Martha Nell Smith

Martha Nell Smith
Martha Nell Smith
Occupation	literary critic, professor
Nationality	American
Genre	literature

Martha Nell Smith is a professor of English and founding director of the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) at the University of Maryland, College Park.^[1] Her work's main focus is on the life and works of the poet Emily Dickinson.

Career

A native of San Angelo, Texas,^[2] Smith is Coordinator and Executive Editor of the Dickinson Electronic Archives projects at the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH) at the University of Virginia.^[1] With Lara Vetter, Smith is editor of Emily Dickinson’s Correspondence: A Born-Digital Textual Inquiry (2008) from the Mellon-sponsored Rotunda New Digital Scholarship, University of Virginia Press.^[3]

With teams at the University of Illinois, University of Virginia, University of Nebraska, University of Alberta, and Northwestern University, Smith worked on two interrelated Mellon-sponsored data mining and visualization initiatives, NORA and MONK (Metadata Offer New Knowledge).^[4] Smith also serves on the editorial board and steering committee of NINES (Networked Interface for Nineteenth-Century Electronic Scholarship),^[5] and is on the advisory board of the Poetess Archive.^[6]

Smith is President (and a director) of the Emily Dickinson International Society (EDIS).^[7]

In 2009, Livingston College at Rutgers University awarded Smith its Distinguished Alumni Award 2009 for scholarly achievement and leadership.^[8]^[9]

In May 2011, Smith was voted Chair-Elect of the University of Maryland Senate, and became Chair for the 2012–2013 term.^[10]

The recipient of numerous awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), the Mellon Foundation, and the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) for her work on Dickinson, American literary history, and in new media, Smith is a founding board member of the Emily Dickinson International Society (EDIS), for which she has served as President since August 2013.^[11]^[12]^[13]^[14]

In 2012 Smith helped locate a photo believed to be of Dickinson, considered to be the only picture of the poet as an adult.^[15]^[16]

Publications

Smith has published five books:

Emily Dickinson, A User's Guide (2012) ISBN 978-1405147200
Companion to Emily Dickinson (2008), coedited with Mary Loeffelholz ISBN 978-1405122801
Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson’s Intimate Letters to Susan Dickinson (1998), coauthored with Ellen Louise Hart ISBN 978-0963818362
Comic Power in Emily Dickinson (1993), coauthored with Cristanne Miller and Suzanne Juhasz ISBN 978-0292740297
Rowing in Eden: Rereading Emily Dickinson (1992) ISBN 978-0292776661

She has also published more than 40 articles and essays in American Literature, Studies in the Literary Imagination, South Atlantic Quarterly, Women’s Studies Quarterly, Profils Americains, San Jose Studies, The Emily Dickinson Journal, ESQ, and A Companion to Digital Humanities.

References

^ ^a ^b Martha Nell Smith. "Martha Nell Smith | English Department, University of Maryland". English.umd.edu. Retrieved 2013-12-20.
^ "Hattie Mozelle Owens Smith [3079]". Texas State Cemetery. Retrieved 2013-12-22.
^ "Emily Dickinson's Correspondences". University of Virginia Press. Retrieved 2013-12-20.
^ "The MONK Project". The MONK Project. Retrieved 2013-12-20.
^ "Executive council". N I N E S. Retrieved 2013-12-28.
^ "About the Poetess Archive". Archived from the original on 2013-12-24. Retrieved 2013-12-22.
^ "The Emily Dickinson International Society Board". The Emily Dickinson International Society. Retrieved 2013-12-22.
^ "Distinguished Alumna Martha Nell Smith, LC'77, Is an Emily Dickinson Scholar and Author". Livingston Alumni Association. 12 September 2016. Retrieved 2016-09-12.
^ "Martha Nell Smith". YouTube. 28 May 2009. Retrieved 2013-12-20.
^ "2011-12 Slate of Candidates" (PDF). 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-04-02.
^ Smith, Martha Nell (2005). ""Democratizing Knowledge"". Archived from the original on 2017-04-02.
^ ""Martha Nell Smith"".
^ "The College of Arts and Humanities Year in Review".
^ "Department of Education". Archived from the original on 2017-04-02.
^ Shanahan, Mark & Goldstein, Meredith. "New photo of Emily Dickinson?". The Names Blog. Boston Globe. Retrieved 2013-12-20.
^ Enszer, Julie (2012-09-11). "Is this a photo of Emily Dickinson? And will it tell us who she loved?". Ms. Blog. Ms. Magazine. Retrieved 2013-12-20.

External links

"Martha Nell Smith". University of Maryland: Department of English.
Smith, Martha Nell, scholars' registry at The Emily Dickinson International Society