Michelle Kohler is an Associate Professor of English with research and teaching interests in 19th-century American literature, poetry and poetics, and environmental studies. She is author of Miles of Stare: Transcendentalism and the Problem of Literary Vision in Nineteenth-Century America (2014) and editor of The New Emily Dickinson Studies (2019). During her residency she worked to draft an essay on Dickinson, temporality, and the climate crisis.