Irene Goldman-Price is an independent scholar living in the Berkshire hills of Massachusetts. She has been Associate Professor of English and Director of Women and Gender Studies at Ball State University and has taught literature and women’s studies at Boston University, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy, Kenyatta University, and The Pennsylvania State University, Hazleton Campus. Co-editor with Melissa McFarland Pennell of American Literary Mentors, Goldman-Price has published articles on American literature and women’s studies in various journals and collections and serves on the editorial board of the Edith Wharton Review. Her current project of editing the correspondence of Edith Wharton and Anna Bahlmann combines her interest in literary mentoring with a life-long engagement with the works of Edith Wharton.