Dedication
This conference is dedicated in memory of Dr. Fiona Tolhurst, late chair of the Department of Language and Literature at FGCU and early supporter of this conference.
Acknowledgements
We could not be together this June without the deep and generous investments of the FGCU and Woolf communities. I am especially grateful to the following sponsors of this year’s conference: the Office of the Provost, the Seidler family, the College of Arts and Sciences, the Department of Language and Literature, the Office of Scholarly Innovation and Student Research, the Honors College, the Lucas Center, the International Virginia Woolf Society, and the anonymous donors.
So many of my colleagues and students at FGCU have supported the planning of this conference in a variety of invaluable ways: Patricia (Pi) Rice, Gina Greco, Farrah Alkhadra, Kimberly Jackson, Clay Motley, Chuck Lindsey, Jenna Albergo, Shania Celestin, Melissa Minds Vandeburgt, Bailey Rodgers, Emily Murray, Brenda Thomas, James Fraser, Rachel Tait-Ripperdan, Zainab Cheema, Anita Bellot, Rene Ackerson, Lori Cornelius, Krzysztof Biernacki, and Joanna Hoch. A special thank you to my fabulous colleagues and students in the Department of Language and Literature who have volunteered their time and energy in the days leading up to and during the conference.
My deepest thanks go to the program committee—Shilo McGiff, Benjamin Hagen, and Amy Smith, whose wisdom, friendship, kindness, and generosity of collaboration have been a vitalizing and revitalizing force—and to Drew Shannon, Vara Neverow, Jeanne Dubino, Ann Martin, Oliver Case, Peter Adkins, J. Ashley Foster, Vicki Tromanhauser, Jenna Albergo, and Erica Delsandro, who not only assisted with the referee process but also offered their guidance, support, and encouragement this past year.
Welcome
Welcome to the 32nd Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf! In a time when it was uncertain whether we would ever leave our virtual rooms to come together in the same time zone and place, Florida Gulf Coast University’s Department of Language and Literature is overjoyed to host you for this first in-person conference since 2019. FGCU’s attention to sustainability, as a cornerstone of the university from its founding, and the rich ecology of our campus and surrounding Southwest Florida region inspired this year’s theme, “Virginia Woolf and Ecologies.” However, the roots of this year’s conference grow out of my first Woolf conference in 2010, “Virginia Woolf and the Natural World,” hosted by Kristin Czarnecki at Georgetown College. At that conference, you welcomed me into a community that has continued to enrich, nourish, and sustain my professional and personal life, and, for that, I am deeply grateful. I hope you accept these next four days as a small gift in return for what you have given me.
We’ve designed the conference program with as much time together as possible, which includes five plenary events and two receptions, as well as an art exhibition, poetry reading, and staged reading. It felt fitting to schedule the excursions, hosted by University Colloquium and led by our Campus Naturalists, at the center of the conference not only to avoid afternoon heat but also to take a moment to pause together and acknowledge the ecology in which we are enmeshed. The reception on Saturday evening has been planned to celebrate those who have published books since we were last together in 2019 and will be followed by the banquet. Be sure to check out the conference book display on the first floor of Bradshaw Library West and the books for sale during the conference at the front of the University Bookstore on the ground floor of Cohen.
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All proceeds for the silent auction—which will begin Saturday after the excursion and conclude at the end of the evening reception—go to the IVWS Suzanne Bellamy Travel Fund.
As you explore the program, you will find information about the conference plenaries and events, a campus map, an overview schedule, and a detailed daily schedule. Many of my wonderful students and colleagues have volunteered their time this week, and we are happy to answer questions and to guide you in the right directions throughout the conference. We are looking forward to the next few days and are thrilled and grateful that you have traveled from all over the world to be part of this experience. The conference would not be possible without you!
Locations Overview
Registration begins at 8 a.m. on Thursday in AB9/ The Water School (number 39 on the campus map) in advance of the welcome breakfast and continues in the listed breakfast, lunch, and break locations throughout the conference.
