Phyllis Cole
Phyllis Cole is a past fellow of Harvard Divinity School's Women's Studies in Religion Program and currently a Professor Emerita of English, Women's Studies, and American Studies at Penn State Brandywine. She has been an officer or board member of the Emerson, Thoreau, and Fuller Societies and participated in their meetings through the years. Much of her work has concentrated on the letters and journals of the Transcendentalists, as both a genre and a source of insight into published works. She is the author of Mary Moody Emerson and the Origins of Transcendentalism: A Family History (Oxford University Press, 1998) and co-editor of the essay collection Toward a Female Genealogy of Transcendentalism (University of Georgia Press, 2014). Her current work is a study of health issues in Transcendentalist women's private writing.