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Emily Harrington听teaches and writes about Victorian literature, poetry and poetics, aestheticism, and women鈥檚 writing. She received her BA from Wesleyan University and her PhD from the University of Michigan. Harrington鈥檚 writing examines the place of poetry in Victorian culture, addressing questions of how poetry shapes and is shaped by experience. Her first book,听Second Person Singular: Late Victorian Women Poets and the Bonds of Verse, argues that women poets viewed lyric poetry as relational and interactive, rather than as an expression of a solitary soul, focusing on 鈥渢hou鈥� as much as 鈥淚.鈥� Harrington鈥檚 next project,听The Poetics and Politics of Waiting in Victorian Poetry,听will investigate temporality and a dynamics of deferral in a variety of poets. For a number of Victorian poets, action can be counterproductively rash and patience is required for both aesthetic and social progress.