AB9, room 138
• Breakfast on Thursday and Friday
• Boxed lunch pick-up on Friday
• IVWS Business Meeting on Friday during lunch
• Craft Workshop on Friday during Session D
Cohen Student Union
• Panels, plenaries, boxed lunch pick-up, and breaks on Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
• 2024 Conference Planning Meeting on Thursday during lunch
• Conference books for sale at the University Bookstore (ground floor)
• Silent Auction on Saturday
• Reception on Saturday evening (open to all)
• Banquet on Saturday evening (advance tickets required)
• Breakfast on Sunday
Edwards Hall, room 112
• Plenaries and breaks on Friday
Reed Hall
• Panels and roundtables on Friday (ground floor)
Wilson G. Bradshaw Library
• Panels on Friday (fourth floor)
• Opening reception, artist talk, art exhibition, and poetry reading on Thursday evening (third floor)
• Printed Works: Adaptations of Virginia Woolf in University Archives & Special Collections (room 322)
Bower School of Music
• No Single Body for Me to Follow, a staged reading with Q&A to follow on Friday evening (Tobe Recital Hall, room 104)
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Alico Arena 16 Arts Complex 15 Boardwalk Waterfront Dining 36 Campus Recreation Waterfront Complex 29 Campus Support Complex 10 Center for Career & Exploratory Advising 6 Central Energy Plant 7 Cohen Student Union 17 Edwards Hall 21 Egan Observatory 14 Food Pantry & Music Modular 41 Griffin Hall 1 Grounds Maintenance 30 Holmes Hall 25 Howard Hall 4 Information Building 13 Kleist Center 20 Lee County/FGCU Aquatics Center 22 Little Eagles Learning Center 9 Lucas Hall 37 Lutgert Hall 24 Margaret S. Sugden Welcome Center 18 Marieb Hall 32 McTarnaghan Hall 5 Merwin Hall 11 Modular Village 40 Music Building 31 Myra Janco Daniels Public Media Center/WGCU 8 Outdoor Sports Complex 19 Reed Hall 2 Richard C. Ackert Community Center 34 Seidler Hall 28 South Energy Plant 27 South Village Modular One 44 South Village Modular Two 45 SoVi Dining 26 Student & Community Counseling Center 35 Student Health Services 42 Sugden Hall 23 The Water School (AB9) 39 University Marketing & Communications 43 University Recreation & Wellness Center 33 Whitaker Hall 12 Wilson G. Bradshaw Library 3 WEST LAKE VILLAGE 4 PG4 P3 P 9 8 20 21 24 25 13 18 32 FGCU LAKE PARKWAY WEST FGCU BOULEVARD BEN HILL GRIFFIN PARKWAY FGCU SOUTH COURT NATURE TRAIL POLICE STATION FOOD FOREST SOLAR FIELD P1 P P P P P Visitor/Faculty/Staff/Student Parking (Pass required) P Student Commuter Parking Only Faculty/Staff Parking Visitor Parking Resident Parking Places to eat Eagle Express Shuttle Stop Eagle Express Town Center Shuttle Stop Lee Transit Bus Stop
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Plenaries
Plenary Session I
Claire Colebrook, “Ecology and Archive”
It would be unremarkable to note that To the Lighthouse is a text about stored memory. Phrases of poetry, the problem of philosophical stature, and the creation of art worthy of curation: all these concerns are folded into Mrs. Ramsay’s meditation on the future of her children. The novel begins with the cutting of images from a store catalogue and ends with what might be thought of as an irrational cut into the representation of reproductive futures. Images, phrases, and the archive in general— the problem of survival—generate a radically inhuman conception of the human in Woolf’s work. Time and identity come into being through the event of storing memory, but those moments of stabilization and the freezing of time are made possible by a time that passes and a time that flows from a nature that is radically counter-ecological. Nature is not the infinite, oceanic, and eternal substrate that is given form by the archive; nature is an archival event that operates by deforming the form of the present.
Claire Colebrook is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English, Philosophy and Women’s and Gender Studies at Penn State University. She has written books and articles on contemporary European philosophy, literary history, gender studies, queer theory, visual culture, and feminist philosophy. Her most recent book is What Would You Do and Who Would You Kill to Save the World? (2022).
Plenary Session II
Jean Moorcroft Wilson, “The Legacy of Leonard and Virginia Woolf’s Hogarth Press”
Leonard and Virginia Woolf ran one of the most important and influential small presses of the 20th century. Under their careful supervision and openness to new ideas, the Hogarth Press grew from a diversionary hobby into a successful commercial enterprise. Able to take risks with little-known or highly experimental writers, their list came to include some of the leading modernist writers of the 20th century, such as T. S. Eliot, Katherine Mansfield, and E. M. Forster, as well as Woolf herself. Their books were designed and illustrated by some of the outstanding artists of the day, among them Vanessa Bell, Roger Fry, and Dora Carrington. Leonard and Virginia’s legacy has continued, with similar ideals and openness, in the work of Leonard’s nephew, Cecil Woolf. Cecil Woolf publishing flourished from 1960 until Cecil’s death in 2019 and still functions partially through Cecil’s wife, Jean Moorcroft Wilson, today—over a hundred years after Leonard and Virginia printed their first book on their dining-room table.
Jean Moorcroft Wilson was married to the nephew of Leonard and Virginia Woolf, Cecil Woolf, until his death in 2019. Cecil followed Leonard into publishing and was 14 when Virginia died. He remembered her well and encouraged Jean to write a biography of place, Virginia Woolf, Life and London, which included not only some of her favorite walks but also ones based on the territory covered in her work. Dr. Wilson is also an acclaimed biographer and leading expert on the First World War poets. Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper prize for her biography of Isaac Rosenberg (2008), she has written in addition biographies of Siegfried Sassoon, Charles Hamilton Sorley, Edward Thomas, and the first of two volumes on Robert Graves. She has lectured for many years at the University of London, as well as in the United States, South Africa, and Austria.
