Session 9-F Edith Wharton, Bodies, and Mobility (Salon 7)
Organized by the Edith Wharton Society
Chair: Gary Totten, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
- “Transnationalism and Character Identity in American Novels: Wharton’s The Custom of the Country
and The Reef at the Turn of the Century,” Samantha Seto, King’s College, London - “Hidden Bodies: Disability, Corporeality, and the Imperial Past in Edith Wharton’s Short Fiction,” Donna
Campbell, Washington State University
Session 10-K: Business Meeting: Edith Wharton Business Meeting (Salon 4)
Session 11-M Business Meeting: Edith Wharton Society (Salon 9)
Session 12-G Edith Wharton’s Short Stories (Indiana)
Organized by the Edith Wharton Society
Chair: Myrto Drizou, Boğaziçi University
- “‘Between myself and my readers’: Edith Wharton’s Ghost Stories and the American Unfinished,” Kacie
Fodness, University of South Dakota - “Edith Wharton’s ‘Blonde Beasts,’” Maria-Novella Mercuri, University College London, UK
- “Not that Innocent: Teaching Edith Wharton’s ‘Roman Fever,’” M. M. Dawley, Lesley University