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KATIE MACNAMARA is a doctoral candidate in English Literature at Indiana University
in Bloomington, and is working on a dissertation exploring modernist approaches
to the essay form. A Chicago native, she studied English and Russian literature at Princeton
University and spent two years teaching in Malaysia and Singapore before returning
to the Midwest for graduate school.
WENDY PARKINS is a Senior Lecturer in the English Department at the University
of Otago, New Zealand. She is the editor of Fashioning the Body Politic: Dress, Gender,
Citizenship (2002) and the co-author of Slow Living (2006). She is currently completing a
book manuscript entitled Mobility and Modernity in British Women’s Novels, 1850s-1930s,
to be published in 2008.
DEBORAH PARSONS is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Birmingham, where
she teaches and researches on nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature. She has published
widely on modernist women writers, including Streetwalking the Metropolis (2000),
Djuna Barnes (2003) and Th ree Th inkers of the Modernist Novel: Joyce, Richardson, Woolf
(2006), and is co-editor of the peer-reviewed online journal Modernist Cultures (www.
modernist.bham.ac.uk).
AMBER K. REGIS is a doctoral student within the Research Institute for Humanities
at Keele University, and her PhD research is focused upon gender, sexuality, and
genre in experimental Victorian and modernist life writing. She has taught at both Keele
University and Wedgwood Memorial College, and is editorial assistant for the Journal of
Victorian Culture.
SUSAN REID is a Postgraduate Research Student at the University of Northampton,
completing her doctoral thesis on D. H. Lawrence and Masculinity. Her previous papers
and articles encompass a range of interests within modernism, including Englishness, the
pastoral, the gentleman, nineteenth-century infl uences, and several studies of gender and
sexuality.
BONNIE KIME SCOTT is Professor and Chair of the Department of Women’s
Studies at San Diego State University, where she teaches courses on feminist theory, gender,
representation, women writers, and the environment. She is President of the International
Virginia Woolf Society. Her latest book is the critical anthology, Gender in Modernism:
New Geographies, Complex Intersections, a sequel to Th e Gender of Modernism.
KATHRYN SIMPSON lectures in English at the University of Birmingham, teaching
courses on nineteenth- and twentieth-century fi ction and fi lm. Her research interests
focus on the interrelationships of sexuality and creativity in the work of Virginia Woolf,
H. D., and Gertrude Stein. She is currently writing a monograph on Virginia Woolf, exploring
the interrelationships of market and gift economies in relation to desire.
HELEN SOUTHWORTH is Assistant Professor at the Clark Honors College, University
of Oregon. She has published on various aspects of Woolf’s work, most recently on