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Plenary Session III
Asali Solomon, “‘For there she was’: Writing about now and then with Mrs. Dalloway and Virginia Woolf”
This combination of talk and fiction reading will explore the process by which I engaged the 1925 modernist classic, Mrs. Dalloway, to tell intimate stories from a very different time and place in my 2022 novel The Days of Afrekete. I will discuss how Mrs. Dalloway, long dormant in my consciousness, which I read to prepare for Ph.D. qualifying exams, surfaced when I was looking to braid personal history, memory, and the present through novel structure. The Days of Afrekete also incorporates themes of Mrs. Dalloway: queerness, otherness, women’s identity, trauma, madness, and class inequality. What I found, however, was that it is not just these themes or the time and place but also the ingenious form of Woolf’s novel, though nearly 100 years older, that still gives the work a feel of the fresh and contemporary.
Asali Solomon’s latest novel, The Days of Afrekete has been called “a feat of engineering” by the New York Times. She is also the author of Disgruntled and Get Down: Stories. Her previous novel, Disgruntled, was named a best book of the year by the San Francisco Chronicle and The Denver Post. She is the recipient of a Pew Fellowship, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, and the National Book Foundation’s “5 Under 35” honor. Her work has appeared in O, The Oprah Magazine, Vibe, Essence, The Paris Review Daily, McSweeney’s, on NPR, and in several anthologies including The Best Short Stories of 2021: The O. Henry Prize Collection. Solomon is the Bertrand K. Wilbur Chair in the Humanities at Haverford, where she is a Professor of English and director of Creative Writing.
Plenary Session IV
Jessica Martell and Vicki Tromanhauser, “Virginia Woolf’s Food Ecologies”
This dialog will tuck into Mrs. Ramsay’s metaphysical beef, Lady Bruton’s extravagant luncheon, the pornographic excess of the male Oxbridge dining hall, and other iconic food scenes from Virginia Woolf’s body of work. We begin with the context of changing eating systems and ecologies of food in the modernist moment, as the growth of industrial food production and corporate food trades brought about attendant shifts in culinary values. Woolf’s sensitivity to civilian challenges in the face of wartime scarcity and rationing still resonate today in our own era of emergency as we navigate Brexit, global pandemics, and the climate crisis. The centrality of meat in her prose speaks to matters of gender, privilege, and species, operating at once as a cultural symbol and animating force. Woolfian meat is not simply inert, dead matter but lives, feels, and potentially thinks. Thinking with and through food in Woolf’s writing points the way toward futures of sustainable production. And as we do so, we will explore fresh applications of her food ecologies in the adjacent fields of animal studies, Anthropocene studies, and the environmental humanities.
Plenaries Continued
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Jessica Martell is Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Appalachian State University in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. She is the author of Farm to Form: Modernist Literature and Ecologies of Food in the British Empire (2020), which features her research on Virginia Woolf. She also co-edited Modernism and Food Studies: Politics, Aesthetics, and the Avant-Garde (2019). Her essays on modernism, food, film, and ecocriticism have appeared in Modernist Cultures, Journal of Modern Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Gastronomica, and six scholarly collections. Martell is a local leader in non-profit work supporting alternative food systems and served for six years on the Board of Directors of Blue Ridge Women in Agriculture, a feminist agricultural nonprofit serving rural Appalachia.
Vicki Tromanhauser is Associate Professor and Chair of English at SUNY, New Paltz, where her research focuses on animal studies, disability, and food in twentiethcentury British literature. Her articles have appeared in Journal of Modern Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Woolf Studies Annual, and Virginia Woolf Miscellany, as well as in various essay collections. She is currently working on a book titled Modernist Meat, which explores changing configurations of flesh in early twentieth-century British women’s writing. She received the Andrew J. Kappel Prize in Literary Criticism for 2012, and she serves on the editorial board of Twentieth-Century Literature and the PMLA Advisory Committee.
Plenary V
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Sensuous Pedagogies: A Roundtable,” with Benjamin Hagen, Beth Rigel Daugherty, Catherine Hollis, Mark Hussey, Vicki Tromanhauser Though the differences in style and politics between Virginia Woolf and D. H. Lawrence are many, they both had formative experiences as teachers. Between 1905 and 1907, Woolf taught history and composition courses at Morley College, and Lawrence spent nearly a decade in the field of elementary education between 1902 and 1912. The Sensuous Pedagogies of Virginia Woolf and D. H. Lawrence reframes Woolf’s and Lawrence’s later experiments in fiction, lifewriting, and literary criticism as the works of former teachers—as writers still preoccupied with pedagogy. Across their respective writing careers, they conceptualize problems of teaching and learning as problems of sensation, emotion, or intensity. Join author Ben Hagen along with Beth Daugherty, Catherine Hollis, Mark Hussey, and Vicki Tromanhauser as we explore some of the arguments and assignments in Sensuous Pedagogies, answering some questions and raising others— among them “How do your favorite writers teach? How do they write? How do they love?”
