Ann Beebe is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Literature and Languages at
the University of Texas at Tyler. She specializes in pre-1865 American literature
and teaches survey, senior, and graduate-level classes in American novels, poetry,
short stories, and leadership. Her publications on the works Ralph Waldo Emerson,
Henry David Thoreau, E. D. E. N. Southworth, William Cullen Bryant and others have
appeared in The Concord Saunterer, Religion and the Arts, Nineteenth-Century Prose,
Literary Imagination, and Women’s Studies as well as essay collections. Her book,
Emily Dickinson: A Companion (2022), was published by McFarland, and her monograph
on the poetry and life of Anne Bradstreet should be available in Fall 2025.