Blogging Woolf is at the 25th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf, where we checked in yesterday and are so impressed with the way Virginia Woolf has taken over the town of Bloomsburg, Pa. — in a friendly way, of course. This conference must be generating many common readers. Here are the highlights coming up now through Sunday, June 8.
Archive for June, 2015
Highlights of #WoolfConf15 coming up
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New titles in Bloomsbury Heritage Series debut at Woolf conference
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The series of monographs is published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf’s nephew, Cecil Woolf, under the general editorship of Cecil’s wife, the acclaimed biographerJean Moorcroft Wilson. Following in the tradition of the Hogarth Essays, these booklets range in length from eight to 80 pages and embrace the ‘Life, Works and Times of members of the Bloomsbury Group.’
Here are the six new titles that will debut at the 25th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf.
- Natural Connections: Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield by Bonnie Kime Scott
- `Eternally in yr Debt’: the Personal and Professional Relationship Between Virginia Woolf and Elizabeth Robins by Hilary Newman
- Saxon Sydney-Turner: The Ghost of Bloomsbury by Todd Avery
- Virginia Woolf as Memoirist: ‘I am Made and Remade Continually’ by Alice Lowe
- Mistress of the Brush and Madonna of Bloomsbury, the Art of Vanessa Bell: a Biographical Sketch and Comprehensive Annotated Bibliography of Writings on Vanessa Bell by Suellen Cox
- Septimus Smith, Modernist and War Poet: A Closer Reading by Vara S. Neverow
You can also download the Cecil Woolf Publishers: 2015 Bloomsbury Heritage Catalogue and Order Form and view the complete list of the monographs available in the series.
Cecil is the featured speaker at the conference’s Saturday evening banquet, where he will share stories of his experiences with Virginia and Leonard.
How I fell in love with Virginia Woolf
Posted in films, International Virginia Woolf Society, Virginia Woolf, tagged International Virginia Woolf Society, MLA, Virginia Woolf on Tuesday 2 June 2015| Leave a Comment »
This video was shot at the Virginia Woolf Dinner Party sponsored by the International Virginia Woolf Society during the 2014 Modern Language Association Conference in Chicago, Ill.
At the dinner, which was held Jan. 11, 2014, at Shaw’s Crab House in Chicago, Woolf common readers and scholars were asked to share the experience that sparked their interest in the 20th-century modernist writer.
Many stories and much laughter ensued. Feel free to share your story as a comment below.
Louisville Conference 2016: A Call for Papers
Posted in Virginia Woolf on Monday 1 June 2015| Leave a Comment »
The International Virginia Woolf Society will host its sixteenth consecutive panel at the University of Louisville Conference on
Literature and Culture Since 1900, from Feb. 18-20, 2016. The group invites proposals for critical papers on any topic concerning Woolf studies. A particular panel theme may be chosen depending on the proposals received.
Submission guidelines
Please submit by email a cover page with your name, email address, mailing address, phone number, professional affiliation (if any), and the title of your paper, and a second anonymous page containing a 250-word paper proposal to Kristin Czarnecki, kristin_czarnecki@georgetowncollege.edu, by Monday, Sept. 7.
Panel Selection Committee
Beth Rigel Daugherty
Jeanne Dubino
Mark Hussey
Jane Lilienfeld
Vara Neverow
