Updated deadline: Edith Wharton and Celebration (Proposals due March 20, 2023)

Dear colleagues and friends,

Let me take this opportunity to refresh the call for papers for the EWS panel at the next Modern Language Association (MLA) Conference in Philadelphia (January 4-7, 2024). The deadline for proposals has been extended to March 20, 2023; please do consider submitting a proposal and sharing the call with interested parties.

With many thanks and all my good wishes,

Myrto

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Edith Wharton Society CFP (MLA 2024)–Edith Wharton and Celebration

The EWS invites proposals on any form of celebration in Wharton’s work (music; performance; dance; emotion; dis/enchantment; play; commemoration; recovery; communal sentiment; rituals of joy and sorrow, e.g., weddings, funerals).

Please submit titled proposals (approx. 350 words) and a brief CV by March 20, 2023 to Myrto Drizou (myrto.drizou@boun.edu.tr). Please include any requests for AV needs in your proposal. Scholars whose proposals are accepted must be members in good standing of the Edith Wharton Society by the time of the conference. 

Podcast: Emily Orlando & Anne Schuyler on Edith Wharton

Dear colleagues and friends,

I hope you’re all doing well and are enjoying the first glimpses of spring. I am writing to share a podcast by two magnificent Wharton scholars, our very own Dr. Emily J. Orlando, and Anne Schuyler, the Curatorial and Visitor Services Director at The Mount. The podcast is a wonderful overview of Wharton’s life and work for the American Writers Museum, for which Dr. Orlando has also curated the Edith Wharton installation. Here is the link to the podcast, which you can share with students and colleagues:

With many thanks and all my good wishes,

Myrto

Edith Wharton in the News: Production of THE SHADOW OF A DOUBT

For Your (Re)Consideration Series To Present THE SHADOW OF A DOUBT By Edith Wharton

The play is a co-production with the Richard H. Driehaus Museum.

by A.A. Cristi Feb. 17, 2023  

      

For Your (Re)Consideration Series To Present THE SHADOW OF A DOUBT By Edith Wharton

As part of its ongoing For Your (Re)Consideration series, Ghostlight Ensemble will present the recently rediscovered play, The Shadow of A Doubt, by novelist Edith Wharton. This is a co-production with the Richard H. Driehaus Museum.

Set at the turn of the twentieth century, The Shadow of a Doubt, explores the issues surrounding social position, remarriage, the roles of women and euthanasia. 

CFP: Edith Wharton at SAMLA (Deadline: February 28, 2023)

The Edith Wharton Society is an affiliated society of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA), which will host its next conference in Atlanta, GA (9-11 Nov, 2023). As an affiliated society, we have one or two guaranteed panels at the conference. It would be great to have a strong presence this year; if anyone is interested in organizing a panel, please don’t hesitate to contact me or any other member of the EWS Board. The deadline for submitting a

 Call for Proposals is February 28th (for inclusion in SAMLA News) but the final deadline is June 20th. 

More information can be found here: https://samla.memberclicks.net/

Updated bibliography (new page) on Edith Wharton

The bibliography of books and articles on Edith Wharton has been updated, with a new page for books and articles 2020-present.

If you would like your book or article featured here but don’t see it listed, please send the information to whartonqueries@gmail.com or use the online contact form.

New Books
New Articles 2020-present

CFP: Edith Wharton Panel at MLA 2024 (Deadline: March 15, 2023)

Edith Wharton Society Call for Papers 

Modern Language Association Conference

Philadelphia, PA January 4-7, 2024

Edith Wharton and Celebration

The EWS invites proposals on any form of celebration in Wharton’s work (music; performance; dance; emotion; dis/enchantment; play; commemoration; recovery; communal sentiment; rituals of joy and sorrow, e.g., weddings, funerals).

Please submit titled proposals (approx. 350 words) and a brief CV by March 15, 2023 to Myrto Drizou (myrto.drizou@boun.edu.tr). Please include any requests for AV needs in your proposal. Scholars whose proposals are accepted must be members in good standing of the Edith Wharton Society by the time of the conference. 

EWS Prizes (Deadline: June 30, 2023)

The Edith Wharton Society is delighted to announce three prizes for 2023: the Elsa Nettels Prize for a Beginning Scholar, the Edith Wharton Society Award for Archival Research, and the Edith Wharton Society Undergraduate Research Prize. Below please find all calls for submissions. All submission materials should be sent via email by June 30, 2023 to current EWS President, Myrto Drizou, Bogaziçi University, Istanbul, myrto.drizou@boun.edu.tr.

The Elsa Nettels Prize for a Beginning Scholar  

This award, formerly known as the “Edith Wharton Society Prize for a Beginning Scholar,” established in 2005, recognizes the best unpublished essay on Edith Wharton’s work by a beginning scholar, advanced graduate student, independent scholar, or faculty member who has held a full-time appointment for four or fewer years. All entries will be considered for publication in The Edith Wharton Review, published by Penn State University Press. The author of the prize-winning essay will receive an award of $250.  

