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Emily J. Orlando

Emily J. Orlando
Emily J. Orlando is the E. Gerald Corrigan Chair in the Humanities & Social Sciences and Professor of English at Fairfield University. She is the author of Edith Wharton and the Visual Arts and editor of The Bloomsbury Handbook to Edith Wharton. Her fully annotated edition of Edith Wharton and Ogden Codman’s The Decoration of Houses will be published with Syracuse University Press on October 18, 2024.


The Poetry of Tortured Hearts: On Taylor Swift’s Pre-Raphaelite Era

“Swift seems to be identifying with, and forcefully reimagining, this tragic figure from Victorian history.”
October 1, 2025  By Emily J. Orlando
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Decorating Houses With Edith Wharton: On Interior Design as Art and Literary Practice

Emily J. Orlando Considers Another Creative Side of the Chronicler of the Gilded Age
October 18, 2024  By Emily J. Orlando
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The Most Unlikable Woman: On Sofia Coppola’s Stymied Quest to Bring Undine Spragg to Screen

Apple TV+ Isn’t Moving Forward with a Series Adaptation of The Custom of the Country. It’s Their Loss.
November 8, 2023  By Emily J. Orlando
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“The Future Belonged to the Showy and the Promiscuous.” How Edith Wharton Foresaw the 21st Century

Emily J. Orlando on the Writer’s Enduring Relevance and Foresight
January 24, 2023  By Emily J. Orlando
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