# Mary Loeffelholz

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## Dean, School of Continuing Education

### Overview

Mary Loeffelholz is the dean of Cornell’s School of Continuing Education. Her books include *The Value of Emily Dickinson* (2016)*,* the Blackwell *Companion to Emily Dickinson* (co-edited with Martha Nell Smith, 2008), and *From School to Salon: Reading Nineteenth-Century American Women’s Poetry* (2004). Her articles and book chapters have appeared in *The Oxford Handbook of Emily Dickinson*, *Whitman Among the Bohemians*, *The Cambridge Handbook of American Poetry, A Companion to American Literary Studies, Emerson Society Quarterly*, *American Literary History*, *Victorian Poetry*, and *Studies in Romanticism*, among other venues. From 2007-2016 she was the editor of Volume D, 1914-1945, of *The Norton Anthology of American Literature*.

### Research Focus

- American literature and culture
- Nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American poetry
- Feminist criticism
- Poetics