Benjamin Hagen is Associate Professor of English at the University of South Dakota. He teaches courses in college writing, the history of literary criticism and theory, and 20th/21st-century fiction and poetry. He is co-founder and co-organizer, with Shilo McGiff, Drew Shannon, and Amy Smith, of the Woolf Salon Project series; editor of Woolf Studies Annual; and author of The Sensuous Pedagogies of Virginia Woolf and D.H. Lawrence (Clemson UP, 2020). He is the current President (2021–2023) of the International Virginia Woolf Society as well as the past organizer of the 30th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf (2021). His research on Woolf has appeared in Comparative Critical Studies, Modernism/modernity, PMLA, Virginia Woolf Miscellany as well as in book collections on Orlando: A Biography, Woolf the Bloomsbury Group, and the life/work of Louise DeSalvo.
Plenaries Continued
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Printed Works: Adaptations of Virginia Woolf
This exhibition shows a selection of adaptations of Virginia Woolf’s self-published short stories. Virginia Woolf was self-taught in typesetting, as am I. The printing press liberated Woolf as a writer which changed literature forever. In her own words: “What I owe The Hogarth Press is barely paid by the whole of my handwriting…. I am the only women in England free to write what I like.” In my artistic research, I aim to point out the influence typography and especially typesetting might have on the content of the text, on the potential power of designing and publishing one’s own work. The work involves and demands the whole body. It is complete concentration. The craft lives in between the cognitive and the organic, switches between conscious presence and bodily automaticity. The text is set. Every letter back where it came from, until all that is left is the imprint.
You are welcome to explore this exhibit on your own at University Archives and Special Collections (Bradshaw Library, room 322) before or after the opening reception on Thursday evening. Hours of operation are Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Ane Thon Knutsen is a Norwegian artist and designer specialized in letterpress. Knutsen works at the multidisciplinary intersection between graphic design, art, research, and dissemination. Knutsen exhibits internationally, and her works take form as installations and artist books. Knutsen is an associate professor in graphic design at the Oslo Academy of the Arts, where she also defended her practice-based Ph.D. on Virginia Woolf’s work as a typesetter and self-publisher. Knutsen has won several awards for this work. She owns and works from her private letterpress studio in Oslo. Find her work at https://cargocollective.com/anethonknutsen.
Poetry Reading
Queer influence and expression converge in a celebration of two of the most iconic icons of all time—Virginia Woolf and Sarah Michelle Gellar. No cotton wool here. Only moments I hang my life on. There she is. There I are.
Erik Fuhrer is the author of six poetry collections, including VOS (Yavanika Press, 2019), a full-length erasure of Virginia Woolf’s The Voyage Out. Their recent work is inspired by the work of Sarah Michelle Gellar. Their poetry collection, Gellar Studies, was published in 2023, and their memoir, My Buffed Up Life, which features Buffy the Vampire Slayer as a fictional interlocutor, is forthcoming in 2024, both with Spuyten Duyvil Press. In January 2023, their first play was released with Free Lines Press. Find them at www.erik-fuhrer.com.
Events
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No Single Body for Me to Follow, a staged reading
The Stephen children have gone upstairs, getting ready for family tea, perhaps, after playing with the neighborhood dog Pepper, after Thoby has shared two oranges, after Virginia has written the new front page of Vol II, No 11 of Hyde Park Gate News, after Thoby, Vanessa, and Virginia have set up a stage to rehearse a new theatrical. Adrian is too little to help them. These children themselves never will appear in the play but are forever upstairs, and for them it is 1892, a time they are happy, precocious, and privileged. This poem-play brings in readings by Virginia Woolf, anachronistic and transatlantic shiftings, taking place in a home built in 1919 in Fort Myers with its own set of ghosts, presences, and disturbances. No Single Body for Me to Follow is being developed by Ghostbird Theatre Company with the support of an Arts Projects grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
A founding member of Ghostbird Theatre Company, James Brock has had produced six full-length plays, and for his plays he has won three individual artist grants from the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs. His play, Because Beauty Must Be Broken Daily, a play where Virginia Woolf makes several cameo appearances, was named best new play of 2013–14 by the Naples Daily News. He is also a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow in Poetry, and he has had four books of poetry published. He teaches creative writing and contemporary literature at Florida Gulf Coast University in Fort Myers. Find his work at www.BrockPlays.com.
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Events Continued
Slime Puppies by Farrah Alkhadra
Full Program
Wednesday, June 7, 2023
On-campus housing check-in at Everglades Hall (South Lake Village), 3:00–10:00 PM Campus Sustainability Walk at 5 p.m.—meet at Parking Garage 2/ Parking Lot 7
Thursday, June 8, 2023
8:00 AM
Registration (AB9 138)
Registration will continue throughout the conference in the listed breakfast, break and lunch areas each day.
