Emma focuses on Transatlantic Romanticism, with specific interests in the intersections between philosophy, science, and the Romantic Imagination. Her previous work centered on the poetry of Wordsworth, Coleridge, and connections between walking, nature, and imagining in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Emma looks to enlarge this research to include American writers, including the Transcendentalists Emerson and Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, and Walt Whitman, as well as current neurological theories on imaginative creativity and ecological encounters.
Most recently, Emma presented the essay "Liminality and Poetics in Wordsworth's Miscellaneous Sonnets," at the Wordsworth Summer Conference in Grasmere. Her article, " 'Imperfect Notices:' Mary Wordsworth's 1820 Continental Journal" is forthcoming from Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature.
Emma received her B.A. from the University of California Santa Barbara, and her M.A. from the University of Oxford, Lincoln College.
