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EWS Awards Recipients

I hope you are having an enjoyable summer. I would like to thank all those who submitted their work to the competition for the Edith Wharton Society’s Awards. We had an extremely strong set of submissions this year and we are delighted to announce the winners below:

The Elsa Nettels Prize for a Beginning Scholar 

Ilene Kalish, Independent Scholar/ New York University Press

“The Final Termination: A New Chronology of Edith Wharton’s Engagement to Harry Stevens”

The Award for Archival Research  

Laetitia Nebot-Deneuville, Dublin City University

“Early-Twentieth-Century Anglo-American literary tourism in Northern Italy and Wharton’s

Glimpses of the Moon”

The Undergraduate Research Prize 

Allegra Walker, Columbia University 

“Groping for God: Elusive Spirituality in House of Mirth and Summer.” 

Many congratulations to the winners and sincere thanks to the selection committees for their careful, precise, and thoughtful work. For the Elsa Nettels Prize, I would like to thank: Margaret Jay Jessee, Anna Girling, and Mary Carney; for the Award for Archival Research: Stacy Holden, Rita Bode, and Sheila Liming; and for the Undergraduate Research Prize: Jennifer Haytock, Arielle Zibrak, and Donna Campbell. 

With thanks to all of you who submitted your work and to all our Society’s members for their support to Edith Wharton scholarship!

Very best wishes,

Myrto

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Myrto Drizou

President, Edith Wharton Society

Associate Professor, Nord University, Norway

EWS Business: Poll on Conferences

Dear Members of the Edith Wharton Society,

I hope you are all doing well and enjoying a bit of a summer. The Society is currently considering two events—a smaller-scale symposium at The Mount in May 2024 and a larger, international conference in Tangier in June 2025. We are very excited to try and make these happen but we would like to make sure it’s viable enough to move forward. If you could fill in the survey below by July 31st, 2023, you could help us gauge attendance and consider how it’s safest to proceed. 

Here is the link:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdJ5FFXl7MJHnImTfnUxmQWJUMSOJlk_8YZg1wFHbto0dY4cQ/viewform?usp=sf_link

Your input and contributions are always very much appreciated. Thank you on behalf of the entire EWS Board,

Warm wishes,

Myrto

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Dr. Myrto Drizou

Assistant Professor of English

Coordinator, Minor Degree in English Literature

Department of Western Languages and Literatures

Boğaziçi University

Istanbul, Turkey

President, Edith Wharton Society

https://edithwhartonsociety.wordpress.com/

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:

Membership

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:

January Tea with TLW: Joint Birthday Event with the Edith Wharton Society – Professor Donna Campbell on ‘All the Phases/Faces of Lily Bart: The House of Mirth from Manuscript to Novel to Play’ 

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

Warm wishes,

Myrto

EWS Welcomes New Officers

The EWS welcomes its new slate of officers for 2023-2025:

Members-at-large

Thanks to the officers and board members from 2021-2023:

Officers 2021-23

At-Large Executive Board Members

Queries: Membership Page

I just paid for membership with Pay Pay. It then said to return to page, but the page was gone. I don’t believe the Edith Wharton Society has my information.

Name: Kathy Geren Christy

Dear Ms. Christy,

This should have gone through all right, but if you’d like to check, please contact The Membership Committee Chair, Sheila Liming, Champlain College, sliming@champlain.edu. She has access to the membership records.

Best,

Donna Campbell