8:30 - 9:45 AM
Opening Breakfast (AB9 138)
SESSION A
10:00 - 11:30 AM
A1: Vernal Woolf (Cohen 201)
Chair: Benjamin Hagen (University of South Dakota)
• Amy Smith (Lamar University), “Masters of the Universe: Jane Harrison’s Dionysus and Jacob’s Room”
• Shilo Rae McGiff (Independent Scholar), “Some (Early) Versions of Pastoral: Virginia Woolf & Ecologies of Form”
• Drew Shannon (Mount St. Joseph University), “Of Mushrooms and Caterpillars: Virginia Woolf’s Asheham Diary”
• Yaroslava Liseyeva (Independent Artist), “Dedication to Virginia Woolf: Iris Reticulata, or Spring Comes Every Year”
A2: Acoustic Materialities (Cohen 213)
Chair: Celiese Lypka (University of Winnipeg)
• Evelyn Malinowski (European Graduate School), “Fear of Sound: The Visualist Ecology of Word Materialism”
• Choi Hyunji (Ewha Womans University), “‘Those voices from the bushes…’ Listening to a Gramophone in Between the Acts”
• Sian White (James Madison University), “The Artific(ial) in Between the Acts”
A3: Woolf’s Urban and Industrial Ecologies (Cohen 247)
Chair: Shinjini Chattopadhyay (Berry College)
• Zhu Shiyi (University of Amsterdam), “‘Out And In Again’: Nature and the Machinery in The Waves”
• Loren Agaloos (University of the Philippines, Diliman), “The City from Above and Below: Urban Ecology in ‘Thunder at Wembley’ and ‘Flying Over London’“
• Deniz Gundogan Ibrisim (Sabanci University), “Ecologies of Memory in Virginia Woolf: Eco-cosmopolitan Encounters in Early Twentieth-century” 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM Lunch (Cohen 214) 11:45 AM - 12:45 PM
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2024 Conference Planning Meeting (Cohen
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SESSION B
1:00 - 2:30 PM B1: Material & Maternal (Cohen 213)
Chair: Elisa Bolchi (University of Ferrara)
• Emi Wood Scully (University of Tennessee, Knoxville), “The Vitality of Things in To the Lighthouse”
• Jarica Watts (Brigham Young University), “Maternal Ecocriticism: Virginia Woolf and The Waves”
• Celiese Lypka (University of Winnipeg), “On Losing Our Mothers”
B2: Craft Ecology of V Woolf’s Archive (Cohen 201)
Chair: Elisa K Sparks (Clemson University)
• Melissa Johnson (Illinois State University), “Woolf Words and Tactile Investigations”
• Catherine Paul (Clemson University), “Ill, On Being”
• Amy E. Elkins (Macalester College), “Theories of Making”
B3: Ethical, Ecological, Existential (Cohen 247)
Chair: Jeanette McVicker (SUNY Fredonia)
• Hadas Wagner (The University of Oxford), “Trees, Gaps, and Geometric Form: Virginia Woolf’s Arboreal Compositions”
• Leanna Lostoski-Ho (Independent Scholar), “Moments of Being as Ecological Epiphany”
• Yoshiki Tajiri (The University of Tokyo), “Non-human Beings and Existential Anxiety in Virginia Woolf’s Work”
2:30 - 3:00 PM Break (Cohen 214)
3:00 - 4:30 PM
Plenary Session I (Cohen 201)
• Claire Colebrook (Penn State University), “Ecology and Archive”
• Respondent: Peter Adkins (University of Edinburgh)
• Chair: Laci Mattison (Florida Gulf Coast University)
5:00 - 7:00 PM
Opening Evening Reception at Printed Works: Adaptations of Virginia Woolf, including an artist talk by Ane Thon Knutsen and poetry reading by Erik Fuhrer (Bradshaw Library, 3rd floor)
Friday, June 9, 2023
8:00 - 9:00 AM Breakfast (AB9 138)
SESSION C
9:00 - 10:30 AM C1: Liquid Woolf (Reed 139)
Chair: Peter Adkins (University of Edinburgh)
• Cecilia Servatius (Karl-Franzens University of Graz), “Up from the Depths: Sea Creatures in The Voyage Out”
• Tess Hole (University of Guelph), “The Collective Consciousness of Childhood and a ‘Queer Ecology’ of the Sea in The Waves”
