Martha Nell Smith is Professor of English and Founding Director of the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) at the University of Maryland. Her numerous print publications include five books, three of them award-winning: EMILY DICKINSON, A USER'S GUIDE (August 2010); COMPANION to EMILY DICKINSON (Jan 2008), coedited with Mary Loeffelholz; OPEN ME CAREFULLY: EMILY DICKINSON'S INTIMATE LETTERS to SUSAN DICKINSON (1998), coauthored with Ellen Louise Hart; COMIC POWER in EMILY DICKINSON (1993), coauthored with Cristanne Miller and Suzanne Juhasz; ROWING IN EDEN: REREADING EMILY DICKINSON (1992). Smith has also published more than 60 articles and essays in American Literature, Studies in the Literary Imagination, South Atlantic Quarterly, Women's Studies Quarterly, Profils Americains, San Jose Studies, The Emily Dickinson Journal, ESQ, A Companion to Digital Humanities, and in various other books and journals. For her work on Dickinson, American literary history, textual editing, and in new media, Smith has received numerous awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), the Mellon Foundation, and the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE). She is Coordinator and Executive Editor of the DICKINSON ELECTRONIC ARCHIVES projects at the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH) at the University of Virginia. With Lara Vetter, Smith co-edited EMILY DICKINSON'S CORRESPONDENCE: A BORN-DIGITAL TEXTUAL INQUIRY (Dec 2008) published by Rotunda New Digital Scholarship, University of Virginia Press. With teams at the University of Illinois, University of Virginia, University of Nebraska, University of Alberta, and Northwestern University, Smith has worked on two interrelated Mellon-sponsored data mining and visualization initiative, NORA and MONK (Metadata Offer New Knowledge). Smith also serves on the editorial board and steering committee of NINES (Networked Interface for Nineteenth-Century Electronic Scholarship) and is on numerous advisory boards of digital literary projects such as The Poetess Archive, Digital Dickens, and the Melville Electronic Library (MEL). A leader in innovations in academic publishing, Smith served on the Executive Council of the Association for Computers in the Humanities (2001-2004), co-chaired the Modern Language Association (MLA)'s Committee on Scholarly Editions (CSE, 2004-2008), and chairs the University of Maryland's Library Council (2008-2011). For outstanding scholarly achievement and innovative leadership in which diversity inheres in any definition of excellence, Livingston College at Rutgers University awarded Smith its Distinguished Alumni Award 2009, the highest honor that the college bestows upon its former students. Smith has also been named a Distinguished Scholar-Teacher at the University of Maryland, 2010-2011.