Anne Fernald

Anne E. Fernald is Professor of English and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Fordham University. She is the author of Virginia Woolf: Feminism and the Reader (2006) as well as articles and reviews on Woolf and feminist modernism. She is the editor of the Cambridge University Press Mrs. Dalloway (2014) the Norton Critical Edition of Mrs. Dalloway (2021), and the Oxford Handbook of Virginia Woolf (2021). She is one of the editors of The Norton Reader, a widely used anthology of essays. She was co-editor of Modernism/modernity 2019-23. From 2004-15 she served as the director of first-year writing at Lincoln Center and served as Special Advisor to the Provost for Faculty Development from 2018-23. In that capacity, she served as the inaugural faculty co-chair for the university’s diversity council, and she co-led the university’s support for teachers during the COVID-19 lockdown. She is currently at work on a collective biography of eight modernist women writers.