Martha Nell Smith is Professor of English and DistinguishedScholar-Teacher at the University of Maryland. Her numerouspublications include three award-winning books Open MeCarefully: Emily Dickinson s Intimate Letters to SusanDickinson (1998), Comic Power in Emily Dickinson (1993), Rowing in Eden: Rereading Emily Dickinson (1992) thescholarly edition, Emily Dickinson s Correspondences: ABorn-Digital Scholarly Inquiry (2008), and over 50 journalarticles and book chapters. The recipient of numerous awards forher work on Dickinson and in new media, Smith is also Coordinatorand Executive Editor of the Dickinson Electronic Archivesprojects at the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities(IATH) at the University of Virginia. Mary Loeffelholz is Professor of English and Vice Provostfor Academic Affairs at Northeastern University. She is the authorof From School to Salon: Reading Nineteenth-Century AmericanWomen s Poetry (2004), Experimental Lives: Women andLiterature, 1900 1945 (1992), Dickinson and the Boundaries ofFeminist Theory (1991), and of a number of essays on nineteenth-and twentieth-century American poetry and culture. She was formerlyeditor of Studies in American Fiction and is the editor of VolumeD, Between the Wars: 1914 1945 in the Norton Anthology ofAmerican Literature