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Call for Papers: International Society of Virginia Woolf Panel on Bloomsbury and Africa

Welcomed subjects include Woolf’s imaginative uses of Africa, the Dreadnought Hoax, Bloomsbury and African art, Leonard Woolf and Africa and Hogarth Press publications.

Abstracts of 500 words are due March 12, 2010, to Danell Jones, danelljones@bresnan.net.

The 2011 MLA Annual Convention will be held Jan. 6 to 9, 2011, in Los Angeles.

Call for Papers: Woolf Panel on Victorian Woolf

Possible topics include Woolf’s Victorians and Victorianisms, her debts to Victorian contexts, sources and precursors; her modernism reframed, denied or backdated; her late- or neo-Victorian politics, technologies, travels and afterlives.

Abstracts of 250 words are due by March 2, 2010, to Jesse E. Matz, matzj@kenyon.edu.

The 2011 MLA Annual Convention will be held Jan. 6 to 9, 2011, in Los Angeles.

Woolfians will head to Glasgow, Scotland, for the 21st Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf, which is set for June 9 to 12 at the University of Glasgow.

Jane Goldman, reader in English literature at the University of Glasgow, is organizing the conference. She is also the general editor of the Cambridge University Press edition of the Writings of Virginia Woolf.

Blogging Woolf will post more details as they arrive. Meanwhile, if you like to plan ahead, check here for information about traveling to Glasgow.

On Pol Culture, Robert Stanley Martin reviews “Kew Gardens,” a Virginia Woolf short story published in the volume Monday or Tuesday: Eight Stories.

In his review, Martin says Woolf’s story, originally published privately in 1919, “may be the greatest of her short stories.” Read his review.

You can read his other posts discussing Woolf’s writings at the links below:

From Fernham’s way comes news of a play inspired by Virginia Woolf. Titled Among Roses and the Ash, it will be staged  in New York City Jan. 27-31.

According to the play’s Web site, the play is a “meditation on the power, beauty, and limitations of the English language, seen through the eyes of an author. It is described as incorporating “movement, sound and image to explore the work of a literary artist.”

Performances are at 8 p.m. Jan. 27 to 30 and at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. on Jan. 31 at the WOW Cafe Theater, 59-61 E. Fourth St. 
on the fourth floor. Tickets are $10 at door, or online at fabnyc.org.

Virginia Woolf is in my thoughts on Jan. 25. And this year, the 128th anniversary of her birth, Paste Magazine celebrates her life and legacy with a list of 10 songs that reflect her life and work.

Below are a few other places to read birthday wishes to the grand dame of the modernist novel.