Jennie Kassanoff is the Adolph S. and Effie Ochs Professor of American Studies and History at Barnard College, Columbia University, where she is a Professor of English. She is the author of Edith Wharton and the Politics of Race (Cambridge UP, 2004) and is completing a new book entitled Voter Writes: A Literary History of the Voting Rights Act. Her essays have appeared in PMLA, American Literature, the Henry James Review, and American Literary History, among other books and journals. She is the recipient of Barnard’s top teaching prizes and a co-founder of the Consortium for Critical Interdisciplinary Studies.

Jennifer Haytock is a professor of English at SUNY Brockport. Among other works, she has published Edith Wharton and the Conversations of Literary Modernism (2008) and has co-edited The New Edith Wharton Studies (2019) with Laura Rattray. With Melanie Dawson, she is co-editing a special issue of the Edith Wharton Review, “Wharton and Ecology.” Brockport’s 2019 winner of the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship, she has also worked on women writers and American war literature, having published At Home, At War: Domesticity and World War I in American Literature (2003), The Middle Class in the Great Depression: Popular Women’s Novels of the 1930s (2013), and the Routledge Introduction to American War Literature (2018). She is currently the Immediate Past President of the Edith Wharton Society.

Sheila Liming is Associate Professor at Champlain College in Burlington, VT. She is the author of three books: What a Library Means to a Woman (the University of Minnesota Press, 2020); Office (Bloomsbury, 2020); and, most recently, Hanging Out: The Radical Power of Killing Time (Melville House, 2023). She produced a new edition of Edith Wharton’s novel The Age of Innocence for W.W. Norton in 2022; she maintains the website EdithWhartonsLibrary.org, which grants searchable access to information about Wharton’s library collection at The Mount. Liming’s writing appears in The Atlantic, The New York Review of Books, Lapham’s Quarterly, The Los Angeles Review of Books, McSweeney’s, and others. 

Nate Wolff is Associate Professor of English at Tufts University. He is the author of Not Quite Hope and Other Political Emotions in the Gilded Age (Oxford University Press, 2019), which provides a literary prehistory of today’s emotional politics: the cynicism and exhaustion of democratic life in an age of inequality and corruption. His essays have appeared in American Literary History, English Literary History, J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists, and Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies. He is currently working on two new books tentatively titled Inhuman Environments and Dirty Jobs. The first considers how nineteenth-century American literature illuminates the political effects of the nonhuman world; the second looks to this period for lessons about the formation of, and alternatives to, the American work ethic. He presented a selection from this latter project, on Edith Wharton and emotional labor, as part of a Wharton Society panel at the 2022 Modern Language Association conference.