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"Hey Martha, since it's YOU.... I say ACCEPT.... But to nobody else yet! Well, maybe soon. But send your messages by the usual route, por favor, since I might be looking at this spot once in a luna…"

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"Thanks so much, Julie! I'm very happy to be part of this and look forward to learning more about how to navigate, etc. In Possibility! --mn "

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Who I am:: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Nell_Smith

Smith is Professor of English and Founding Director of the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH ) at the University of Maryland; Smith is also Affiliate Professor of Women’s Studies, LGBT Studies, American Studies, Theatre, the Consortium on Race, Gender, Ethnicity (CRGE), and the Human-Computer Interaction Lab (HCIL). A leader in innovations in academic publishing, Smith served on the Executive Council of the Association for Computers in the Humanities (2001-2004), and co-chaired the Modern Language Association (MLA)’s Committee on Scholarly Editions (2004-2008). Her numerous print publications include five books, three of them award-winning, and scores of articles and essays in American Literature, Studies in the Literary Imagination, South Atlantic Quarterly, Women’s Studies Quarterly, Profils Americains, San Jose Studies, The Emily Dickinson Journal, ESQ, and A Companion to Digital Humanities. The recipient of numerous awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), the Mellon Foundation, and the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) for her work on Dickinson, American literary history, and in new media, Smith is also Coordinator and Executive Editor of the Dickinson Electronic Archives projects at the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH) at the University of Virginia .

With Lara Vetter (Associate Professor, University of North Carolina, Charlotte), Smith co-edited the award-winning Emily Dickinson’s Correspondence: A Born-Digital Textual Inquiry (2008) published by Rotunda New Digital Scholarship, University of Virginia Press. With teams at the University of Illinois, University of Virginia, University of Nebraska, University of Alberta, and Northwestern University, Smith has worked on two interrelated Mellon-sponsored data mining and visualization initiatives . Smith also serves on the editorial board and steering committee of NINES (Networked Interface for Nineteenth-Century Electronic Scholarship; ), is on numerous advisory boards of digital literary projects such as Digital Dickens, The Poetess Archive, and the Melville Electronic Library (MEL), serves on a number of editorial boards (such as The Emily Dickinson Journal and Textual Cultures), and is a founding board member of C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists.

For outstanding scholarly achievement and innovative leadership in which diversity inheres in any definition of excellence, Livingston College at Rutgers University awarded Smith its Distinguished Alumni Award in 2009, the highest honor that the college bestows upon its former students. In 2010 Smith was named a Distinguished Scholar-Teacher at the University of Maryland, and in 2011, an ADVANCE Professor (the NSF-funded ADVANCE Program fosters a culture of inclusive excellence; http://advance.umd.edu).

Books I've written, anthologies I've contributed to, and any scripts or plays I've authored:: Rowing in Eden: Rereading Emily Dickinson. A revaluation of the poet’s “publication” of her work. U of Texas Press, 1992. Honorable Mention, 1993, Hans Rosenhaupt Memorial Book Award, given biennially by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation for a Distinguished First Book Published in the Humanities. Excerpt reprinted in Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar, eds., Feminist Literary Theory and Criticism: A Norton Reader (W.W. Norton 2007).

Comic Power in Emily Dickinson. Coauthored with Prof. Suzanne Juhasz, Univ. of Colorado, and Prof. Cristanne Miller, Chair, Department of English, University at Buffalo, SUNY. U of Texas Press, 1993. Best Books of 1993, Choice. Smith, “The Poet as Cartoonist” rpt. in New Century Views of Emily Dickinson, ed. Judith Farr. Prentice Hall, 1996.

Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson’s Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson. An editorial, critical, and biographical study of the poet’s most prolific correspondence (essays by Martha Nell Smith, notes and texts coedited with Ellen Louise Hart, Univ. of California at Santa Cruz). Paris Press, 1998; Second edition published May 2005. Selected notices/reviews/interviews: “Two Belles of Amherst,” New York Times Book Review (December 13, 1998); Featured book, CNN.com (December 15, 1998); Interview, “To the Best of Our Knowledge,” (WPR, December 20, 1998); Valentine’s Week Choice, Washingtonpost.com (February 9, 1999); American Library Association’s Notable Books List 1999; Reviewed as “ubiquitous and influential” in New York Review of Books (April 11, 1999); “a must for American literature scholars and students at all levels,” Choice (1998); “illuminate[s] the inseparability of female creativity and profound relationships among women” in The Women’s Review of Books (November 1999).

Companion to Emily Dickinson. Coedited with Mary Loeffelholz. Blackwell Publishers, 2008. 523 pp. "The essays show the breadth, depth, and vitality of current scholarship in Dickinson studies. Indexed and selectively illustrated with black and white photographs, this volume merits a place alongside An Emily Dickinson Encyclopedia and The Emily Dickinson Handbook, but is unique in offering readers the benefits of digital collaboration.” (Emily Dickinson International Society Bulletin, Fall 2008)

Emily Dickinson: A User’s Guide (56,000 words). Wiley-Blackwell Publishers, forthcoming spring 2012. An introduction to the poet, her writings, and their receptions.

My writing is:: Lit Crit, Theory

Outlets where I review books, TV, or film:: yes

My professional associations:: Modern Langauge Association (MLA)
Emily Dickinson International Society (EDIS)
National Organization for Women (NOW)

I found out about She Writes from:: Alicia Ostriker and Elaine Showalter

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At 8:29am on April 28, 2011, Alicia Suskin Ostriker said…: Hey Martha,

since it's YOU....

I say ACCEPT....

But to nobody else yet! Well, maybe soon. But send your messages by the usual route, por favor, since I might be looking at this spot once in a luna azul.

Abrazos,

ao

At 12:38pm on April 27, 2011, Julia Barry said…: Hi Martha,

So glad you are here, and welcome to She Writes!

You can check out the Getting Started section to help you find your way around, or a great way to jump in is to get involved with our Groups.

Feel free to let me know if you have any questions!

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Julia Barry
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