From the Editor

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From the Editor Suzanne Juhasz (bio) The Emily Dickinson Journal is pleased to present the proceedings of the EDIS Conference, "Emily Dickinson Abroad," held in Innsbruck, Austria on August 4-6, 1995. Beneath the "Immortal Alps," scholars from around the world gathered to enjoy a feast of presentations and discussion about Dickinson. Her work and life were explored in a multitude of ways that, taken together, represent the range and richness of Dickinson studies today. In plenary sessions and panels, sixty-two scholars from Great Britain, Europe, Australia, India, Japan, and Thailand presented papers from perspectives that included historical and cultural contexts, editing issues, gender identity, international reception, interdisciplinary approaches, and language and rhetoric. This issue gathers forty-three of those papers. The authors have graciously cut their essays so that it would be possible for us to publish so many of them and thus present a volume that truly represents the content and spirit of that memorable gathering. Special thanks to Gudrun Grabher and her Department of American Studies at the University of Innsbruck, whose extensive work and generous hospitality extended to every dimension of this wonderful conference. We appreciate as well the contribution of Conference Director Margaret Dickie and her staff of graduate students for so capably organizing the program. For help with the publication of this Special Issue we thank Laura Hoopes, Dean of Pomona College. This event was a testimony to the vitality of Dickinson's presence abroad as well as at home. The community of Dickinson scholars is indeed international in every sense. [End Page x] Suzanne Juhasz Suzanne Juhasz is Professor of English at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Her work on Dickinson includes The Undiscovered Continent: Emily Dickinson and the Space of the Mind; Feminist Critics Read Emily Dickinson, Emily Dickinson: A Celebration for Readers (with Cristanne Miller); and Comic Power in Emily Dickinson (with Cristanne Miller and Martha Nell Smith). Her other books include Reading From the Heart: Women, Literature, and the Search for True Love and, with Cristanne Miller and Camille Roman, The Women and Language Debate: A Sourcebook She is the Editor of The Emily Dickinson Journal. Copyright © 1996 Emily Dickinson International Society