The Emily Dickinson International Society is sponsoring two panel sessions =

at ALA in May, 2007. Please send proposals by January 10 to the session=20
organizers, Marianne Noble and Cindy MacKenzie. (mnoble_at_american.edu,=20
cindy.mackenzie_at_uregina.ca) The conference will take place in Boston, May =

24-27, 2007. For further information about the conference, go to=20
www.calstatela.edu/academic/english/ala2

Panel #1: Teaching Dickinson
What are the challenges and rewards of teaching Dickinson?s poetry. What=20
strategies have worked, and which have not? What makes Dickinson popular=20
(or not) with students?

Panel #2: New Approaches to an Old Question: What is Dickinson?s=20
?Circumference??
What does it mean that Dickinson?s business is circumference, that ? bride =

of awe,? that entity between ?place? and ?presence?? This is one of the=20
most perennially vexing questions in Dickinson scholarship, one worth=20
revisiting in light of new understandings of Dickinson?s poems, letters,=20
and life.

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<br><font size=3D2>The Emily Dickinson International Society is sponsoring
two panel sessions at ALA in May, 2007. &nbsp;Please send &nbsp;proposals
by January 10 to the session organizers, Marianne Noble and Cindy MacKenzie.
&nbsp;(mnoble_at_american.edu, cindy.mackenzie_at_uregina.ca) &nbsp;The conference
will take place in Boston, May 24-27, 2007. &nbsp;For further information
about the conference, go to www.calstatela.edu/academic/english/ala2</font>
<br>
<br><font size=3D2><u>Panel #1: &nbsp;Teaching Dickinson</u></font>
<br><font size=3D2>What are the challenges and rewards of teaching Dickinso=
n’s
poetry. &nbsp;What strategies have worked, and which have not? &nbsp;What
makes Dickinson popular (or not) with students?</font>
<br>
<br><font size=3D2><u>Panel #2: &nbsp;New Approaches to an Old Question:
&nbsp;What is Dickinson’s “Circumference”?</u></font>
<br><font size=3D2>What does it mean that Dickinson’s business is cir=
cumference,
that “ bride of awe,” that entity between “place” a=
nd “presence”?
This is one of the most perennially vexing questions in Dickinson scholarsh=
ip,
one worth revisiting in light of new understandings of Dickinson’s po=
ems,
letters, and life.</font>
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