This event is free and open to the public. Registration is not required. Barnswallow Books will have copies of Aviv’s work for sale. A Q+A and book signing will follow the conversation. Refreshments and light bites provided.

CAROLINE BICKS is an internationally-recognized Shakespeare scholar who has published widely on early modern drama, gender, and the history of science. She studied Renaissance poetry at Harvard University as an undergraduate and received her Phd in English Literature from Stanford University. She was tenured at Boston College in 2008, the same year that she began summer teaching at the Bread Loaf School of English. In 2017, she became the inaugural Stephen E. King Chair in Literature   at the University of Maine. The endowed Chair’s mission is to support the public humanities, a challenge that Bicks has embraced by giving talks around the state to a wide variety of audiences, and bringing award-winning fiction writers, journalists, educators, and activists to speak and work with different Maine communities. The position also allowed her to develop a working relationship with Stephen King that led to him granting her access to his personal papers and to her writing a book about what she discovered, Monsters in the Archives: My Year of Fear with Stephen King.

Caroline will be interviewing Stephen Greenblatt as a part of the 2026 Pascal Hall Authors Series on August 27th from 5-7PM. This series is free and open to the public. If interest in attending, you can register here.