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Call for papers: IVWS at Louisville Conference

Posted in call for papers, International Virginia Woolf Society, Louisville Conference on Literature & Culture, tagged , on Tuesday 23 July 2013| Leave a Comment »

The International Virginia Woolf Society is pleased to host its fourteenth consecutive panel at the University of Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900, scheduled for Feb. 20-22, 2014.

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.

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 Friday, Sept. 13, 2013.

Panel Selection Committee:

  • Beth Rigel Daugherty
  • Jeanne Dubino
  • Mark Hussey
  • Jane Lilienfeld
  • Vara Neverow

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Woolf newsletter seeks contributions

Posted in call for papers, International Virginia Woolf Society, Virginia Woolf Miscellany, tagged , on Tuesday 19 February 2013| Leave a Comment »

Editors of the International Virginia Woolf Society newsletter, the Virginia Woolf Miscellany, are looking for contributions of different kinds for the next issue. The following submissions are welcome:

  • information about upcoming conferences, symposia, reading and/or writing events
  • conference reports and reports from other gatherings (300 words or so)
  • book announcements, book readings – short book reviews (300 words or so)
  • interviews with creative writers working on Woolf-related things
  • reports on recent events and/or on exhibitions – notice of upcoming Woolf-related events and/or exhibitions
  • anything else that falls within the realm of the Woolfian

According to the submission guidelines, electronic submissions are preferred in MS Word and using MLA format. Hard-copy manuscripts will not be returned to the sender. Submissions are not refereed. In most cases, submissions are reviewed and selected by the editor of record for the issue in which the submission will be published.

Send submissions to Kathryn Simpson at k.l.simpson@bham.ac.uk by March 5.

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Call for papers from VWM on Woolf and literary genre

Posted in call for papers, International Virginia Woolf Society, tagged on Wednesday 23 May 2012| Leave a Comment »

The Virginia Woolf Miscellany has issued a call for papers for its 83rd issue, which will be published in spring 2013 on the theme of Virginia Woolf and literary genre.

The publication  invites short essays (up to 2,500 words) on the relationship between Woolf and literary genre, a category that includes the novel, the short story, the essay, poetry, drama and biography, as well as more specific genres such as lyric, epic, verse drama, elegy, satire, detective fiction, etc.

Potential topics include Woolf’s definition of a particular genre, her adherence to or challenging of generic conventions, her blending of genres, her relationship to writers of a particular genre and her work’s reception in varied genres.

Please send submissions to guest editors Sara Sullam and Emily Kopley at sara.sullam@gmail.com by June 1.

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Call for papers: IVWS panel at 2013 U of Louisville Conference

Posted in call for papers, International Virginia Woolf Society, tagged , on Tuesday 22 May 2012| Leave a Comment »

The International Virginia Woolf Society will host its 12th consecutive panel at the University of Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900, Feb. 21-23, 2013, and invites proposals for critical papers on any topic concerning Woolf studies.

A particular panel theme may be chosen depending on the proposals received.

Proposals should include the following, submitted by email:

  • A cover page with your name, email address, mailing address, phone number, professional affiliation (if any), and the title of your paper
  • A second anonymous page containing a 250-word paper proposal

Send to Kristin Czarnecki, kristin_czarnecki@georgetowncollege.edu, by Friday, Sept. 14.

The panel selection committee includes Jeanne Dubino, Mark Hussey, Jane Lilienfeld and Vara Neverow

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Call for panel proposals for 2013 MLA

Posted in call for papers, International Virginia Woolf Society, MLA, tagged , on Sunday 9 October 2011| Leave a Comment »

The International Virginia Woolf Society is issuing a call for proposals for the Virginia Woolf panel at the 2013 Modern Language Association Conference in Boston Jan. 3-6.

The proposal garnering the most votes from the IVWS will be part of the 2013 MLA conference program. The runner-up will be submitted by the IVWS to the MLA as a second panel, which MLA may or may not approve. IVWS voting on the proposals will be completed in November, so as to meet MLA deadlines. A call will then go out to the society for papers to be submitted for the panels.

A panel proposal should include:

  1.  A 35 word description (word count includes title)
  2. The name(s) and contact information of the proposed organizer(s).

Submit to Georgia Johnston by email at IVWSociety@gmail.com or U.S. mail at Georgia Johnston, Department of English, Adorjan 127
Saint Louis University, 3800 Lindell Blvd., St. Louis, MO  63108.

Electronic submission is strongly preferred. Email submissions should have Woolf MLA 2013 in the subject line.

Deadline:  Monday, Oct.31, 2011, for the receipt of panel proposals.

To propose your own special session outside of the IVWS process, please visit the MLA website.

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