Emily J. Orlando is Professor of English and the E. Gerald Corrigan Endowed Chair in the Humanities and Social Sciences at Fairfield University (USA) where she has taught since 2007. An expert in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literature and visual culture, especially the American writer Edith Wharton (1862-1937), Orlando is the author of the award-winning book Edith Wharton and the Visual Arts and editor of The Bloomsbury Handbook to Edith Wharton. With Meredith Goldsmith she co-edited the essay collection Edith Wharton and Cosmopolitanism. Orlando’s fully annotated edition of Edith Wharton and Ogden Codman’s 1897 design manual The Decoration of Houses, which has never gone out of style or print, was published in 2024. Dr. Orlando is a past President of the Edith Wharton Society and a member of the Editorial Board of the Edith Wharton Review. In addition to Wharton, Orlando has published peer-reviewed and public-facing articles on the Pre-Raphaelites and particularly Elizabeth Siddall, Emily Dickinson, Louisa May Alcott, Oscar Wilde, and Nella Larsen. Born and raised in Concord and Reading, Massachusetts, Orlando earned a B.A. in English and French from Saint Anselm College and an M.A. and Ph.D. in English and American literature from the University of Maryland. Before coming to Fairfield, she was an Assistant Professor of American Literature at Tennessee State University. Since the mid-1990s, Dr. Orlando has won awards for excellence in teaching, advising, and mentoring undergraduates. At Fairfield she teaches courses in American realism and naturalism, Victorian literature, and women writers.
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