How to apply:  

  • Submissions should be 20-30 double-spaced pages long and follow the 9th edition MLA style, using endnotes rather than footnotes.  
  • Submissions should include two attached files: an anonymized MS Word version of your paper and a separate cover letter containing the applicant’s name, essay title, academic status, e-mail address, postal address, and the award name.  
  • Please use the subject line: “EWS Elsa Nettels Prize for a Beginning Scholar.”  
  • Submissions are due to myrto.drizou@boun.edu.tr by June 30, 2023

The Edith Wharton Society Award for Archival Research   

The archival award, in the amount of $500, enables a scholar to conduct research at one of the Edith Wharton archives at Wharton’s library at The Mount in Lenox, MA, the Wharton Collection at Yale University’s Beinecke Library, or the Wharton papers at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas.  

Funds must be used for transportation, lodging, and other expenses related to archival research. Notification of the award will take place by August 15, 2023. The award can be used between August 15, 2023 and August 14, 2024. A brief report detailing some aspect(s) of the research (not intended to preempt publication in other scholarly venues) will be due to the EWS president by September 1, 2024 and will be published in the Edith Wharton Review.  

How to apply:  

  • Submissions should include a proposal (of no more than two single-spaced pages) that describes the applicant’s overarching research project, its contribution to Wharton scholarship, the applicant’s scholarly preparation, and the relevance of the archive to the project’s completion.  
  • Also include two additional attachments: a CV and a separate cover letter containing your current affiliation, rank, and mailing address.  
  • Please use the subject line: “EWS Award for Archival Research.”  
  • Submissions are due to myrto.drizou@boun.edu.tr by June 30, 2023.  

The Edith Wharton Society Undergraduate Research Prize  

First offered in 2014, the undergraduate research prize is open to students at all undergraduate levels. Papers should be no more than fifteen pages long and can address Wharton’s works in any genre. The winning essay will be published on the EWS website, and the author will receive an award of $100.  

How to apply:  

  • Please send an anonymized electronic submission as an email attachment in Microsoft Word, along with a separate attached cover letter containing your name, essay title, undergraduate institution, the name of your faculty mentor, email address (and perhaps an alternate email, if your email address is about to change), postal address, and the name of the award.  
  • Please use the subject line: “EWS Undergraduate Research Prize.”  
  • Submissions are due to myrto.drizou@boun.edu.tr by June 30, 2023.  

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The Edith Wharton Society sees its commitment to Wharton’s writing as including financial support for Wharton scholarship, with two awards specifically for beginning scholars. We thank all in the Wharton society who have donated to these prizes over the years, many of whom have been award recipients; your support of this endeavor enables our generosity. If you are inclined to donate to support this year’s awards, a donation portal is linked here. 

Donate

Welcome Message from EWS President Myrto Drizou

Dear Members of the Edith Wharton Society,

I would like to wish you all a very happy, healthy, and rewarding new year. For all the challenges that the last two years have brought, we have sustained our community and have continued our support to Wharton scholarship. We owe this primarily to you but also to the EWS Board and the skillful leadership of Jennifer Haytock, whose Presidency navigated an ongoing pandemic and global shifts with capacity, generosity, and unfailing grace. I am deeply grateful to Jennifer and, as the incoming President of the Society, I hope to continue her wonderful work.

What keeps our community strong is first and foremost our membership; it’s you. Please take a moment to renew your membership, which also includes a yearly subscription to the Society’s journal, the Edith Wharton Review:

https://www.psupress.org/journals/jnls_EWR.html

I would like to extend warm thanks to current Editor, Rita Bode, as well as former Editor Paul Ohler, for their commitment to keep the journal at the forefront of Wharton scholarship. Please consider submitting your work, as the Edith Wharton Review remains a great forum not only for established but also new voices in Wharton Studies.

Wharton Studies is, indeed, your work and your scholarship. On the part of the EWS Board, we will continue to facilitate and support scholarly exchange. Please keep an eye out for the EWS awards (the call will be out soon); send a proposal to our regular MLA, ALA, and other conference panels; and come to our online and (hopefully more in-person) events. We are currently exploring options for a future symposium and a larger conference; so please stay tuned and join us when the time comes!

Finally, let us celebrate Edith’s birthday together. Do join us on Monday (January 23rd) for an online event jointly organized by the Transatlantic Literary Women (led by the indefatigable Laura Rattray) and the EWS. Donna Campbell—whose work on Wharton hardly needs introduction—will kick off the new year with excellent scholarship and an exciting talk on The House of Mirth:

Thank you all so much for your support to the Edith Wharton Society, and see you on Monday!

Warm wishes,

Myrto

From Laura Rattray: TLW and EWS Talk with Donna Campbell on January 23

From Laura Rattray: We’re delighted to be running the Edith Wharton birthday week talk again this January as a joint event between the Edith Wharton Society and the Transatlantic Literary Women. 

We very much hope you’ll join us on Zoom on Monday 23 January (5pm UK; noon NYC) when our speaker is the one and only Professor Donna Campbell! Need I say more? 

Donna will be speaking on ‘All the Phases/Faces of Lily Bart: The House of Mirth from Manuscript to Novel to Play’

Further details of Donna’s talk are available here: