WERNER, Marta L. 1964-

PERSONAL: Born 1964. Education: State University of New York, Buffalo, Ph.D., 1993.

ADDRESSES: Offıce—Liberal Arts Department-English, D'Youville College, 320 Porter Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14201. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER: Educator and author. Georgia State University, Atlanta, formerly assistant professor of literature; D'Youville College, Buffalo, NY, assistant professor of English.

MEMBER: Emily Dickinson Editing Collective.

AWARDS, HONORS: Fredson Bowers Memorial Prize, 1998-99; Faculty-Scholar Award, D'Youville College, 2001; grants from American Philosophical Society and Bibliographic Society of America.

WRITINGS:

(And editor) Emily Dickinson's Open Folios: Scenes of Reading, Surfaces of Writing, University of Michigan Press (Ann Arbor, MI), 1995.

(Editor) Radical Scatters: Emily Dickinson's Fragments and Related Texts, 1870-1886, University of Michigan Press (Ann Arbor, MI), 2000.

Contributor to various books and journals, including Emily Dickinson: Woman of Letters, A Poetics of Criticism, ProFemina, and Hypertext at the Milennium.

SIDELIGHTS: Marta L. Werner has taught literature at both Georgia State University and D'Youville College, and her academic interests include American literature, literary theory, textual scholarship, and poetics. In addition to her book-length works on New England writer Emily Dickinson, Werner has written many articles on nineteenth-and twentieth-century literature. She has received grants for her work from the American Philosophical Society and the Bibliographical Society of America.

In 1995, Werner published Emily Dickinson's Open Folios: Scenes of Reading, Surfaces of Writing. The book, for which Werner serves as editor and author, pulls together forty late drafts and fragments of Emily Dickinson's work associated with Judge Otis Lord. Werner provides facsimile copies of Dickinson's writing in an effort to explore further the actual manuscripts. Alongside the facsimiles, Werner provides typed transcriptions of the text. She also gives her own commentary on Dickinson's writing and the significance of viewing manuscripts in their original, unedited form.

Critics lauded Werner's work on Emily Dickinson's Open Folios. Many highlighted the author's efforts to shed light on the importance of manuscript study. "This is remarkable and stimulating reading—not for what Werner teaches about Emily Dickinson, but for what she invites the reader to contemplate about the poet and the act of literary creation," wrote P. J. Ferlazzo in a review for Choice.

In 2000, Werner edited and published the electronic archive Radical Scatters: Emily Dickinson's Fragments and Related Texts, 1870-1886. It contains eighty-two documents of fragmentary texts by Emily Dickinson written between 1870 and 1886, as well as poems, letters, and other writing related to the fragments. In this electronic format, Werner encourages readers to view Dickinson's work unedited and whole. The materials are organized for full electronic search capabilities.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Choice, July-August 1996, P.J. Ferlazzo, review of Emily Dickinson's Open Folios, p. 32.

ONLINE

D'Youville College English Faculty, http://www.dyc.edu/academics/english/ (August 7, 2003), "Marta Werner."

Harvard University Libraries Online,http://lib.harvard.edu/e-resources/ (December 8, 2004).

Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities at the University of Virginia Web site,http://www.iath.virginia.edu/ (December 8, 2004), "Marta Werner."

Text Online,http://www.textual.org/ (December 8, 2004), review of Emily Dickinson's Open Folios.

University of Michigan Press Web site,http://www.press.umich.edu/ (December 8, 2004).*