[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”
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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”
Katie Kopajtic: Summoning Woolf
When people ask me what my play Modern Witches is about, I explain it like I explain my life when an unwitting person asks, “What do you do?” So I write, and act sometimes, I’m also a swim coach and improv teacher, video editor … So there’s this actor, and she’s a mess, so she’sContinue reading “Katie Kopajtic: Summoning Woolf”
Alex Clarke: Woolf as Expressionist? (Approaches to Emotional Expression)
Triangulating Lukács, Bloch, and Woolf As part of a Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies research project at Birkbeck University (London), I learned to situate Virginia Woolf’s works in relation to a thought-battle between German Expressionists and Realists. Specifically, the study looked at the fiery discussion between George Lukács and Ernst Bloch in Aesthetics and Politics.Continue reading “Alex Clarke: Woolf as Expressionist? (Approaches to Emotional Expression)”
Gwen Rose: Thoughts on the Woolf Salon Project
On September 30th, a number of Woolfians assembled online for a meeting of the Woolf Salon Project, a semi-formal, regular gathering , to discuss Woolf’s work. The Woolf Salon Project is amazing, though I’ve only been a part of it for a short time—and this session, in particular, transcended literary discussion in a way thatContinue reading “Gwen Rose: Thoughts on the Woolf Salon Project”
IVWS Members Event feat. Beth Rigel Daugherty (10 Oct 2022)
IVWS 2022 Fall Lecture: Learning and Essaying: From Adeline Virginia Stephen to Virginia Woolf Date: 10 October 2022Time: 1:00–2:30pm ET (New York)(The event will take place over Zoom. Members will be sent a Zoom link via email ahead of the event. The event will be recorded and made available to IVWS members.) The IVWS isContinue reading “IVWS Members Event feat. Beth Rigel Daugherty (10 Oct 2022)”
James Kearns: Woolf Walks
“I don’t think I could ever grow tired of this country.” [1] Whenever we are there, we walk the circumference of these standing stones: The Merry Maidens. We do this each time because we know that Virginia Woolf would have done the same; we touch the top of each of them in turn before walkingContinue reading “James Kearns: Woolf Walks”
IVWS Members Event celebrating The Oxford Handbook of Virginia Woolf (2021)
Date: 8 April 2022Time: 3:00pm EDT (New York) / 12:00pm PDT (Los Angeles) / 4:00pm Brasilia / 8:00pm BST (London)(The event will take place over Zoom. Members will be sent a Zoom link via email ahead of the event. The event will be recorded and made available to IVWS members.) The IVWS is thrilled toContinue reading “IVWS Members Event celebrating The Oxford Handbook of Virginia Woolf (2021)”
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