Robert D. Habich Professor of English Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University Office: Robert Bell 339 Phone: (765) 285-8407 E-mail: rhabich@bsu.edu Website: http://www.bsu.edu/web/rhabich/

Areas of Specialization

American literature to 1900, especially the New England Transcendentalists; literary biography; textual editing

Publications

Books:

• Lives Out of Letters: Essays on American Literary Biography and Documentation, in Honor of Robert N. Hudspeth. Madison, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2004.
   
• Transcendentalism and the "Western Messenger": A History of the Magazine and Its Contributors, 1835-1841. Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 1985.

Recent Articles and Book Chapters:

• "Holmes, Cabot, and Edward Emerson and the Challenges of Writing Emerson's Biography in the 1880s,” in Emerson Bicentennial Essays, ed. Ronald A. Bosco and Joel Myerson. Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, distributed by the University of Virginia Press, 2006, pp. 3-32.
   
• "George Washington Harris," in Antebellum Writers of New York and the South, ed. Kent Ljungquist. Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 248. Detroit: Gale, 2001, pp. 132-42.
   
• "Andrews Norton," in American Renaissance in New England, Third Series, ed. Wesley T. Mott. Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 235. Detroit: Gale, 2001, pp. 281-88.
   
• "Channing Remembers Emerson: Visits to Concord, 1870 and 1877." New England Quarterly 73 (2000): 495-506.

Recent Book Reviews:

• In History's Embrace: Past and Present in Concord, Massachusetts by Leslie Perrin Wilson. Thoreau Society Bulletin, no. 260 (Fall 2007): 6.
   
• Walden Pond: A History by Barksdale Maynard and Walden: A Fully Annotated Edition, ed. Jeffrey Cramer. New England Quarterly 68 (2005): 133-36.
   
• Our Preposterous Use of Literature: Emerson and the Nature of Reading by T. S. McMillin. ANQ 14 (2001): 49-51.
   
• Hawthorne's Fuller Mystery by Thomas Mitchell. Studies in the Novel 32 (2000): 396-99.

Recent Presentations:

• "Rethinking Curriculum Design as Literary History," European Teacher Education Network Annual Conference, Liverpool, England, 26 April 2008.
   
• "Thoreau 101: Henry Thoreau and His Friends," Workshop, The Thoreau Society Annual Gathering, Concord, MA, 13 July 2007.
   
• “’Who may in future undertake to write Father’s biography?’: The Emerson Family and Emerson’s Reputation,” American Literature Association, Boston, MA, 25 May 2007.
   
• "Emerson's English Biographers," Transatlanticism in American Literature, Rothermere American Institute and St. Catherine's College, Oxford University, England, 14 July 2006.
   
• "Transcendentalism: from Emerson to Thoreau," Workshop, Thoreau Society Annual Gathering, Concord, MA, 7 July 2005.
   
• "Building Their Own Waldos: Holmes, Cabot, and Edward Emerson and the Challenges of Biography in the 1880s," Spires of Form: The Emerson Bicentennial Conference, Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, April 25-26, 2003.
   
• "Teaching Literary Lives: Biography in the American Romantic Classroom," College English Association, St. Petersburg, FL, April 3-5, 2003.
   
• "Whose Waldo? Emerson's New England Biographers, 1881-89," American Literature Association, Cambridge, MA May 25, 2001.

Courses

Graduate: Early American Literature, American Renaissance, Literature and Culture in the Gilded Age, 19 c. American Subgenres

Undergraduate: American Literature 1 & 2, Literary History

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