Emily Coit
@emilycoit.bsky.social
Book history & literary history of the long nineteenth century. Teaching at UChicago.
Tomorrow 5pm UK time: what makes an American "classic"?
What Makes an American “Classic”? Monday July 14 5pm UK Time= 12pm, EST @apgrd.bsky.social www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events/2025/... Celebrates the publication of New American Studies Journal vol. 76 (2025) What Makes an American “Classic”? edited by Caterina Domeneghini and Claire Barnes
July 13, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Tomorrow 5pm UK time: what makes an American "classic"?
What a warmly generous review of American Snobs: I'm grateful for Margarida Cadima's careful reading. muse.jhu.edu/article/953765
March 6, 2025 at 3:03 PM
What a warmly generous review of American Snobs: I'm grateful for Margarida Cadima's careful reading. muse.jhu.edu/article/953765
Thrilled to be a part of this timely new NASJ issue, and grateful to the editors for asking: "What Makes an American Classic?" nasjournal.org/NASJ/article...
What Makes a (Harvard) Classic? Filling Dr Eliot’s Five-Foot Shelf in 1909
| New American Studies Journal: A Forum
The New American Studies Journal is a peer-reviewed open-access journal that provides a forum for intellectual debate about all aspects of social, cultural, and political life in the United States of ...
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February 6, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Thrilled to be a part of this timely new NASJ issue, and grateful to the editors for asking: "What Makes an American Classic?" nasjournal.org/NASJ/article...
Edith Wharton scholars, come talk about Wharton & democracy & popular culture at ALA in Boston this May! CFP here: americanliteratureassociation.org/wp-content/u...
December 27, 2024 at 2:09 PM
Edith Wharton scholars, come talk about Wharton & democracy & popular culture at ALA in Boston this May! CFP here: americanliteratureassociation.org/wp-content/u...
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Edith Wharton scholars: had any thoughts about democracy lately? Consider developing them for an ALA 2025 panel! CFP here: americanliteratureassociation.org/wp-content/u...
americanliteratureassociation.org
November 18, 2024 at 4:25 PM
Edith Wharton scholars: had any thoughts about democracy lately? Consider developing them for an ALA 2025 panel! CFP here: americanliteratureassociation.org/wp-content/u...
Edith Wharton scholars: had any thoughts about democracy lately? Consider developing them for an ALA 2025 panel! CFP here: americanliteratureassociation.org/wp-content/u...
americanliteratureassociation.org
November 18, 2024 at 4:25 PM
Edith Wharton scholars: had any thoughts about democracy lately? Consider developing them for an ALA 2025 panel! CFP here: americanliteratureassociation.org/wp-content/u...
Why is the ghost story is such a good site for thinking about technology and declines in reading? Edith Wharton knew! Grateful to the editors of the EWR for the opportunity to develop these thoughts.
Reading and Attention in Wharton’s Modernity and Our Own
Abstract. How might Edith Wharton’s thoughts about readers and reading speak to anxieties about the fate of reading in our own moment? This short article places Wharton in conversation with the contem...
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October 31, 2024 at 3:14 PM
Why is the ghost story is such a good site for thinking about technology and declines in reading? Edith Wharton knew! Grateful to the editors of the EWR for the opportunity to develop these thoughts.
What a nice surprise to find a review of my no-longer-new book in the latest HJR. I'm grateful to Ágnes Zsófia Kovács for her careful reading and generous praise. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
October 27, 2024 at 3:22 PM
What a nice surprise to find a review of my no-longer-new book in the latest HJR. I'm grateful to Ágnes Zsófia Kovács for her careful reading and generous praise. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
Reposted by Emily Coit
So happy that this is out now: "American Literary Institutions Around 1900", a special issue of College Literature I co-edited w/ @seeshespeak.bsky.social and Florian Sedlmeier. Feat. @emilycoit.bsky.social, @matthewchambers.bsky.social and many colleagues not on here (yet)
muse.jhu.edu/issue/53477
muse.jhu.edu/issue/53477
October 21, 2024 at 1:47 PM
So happy that this is out now: "American Literary Institutions Around 1900", a special issue of College Literature I co-edited w/ @seeshespeak.bsky.social and Florian Sedlmeier. Feat. @emilycoit.bsky.social, @matthewchambers.bsky.social and many colleagues not on here (yet)
muse.jhu.edu/issue/53477
muse.jhu.edu/issue/53477
Honored to be a part of this special issue on "American Literary Institutions Around 1900." Thanks to @seeshespeak.bsky.social, @astarre.bsky.social, and Florian Sedlmeier for making it happen. muse.jhu.edu/issue/53477
Project MUSE - College Literature-Volume 51, Number 4, Fall 2024
muse.jhu.edu
October 21, 2024 at 1:31 PM
Honored to be a part of this special issue on "American Literary Institutions Around 1900." Thanks to @seeshespeak.bsky.social, @astarre.bsky.social, and Florian Sedlmeier for making it happen. muse.jhu.edu/issue/53477
Out today, my article about Ozick's scary stories about Wharton and Woolf
Ozick’s Feminism and the Woman Writer
Abstract. As Ozick herself has noted, readers have observed a contradiction between her championing of the particularity of the Jewish writer and her insistence on the human universality of the writer...
scholarlypublishingcollective.org
April 12, 2024 at 9:41 PM
Out today, my article about Ozick's scary stories about Wharton and Woolf
Reposted by Emily Coit
NEWS YOU CAN USE “despite myths to the contrary, English majors are employed, earn good salaries, and experience satisfaction with their career paths”. www.maps.mla.org/Resources/Re...
Report on English Majors’ Career Preparation and Outcomes
The ADE Ad Hoc Committee on English Majors’ Career Preparation and Outcomes was charged with reporting on career outcomes for English majors and minors; gathering case studies and other forms of evide...
www.maps.mla.org
March 13, 2024 at 8:46 PM
NEWS YOU CAN USE “despite myths to the contrary, English majors are employed, earn good salaries, and experience satisfaction with their career paths”. www.maps.mla.org/Resources/Re...
attn George Eliot scholars:
💥Farm buildings linked with the home of 19thC writer George Eliot would be destroyed + replaced by an enlarged ‘replica’ housing a Visitor Centre & Museum. Eliot worked on the farm when her mother died 🐮 We encourage the public to object to this planning app on link in our Bio
✒️George Eliot Archive
✒️George Eliot Archive
March 10, 2024 at 2:54 PM
attn George Eliot scholars:
"...we can, at the very least, stop _actively preventing_ young people from developing the ability to follow extended narratives and arguments in the classroom"
February 11, 2024 at 3:10 PM
"...we can, at the very least, stop _actively preventing_ young people from developing the ability to follow extended narratives and arguments in the classroom"