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I am a PhD researcher in American Literature. If brought to uniformity, my research interests span the fields of Anglo-American poetry, stylistics, historical linguistics. Yet the primary focus of my present work is contained within the following question: what would happen if we could hear Emily Dickinson speak?

Through reconstruction of ante-bellum New England pronunciation, my project recovers the historical speech of the region and inquires into how the poet herself would utter her verses (or expected them to be heard) and whether we would perceive the same kind of poetry when the notorious 'broken' lines and 'slant' rhymes are read with Dickinson's native accent. The linguistic findings reveal a whole new world of sound and meaning, granting a new pair of ears to the modern reader whose affection lies with nineteenth-century American poetry and, especially, with its most mysterious agentess.