UPDATE: This production has been cancelled due to recent advances with the COVID-19 Outbreak. Please see “Important Update About Ada and the Engine” for more information.

Join us Sunday, April 12 at 4pm for a post-show conversation with Sue Weaver Schopf.

Sue Weaver Schopf discusses Ada’s upbringing by Lady Byron—in light of her disastrous marriage to poet Lord Byron—and the opposing views Ada had of her father.

Sue Weaver Schopf is Distinguished Service Lecturer in Extension at Harvard University, where she also served for over thirty years as Research Advisor in the Humanities, then as Associate Dean and Director of the Master of Liberal Arts Program at the Harvard Extension School. She holds the PhD in English from Vanderbilt University & is a recipient of post-doctoral fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. She is a winner of the Petra T. Shattuck Excellence in Teaching Prize and the Dean’s Distinguished Service Award. Among the many literature courses that she teaches are English Romantic Poetry, Victorian Poetry, Darwin & the Victorian Novel, & Masterpieces of Western Drama. Her publications include articles on a variety of 19th-century literary topics. An ardent believer in the value of on-site literary study, Dr. Schopf has led her students on numerous walking tours abroad, including visits to the homes & haunts & landscapes that inspired the poetry of Lord Byron & other great writers.