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Magdalena Ostas

Lecturer in Comparative Literature and English, University of California, Berkeley

Magdalena Ostas is lecturer in comparative literature and English at the University of California, Berkeley. Her work is included in the collection The Poetry of Emily Dickinson: Philosophical Perspectives (OUP, 2021) and she is writing the book ‘The Aesthetics of Persons’.

Written by Magdalena Ostas

Black and white photograph of Emily Dickinson, inside a red velvet and gold frame.

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Emily Dickinson and the creative ‘solitude of space’

For the poet Emily Dickinson, sequester was a feminist act of independence: it gave her mental and literal space to write

by Magdalena Ostas