University of Sussex Keynote Speakers
Madelyn Detloff
Madelyn Detloff is Professor of English and Global and Intercultural Studies at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. She currently serves as General Editor of the forthcoming Oxford University Intersections project “Gender Justice” and recently completed editing the Norton Critical Edition of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando. Her monographs include The Persistence of Modernism: Loss and Mourning in the Twentieth Century and The Value of Virginia Woolf (both from Cambridge U Press) and she is co-editor with Brenda Helt, of Queer Bloomsbury and with Diana Royer, of Virginia Woolf: Art, Education, and Internationalism. Her essays on Woolf, feminist and gender studies, queer and crip theory, and modernist studies appear in a number of journals and scholarly collections.
Title: “Throwing a Brick Like a Grrrrl: When to Build, When to Break in Perilous Political Times.”
Anne E. Fernald
Anne E. Fernald is Professor of English and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Fordham University in New York City. She is the editor of the Cambridge University Press Mrs. Dalloway (2014) the Norton Critical Edition of Mrs. Dalloway (2021), and the Oxford Handbook to Virginia Woolf (2021). She has published on Woolf and feminist modernism more generally. She was co-editor of Modernism/modernity, 2019 to 2023. She is currently writing a collective biography of modernist women writers.
Title: ‘“Dangerous Days”: A Century with Clarissa Dalloway’
Woolf 2025 