Nancy Lusignan Schultz to edit Poetry

The Collected Works of Harriet Beecher Stowe (CWHBS) has commissioned Nancy Lusignan Schultz to edit Poetry. Schultz is Professor Emerita of English at Salem State University.  A specialist in both early and 19^th century women writers, she is a founding officer of the Harriet Beecher Stowe Society.  Schultz is the author of Fire and Roses: The Burning of the Charlestown Convent, 1834 (Free Press, 2000), and Mrs. Mattingly’s Miracle: The Prince, the Widow, and the Cure that Shocked Washington City (Yale University Press, 2011; reprinted 2015). She is the co-editor of Transatlantic Conversations: Nineteenth-Century American Women’s Encounters with Italy and the Atlantic World (University of New Hampshire Press (2017) She is also the editor of Fear Itself: Enemies Real and Imagined in American Culture (Purdue University Press, 1999) and Veil of Fear: Nineteenth Century Convent Tales by Rebecca Reed and Maria Monk (Purdue University Press, 1999) and Salem: Place, Myth, and Memory (Northeastern University Press, 2004; second edition with updated preface, 2015).