Meredith Goldsmith earned her BA, MA, and PhD in English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and served as a professor of English for twenty years at Ursinus College. She has published numerous scholarly articles on early twentieth-century US authors, including F. Scott Fitzgerald, Edith Wharton, Nella Larsen, Jessie Fauset, and Anzia Yezierska. She co-edited three scholarly collections (Middlebrow Moderns: Popular US Women Writers of the 1920s, Edith Wharton and Cosmopolitanism, and American Literary History and the Turn Toward Modernity), and served as editor of the Edith Wharton Review. Her book, which mines literary and cultural narratives to explore higher education challenges, is forthcoming from Routledge/Taylor & Francis in Fall 2026 (Guiding Academic Institutions through Crossroads and Crisis: A Literary Leadership Toolbox). While at Columbia, she spent a lot of time in the basement of Butler Library reading forgotten women writers of the early twentieth century, which led to her first scholarly collection, Middlebrow Moderns.