A symposium to bring together Anne Spencer scholars and academics in conversation around the spheres of her archives and contemporary scholarship, her poetry, and her legacy in Central Virginia. 

Registration is required: register now via Eventbrite. 

Featured speakers include:

• Noelle Morrissette - Director of African American and African Diaspora Studies and Professor of English at UNC Greensboro; author of Anne Spencer Between Worlds
• Camille Dungy - University Distinguished Professor at Colorado State University; UVA’s Kapnick Distinguished Writer-in-Residence in Fall 2024; author of Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden
• Alison Booth - Faculty Director, DH Center, UVA Library; author of Homes and Haunts
• Deborah Smith - Jones Memorial Library Executive Director
• Shaun Spencer-Hester - Curator and Executive Direction, Anne Spencer House and Garden Museum
• Tessa Berman - poet, scholar, and undergraduate at the University of Virginia
• Maggie Schlich - graduate student, English, UVA
• Marley Hays graduate student, English, UVA

The symposium will take place on Friday, March 21 in Room 330 in the Shannon Library at 160 McCormick Road at the University of Virginia. A light brunch buffet will be available.

Nearby visitor parking options include the Central Grounds Garage and street parking options:
https://parking.virginia.edu/visitor-parking

An interactive map of Shannon Library:
https://cal.lib.virginia.edu/map/462

Sponsored by the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, the Scholars’ Lab, UVA Poetry and Poetics; UVA English Department