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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)”

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)”

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)”

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)”