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It's easy for scholarly work to feel invisible working off the tenure track, so: I published some things! And I'm excited about a special issue now in the works on the long & complicated career of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, apart from the condescending quasi-mentorship and iffy posthumous publishing of Emily Dickinson for which he's mostly now remembered.
https://english.umd.edu/news/gerard-holmes-publishes-new-work-emily-dickinson
english.umd.eduGerard Holmes Publishes New Work on Emily DickinsonLecturer Gerard Holmes shares news of his recent scholarly research and service in Emily Dickinson studies. In March 2021, Women’s Studies published a special issue, “New Directions in Emily Dickinson and Music,” to which Gerard co-edited and contributed an essay, “‘the Bird / Who sings the same, unheard, / As unto Crowd -’: Dickinson, Improvisation, and the Business of Birdsong.”