Overview
Mary Loeffelholz is the dean of Cornell’s School of Continuing Education. Her books include The Value of Emily Dickinson (2016), the Blackwell Companion to Emily Dickinson (co-edited with Martha Nell Smith, 2008), and From School to Salon: Reading Nineteenth-Century American Women’s Poetry (2004). Her articles and book chapters have appeared in The Oxford Handbook of Emily Dickinson, Whitman Among the Bohemians, The Cambridge Handbook of American Poetry, A Companion to American Literary Studies, Emerson Society Quarterly, American Literary History, Victorian Poetry, and Studies in Romanticism, among other venues. From 2007-2016 she was the editor of Volume D, 1914-1945, of The Norton Anthology of American Literature.
Research Focus
- American literature and culture
- Nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American poetry
- Feminist criticism
- Poetics
