[Note: the collaborative research project outlined below resulted in a digital annotated bibliography of Woolf scholarship. You can access the bibliography here—and at the end of this reflection.] As a part of our Spring 2025 class on Virginia Woolf at Florida Gulf Coast University (FGCU), we completed an assignment that helped us enhance transferable skills. Continue reading “Bryanna Anderson and Ella Davis: Reflection on a Collaborative Annotated Bibliography Research Project”
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Sovay Muriel Hansen: Madness and Desire—Teaching Virginia Woolf alongside Britney Spears, Miley Cyrus, and Other Artists
Those of us who study Woolf tire of the popular fascination with her mental illness. This may be because we feel that her health is merely one facet of a complex person and artist—a single aspect that seems to eclipse everything else about her in the popular imagination. That Woolf was mentally ill and tookContinue reading “Sovay Muriel Hansen: Madness and Desire—Teaching Virginia Woolf alongside Britney Spears, Miley Cyrus, and Other Artists”
IVWS Office Profile: Kirsten Burningham (Membership Co-Coordinator)
Bio: Kirsten recently graduated with a Master’s Degree in English Literature from Brigham Young University. Though her studies spanned the British literary canon, Woolf’s writing repeatedly surfaced in her research projects and papers. Her thesis investigates the connection between Woolf’s obsessive memories of her mother, which she psychoanalyzed in the process of writing To the Lighthouse (1927),Continue reading “IVWS Office Profile: Kirsten Burningham (Membership Co-Coordinator)”
Call for Submissions: 2025 Angelica Garnett Undergraduate Essay Prize
The International Virginia Woolf Society is pleased to host the Annual Undergraduate Essay Competition in honor of Virginia Woolf and in memory of Angelica Garnett, writer, artist, and daughter of Woolf’s sister, Vanessa Bell. For this competition, undergraduate essays can be on any topic pertaining to the writings of Virginia Woolf. Essays should be betweenContinue reading “Call for Submissions: 2025 Angelica Garnett Undergraduate Essay Prize”
IVWS Officer Profile: Shilo McGiff (Social Media Coordinator)
Bio Shilo McGiff is a founder and Co-Conspirator at the Woolf Salon Project. Along with Valérie Favre, she is Guest Editor of the Virginia Woolf Miscellany Issue #99: “Portmanteau Woolf.” Her writing can be found in Virginia Woolf and the Anthropocene (June, 2024), Virginia Woolf – Objects, Things, Matter (forthcoming, 2025), Virginia Woolf and Ethics:Continue reading “IVWS Officer Profile: Shilo McGiff (Social Media Coordinator)”
IVWS Officer Profile: Marcia James (incoming Secretary-Treasurer)
Introduction Greetings and thank you for allowing me to serve as the Secretary/Treasurer of the International Virginia Woolf Society from 2024 through 2027. I was asked to run for election because I happened to mention in an email thread “my boring financial experience” (and probably because I kept asking questions about money). I’ve enjoyed myContinue reading “IVWS Officer Profile: Marcia James (incoming Secretary-Treasurer)”
IVWS Officer Profile: Amy Smith (incoming Vice President)
Bio Amy C. Smith is Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in English at Lamar University (Texas, USA), where she teaches courses in Ethics, Mythology, and British and World literatures, and from 2017-2020 served as Director of Faculty Development. She holds degrees in Philosophy and Comparative Literature from Binghamton University (SUNY), and has published on Woolf, Iris Murdoch,Continue reading “IVWS Officer Profile: Amy Smith (incoming Vice President)”
IVWS Officer Profile: Ben Leubner (incoming President)
Bio Ben Leubner studied literature at the University of California-Santa Cruz, Southern Oregon University, Montana State University, and Northeastern University, where he earned his PhD in 2009, writing his dissertation on 20th century American poetics and Wittgenstein’s philosophy of language. He has taught literature at Montana State University ever since, where he regularly offers coursesContinue reading “IVWS Officer Profile: Ben Leubner (incoming President)”
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IVWS Event: Roundtable Celebrating Life/Work of Louise DeSalvo
IVWS Event Featuring a roundtable of Woolf scholars, colleagues, and friends Date: 22 September 2023Time: 3:00–4:30pm EDT (New York)/12:00–1:30pm PDT (Los Angeles)/8:00–9:30pm BST (London)(This event will take place over Zoom. IVWS members will be sent a Zoom link via email ahead of the event. If you are not a member of the International Virginia WoolfContinue reading “IVWS Event: Roundtable Celebrating Life/Work of Louise DeSalvo”
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