Woolfian Boundaries - Clemson University
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184 WOOLFIAN BOUNDARIES 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).
Conference Program Th e 16 th Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf: Woolfi an Boundaries June 22-25, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, England Th ursday, June 22 9 a.m. Registration open 1-1:30 p.m. Welcoming from Adrian Randall, Dean of Arts and Social Sciences (University of Birmingham) Th ursday, June 22 1:30-2:45 p.m. Plenary Session 1 Chair: Laura Marcus (University of Sussex) Victoria Glendinning, “Leonard Woolf: A Married Man,” followed by conversation with Paul Levy on “A Jew in Bloomsbury” Th ursday, June 22 3-4:30 p.m. Parallel Panels 1 1A: Environment Chair: Bonnie Kime Scott (San Diego State University) Ian Blyth (University of St. Andrews), “Woolf, Rooks, and Rural England” Richard Espley, “Woolf and the Others at the Zoo” Jane Goldman (University of Dundee), “‘Ce chien est à moi’: Virginia Woolf and the Signifying Dog” 1B: Hauntings Chair: Dan Moore (University of Birmingham) Erica Delsandro (Washington University, St. Louis), “‘“Myself”—it was impossible’: Queering History in Between the Acts” Diana Royer (Miami University), “Gothic Revisited: Moments of Terror and Isolation in Woolf’s Fiction” Christine Reynier (Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier), “Contracting and Expanding the Limits of the Short Story in A Haunted House” 1C: Spatial Boundaries 1 Chair: Nuala Hancock (University of Sussex/Charleston Trust) Amber K. Regis (Keele University), “‘From all this diversity…not a riot of confusion, but a richer unity’: Th e Limits of Self-Representation in Orlando” Dorinda Guest (University of Kent), “‘If it were now to die’: A Blanchotian Reading of Past and Present Selves in Mrs. Dalloway” Akemi Yaguchi (University of Exeter), “Shell Shock or Shell Scandal?: Septimus Ben-
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Conference Program<br />
Th e 16 th Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf:<br />
Woolfi an <strong>Boundaries</strong><br />
June 22-25, <strong>University</strong> of Birmingham, Birmingham, England<br />
Th ursday, June 22<br />
9 a.m. Registration open<br />
1-1:30 p.m. Welcoming from Adrian Randall, Dean of Arts and Social Sciences<br />
(<strong>University</strong> of Birmingham)<br />
Th ursday, June 22<br />
1:30-2:45 p.m. Plenary Session 1<br />
Chair: Laura Marcus (<strong>University</strong> of Sussex)<br />
Victoria Glendinning, “Leonard Woolf: A Married Man,” followed by conversation<br />
with Paul Levy on “A Jew in Bloomsbury”<br />
Th ursday, June 22<br />
3-4:30 p.m. Parallel Panels 1<br />
1A: Environment<br />
Chair: Bonnie Kime Scott (San Diego State <strong>University</strong>)<br />
Ian Blyth (<strong>University</strong> of St. Andrews), “Woolf, Rooks, and Rural England”<br />
Richard Espley, “Woolf and the Others at the Zoo”<br />
Jane Goldman (<strong>University</strong> of Dundee), “‘Ce chien est à moi’: Virginia Woolf and the<br />
Signifying Dog”<br />
1B: Hauntings<br />
Chair: Dan Moore (<strong>University</strong> of Birmingham)<br />
Erica Delsandro (Washington <strong>University</strong>, St. Louis), “‘“Myself”—it was impossible’:<br />
Queering History in Between the Acts”<br />
Diana Royer (Miami <strong>University</strong>), “Gothic Revisited: Moments of Terror and Isolation<br />
in Woolf’s Fiction”<br />
Christine Reynier (Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier), “Contracting and Expanding<br />
the Limits of the Short Story in A Haunted House”<br />
1C: Spatial <strong>Boundaries</strong> 1<br />
Chair: Nuala Hancock (<strong>University</strong> of Sussex/Charleston Trust)<br />
Amber K. Regis (Keele <strong>University</strong>), “‘From all this diversity…not a riot of confusion,<br />
but a richer unity’: Th e Limits of Self-Representation in Orlando”<br />
Dorinda Guest (<strong>University</strong> of Kent), “‘If it were now to die’: A Blanchotian Reading<br />
of Past and Present Selves in Mrs. Dalloway”<br />
Akemi Yaguchi (<strong>University</strong> of Exeter), “Shell Shock or Shell Scandal?: Septimus Ben-
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