keynote speakers
Anna Snaith
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(King’s College London)
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Anna Snaith is Professor of Twentieth-Century Literature at King’s College London. She has published widely on Virginia Woolf, global modernisms and literary sound studies. Her publications include Virginia Woolf: Public and Private Negotiations (Palgrave 2000), Modernist Voyages (Cambridge University Press 2014), a scholarly edition of The Years for the Cambridge University Press Edition of Virginia Woolf (2012), an edition of A Room of One’s Own and Three Guineas (Oxford World’s Classics 2015) and an edited volume on Sound and Literature (CUP 2020). Her Leverhulme-funded monograph, Writing Noise in Interwar Britain: Literature and the Politics of Sound, is forthcoming from Oxford University Press in November 2025. She co-organised the 34th Annual International Virginia Woolf Conference at King’s and Sussex in July 2025, and is the co-director of WoolfNotes.
Philip McGowan
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(Queen’s University Belfast)
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Philip McGowan is Professor of American Literature at Queen’s University Belfast where he is also currently Associate Dean of Internationalisation in the Faculty of Arts Humanities and Social Sciences. Between 2016 and 2024 he served two terms as the President of the European Association for American Studies (EAAS) having chaired the Irish Association for American Studies (IAAS) between 2011 and 2016. A board member of the F. Scott Fitzgerald Society since 2005, his work on Fitzgerald includes editing the OUP centennial edition of This Side of Paradise (2020), and the Penguin US edition of The Great Gatsby (2021), recently supplemented by his editing of the Penguin Classics edition of Gatsby and Stories from All the Sad Young Men (2025).
