Blogging Woolf

Screenshot from the Sunday Zoom session on “Rethinking the Dreadnought Hoax” with Danell Jones.

Are we all Zoomed out and ready for a walk in the fresh air? The 30th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf, held virtually for the first time via Zoom, is now over. And while seeing each other in tiny boxes was wonderful, we missed being together in person.

But kudos to conference organizer Ben Hagen, assistant professor of English at the University of South Dakota and president of the International Virginia Woolf Society, for pulling off this amazing virtual event.

Below is a selection of some of the most recent tweets found at the conference hashtag #vwwoolf2021.

It’s a follow-up to yesterday’s report.

One of the beauties of this online format is for #Woolfians to be taking part in rooms of their own. It’s great that we can all get books down from the shelf to discuss passages.

I loved seeing all those shelf-lined rooms too. #vwoolf2021📚

— Jane de Gay (@Woolf2016Leeds) June 13, 2021

Glad I stayed up for the ecocritical panel at #vwoolf2021. First Lucien Darjeun Meadows delivered a wonderful paper on the queer forests of The Voyage Out and now we hear from @LeLoHo_ on ecocritical insights gleaned from reading the holograph drafts of The Waves.

— Peter Adkins (@peteradkins17) June 13, 2021

With Danell Jones @ #vwoolf2021: The Bloomsbury Group’s Dreadnought Hoax became an overnight sensation in the press & generates interesting questions regarding gender & more today. https://t.co/UPtO7PLLdp pic.twitter.com/bF59iMLxu2

— Blogging Woolf (@woolfwriter) June 13, 2021

Fascinating panel on Woolf and things. Great to hear Ann Martin on #Woolf and #cars again! Imola Nagy-Seres on #Woolf’s toy boats and Geoff Bender provides a new angle on Woolf’s elegiac writing with ‘Jacob’s body as Vibrant Matter’. #vwoolf2021. #LS2

— Jane de Gay (@Woolf2016Leeds) June 13, 2021

Carrie Rohman delivers a powerful and moving final keynote at #vwoolf2021 on the “devitalization” of women and minorities within the academy and the necessity more than ever for the searing critique we find in Woolf and other feminist texts. Truly moving.

— Peter Adkins (@peteradkins17) June 13, 2021

“No wonder Woolf was so concerned.” Carrie Rohman delivering a powerful plenary about the university today. #vwoolf2021

— Leanna Lostoski-Ho (@LeLoHo_) June 13, 2021

Kelly Svoboda explores the affect in Woolf’s writing by asking how does art reflect our lives? (Silence, reflection, lack of movement, recognition) #vwoolf2021 @vwoolf2021

— Amjad Alshalan (@AlshalanAmjad) June 13, 2021

Currently in #K3 “Performing Philosophy, Performing Journalism, Performing History” where Audrey Johnson is arguing that Woolf transgresses the romantic/scientific divide of history and Diana Royer looks at how Woolf method of using diary entries within her essays #vwoolf2021

— Peter Adkins (@peteradkins17) June 13, 2021

Heading into morning sessions for the final day of #vwoolf2021! First up: “Orlando Plays at Court” with panelists Kristin Rajan, Rhoda Mayne, and Zoe Kemp’s-Harris for papers on Gucci, ice dancing, and Knole House. 💫 @zozietropes

— Shilo Rae McGiff (@telekineticrose) June 13, 2021

Wonderful discussion of Suzanne Bellamy’s Woolf and Bloomsbury inspired art in the breakfast session and the need for an archive/repository for Woolf art #vwoolf2021

— Peter Adkins (@peteradkins17) June 13, 2021

The most time-consuming aspect of preparing my presentation for @vwoolf2021 was definitely trying to pinpoint photographs of Woolf on the walls of Shakespeare and Company. pic.twitter.com/SCyjjcF1gB

— Lost Modernists (@Lost_Modernists) June 12, 2021