• Elisa Bolchi (University of Ferrara), “The liquid images of writing. Olivia Laing and Woolf’s ecological legacy”
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9:00 - 10:30 AM
C2: In the Garden (Reed 146)
Chair: Deniz Gundogan Ibrisim (Sabanci University)
• Kelsey Carper (University of Florida), “A Painter’s Garden: Cottagecore and the Queer Nostalgic Impact of Charleston Farmhouse’s Garden”
• Alice Dodds (Courtauld Institute of Art), “‘Some of the Conversation ... I know too well’: Vanessa Bell’s Dialogues with Virginia Woolf in the Floral and Foliate Imagery of Kew Gardens”
• Mine Özyurt Kılıç (Ankara Social Sciences University), “‘To sink deeper and deeper, away from the surface’: Woolf’s Deep Ecology in the Short Stories”
C3: Virginia, Florida, Montana (Library 464)
Chair: Ben Leubner (Montana State University)
• Gabrielle Bunko (Montana State University), “Medical Trauma: Mrs. Dalloway and 21st Century Doctor/Patient Ecologies“
• Ben Pope (Montana State University), “Vegan Consciousness in Woolf’s Nonhuman World”
• Emily McKenna (Montana State University), “Illness of Industry: Ecological Psychosis and Modernist Approaches to the Anthropocene”
C4: Reading Landscapes and Literary Bodies (Library 445)
Chair: Claire Colebrook (Penn State University)
• Michaela Alderman (Palm Beach Atlantic University), “Truth, Gender and Humanity: Post-modern Ecologies in Woolf’s Orlando”
• Lisa Tyler (Sinclair College), “Milton’s Comus, Woolf’s The Voyage Out, and Sexual Assault of Teenage Girls”
• Paula Maggio (Blogging Woolf), “Woolf on Weather: The Symbiotic Connection Between Reading Literature and Reading the Skies”
10:30 - 11:00 AM Break (Edwards Lobby)
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Plenary Session II (Edwards 112)
• Jean Moorcroft Wilson, “The Legacy of Leonard and Virginia Woolf’s Hogarth Press”
• Chair: Vara Neverow (Southern Connecticut State University)
12:30 - 2:00 PM Lunch (AB9 138)
12:45 - 1:45 PM
IVWS Business Meeting (AB9 138)
SESSION D
2:00 - 3:30 PM D1: Craft Workshop (AB9 138)
• Amy E. Elkins (Macalester College),
• Melissa Johnson (Illinois State University)
• Catherine Paul (Clemson University)
SESSION C Continued
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2:00 - 3:30 PM
D2: How (else) should one read Woolf II: A Roundtable on Translation (Reed 139)
Chair/Organizer: Maria Rita Drumond Viana (Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto)
D3: Publishing Roundtable (Reed 146)
• Anne Fernald (Modernism/modernity)
• Benjamin Hagen (Woolf Studies Annual)
• Alison Mero (Clemson University Press)
• Vara Neverow (Virginia Woolf Miscellany)
3:30 - 4:00 PM Break (Edwards Lobby)
4:00 - 5:30 PM
Plenary Session III (Edwards 112)
• Asali Solomon (Haverford College), “‘For there she was’: Writing about now and then with Mrs. Dalloway and Virginia Woolf”
• Chair: Drew Shannon (Mount St. Joseph University)
5:30 - 7:30 PM
8:00 - 9:30 PM
Dinner (on your own)
No Single Body for Me to Follow by James Brock, a staged reading with Q&A to follow (Bower Music 104)
Saturday, June 10, 2023
7:30 - 8:30 AM
To-go breakfast available in the lobby of Everglades Hall for those participating in the off- or on-campus excursions. Those leaving for the off-campus excursion at 8 a.m. can pick up breakfast between 7:30 and 8:00 a.m. Those participating in the on-campus excursion can pick up breakfast any time before 8:30 a.m.
7:45 AM
Shuttle pickup at the Courtyard by Marriott for off-campus and on-campus excursions. The shuttle will stop at Everglades Hall, where those coming from the hotel for the excursion can grab a to-go breakfast.
