nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American poetry—especially by Emily Dickinson, Marianne Moore, Mina Loy; gender and language issues; modernism; U.S. Civil War poetry.
Director, UB Arts Management Program; Co-Director UB Digital Scholarship Studio and Network
Major Awards and Fellowships since 1990:
2017 UB President’s Medal for Excellence in Scholarship and Service
2017 MLA Scholarly Edition Prize (for editions published in 2015-16), for Emily Dickinson’s Poems (2016)
2014 ACLS (11 months)
2013 September-January 2014 Fulbright/Tocqueville Distinguished Chair Award, Paris
2001-02 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship (12 months)
2001-02 Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford, Fellow (12 months)
1998 Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, Free University of Berlin (6 months)
1995 Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, summer stipend
1993 Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, Free University of Berlin (12 months)