Conference Agenda and Streaming Links
Friday, June 10
Links to sessions are embedded in their headings.
9:00am-10:30am: Session D
D-S1. Ethics of Reading
Chair: Drew Shannon
Chat Moderator: Kai Hinson
Lesley Higgins (York University, Canada) & Marie-Christine Leps (York University, Canada), “Jeu d’esprit or ethical experiment? The lesson of Flush”
Luca Pinelli (University of Bergamo, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Italy & France), “Towards an Ethics of Sexual/Textual Ambiguity: Virginia Woolf, Simone de Beauvoir, and the Ethics of Reading”
Marie Allègre (University of Birmingham, England, UK), “Working with Virginia Woolf’s ethics: Reparative psychoanalytic literary criticism”
D-S2. Party Time
Chair: Shilo McGiff
Chat Moderator: Valérie Favre
Christopher Thomas (University of Maine, U.S.), “Risking Illness for the Sake of Pleasure: Post-Pandemic Party-giving in Mrs. Dalloway”
Jiangnan Xiang (University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China), “Hostess as moral subject: Toward an ethics of feminist hospitality”
Vicki Tromanhauser (State University of New York at New Paltz, U.S.), “Meat Decadence: Lady Bruton’s Luncheon and the Ethics of Appetite”
D-S3. Subjects of Violence
Chair: Mridula Sharma
Chat Moderator: Victoria Juarez
Candis Bond (Augusta University, U.S.), “‘The Road was a Jungle’: Street Harassment in The Years”
James Bowen (Oxford University, England, UK), “The Admirable Hugh: Force in Woolf’s Ethics”
Rupeng Chen (University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK), “Virginia Woolf’s Conspirators: Bioterrorists or Co-breathers”
D-S4. Mrs. Dalloway: Scales of Illness and Care
Chair: Emily Hinnov
Chat Moderator: Laci Mattison
Ananya Sasaru (University of Calcutta, India), “Medical Ethics and Hospitality in Mrs. Dalloway”
Elie Matta (Lebanese University, Lebanon) & Emile Whaibeh (University of Balamand, Lebanon), “A Gendered Look at Caregiver Burden and Patient Guilt in Mrs. Dalloway”
Caylee Weintraub (Florida Gulf Coast University, U.S.), “‘The World of the Infinitely Small’:” Microbic Networks in Mrs. Dalloway”
10:30am-11:00am: Short break
11:00am-12:30pm Session E
E-S1. Gendered Identities
Chair: Laura Tscherry
Chat Moderator: Kai Hinson
Gwen Rose (University of Saskatchewan, Canada), “Unsolicited/Unrepresentative: The Ethics of Virginia Woolf’s Portrayal of the Transgender in Orlando, as compared to Lili Elbe’s Man Into Woman”
Emanuella Cervello (Florida Gulf Coast University, U.S.), “‘By the Truth We are Undone. Life is a Dream’: Queer Subversions of Time and Space in Orlando”
Tanya Turneaure (Independent Scholar, U.S.), “Room(s) for Each of Us: Implications and Ethics of Gendered Self”
E-S2. Time and Tide, Form and Fold
Chair: Vicki Tromanhauser
Chat Moderator: Amy Smith
Benjamin Hagen (University of South Dakota, U.S.), “‘Curious Props’: Functions of the Soliloquy in The Waves”
Laci Mattison (Florida Gulf Coast University, U.S.), “Extinction and the Ethics of Deep Time in The Waves”
Shilo McGiff (Independent Scholar, U.S.) “‘The Rat or The Flower?’: Decomposed Beings in the Holograph Drafts of The Waves”
E-S3. Woolf and European Contexts
Chair: Jeanne Dubino
Chat Moderator: Marielle O’Neill
Ashley Foster (California State University, Fresno, U.S.), “Virginia Woolf, Ethical Responses to Total War, and Images of Peace”
Demet Karabulut-Dede (Munzur University, Turkey), “‘But she loved her roses (Did not that help Armenians?)’: Armenians in Virginia Woolf’s Ethics and Aesthetics”
Paulina Pająk (University of Wroclaw, Poland), “‘Almost political’: Reading Virginia Woolf in 1930s Poland”
E-S4. Celebrities, Hacks, and Influencers
Chair: Joshua Phillips
Chat Moderator: Victoria Juarez
Annalisa Federici (Roma Tre University, Italy), “The Ethics of Writing at High Rates for Fashion Papers: Virginia Woolf’s Short Stories for Harper’s Bazaar”
Sara Penn (Simon Fraser University, Canada), “Jacob’s Room and the Ethics of Authorship”
Shawna Ross (Texas A&M University, U.S.), “Virginia Woolf, Influencer”
12:30pm-1:15pm: Long break
1:15pm-2:45pm: Plenary II: "Rethinking Bloomsbury and Race in the Wake of BLM"
Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina (University of Massachusetts Amherst, U.S.)
