Woolfian Boundaries - Clemson University

Conference Program
Th ursday, June 22
7 p.m. Conference Reception, Birmingham Town Hall Banqueting Suite
Friday, June 23
9:30-11 a.m. Parallel Panels 3
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3A: Americas
Chair: Shavonne Johnson (University of Birmingham)
Genevieve Abravanel (Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania), “Atlantic
Woolf”
Eleonora Rao (University of Salerno), “‘Th e earth, instead of being brown, was red,
purple, green’: Imaginary Americas in Th e Voyage Out”
Mónica Ayuso (California State University), “Woolf in Spanish America”
3B: Contemporary Writing 1
Chair: Nuala Hancock (University of Sussex/Charleston Trust)
Carol Dell’ Amico (California State University), “Th e Bounds of Sympathy: Mrs.
Dalloway and McEwan’s Saturday”
Silke Greskamp (University of Oldenburg), “Transcending Gender Boundaries: Androgyny
as Mask in Orlando and Yann Martel’s Self”
Vara Neverow (Southern Connecticut State University), “Beyond Class: Street Sexualities,
the Oldest Profession, and Women at Risk in the Work of Woolf and Pat Barker”
3C: History
Chair: Emily Fennell (University of Birmingham)
Anna Snaith (King’s College London), “‘Famine. Fenians. What Not’: Woolf, Ireland,
and Th e Years”
Stuart Clarke, “Th e Chronology of Th e Voyage Out”
David Bradshaw (Worcester College, University of Oxford), “Hushing Up: Censorship,
Propaganda, and Between the Acts”
3D: Spatial Boundaries 2
Chair: Steven Putzel (Penn State University)
Elizabeth Hendry (University of Birmingham), “‘One does not think of people,
here where so many people have lived’: Woolf’s Critique of Heritage Culture in
‘Haworth’ (1904) and ‘Great Men’s Houses’ (1931)”
Wendy Gan (University of Hong Kong), “Community and Solitude: Privacy, the
Study, and the Room of A Room of One’s Own”
Ana Zamorano (UNED, Madrid), “Here, Th ere, or the Space in Between: Th e Locus
of Female Identity in Between the Acts”
Friday, June 23
11-11:30 a.m. Tea and Coff ee Break