8:00 AM
Leave from Everglades Hall for off-campus excursion (Six Mile Cypress Slough Preserve)
8:30 - 10:00 AM On-campus excursion
11:00 AM Silent Auction opens (Cohen Gallery)
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Lunch (Cohen Ballroom)
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SESSION D
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12:30 - 2:00 PM
SESSION E
E1: “Modern Fiction” and Object-Subject Relations (Cohen 213)
Chair: Benjamin Hagen (University of South Dakota)
• Ann Martin (University of Saskatchewan), “Motor Cars and Gig Lamps: Illuminating the Vehicles of ‘Modern Fiction’”
• Alyson Cook (University of Saskatchewan), “‘What now takes the place of those things?’: Utility, Vitality, Relationality in ‘The Mark on the Wall’“
• Megan Fairbairon (University of Saskatchewan), “‘We are the thing itself’: Sketching Subjectivity in Woolf’s Epiphanic Shocks”
E2: Woolf and Mindfulness (Cohen 214)
Chair: Amy Smith (Lamar University)
• Lisa Coleman (Southeastern Oklahoma State University), “Practicing an Ecology of Mind in Virginia Woolf’s ‘In the Orchard’”
• Kristin Rajan (Kennesaw State University), “The Oak Tree in Orlando: Nature, Selfhood, and Buddhism”
• Catherine Hollis (UC Berkeley, Extension), “Leslie Stephen’s Sacred Mountains”
E3: Woolf & The Anthropocene (Cohen 201)
Chair: Shilo Rae McGiff (Independent Scholar)
• Christina Alt (University of St Andrews), “‘an interesting theory about the age of man’: Woolf’s Contemplation of Climatic Change”
• Shinjini Chattopadhyay (Berry College), “Cosmopolitan Anthropocene: The Convergence of Transnationalism and Climatic Consciousness in The Years”
• Peter Adkins (University of Edinburgh), “Crude Yet Refined: Finding the Oil in Woolf’s Essays”
E4: Green Data, Green Design (Cohen 213)
Chair: Helen Tyson (University of Sussex)
• Joshua Phillips (University of Oxford), “Birdsong and Literary History in Woolf’s ‘Anon’ Drafts: Or, Towards an Ecology of the Draft Page”
• Galen Bunting (Northeastern University), “‘Divine Vitality’: Green Spaces as Rhizomatic Form in Mrs. Dalloway”
• Stefano Rozzoni (University of Graz), “Woolf’s Ecological Sensibility through the Digital Environmental Humanities: A CorpusAnalysis ‘in Context’ of the (key)word ‘nature’ in Woolf’s Diaries (1915-1941)”
2:00 - 2:30 PM Break (Cohen Ballroom)
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2:30 - 4:00 PM
SESSION F
F1: Ecologies and Economies (Cohen 213)
Chair: J. Ashley Foster (California State University, Fresno)
• Ian Webster (University of Exeter), “Accounting for The Waves”
• Maeve Daley (Montana State University), “A Brooch on the Beach, a Tree in the Tablecloth: Making meaning of nature and economy in Virginia Woolf through the lens of institutional divestment”
• Loretta Stec (San Francisco State University), “‘One World, One Life’: Three Guineas as Feminist Political Ecology”
F2: Exploratory Waters (Cohen 214)
Chair: Cecilia Servatius (Karl-Franzens University of Graz)
• Joshua Myers (Kent State University), “Monstrosity of Merging: Creatures Out of Place in The Voyage Out”
• Ryan James McGuckin (Appalachian State University), “The Power of Distance: Musical Isolation in The Voyage Out”
• Charlotte Fiehn (New York University), “Psychogeography and Empire in The Voyage Out”
F3: Dust in the Wind (Cohen 247)
Chair: Emi Wood Scully (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
• Kim Sigouin (Carleton University), “‘The sands of oblivion’: Confronting Catastrophe”
• Oliver Case (University of Worcester), “‘I do not cling to life. I shall be brushed like a bee from a sunflower’: Posthuman Extinction Aesthetics and The Long Now in The Waves”
• Ben Leubner (Montana State University), “Woolf and the Aesthetics of Erosion”
F4: Romps with Woolf (Cohen 201)
Chair: Maria Rita Drumond Viana (Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto)
• Beth Rigel Daugherty (Otterbein University), “Reading (the) Outdoors in Virginia Woolf’s Essays”
• Jeanne Dubino (Appalachian State University), “Seaweeding with Woolf”
• Leslie Kathleen Hankins (Cornell College), “Woolf & the Chrysalis/ Cocoon from early cinema to Book Arts, (((Chrysalis Daze)))
4:15 - 5:45 PM Plenary Session IV (Cohen 201)
• Jessica Martell (Appalachian State University) and Vicki Tromanhauser (SUNY, New Paltz), “Virginia Woolf’s Food Ecologies”
• Chair: Shilo Rae McGiff (Independent Scholar)
5:45 - 7:00 PM Reception (Cohen Gallery)
6:45 PM Silent Auction closes (Cohen Gallery)
7:00 - 9:00 PM Banquet (Cohen Ballroom)
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8:00 - 9:00 AM Breakfast (Cohen Ballroom)
SESSION G
9:00 - 10:30 AM
G1: Landscapes, Nomads, Bodies-without-Organs (Cohen 247)
Chair: Laci Mattison (Florida Gulf Coast University)
• Jenna Albergo (Florida Gulf Coast University), “‘A Melon, an Emerald, a Fox in the Snow’: Exoticization, Imperialism, and the Linguistic Landscape in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando”