2:45pm-3:00pm: Microbreak
3:00pm-4:30pm Session F
F-S1. Publishing a Scholarly Article: A Roundtable
Chair: Drew Shannon
Chat Moderator: Casey Ford
Benjamin Hagen (University of South Dakota, U.S.), Woolf Studies Annual
Anne Fernald (Fordham University, U.S.), Modernism/Modernity
Melissa Bradshaw (Loyola University Chicago, U.S.), Feminist Modernist Studies
F-S2. ‘Moments of Being’: Epiphany and Ethics in Virginia Woolf’s Writings
Chair: Mark Hussey
Chat Moderator: Emily Hinnov
Angela Harris (Independent Scholar, UK), “Woolf’s ‘Moments of Being’ As Epistemic Epiphany”
Gabrielle McIntire (Queen’s University, Canada), “Woolf’s ‘Moments of Being’ as Secular-Sacred Epiphany”
Lorraine Sim (Western Sydney University, Australia), “Moments of Being, Ethics and the Good Life”
F-S3. Feminist Spaces
Chair: Vicki Tromanhauser
Chat Moderator: Victoria Juarez
Jeanette McVicker (State University of New York at Fredonia, U.S.), “Woolfian Ethics and Heterotopias”
Elizabeth O’Toole (State University of New York at New Paltz, U.S.), “‘Wedge-Shaped Core of Darkness’: The Feminist Ethics of Woolf’s Unhappy Women”
Adriana Varga (Nevada State College, U.S.), “Jo Hamya’s Three Rooms and Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own: Ethical and Aesthetic Affinities in the Age of Brexit and the British Housing Crisis”
F-S4. Science and Ethics
Chair: Lucas Leite Borba
Chat Moderator: Kai Hinson
Daniel Martini (University of California, Santa Barbara, U.S.), “The Beat of Woolf’s Ethics: A Cognitive Analysis of Between the Acts”
Emilee Stenson (Independent Scholar, U.S.), “Grants and a Lab of Her Own: A Woolfian Approach to Gender Disparities in Scientific Research Funding”
Betina Cunado (FLACSO-University of Buenos Aires, Argentina), “Mrs. Dalloway's great-granddaughter: A story of her own”
4:30-5:00: Short break
5:00pm-6:30pm: Session G
G-S1. Who’s Afraid of William Shakespeare: Woolf Reading the Bard
Chair: Drew Shannon
Chat Moderator: Paola Brinkley
Maria A. Oliveira (Federal University of Paraíba, Brazil), “Shakespeare’s legacy in Virginia Woolf: A feminist revision”
Davi Pinho (Rio de Janeiro State University, Brazil), “A Phantasmagorical Shakespearean Tradition in Virginia Woolf”
Elisa Kay Sparks (Clemson University, U.S.), “Finding Shakespeare’s ‘Mind of Winter’: Mulberries vs. Roses in Virginia Woolf’s Assessment of the Bard of Avon”
Suzanne Bellamy (Artist and Independent Scholar, Australia), “Shakespeare’s Sister”
G-S2. Woolfian Wisdoms
Chair: Diana Royer
Chat Moderator: Victoria Juarez
Lisa Coleman (Southeastern Oklahoma State University, U.S.), “Re-Reading A Room of One’s Own through the Lens of Buddhism; Or, Dharma’s Ethical Injunction to Act”
Nicola Apps (Southern Cross University, Australia), “i declare Peace on the World”
Jodie Medd (Carleton University, Canada), “Virginia Woolf’s Contemplative Pedagogies”
G-S3. Pedagogies of Resistance, Pedagogies of Response
Chair: Michael Hart
Chat Moderator: Mridula Sharma
Alice D. Keane (Queens College, City University of New York, U.S.), “Bloomsbury, Empire and Race: Approaches Toward an Ethical Pedagogy of Modernism”
Emily M. Hinnov (Great Bay Community College, U.S.), “‘Thinking Peace into Existence’: Teaching Virginia Woolf, Jessica Dismorr, and Elizabeth Bowen”
Kelly Svoboda (Duquesne University, Nevada State College, U.S.), “‘Ungrading’ as an Adjunct: Becoming Woolfian ‘Outsiders’”
G-S4. Relating, Repairing, Refiguring Trauma
Chair: James Bowen
Chat Moderator: Amy Smith
Jaeyeon Jeon (University of California, Santa Barbara, U.S.), “The Alternative Ethics of Becoming Trees in Mrs. Dalloway and The Vegetarian”
David Eberly (Independent Scholar, U.S.), “Two-Faced: Virginia Woolf, Moral Injury, and the Ethics of Trauma”
Jacqueline Dillion (Pepperdine University, U.S.), “Teaching Mrs. Dalloway as a Pandemic Novel”