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Thomas W. Howard

@twhoward.bsky.social

Assistant Professor of American Culture & Literature at Bilkent University (Ankara, Türkiye) | President of the Ralph Waldo Emerson Society | Associate Editor at The Concord Saunterer www.twhoward.com

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Thomas W. Howard @twhoward.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Came back from a week in the woods to see this in the mail! Clearly, Zooey's not much of an ecotheorist. Read "Goethe, Darwin, and the Spiral Tendency of Dickinson's Letters" in the latest issue of The Emily Dickinson Journal (a special issue from the Taiwan conference)! doi.org/10.1353/edj....

The Emily Dickinson Journal opened to Thomas W. Howard's article, "Goethe Darwin, and the Spiral Tendency of Dickinson's Letters." In the background, a beagle sleeping in a dog bed.

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Thomas W. Howard @twhoward.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Excited to share my new article in The New England Quarterly! In "Aphoristic Transcendentalism," I argue that the aphoristic style of Emerson and Thoreau is more than just quotability; it is in fact inseparable from their scientific practice. doi.org/10.1162/TNEQ...

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Aphoristic Transcendentalism: Baconian Science and Centrifugal Inquiry in Emerson and Thoreau

Abstract. I argue that the aphoristic style of Emerson and Thoreau is inseparable from their scientific practice. Drawing on Francis Bacon’s vision of the aphorism as seed-like and perpetually generat...

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Thomas W. Howard @twhoward.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Had a wonderful time collaborating with the Emily Dickinson International Society (EDIS) for this online discussion on Emerson's essay "The Poet" and Dickinson's poetry. This is likely the first of a series of discussions between @emersonsociety.bsky.social and EDIS — stay tuned for more!

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Dickinson, Emerson, the poet and the poetic imagination.

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