Benjamin Friedlander joined our faculty in 1999. He was Coordinator of Graduate Studies from 2002 to 2005. His areas of expertise include Poetry and Poetics, Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American Literature, and Critical Theory. He is currently completing a book on Emily Dickinson and the Civil War. He is the author of Simulcast: Four Experiments in Criticism (U of Alabama P, 2004) and coeditor of Charles Olson’s Collected Prose (U of California P, 1997). In addition to his scholarly endeavors, he writes poetry. His most recent collection is A Knot Is Not a Tangle.