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. She has published
two books: Emily Dickinson: A Companion (2022) and Anne Bradstreet in Context: The Life and Work of a Colonial American Poet (2025). Her podcast, A Verse Reaction, can be found on most podcast platforms.