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Marta L. Werner is a Professor and Martin J. Svaglic Chair in Textual Studies at Loyola University Chicago's Department of English. Her research focuses on archives as sites of cultural power and memory, emphasizing materiality and interdisciplinary approaches. She explores Emily Dickinson's manuscripts, ecological archives, and digital editing, blending literary studies with fields like environmental humanities and museum studies. Current projects include Dickinson's Birds: A Listening Machine, reimagining ecological connections through avian soundscapes. She teaches courses in textual studies, editorial theory, and 19th-century American literature.
Education: BA from Ithaca College; MA and PhD from SUNY Buffalo. She serves as editor-in-chief of Textual Cultures, an open-access journal on textual editing. Her work bridges archival theory with contemporary ecological crises, using Dickinson's manuscripts to interrogate connections between past and present. Collaborations with artists and scientists highlight her commitment to interdisciplinary scholarship.
Research spans Dickinson studies, early American literature, ecopoetics, and the Anthropocene. Projects like The Gorgeous Nothings (with Jen Bervin) and Radical Scatters exemplify her innovative approaches to textual representation. Her writing analyzes manuscripts as 'thin maps' revealing cultural and environmental genealogies, while her recent work interrogates bird soundscapes to measure ecological change.
Her scholarly contributions include over 15 books and articles, emphasizing how material forms shape meaning. Current projects expand into non-traditional archives (e.g., Cordelia Stanwood's bird notebooks) to explore 19th-century landscapes. She advocates for curatorial approaches to textual scholarship, redefining the role of editors as cultural interpreters.
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