Upcoming and Past Appearances, In Person and Virtual
Chautauqua Institution, 2025 Season
Chautauqua, NY
Special Studies Classes
August 18, 2025: "Emily Hale: T. S. Eliot's Silenced Muse"
August 19, 2025: "Capturing a Life: Fiction vs. Non-Fiction?"
August 20, 2025: "The 'Bad Old Days' Before Title IX"
"The Silenced Muse: Emily Hale, T. S. Eliot, and the Role of a Lifetime"
126 East Main Street
Gloucester, MA
August 14, 2025
7 p.m.
International T. S. Eliot Summer School
2025 Session
"The 'Abnormal' Relationship: Myths, Stereotypes and Biographical Research "
Merton College
Oxford, England
July 9, 2025
International T. S. Eliot Society
2025 Conference
"Emily Hale and the Irish Theater"
Trinity College
Dublin, Ireland
July 2, 2025
American Literature Association
2025 Conference
"Poetry and Emily Hale"
4 p.m. , May 23, 2025
Westin Copley Plaza Hotel
Boston
Leading Ladies of Michigan's Past
Macomb Community College Exhibit and Presentations
Lorenzo Cultural Center
April 25, 2025
11 a.m. "Conquering Heroines: How Women Fought Sex Bias at Michigan and Paved the Way for Title IX"
1 p.m. "Elly Peterson: 'Mother' Of the Moderates"
Cambridge Public Library Book Talk
449 Broadway
Cambridge, Massachusetts
6:30 p.m. April 1
Modern Language Association 2025 Convention, New Orleans
January 11, 2025
Panel: 21st Century Eliot
T. S. Eliot and Emily Hale: Visibility and Invisibility
Mary Riley Styles Public Library, 1 p.m. Saturday, November 16
Book talk on "The Silenced Muse"
Deciphering Emily Hale's Legacy with Sara Fitzgerald
A conversation with Sigrid Anderson, University of Michigan
Tuesday, October 22, 2024
Sponsored by the U-M Honors Program, the Departments of History, English Language and Literature, and Women and Gender Studies, and the Lloyd Scholars for Writing and the Arts
Reclaiming the Emily Hale Story
Interview with HEC Media, St. Louis
One More Page Books, Arlington, VA
In conversation with biographer Diana Parsell about "The Silenced Muse: Emily Hale, T. S. Eliot, and the Role of a Lifetime"
"Sara Fitzgerald Presents Latest Book, "The Silenced Muse"
Falls Church News-Press
Left Bank Books, St. Louis, MO
In conversation with University of Missouri Professor Frances Dickey, former president of the International T. S. Eliot Society, about "The Silenced Muse: Emily Hale, T. S. Eliot, and the Role of a Lifetime"
Livestream of September 19 talk
Politics and Prose, Connecticut Avenue store, Washington D.C.
Book signing and author talk, "The Silenced Muse: Emily Hale, T. S. Eliot and the Role of a Lifetime"
5 p.m. Saturday September 28
American Literature Association
"The Making of a Playwright: T. S. Eliot, Emily Hale, and a Conflict of Tastes"
May 24, 4 p.m. , Palmer House Hotel, Chicago
Washington Writers Conference
Panelist, "Nonfiction: From Proposal to Publication"
May 4, Bethesda, MD
Historical Society of Michigan
"Conquering Heroines: U-M Women Paving the Way to Title IX"
January 17, 2024, 7-8 p.m.
University of Michigan Alumnae Council
Annual Luncheon, Keynote speaker
"Conquering Heroines: How Women Fought Sex Bias at Michigan and Paved the Way for Title IX"
(Presentation starts at 1:59 in video)
October 1, 2022
International T. S. Eliot Society
Annual Conference, St. Louis, Missouri
"The Pitfalls of Biography: Inside the Notebooks of 'Great Tom'"
September 24, 2022
Remedial Herstory Project's 2nd Annual Summer Educators' Retreat
(Virtual Presentation)
August 8-10, 2022
Author Talk: Mary Riley Styles Public Library
Wednesday March 23, 2022 7 p.m.
American Historical Association's 2022 Annual Conference
Presenter about "Conquering Heroines: How Women Fought Sex Bias and Paved the Way for Title IX"
February 23, 2022
Biographers International Organization
"Pitching and Promoting Biographies of Women: Lessons Learned and Strategies for Success"
Webinar for Women's Biographers Roundtables
Panel Moderator
January 12, 2022
Bentley Historical Library: Making Michigan Series
Conquering Heroines: How Women Fought Sex Bias at Michigan and Paved the Way for Title IX
Bentley Historical Library,
November 11, 2021
Midwest Modern Language Association
Annual Convention
Panel organized by the International T. S. Eliot Society
"Emily Hale: The Milwaukee Years"
University of Michigan Press Featured Author Presentation
International T. S. Eliot Society
Celebration of 2021 Women's Equality Day
League of Women Voters of Dearborn and Dearborn Heights, Michigan
Henry Ford Village, August 23, 2021
Friends of the Princeton University Library
"T. S. Eliot and Emily Hale Letters: Reexamined"
Virtual Panel of T. S. Eliot scholars, April 18, 2021
"Conquering Heroines: How Women Fought Sex Bias at Michigan"
Local History Conference, Historical Society of Michigan
March 20, 2021
"Stories of Three Little-Known Women Whose Stories Remain Relevant Today"
Encore Learning Presentation
November 9, 2020
"T. S. Eliot and Emily Hale: Keeping Secrets, Avoiding Scandal"
Presentation for the Panel "T. S. Eliot: Provocation, Creation. . . and Scandal?",
sponsored by the International T. S. Eliot Society
South Atlantic Modern Language Association's 92nd Annual Conference
November 14, 2020
"Fifty Years After the U-M Sex Bias Complaint: An Honors Alumna Looks Back at 'Conquering Heroines'
International T.S. Eliot Society Annual Meeting
Panel on the Eliot-Hale Correspondence
October 2, 2020
Bluffton Book Festival
Fiction Authors' Panel
September 17, 2020
Author Talk Sponsored by One More Page Books
Talk and Virtual Book Signing
September 16, 2020
Author Talk to University of Michigan Washington Alumni Club
Zoomed Talk
June 23, 2020
Author Talk on "The Poet's Girl"
Library of Congress Women's History Roundtable
February 6, Washington, DC
(This group meets monthly when the Library is open. Contact me for details.)
Author Talk and Book Signing for "The Poet's Girl"
Other Appearances
CEW+ (Center for the Education of Women) Annual Symposium
"Redefining Leadership"
University of Michigan, October 29, 2019
Panelist, "Diverse Voices, Sex Discrimination, and the Role of Media in Advocacy"
Sara Fitzgerald/ Photo by Liz Roll
"The Poet's Girl"
Phillips Andover-Abbot Academy Reunion, June 2018
"A Secret Life in Letters." Andover Magazine, October 23, 2018
"Elly Peterson: 'Mother' of the Moderates"
Interview on Michigan Public Radio's "Stateside" (April 15, 2020) in connection with "Mrs. America" mini-series on Hulu on FX
C-SPAN BOOK TV, Speech to the Michigan Political History Society
Question and Answers about the Book
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0CDzwErRcI
U-M Hatcher Library Speaker Series
https://www.michigandaily.com/news/sara-fitzgerald-discussed-new-book-feminist-political-leader