Interests and Information
19th-century American literature
American poetry before 1900
Comparative British and American
nineteenth-century studies
Poetry and poetics, especially theories of lyric
Gender studies and U.S. women's literature before 1900
Curriculum Vitae
Eliza Richards
(Hire Date: 2004)
Ph. D., University of Michigan
B.A., Bates College
ecr@email.unc.edu
919-843-8153
Selected Publications:
Book-length Work in Progress: Hearing Voices: Lyric Representation in Nineteenth-Century America: A study of the production, circulation, and reception of U.S. lyric poetry in the nineteenth century, concentrating on the ways that "representative" lyric speakers figure themselves in relation to other people who are imagined to have no means of public expression. I pay particular attention to the ways that lyric "voice" circulates through newspapers magazines, and other ephemeral print media. I am especially interested in the ways that "the voice of the people," "the voice of the press," and other mass media figures of voice register in the work of individual writers such as Jones Very, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Stephen Crane, Adah Isaacs Menken, George Moses Horton.
Book:
Gender and the Poetics of Reception in Poe’s Circle. Cambridge Series in American Literature and Culture (Cambridge University Press, 2004). More information online here.
Essays and Chapters:
“‘How News Must Feel When Traveling’: Dickinson and Civil War Media.” Blackwell’s Companion to Emily Dickinson. Ed. Martha Nell Smith and Mary Loeffelholz (forthcoming 2006).
“Poe, Women Poets, and Print Circulation.” Teaching Nineteenth-Century American Poetry. Ed. Paula Bennett and Karen Kilcup. “Options for Teaching” series (Modern Language Association, forthcoming 2006).
“Outsourcing ‘The Raven’: Retroactive Origins.” Victorian Poetry, 43.2 (2005): 205-221.
“Women’s Place in Poe Studies.” Poe Studies, 33.1 and 33.2 (2000): 10-14.
“Lyric Telegraphy: Women Poets, Spiritualist Poetics, and the ‘Phantom Voice’ of Poe.” The Yale Journal of Criticism, 12.2 (1999): 269-94.
“‘The Poetess’ and Poe’s Performance of the Feminine.” Arizona Quarterly, 55.2 (1999): 1-29. Reproduced in Thomson Gale Literature Resource Center (online resource).
Recent Honors and Awards:
Association of Graduate English Students Award for Excellence in Mentoring on the M.A. Level, 2005-2006.
Spray-Randleigh Research Fellowship. UNC-Chapel Hill, 2004.
American Antiquarian Society-National Endowment for the Humanities Research Fellowship. 2002-2003.
Gitner Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. College-wide teaching award. Boston University, May 2002.
Humanities Foundation Junior Faculty Fellowship. Boston University, Fall 2001.
Harper-Schmidt Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities. The University of Chicago, 1997-2000 (declined for 1999-2000).