-1995.

Mellon Foundation Dissertation Fellowship. One-year dissertation research fellowship. Univ. of Michigan, 1994-1995.

Rackham One-Term Dissertation Grant. Univ. of Michigan, Winter Term, 1994.

COURSES TAUGHT

Graduate:

Transatlantic Perspectives in Nineteenth-Century Literature
Lyric Theory
Nineteenth-Century US Literature
US Literature Before 1861
US Civil War Media (American Studies)
Nineteenth-Century US Poetry

Undergraduate:

Poetry and Democracy
Nineteenth-Century American Poetry
American Poetry before 1900
Emily Dickinson
American Literature surveys, beginnings to 1930
American Novel
Imagining the US Civil War
American Sentimentalism
British Literature surveys, 1800-1950
Readings in World Literature
Reading Cultures: Collecting, Traveling, Capitalism
Introduction to Short Story
Argumentative Writing
College Writing

On leave, academic year 2010-2011.

Hire Date: 2004
Ph. D., University of Michigan
B.A., Bates College
ecr@email.unc.edu
919-843-8153