Ellen Wayland-Smith is associate professor of Writing at The University of Southern California. She is the author of Oneida: From Free Love Utopia to the Well-Set Table (Picador, 2016) and a forthcoming cultural history of women and advertising during the Cold War. Her essays and reviews have appeared in Signature Reads, Catapult, The Millions, and Longreads.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
(Again?) Again: Reading Leslie Jamison’s “The Recovering”
Ellen Wayland-Smith follows the narrative weave of Leslie Jamison’s memoir, “The Recovering.”...
The Alchemy of Pain: Melissa Febos’s “Abandon Me”
Ellen Wayland-Smith on Melissa Febos’s “Abandon Me.”...
Imaginary Children: “The Art of Waiting: On Fertility, Medicine, and Motherhood”
Ellen Wayland-Smith on Belle Boggs's "The Art of Waiting."...
Oneida: The Christian Utopia Where Contraception Was King
Ellen Wayland-Smith examines her ancestors' history in the Oneida Community, a 19th-century religious commune....
