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Book history & literary history of the long nineteenth century. Teaching at UChicago.

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Vol. 76 (2025): What Makes an American “Classic”? | New American Studies Journal: a Forum The New American Studies Journal is a peer-reviewed open-access journal that provides a forum for intellectual debate about all aspects of social, cultural, and political life in the United States of ...

Not a monograph but recent and possibly of interest: nasjournal.org/NASJ/issue/v...

05.01.2026 12:22 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Tomorrow 5pm UK time: what makes an American "classic"?

13.07.2025 10:28 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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What a warmly generous review of American Snobs: I'm grateful for Margarida Cadima's careful reading. muse.jhu.edu/article/953765

06.03.2025 15:03 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

@manshel.bsky.social, I really enjoyed your interview in the issue - I'm a big fan of your book and _very_ eagerly following your high school project!

11.02.2025 14:28 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
What Makes a (Harvard) Classic? Filling Dr Eliot’s Five-Foot Shelf in 1909 | New American Studies Journal: A Forum The New American Studies Journal is a peer-reviewed open-access journal that provides a forum for intellectual debate about all aspects of social, cultural, and political life in the United States of ...

Thrilled to be a part of this timely new NASJ issue, and grateful to the editors for asking: "What Makes an American Classic?" nasjournal.org/NASJ/article...

06.02.2025 21:25 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

(image credit: The Mount www.edithwharton.org/writing-the-...)

27.12.2024 14:09 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Cover of the Pictorial Review, July 1920, featuring The Age of Innocence

Cover of the Pictorial Review, July 1920, featuring The Age of Innocence

Edith Wharton scholars, come talk about Wharton & democracy & popular culture at ALA in Boston this May! CFP here: americanliteratureassociation.org/wp-content/u...

27.12.2024 14:09 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Having barely survived commuting Oxford-Bristol for 5 years, I salute you! And you are so right re those winter evenings of First Great Western chaos: the worst.

06.12.2024 20:05 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Edith Wharton scholars: had any thoughts about democracy lately? Consider developing them for an ALA 2025 panel! CFP here: americanliteratureassociation.org/wp-content/u...

18.11.2024 16:25 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Edith Wharton scholars: had any thoughts about democracy lately? Consider developing them for an ALA 2025 panel! CFP here: americanliteratureassociation.org/wp-content/u...

18.11.2024 16:25 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Reading and Attention in Wharton’s Modernity and Our Own Abstract. How might Edith Wharton’s thoughts about readers and reading speak to anxieties about the fate of reading in our own moment? This short article places Wharton in conversation with the contem...

Why is the ghost story is such a good site for thinking about technology and declines in reading? Edith Wharton knew! Grateful to the editors of the EWR for the opportunity to develop these thoughts.

31.10.2024 15:14 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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What a nice surprise to find a review of my no-longer-new book in the latest HJR. I'm grateful to Ágnes Zsófia Kovács for her careful reading and generous praise. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

27.10.2024 15:22 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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So happy that this is out now: "American Literary Institutions Around 1900", a special issue of College Literature I co-edited w/ @seeshespeak.bsky.social and Florian Sedlmeier. Feat. @emilycoit.bsky.social, @matthewchambers.bsky.social and many colleagues not on here (yet)
muse.jhu.edu/issue/53477

21.10.2024 13:47 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 2

So many interesting cross-currents, can't wait to read through the whole thing. Thank you for all your work!

21.10.2024 13:56 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Project MUSE - College Literature-Volume 51, Number 4, Fall 2024

Honored to be a part of this special issue on "American Literary Institutions Around 1900." Thanks to @seeshespeak.bsky.social, @astarre.bsky.social, and Florian Sedlmeier for making it happen. muse.jhu.edu/issue/53477

21.10.2024 13:31 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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Ozick’s Feminism and the Woman Writer Abstract. As Ozick herself has noted, readers have observed a contradiction between her championing of the particularity of the Jewish writer and her insistence on the human universality of the writer...

Out today, my article about Ozick's scary stories about Wharton and Woolf

12.04.2024 21:41 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Those lectures made me believe I hated modernism. :(

02.04.2024 18:03 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Report on English Majors’ Career Preparation and Outcomes The ADE Ad Hoc Committee on English Majors’ Career Preparation and Outcomes was charged with reporting on career outcomes for English majors and minors; gathering case studies and other forms of evide...

NEWS YOU CAN USE “despite myths to the contrary, English majors are employed, earn good salaries, and experience satisfaction with their career paths”. www.maps.mla.org/Resources/Re...

13.03.2024 20:46 👍 143 🔁 71 💬 8 📌 7

attn George Eliot scholars:

10.03.2024 14:54 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

This ad is a rich text! - what journal?

14.02.2024 20:25 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

"...we can, at the very least, stop _actively preventing_ young people from developing the ability to follow extended narratives and arguments in the classroom"

11.02.2024 15:10 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0