articles & written interviews
Taking Action and Finding Peace, with Lucretia Witte. Humble Oak Consulting
Literary North Article and Interview, Part 1 How I got obsessed with Emily Dickinson
Literary North Article and Interview, Part 2 My labor of love, White Heat, a year-long weekly blog of one of Dickinson’s most prolific years, 1862
podcasts
Networked Connections: Exploring Emily Dickinson in 1862 with Michael Amico, for C19 podcast series. About the genesis and goals of my year-long Dickinson blog, White Heat
Episode #1: Taylor Swift: In the Place Kanye Had Set her, Crumbs of Dust with Anne Vallas, 2020. A detailed exploration of the wages of female creativity, seeing Taylor Swift in light of Puritan poet Anne Bradstreet’s experiences with the patriarchy.
“I Should be Glad to Leave the School” Your Most Obedient & Humble Servant with Kathryn Gehred. A discussion of the resistance to white male authority in several letters written by Mary Secutor, a Mohegan Indian and student at Eleazar Wheelock’s Indian School in the mid-18th century.
talks
A Conversation with Jimmy and Friends: Ivy Schweitzer on Emily Dickinson in Love: A Myth-Busting Valentine. Jimmy Pappas Weekly Poetry zoom, February 15, 2024 07:00 PM.
Emily Dickinson on her 193rd Birthday, Dec 10, 2023: Busting the Myth of the Spinster in the White Dress or, Not your Grade School Version of Emily, A Conversation with Jimmy and Friends, Jimmy Pappas Weekly Poetry zoom, December 11, 2023.
Introduction of Edward Hirsch, Symposium: Robert Hayden’s Uncompromising Vision: Lineage and Redress, September 22, 2022, Dartmouth College
Reckoning with Dickinson: On Otherness and Repair with Al Salehi (University of Memphis), Dickinson and Foreignness, Emily Dickinson International Society Annual Conference, July 2022, College of Philology, University of Seville, Spain
Politics and Pain of Women’s Cross-Racial Friendships, Interdisciplinary Center for Gender, Difference and Diversity at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, June 2022. Graduate Seminar.
Shakespeare and Dickinson at the White Heat, Queen Mary University London Post-Graduate Speaker Series, Fall 2021
Radical Imagining: We all need Rehabilitation! — TEDx talk
guest posts and op eds
The Best Books of Native American Cultural Archives, with Gordon Henry, Shepherd.com.
“On the “White Heat” blog,” Bloodroot Literary Magazine, guest post
Friendship as Civic Democratic Practice, LA Review of Books, op-ed
Who Doesn’t Love a Wall? LA Review of Books, op-ed
selected essays
“Most Pleasurable Reading We’re Not Doing: Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women,” J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists, 2 (1 Spring 2014): 13-24.
“Politics and Pain of Women’s Cross-Racial Friendships,” Female Friendship: Literary and Artistic Explorations. Edited by Slav N. Gratchev, Ida Day, and Larry Sheret. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2022: 21-42.
“Rereading Puritan Masculinity through a Trans Lens,” Gender in American Literature and Culture. Edited by Jean M. Lutes and Jennifer Travis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021: 66-81.
“Writing and Beyond in Indigenous North America: The Occom Network,” Indigenous Textual Cultures. Editors. Tony Ballantyne, Lachlan Paterson and Angela Wanhalla. New York: Duke University Press, 2020, 289-314.