Anne E. Fernald is a professor of English at Fordham University and a leading scholar of Virginia Woolf, feminist modernism, and twentieth-century literature. She holds a Ph.D. from Yale and a B.A. from Wellesley. Her books include editions of Mrs. Dalloway  for both Cambridge and Norton, The Oxford Handbook of Virginia Woolf  (a Choice Outstanding Academic Book of 2022), and the monograph Virginia Woolf: Feminism and the Reader. She has co-edited the 13th through 16th editions of The Norton Reader and served as Co-Editor in Chief of Modernism/modernity. Her forthcoming book, Her Own Voice  (Beacon Press, 2026), profiles eight modern women who rewrote life and art.