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Woolf panel proposal deadline extended to Dec. 13

Posted in a blog of her own, International Virginia Woolf Society, MLA, Virginia Woolf, Woolf blog on Monday 10 December 2007| 1 Comment »

Bonnie Kime Scott, president of the International Virginia Woolf Society, announces that the proposal deadline for panel topics for the 2008 MLA Convention has been extended to Dec. 13. Get the details.

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Woolf studies and periodicals: A call for papers

Posted in 18th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf, a blog of her own, MLA, Virginia Woolf, Woolf and periodicals, Woolf blog on Friday 7 December 2007| Leave a Comment »

For the 18th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf, Pat Colliers is seeking papers for a panel that looks at ways of bringing the insights and methodologies of recent work in early 20th century periodical studies to bear on the life and work of Virginia Woolf.

The conference, with the theme “Woolf Editing/Editing Woolf,” will be held June 19–22, 2008, at the University of Denver in Denver, Colorado.

According to Colliers, possibilities for the periodicals panel include papers on the following topics:

Woolf’s contributions to periodicals as an essayist, short story writer, or reviewer
Woolf’s interventions in contemporary debates about journalism and the public sphere
reviews of Woolf and her circle as evidence of “reception.”

“In any case,” Colliers writes, “papers should engage with periodicals as texts in themselves that bring their own problematics of interpretation and methodology, not primarily as “contexts” or neutral containers of content.”

Send 250-word abstracts and brief bios to Patrick Collier at pccollier@bsu.edu by Jan. 5, 2008.

This news, posted on the MLA listserv, was sent out to the VW Listserv from Helen Southworth.

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Woolf at the door

Posted in 17th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf, 19th Annual Internatinal Conference on Virginia Woolf, Anne Fernald, Blogging Woolf, International Virginia Woolf Society, Virginia Woolf, VWoolf Listserv, Woolf blog, tagged Anne Fernald on Friday 30 November 2007| Leave a Comment »

Looking for a clever and free Woolf-related graphic for your office door? Look no further than the Web page for the National Arts Education Public Awareness Campaign.

The campaign of six print ads, featuring artists ranging from writer Woolf to singer Celia Cruz, uses clever puns on the artists’ names to encourage arts education. The Woolf ad is headlined, “Why Some People Think Virginia Woolf is the State’s Official Animal.”

Anne Fernald, of Fordham University, newly announced site of the 2009 Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf, sent the link to the Virginia Woolf Listserv this morning. Along with the link, she sent the news that she spotted the ad in two issues of Newsweek.

Madelyn Dentoff of Miami University of Ohio, site of this year’s conference, chimed in minutes later to report that she was surprised to see the ad in Sports Illustrated.

Report your sightings of the ad in the comments section on this post. Or send them to bloggingwoolf@yahoo.com.

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Woolf a bargain for collectors of first editions

Posted in a blog of her own, books, Orlando, Virginia Woolf, Woolf blog on Monday 26 November 2007| 3 Comments »

Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights, £114,000. James Joyce’s Ulysses, £150,000. Virginia Woolf’s Orlando — priceless.

At least it would be priceless to readers of this blog.

But according to Simon Roberts, a book expert at Bonhams in central London, a Penguin paperback first edition of Woolf’s classic is only worth a tenner.

Whether pounds or dollars, that doesn’t seem like much to pay for a first edition of our idol’s 1928 psuedo-biography.

Read more about how such book values are calculated in “How to make a killing from first editions” in The Telegraph.

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Submit panel proposal for 2008 MLA Convention by Dec. 13

Posted in a blog of her own, International Virginia Woolf Society, MLA, Virginia Woolf, Woolf blog on Monday 26 November 2007| 4 Comments »

Bonnie Kime Scott, president of the International Virginia Woolf Society, announces that members of the society are invited to submit a panel topic for the next MLA Convention in 2008, which will be held in San Francisco. The deadline for proposals has been extended to Dec. 13.

Kime Scott notes that this is a call for whole panels, not individual paper proposals. She asks that you submit only one topic please.

Members should submit the following:

1. A 35-word description of your panel (word count must include the title).
2. The name(s) and contact information of the proposed organizer(s), i.e. e-mail, snail mail, preferred telephone number, institutional affiliation, if any.
3. Deadline by which the organizer(s) wish to receive submissions (usually March 15).
4. The format for submissions (500-word abstract, full-length paper, etc.). All of the above should be submitted to Bonnie Kime Scott electronically or by mail. Electronic submissions are strongly preferred. Please type “Woolf Society Panels MLA” in the subject line of your e-mail.

Panel proposal submission deadline is Dec. 13, 2007. Voting on the resulting proposals will be completed by Dec. 30, to meet MLA deadlines.

If you would like to propose your own special session, visit the MLA Web site for instructions.

Contact: bkscott@mail.sdsu or Bonnie Kime Scott, President IVWS, Dept. of Women’s Studies, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA 92182-6030.