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Woolf’s connections to the nineteenth-century British writer George Borrow (Studies in the
Novel, 2007). She is the author of a study of Woolf and French contemporary Colette (Ohio
State UP, 2004) and co-editor of the selected papers from the 2005 Woolf conference.
ELISA KAY SPARKS is Associate Professor of English and Director of Women’s
Studies at Clemson University in South Carolina. A printmaker on the side, specializing
in woodcut, she has published articles on Woolf and Georgia O’Keeff e as well as on spaces
associated with Woolf, including gardens and aspects of London. She was co-editor, along
with Helen Southworth, of Woolf and the Art of Exploration: Selected Papers from the Fifteenth
International Conference on Virginia Woolf.
THAINE STEARNS is Assistant Professor of English at Sonoma State University.
He has published articles on Woolf, on Rebecca West and T.S. Eliot, and on Dora Marsden
and James Joyce. He is currently working on a book titled A Visible Chaos: Optics,
Status, and Altercations in Anglo-American Modernism, 1913-1938.
JIM STEWART has researched and taught for many years at the University of Dundee,
where he has recently assisted with the forthcoming Cambridge UP edition of Virginia
Woolf. Modernism, the Renaissance, and theatre are his areas of interest. He is
preparing a fi rst book of poetry.
TARA SURRY completed her PhD, which focused on Virginia Woolf’s essays and
forms of urban space, at the University of Western Australia in 2004. Her research interests
include modernism, twentieth-century women’s writing, nineteenth-century studies,
the Gothic, surrealism, and feminist theory. She lives in London and is working on articles
based on her research.
ELIZABETH WRIGHT is a doctoral student in the School of English, University
of St Andrews, where she is writing her thesis on the relationship between Woolf and theatre.
Her article, ‘Re-evaluating Woolf’s Androgynous Mind’ appeared on Postgraduate
English in 2006 (www.dur.ac.uk/postgraduate.english/journal1.htm).