The Passing Show

Arielle Zibrak is a writer, researcher, editor, and Associate Professor of English and Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Wyoming. Her writing on 19th century literature, gender, sexuality, and popular culture has been praised by The New York Times, Longreads, PopMatters, Book Riot, and Bookforum and published in American Literature, American Literary History, Arizona Quarterly, The Baffler, Criticism, The Edith Wharton Review, ESQ, J19, LitHub, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Millions, and Women’s Studies. Her humor writing has been published in The New Yorker, McSweeney’s, and The Toast. She is the editor of Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence: New Centenary Essays (Bloomsbury, 2019) and the author of Avidly Reads: Guilty Pleasures (New York University Press, 2021) and Writing Against Reform: Aesthetic Realism in the Progressive Era (University of Massachusetts Press, 2024. Her edited anthology, Twelve Stories by American Women Writers, a more inclusive update to their Four Stories volume, is forthcoming from Penguin Classics in 2025. She is also currently at work on a video streaming series for Wondrium and a public history of consumer feminism and new-age philosophy in America titled In the Image of Our Own Desires.