Wednesday, June 17t h Registration Hotel Lobby 5:00-8:00 ____________________________________________________________ Thursday, June 18 th 8:30-9:45 Session 1-A New Approaches to T he Age of Innocence ( Sutton Place) Chair: 1. “ Secular Humanism in T he Age of Innocence ,” Linda Kornasky, Angelo State University 2. “ When ‘New York was a Metropolis’: Urban Modernity in Edith Wharton’s T he Age of Innocence ,” Sophia Basaldua-Sun, Stonybrook University 3. “ ‘Ignorance on One Side and Hypocrisy on the Other’: Edith Wharton’s American Skepticism in T he Age of Innocence ,” M. M. Dawley, Lesley University Session 1-B New York City Cultures (Gramercy Park) Chair: 1. “ ‘This killing New York life’: Edith Wharton and the tyranny of place in Twilight Sleep, ” Deborah Snow Molloy, University of Glasgow 2. “ Business and Beauty in Wharton’s and Cather’s New York,” Julie Olin-Ammentorp, Le Moyne College 3. “ Renunciation and Elective Affinities between ‘Age of Innocence’ and ‘Jazz Age’: Marriage and Parenthood in Wharton’s novels of ‘old’ and ‘new’ New York,” Maria-Novella Mercuri Rosta, University College London Session 1-C Edith Wharton & Temporality (Herald Square) Chair: 1. “ Edith Wharton’s Teleiopoetic New York,” Laura S. Witherington, University of Arkansas at Fort Smith 2. “ ‘Talking Against Time’ in T he Age of Innocence, ” Frederick Wegener, California State University, Long Beach 3. “Wharton’s Anachronistic New York,” John Sampson, Johns Hopkins University 10:00-11:15 Session 2-A New Approaches to Wharton and Mediums of Art (Sutton Place) Chair: 1. “ Bunner Sisters: Edith Wharton’s Homage to H. C. Bunner’s New York Story Genre,” Linda Selman, Independent Scholar 2. “ Ethan Frome: An Opera in the Making,” Caryn Block, Independent Scholar 3. “ Methods for Digital Scholarly Editions of Wharton’s Fictions,” Damiano Consilvio, University of Rhode Island 4. “Art Comes to New York: Edith Wharton and the Early History of Art for the City,” Patricia Marshall, Siena College Session 2-B Communication Networks: Media, Publicity, and Gossip (Gramercy Park) Chair: 1. “ The Transactions of the Upper Class in The House of Mirth ,” Paige Sammartino, Simmons University 2. “ ‘Dirty Sheets’ and Lesser Authors: Gossip Journalism in The House of Mirth ,” Marc Blanc, Washington University in St. Louis 3. “ A Gossip’s Guide to New York: Epistemologies of the City in T he Age of Innocence ,” Katrin Horn, University of Bayreuth Session 2-C World War I and France (Herald Square) Chair: 1. “ ‘A Copy of Another Country’: England and France,” Walter Raubicheck, Pace University 2. “ A Momentary Escape: Finding Innocence in 1919,” Alice Kelly, University of Oxford 3. “ Stories of Cultural Loss: Edith Wharton’s literary production during and after WWI in relation to The Age of Innocence,” Ágnes Zsófia Kovács, University of Szeged Special Session 11:30-12:15 Complete Works of Edith Wharton: Volume Editors Meeting (Gramercy Park) 12:30-1:45 Session 3-A Teaching Wharton in the 21 st Century: Roundtable 1 (Sutton Place) Chair: Shafquat Towheed, The Open University 1. “ T he Custom of the Country ,” Shafquat Towheed, The Open University 2. “ Handwriting, History, and Social Media,” Donna Campbell, Washington State University 3. “ Precarity,” Anna Girling, University of Edinburgh 4. “ ‘I see it, I like it, I want it, I got it’: Teaching Wharton and Popular Culture,” Emily Orlando, Fairfield University 5. “ Relatability,” Isabelle Parsons, The Open University 6. “ Relevance, Editing,” Carol Singley, University of Rutgers-Camden Session 3-B Edith Wharton’s New York: A Graduate Student Roundtable (Gramercy Park) Chair: Margaret Jay Jessee, University of Alabama at Birmingham 1. “ Race and the Capitalist Archetype in Wharton’s T he House of Mirth and T he Custom of the Country ,” Mary Elizabeth Chambliss, University of Alabama at Birmingham 2. “ Examining the Male Gaze and Edith Wharton as Social Scientist in The House of Mirth and Gossip Girl, ” Hayley Herforth, University of Alabama at Birmingham 3. “ How Undine Spragg Did Feminism Her Way,” Candice Byers, University of Alabama at Birmingham 4. “ Undine, Three Ancients Agree: A Brilliant Strategist and Tactician,” Ardell Fleeson, University of Alabama at Birmingham 5. “ Lily as a ‘Skilful Operator,’” Rebecca Foushee, University of Alabama at Birmingham 6. “ ‘Nothing But Beauty’: Medicine and Metaphor in Twilight Sleep, ” Sam Phillips, University of Alabama at Birmingham Session 3-C Undergraduate Panel 2:00-3:15 Session 4-A New York City’s Parks & Gardens (Sutton Place) Chair: 1. “ ‘Nature Occupied the Front Rank’: Horticulture, Urban Reform, and ‘Mrs. Mantsey’s View,” Nancy Von Rosk, Mount Saint Mary College 2. “ Pastoral Cosmopolitanism: Central Park as an Ecocritical Threshold in Edith Wharton’s The Custom of the Country