Conference Schedule
Saturday, June 8th
Session V: 9:00–10:30 A.M.
Woolf in the Digital Commons
Denman Ballroom
Chair: Helen Southworth, University of Oregon
“Pedagogy, Collaboration, Method: Woolf in the Digital Commons”
- Alice Staveley, Stanford University
- Matthew Jockers, University of Nebraska
“Getting to Know R: Computational Macroanalysis and Woolfian Stylometry”
- Roberto Goizueta, Stanford University
- Andrew Adams, Stanford University
“Rebuilding A Room of One’s Own: Graphing Gender and Architectural Space in Woolf’s Modernist Novels”
- Laura Bornes, Stanford University
Caribbean Woolf
Barclay Room
Chair: Mary Ann Gillies, Simon Fraser University
“Colonial London: C.L.R. James and Una Marson in Woolfian Spaces”
- Elizabeth F. Evans, University of Notre Dame
“Jamaica Kincaid and Virginia Woolf—An Unlikely Pair and Iconoclasts of the Literary Essay: A Close Reading of ‘Biography of a Dress’ and ‘Street Haunting’”
- Bureen Ruffin, Pace University
“Reviving the Angel in the House: Woolfian Women in Zadie Smith’s Fiction”
- Tonya Krouse, Northern Kentucky University
Woolf, Wealth, and War
Gilford Room
Chair: Helen Wussow, Simon Fraser University
“Jacob’s Room and the Fellowships of Peace: In Situ for the Republic that Warred”
- Jean Mills, John Jay College, The City University of New York
“The Inherited Commonwealth: Shakespeare, Empire, and War in Mrs. Dalloway”
- Sara Remedios, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York
“Writing from the ‘White Light of Truth’: Quaker Testimonies in Virginia Woolf’s Work”
- J. Ashley Foster, Brooklyn College, The City University of New York
The Commodified, Colonized Woman
Beach Room
Chair: Aurelea Mahood, Capilano University
“Woolfian Seamarks: Commodified Women and the (In)visibility of the Racial Other on the Shores of Empire”
- Patrizia Muscogiuri, University of Salford
“‘You Chained Me to One Spot, One Hour, One Chair’: Queering Colonized Female Subjectivity in The Waves”
- Melissa Rampelli, St. John’s University, Queens
Refreshment Break: 10:30–11:00 A.M.
Plenary VI: 11:00 A.M.–12:00 P.M.
“Virginia Woolf in the British Commonwealth”
Denman Ballroom
Introduction: Helen Wussow, Simon Fraser University
- Sonita Sarker, Professor, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies/English, Macalester College
Sponsor: Simon Fraser University Department of English
Lunch: 12:00–1:30 P.M.
Conference Planning Lunch (all welcome; please bring your own lunch)
Barclay Room
Session VI: 1:30–3:00 P.M.
“Reading the Commonwealth/Common Wealth of Virginia Woolf”
Denman Ballroom
Chair: Nicole Wilson, University of Reading
“Preserving Our History of Reading Woolf: The Common Wealth of the Past and Future”
- Karen Levenback, Franciscan Monastery
“The Common Wealth of Archives and Memories: The Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf, the Virginia Woolf Miscellany, and the International Virginia Woolf Society”
- Vara Neverow, Southern Connecticut State University
“Blogging Woolf: The Common Wealth of Global Scholars-Readers”
- Paula Maggio, Blogging Woolf
Empire to Commonwealth
Barclay Room
Chair: Juliana Pimenta Attie, Pace University
“Modernism Across the Commonwealth: Virginia Woolf’s and Arundhati Roy’s Critique of Empire”
- Elsa Hogberg, Uppsala University
“From Empire to Small Island: Previewing a Common-wealth Future in The Years and Between the Acts”
- Barbara Lonnquist, Chestnut Hill College
Political Economies
Gilford Room
Chair: Ann Martin, University of Saskatchewan
“A Word to the Not-So-Wise: Leonard Woolf, PQ, and the Commonwealth of Nations”
- Steven Putzel, Pennsylvania State University Wilkes-Barre
“‘A Logic of Beliefs and Desires’: The Hogarth Press’s Critique of Political Economy”
- Adam Barrows, Carleton University
“German Stereotypes, Enemy Aliens, and the Treaty of Versailles: Spectres, Dominators, and Tyrants in Mrs. Dalloway”
- Marlene A. Briggs, University of British Columbia
Refreshment Break: 3:00–3:30 P.M.
Plenary VII: 3:30–4:30 P.M.
“‘Simplicity and art shades reign supreme’: Costume, Collectibles, and Aspiration in Katherine Mansfield's New Zealand”
Denman Ballroom
Introduction: Marlene A. Briggs, University of British Columbia
- Jane Stafford, Associate Professor and Program Director, English, School of English, Film, Theatre and Media Studies, Victoria University Wellington, Te Whare Wananga o to Upoko o te Ika a Maui
Plenary VIII: 4:45–6:15 P.M.
Plenary Panel: “The Long Shadow of Fascism: From the League of Nations to the Republic of Gilead”
Denman Ballroom
Chair: Brenda Silver, Mary Brinsmead Wheelock Professor, Emerita, Dartmouth College
“Jacob’s Room, Between the Acts, and the ‘League of Nations’ Moment in the Commonwealth”
- Gabriel Hankins, Clemson University
“Synthesizing Civilizations: Leonard Woolf, the League of Nations, and the Inverse of Imperialism, 1928-1933”
- Wayne K. Chapman, Clemson University
“Documenting Facism in Three Guineas and The Handmaid’s Tale: An Examination of Woolf’s Textual Notes and Atwood’s ‘Historical Notes’”
- Vara Neverow, Southern Connecticut State University
Reception: 6:15–7:00 P.M.
Registration Area
Banquet: 7:00–10:00 P.M.
Denman Ballroom
Banquet Program
“A Pair of Scissors”
- Sharon Thesen teaches at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan and is a poet, editor, and anthologist. Her documentary poem sequence, Confabulations: Poems for Malcolm Lowry, was short-listed for the Governor General’s Award.
“Oscar of Between”
- Betsy Warland has published eleven books of creative nonfiction and poetry. She is the former director of the Writer’s Studio, Simon Fraser University Lifelong Learning.
The International Virginia Woolf Society Players