The West Virginia University Department of English will host a lecture by Marta Werner on Wednesday, Sept. 24, at 11 a.m. in 130 Colson Hall.

The title of Werner’s talk is “These Tested Our Horizon”: Scanning the Distances in Dickinson’s Late Manuscripts.

Werner is professor of English at D’Youville College in Buffalo, New York.

She is the author and editor of “The Gorgeous Nothings” (with Jen Bervin, New Directions, 2013); “The World Will Not Come to A: Hannah Weiner’s The Book of Revelations” (Jacket2, 2011); “Radical Scatters: An Electronic Archive of Emily Dickinson’s Late Fragments and Related Texts” (Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 2010), “Ordinary Mysteries: The Common Journal of Nathaniel and Sophia Hawthorne” (with Nicholas Lawrence, American Philosophical Society, 2006); and “Open Folios: Scenes of Reading, Surfaces of Writing” (University of Michigan Press, 1995).

She has been the recipient of both the Bowers Prize and the JoAnn Boydson Prize for her textual scholarship

“Marta Werner is one of the preeminent scholars of Emily Dickinson’s work,” said English Professor Mary Ann Samyn.

“We are so lucky to have Marta visiting us to discuss Dickinson’s poems in a lecture that is open to the public and to have Marta talk with M.F.A. students in a poetry workshop with professor Jim Harms. Marta’s visit to WVU is definitely one of the highlights of the semester for the English department.”

The lecture is free and open to the public. A reception will follow.

For more information, contact Mary Ann Samyn at 304-293-9730 or maryann.samyn@mail.wvu.edu.

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