Robert D. Habich is a professor of English at Ball State University, in Muncie, Indiana and President-Elect of the Ralph Waldo Emerson Society. He is coauthor (with Robert C. Nowatzki) of Romanticism and Transcendentalism, 1820–1865, editor of Lives out of Letters: Essays on American Literary Biography and Documentation in Honor of Robert N. Hudspeth, and author of Transcendentalism and the “Western Messenger”: A History of the Magazine and Its Contributors, 1835–1841.