“Virginia Woolf and Jean Rhys’s Embodied Writing” is the topic for the next Woolf seminar presented by the Virginia Woolf Society of Turkey, featuring Eret Talviste on April 17 at 7 p.m. (Turkey time).

About the talk

Eret’s talk will focus on her new monograph Strange Intimacies – Affect, Embodiment, and Materiality in Virginia Woolf and Jean Rhys (Edinburgh University Press, 2025), in which she explores how Woolf and Rhys understood writing as an embodied practice, starting with diaries, letters, and autobiographical texts, and moving into novels and short stories.

About Eret

Eret is a researcher in English Literature at the University of Tartu. Her research interests include modernist and contemporary fiction, transnationalism, feminism, and posthumanism. Strange Intimacies – Affect, Embodiment and Materiality in Virginia Woolf and Jean Rhys is her first monograph.

How to attend

This is a Zoom event. Register on the Virginia Woolf Society of Turkey website. Then click on the Zoom link on the date and time posted above. Please check your time zone.