• Min Wang (Shandong University of Finance and Economics), “Pointz Hall, Landscape, and the ‘whole’: An Ecological Reading of Between the Acts”
• Kimberly Jackson (Florida Gulf State University), “Ecologies of Madness: Reading Virginia Woolf’s Life and Work through a Deleuzian Lens”
G2: Inter-action & Assemblage (Cohen 214)
Chair: Ryan James McGuckin (Appalachian State University)
• Sümeyra Buran Utku (Istanbul Medeniyet University/ University of Florida), “Posthuman Queer Ecologies in Virginia Woolf’s Writing: Challenging Anthropocentric Boundaries”
• Alex Beata Clarke (Brunel University, London), “Ecological Naturalism – How nature forms free Woolf’s characters from 2D spaces”
• Daniela Janes (University of Toronto Mississauga), “‘Gentle fellow creature’: Ecological Equity in Virginia Woolf’s Flush: A Biography”
G3: Passivists and Pacifists in Jacob’s Room (Cohen 247)
Chair: Mark Hussey (Pace University)
• Anne Fernald (Fordham University), “Virginia Woolf, May Sinclair, and the Rage of Wasted Potential”
• Vara Neverow (Southern Connecticut State University), “Aspects of Ecofeminism in Jacob’s Room”
• J. Ashley Foster (California State University, Fresno), “Ecologies of War, Ecologies of Peace: Reading Jacob’s Room in the Context of Quaker Thought and Action”
10:30 - 11:00
Break (Cohen Ballroom)
SESSION H
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM H1: Text Ecology (Cohen 213)
Chair: Drew Shannon (Mount St. Joseph University)
• Georgy Liseyev (HSE University), “Natural World as a Fairytale in ‘Lappin and Lapinova’“
• Eleanor McNees (University of Denver), “Ecological Epiphanies: Keats, Hopkins, and Woolf”
• Jeanette McVicker (SUNY Fredonia), “‘Wonders are many, and none is more wonderful than man’: Repetitions of Antigone and Woolf’s Critique of Humanism”
Sunday, June 11, 2023
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11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
SESSION H Continued
H2: Double Lives, Married Lives (Cohen 214)
Chair: Ben Leubner (Montana State University)
• Cassie Belcher (Texas A&M University), “‘Happiness is this’: Interiority, Social Pressures, and Happy Objects in Mrs. Dalloway”
• Diana Royer (Miami University), “The Concealed Inscapes of Woolf’s Characters: ‘Only disconnect…’“
• Ashley Stowell (Florida Gulf Coast University), “Gothic Duality in Mrs. Dalloway”
H3: Living Differently, Acting Differently (Cohen 247)
Chair: Ian Webster (University of Exeter)
• Matthew Hawk (Baylor University), “‘In the Hands of Young Men’: The Ecology of Youth in Mrs. Dalloway”
• Ryan Tracy (The CUNY Graduate Center), “‘Hirst’s Way of Life’: The Ecology of Virginia Woolf’s Queer Men”
• Helen Tyson (University of Sussex), “‘Expressive Action’: Marion Milner and Virginia Woolf”
12:30 - 2:00 PM Lunch (Cohen Ballroom)
SESSION I
2:00 - 3:30 PM
I1: Porous Bodies (Cohen 213)
Chair: Jeanne Dubino (Appalachian State University)
• Caylee Weintraub (Florida Gulf Coast University), “Viral Ecologies in The Voyage Out and Flush”
• Marieke Krynauw (University of Pretoria), “The Flesh of the Red Carnation: Intercorporeality in The Waves”
• Adriana Varga (Nevada State College), “Ecological Thinking and Ecoscenography in Between the Acts”
I2: Woolf and Human / Nature (Cohen 247)
Chair: Ann Martin (University of Saskatchewan)
• Maria A Oliviera (Federal University of Paraíba), “Woolf, Ecofeminism and Brazilian Indigenous Women Writers”
• Davi Pihno (Rio de Janeiro State University), “Suspending the Sky: Virginia Woolf in Conversation with Ailton Krenak”
• Elisa K Sparks (Clemson University), “Floral Transformations: Humanoid Flowers and Floral Humans, or Floral Erections and Decapitations: Woolf’s Armies of the Upright and the Whacked”
I3: Proto/Posthuman Crossings (Cohen 214)
Chair: Lisa Coleman (Southeastern Oklahoma State University)
• Akemi Yaguchi (National Defense Medical College), “Virginia Woolf and Arthur G. Tansley’s Botany and Psychoanalysis”
• Kelly Svoboda (Duquesne University), “The ‘SymPoetics’ of Woolf’s Free Indirect Style”
• James Kearns (Cornwall College University Centre/ University of Plymouth, UK), “‘The Voices of my Accursed Human Education’: Alain Badiou and Inhuman Thoughts in Virginia Woolf’s ‘The Death of the Moth’ and D. H. Lawrence’s ‘The Snake’“
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3:30 - 4:00 PM
Break Sponsored by the Lucas Center (Cohen Ballroom)
4:00 - 5:30 PM Plenary V (Cohen 201)
• “Sensuous Pedagogies: A Roundtable,” with Benjamin Hagen (University of South Dakota), Beth Rigel Daugherty (Otterbein University), Catherine Hollis (UC Berkeley, Extension), Mark Hussey (Pace University), and Vicki Tromanhauser (SUNY, New Paltz)
• Chair: Drew Shannon (Mount St. Joseph University)
• Organized by Shilo Rae McGiff (Independent Scholar)
Monday, June 12, 2023
On-campus housing check-out at Everglades Hall (South Lake Village), 9:00–11:00 AM THANK YOU for joining us here at FGCU!
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