Alexandra Socarides is Associate Professor of English at the University of Missouri, where she teaches courses on American poetry and poetics and on nineteenth-century literature and culture. Her first book was Dickinson Unbound: Paper, Process, Poetics (Oxford University Press, 2012) . She has received fellowships from the American Antiquarian Society, the Huntington Library, and Winterthur to work on her next book, which is about the para-textual and extra-textual conventions of nineteenth-century American women’s poetry. She is also the co-editor (with Jennifer Putzi) of A History of Nineteenth-Century American Women’s Poetry (Cambridge University Press, 2016) and co-editor (with Michael Cohen) of The Charles Brockden Brown Electronic Archive and Scholarly Edition, Volume 7: Poetry (forthcoming).
Publications
- The Charles Brockden Brown Electronic Archive and Scholarly Edition. Volume 7: Poetry. Co-edited with Michael Cohen. Gen. eds. Philip Barnard and Mark Kamrath. (Bucknell University Press, forthcoming 2018).
- “Collaborative Dickinson.” The New Dickinson. (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2018).
- “The Poetess at Work.” Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the American Renaissance. Ed. Christopher Phillips. Cambridge University Press (forthcoming 2017).
- “Consuming Dickinson.” Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers (forthcoming 2017)
- A History of Nineteenth-Century American Women’s Poetry. Co-edited with Jennifer Putzi. (Cambridge University Press, 2016).
- “Introduction: Making History: Thinking about Nineteenth-Century American Women’s Poetry,” A History of Nineteenth-Century American Women’s Poetry. Eds. Jennifer Putzi and Alexandra Socarides. (Cambridge University Press, 2016).
- “Making and Unmaking a Canon: American Women’s Poetry and the Nineteenth-Century Anthology,” A History of Nineteenth-Century American Women’s Poetry. Eds. Jennifer Putzi and Alexandra Socarides. (Cambridge University Press, 2016).
- “What Happens When We Don’t Read Ballads Closely Enough: The Cautionary Tale of the American Woman Poet and the Ballad. Nineteenth-Century Literature (Fall 2016).
- “Managing Multiple Contexts: Dickinson, Genre, and the Circulation of Fascicle 1,” Dickinson's Fascicles: A Spectrum of Possibilities. Eds. Paul Crumbley and Eleanor Heginbotham. Ohio State University Press (2014): 150-168.
- “Editorial History II: 1955 to the Present,” Dickinson in Context. Ed. Eliza Richards. Cambridge University Press (2013): 282-291.
- Dickinson Unbound: Paper, Process, Poetics (Oxford University Press, 2012).
- “The Poetics of Interruption: Dickinson, Death, and the Fascicles,” A Companion to Emily Dickinson. Eds. Mary Loeffelholz and Martha Nell Smith. Blackwell Publishing (2008): 309-333.
- “Rethinking the Fascicles: Dickinson’s Writing, Copying, and Binding Practices,” Emily Dickinson Journal vol. 15, no. 2 (Fall 2006): 61-8.7