LIT 4033 Spring 2023 Kilgore

This course offers students a chance to read (really read) the work of Emily Dickinson. The approach to this course will stress Dickinson’s experimental—ecstatic, queer, antinomian—relationship to textuality and language, genre and poetic form. Students will be exposed to recent scholarly practices in Dickinson Studies with particular attention to digital archives, manuscript criticism, and material poetics. Don’t worry, we’ll make room for Dickinson’s biography, too, and consider pop culture interpretations of her life.