Univ. Of Maryland Professor To Present Lecture On Emily Dickinson At Muhlenberg College
Martha Nell Smith, professor of English at the University of Maryland, will give the annual John D. M. Brown Lecture at Muhlenberg College, Thursday, April 3, at 7:00 p.m. in the Lithgow Science Auditorium, Trumbower Hall. Smith will discuss the life and work of poet Emily Dickinson.Saturday, April 26, 2003 00:24 PM
Martha Nell Smith, professor of English at the University of Maryland, will give the annual John D. M. Brown Lecture at Muhlenberg College, Thursday, April 3, at 7:00 p.m. in the Lithgow Science Auditorium, Trumbower Hall. Smith will discuss the life and work of poet Emily Dickinson. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Smith serves as both an English professor as well as director of the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities at the University of Maryland. Smith has published three award-winning books, most recently “Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson’s Intimate Letters to Susan Dickinson,” co-authored with Ellen Louise Hart and published in 1998. Her articles have appeared in such journals as American Literature, Studies in the Literary Imagination, South Atlantic Quarterly, Women’s Studies Quarterly, Profils Americains, San Jose Studies and the Emily Dickinson Journal.
The recipient of numerous awards from NEH and ACLS, Smith is also coordinator and general editor of the Dickinson Electronic Archives projects at the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities at the University of Virginia.