and T he Age of Innocence ,” Margarida Cadima, University of Glasgow 3. “ ‘The Old Garden-Magic’: Edith Wharton and the Language of Flowers and Plants,” Beth Sherman, City University of New York Graduate Center Session 4-B Adapting Wharton: Stage & Screen (Gramercy Park) Chair: 1. “ ‘I Believe My Play is Really Going Through’: Staging the Early Plays of Edith Wharton in New York City, 1899-1903,” Mary Chinery, Georgian Court University 2. “ Wharton and the Age of Censorship: Literary Adaptation and the Hollywood Production Code,” John Nichols, Christopher Newport University 3. “ Reconstructing T he House of Mirth : The Wharton-Fitch Play and the 1918 Movie,” Donna Campbell, Washington State University Session 4-C From Old New York to New Istanbul: Allegories of Collection, Consumption, and Connoissuership ( Gramercy Park) Chair: Özlem Ögüt Yazicioglu, Boğaziçi University 1. “ Through the Looking-Glass Cabinet: Close Reading (in) The Age of Innocence, ” Matthew Gumpert, Boğaziçi University 2. “ Artifice of Love in Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence ,” Ayşe Naz Bulamur, Boğaziçi University 3. “ The Novel as a Museum: Collecting the Past through Objects in The Age of Innocence and The Museum of Innocence, ” Hülya Yağcıoğlu, Zayed University, UAE 4. “ Hegemonic Masculinity and Gender Performance in the Social Topographies of Edith Wharton’s New York in The Age of Innocence and Orhan Pamuk’s Istanbul in The Museum of Innocence, ” Özlem Ögüt Yazicioglu, Boğaziçi University 3:30-4:45 Session 5-A New York City & Taste (Gramercy Park) Chair: 1. “ ‘Our new Fifth Avenue’: Renovated Exteriors and Untouched Interiors in Edith Wharton’s T he Mother’s Recompense ,” Stacy Sivinski, University of Notre Dame 2. “ The Affective Qualities of Domestic Spaces in Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence, ” Noriko Ishizuka, Doshisha University 3. “ ‘Sacred to gilding and discomfort’: Bad Taste in Edith Wharton’s New York,” Ailsa Boyd, Independent Scholar 4. “ ‘The Foremost Authority on Form’: Masculinity and Sartorial Identity in The Age of Innocence ,” Avery Novitch, Fashion Institute of Technology Session 5-B Queer Wharton (Gramercy Park) Chair: Myrto Drizou, Boğaziçi University 1. “ The Beautiful Death, Redux: Male Homoeroticism and ‘Morbid Memories’ in Wharton’s Later Fiction,” Meredith Goldsmith, Ursinus College 2. “ ‘It was impossible to analyze her anguish: Kate Clephane’s Closet and the Incitement to Discourse,” Shannon Brennan, Carthage College 3. “ Friendship as a Way of Life in Old New York” Anna Girling, University of Edinburgh 4. R ichard Kaye, Hunter College, CUNY, Respondent Session 5-C Edith Wharton & Disability Studies (Herald Square) Chair: 1. “ Edith Wharton on Disability and Economics,” Karen Weingarten, Queens College, CUNY 2. “ A ‘Kentucky Cave Fish’: May’s Blindness and Mind Blindness in The Age of Innocence, ” Pilar Martínez Benedí, University of L’Aquila 3. “ ‘Yet what is deeper in a man than his tastes?’: Disabled Reading and ‘The Spark,’” Tim Dalton, City College of New York 7:00-8:30 Newland Archer’s New York (Crystal Ballroom) Francis Morrone, Architectural Historian, New York University ____________________________________________________________ Friday, June 19t h 9:00-10:15 Session 6-A Reading Wharton: Rhetoric, Syntax, and Style (Sutton Place) Chair: 1. “ ‘Banished Without a Trial’: Lawyers and Legal Storytelling in Edith Wharton’s T he House of Mirth ( 1905) and T he Age of Innocence (1920),” Alicia Mischa Renfroe, Middle Tennessee State University 2. “ Dot Dot Dot Dash: Punctuation and Coding in T he Reef ,” William Blazek, Liverpool Hope University 3. “ A Backward Scroll: Examining Instapoetry and the Myth of Authenticity through Edith Wharton’s T he Age of Innocence and T he Custom of the Country, ” JuEunhae Knox, University of Glasgow Session 6-B Magazines, Print Cultures, & Readership (Gramercy Park) Chair: 1. “ Middlebrow G ods and New York Intellectuals,” Amy L. Blair, Marquette University 2. “ Contextualising T he Age of Innocence in T he Pictorial Review, ” Lisa Nais, University of Aberdeen 3. “ Edith Wharton’s Encounters with the Urban Picturesque in the City of Print,” Mark J. Noonan, New York City College of Technology Session 6-C The Age of Innocence New Centenary Essays Roundtable (Herald Square) Chair: Arielle Zibrak 1. “ Innocence and Scandal in Edith Wharton’s Old New York,” Hildegard Hoeller, College of Staten Island 2. “ Newland Archer’s Doubled Consciousness: Wharton, Psychology, and Narrational Form,” Shari Goldberg, Franklin and Marshall College 3. “ ‘You must tell me just what to do’: Action and Characterization in The Age of Innocence, ” Gabi Kirilloff, Texas Christian University 4. “ The Age of Dissonance,” Beth (Bich Minh) Nguyen, University of Wisconsin 5. “