Programming will be held at Linden Place Ballroom and Bristol Art Museum.

Our Program Speakers/Panelists

Merve Emre

Shapiro-Silverberg Professor of Creative Writing and Criticism at Wesleyan University and the director of the Shapiro Center for Creative Writing and Criticism. Her books include “The Annotated Mrs. Dalloway” (Liveright).

Anne Fernald

Professor of English and women’s, gender and sexuality studies at Fordham University. Her work includes editing “Mrs. Dalloway” (Cambridge University Press), the “Norton Critical Edition: Mrs. Dalloway”  (W. W. Norton) which is the text BBF recommends this year,  and the “Oxford Handbook to Virginia Woolf.” Her book, “Her Own Voice: Eight Women Who Rewrote Life and Art,” will be published this year (Beacon).

Carolyn Vega

Curator of the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature at The New York Public Library, which holds the archives of Virginia Woolf, Jack Kerouac, and many others. She has organized a number of exhibitions including “Virginia Woolf: A Modern Mind.” She holds an MSLIS from Pratt Institute.