Eliza Richards

Book manuscript: Correspondent Lines: Poetry and Journalism in the US Civil War

Books:

Emily Dickinson in Context. Cambridge UP, 2013. More information here:

http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/literature/american-litera...

Gender and the Poetics of Reception in Poe’s Circle. Cambridge UP, 2004. More information  here:

 Selected essays :

"Whitman and Menken: Loosing and Losing Tongues," Whitman Among the Bohemians. Ed. Edward Whitley and Joanna Levin (U Iowa P, forthcoming 2014).

"Poe's Lyrical Media: The Raven's Returns," Poe's Republic of Letters: Remapping Antebellum American Print Culture. Ed. J. Gerald Kennedy and Jerome McGann (Louisiana State UP , 2012).

"Weathering the News in US Civil War Poetry," Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth Century American Poetry. Ed Kerry Larson (CUP, 2011), 113-134.

"'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 (2006).

Selected Research Awards:

Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Fellow, National Humanities Center, 2010-2011.

Spray-Randleigh Researach Fellowship, 2004.

AAS-NEH Award, 2002-2003.

Harper-Schmidt Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Chicago, 1997-1998.

Selected Courses:

Graduate:

Civil War Media, Nineteenth-Century US Poetry, Lyric Theory, Transatlantic Nineteenth-Century Literature, Romanticisms, various classes in US literature before 1900.

Undergraduate:

Imagining the US Civil War, Emily Dickinson in her Time, Poetry and Democracy, American Novel, American Sentimentalism, classes in US poetry before 1900, survey classes in US literature before 1950