Lisa Bognenko is a PhD candidate writing her dissertation on Domesticity, Domestic Economy, and Public Health in the Writings of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Pauline Hopkins, and Edith Wharton, 1890-1920, at UP Cité and Sorbonne University. She is currently a visiting student in the English Department at the University of Chicago (Spring 2025). Her dissertation examines how American women writers Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-35), Pauline Hopkins (1859-30), and Edith Wharton (1862-37) responded to efforts to redefine domesticity in the United States at the turn of the 20th century, exploring how they reimagined and reshaped the domestic space as a site of political significance in relation to the reforms of the Progressive Era (1890-1920). By focusing on domestic economy and public health, and highlighting the diverse backgrounds and perspectives of these writers, her research investigates how Gilman, Hopkins, and Wharton engaged with contemporary debates and teachings both within and beyond the home, and  seeks to complicate traditional readings of domestic space, presenting it as a site of transgression and political experimentation across issues of gender, class, and race.