IVWS call for papers for MLA 2014

The International Virginia Woolf Society has issued a call for papers for the Modern Language Association Convention, which will be held in Chicago, Jan. 9-12, 2014.

Guaranteed panel at MLA

The society will have one guaranteed panel, Woolf, Wittgenstein, and Ordinary Language, which invites papers on Woolf’s championing of the ordinary in language and Wittgenstein’s philosophy of ordinary language, both thinkers’ tangential relationship to the “Apostles,” and/or their influence on Bloomsbury.

Organizers: Madelyn Detloff at detlofmm@miamioh.edu and Gaile Pohlhaus Jr. at pohlhag@miamioh.edu.

Deadline: 300-word abstracts are by March 8 to the organizers.

More information: For more information about the panel, please contact the organizers directly.

Proposed panel

The society will propose an additional panel to submit to the MLA Program Committee, which
must be accepted by the committee before it is official. Panel details are as follows:

Woolf and London’s Colonial Writers: Literary, political, social, and spatial connections between Woolf and London-affiliated writers from the British colonies. Papers may focus on any number of writers who traveled from various locals in the British Commonwealth and spent time in London contemporaneously with Woolf, including Mulk Raj Anand and Mahatma Gandhi of India and C.L.R. James, Una Marson, and Jean Rhys, from the West Indies. Papers might address intersections through the Hogarth Press, mutual friends and social circles, shared literary and political investments, literary responses, and common spaces.

Organizer: Elizabeth F. Evans at elizabeth.evans@nd.edu.

Deadline: 300-word abstracts are due by March 8 to the organizer.

Proposed collaborative panel

The society will also collaborate with another allied organization and submit a third panel, which is not guaranteed. For 2014, that will be a panel with allied organization, SHARP: The Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing.

Organizers will choose papers for this panel and submit the proposal to the MLA Program Committee and hope for their approval.The topic is: Book History & Virginia Woolf: A joint session of the International Virginia Woolf Society and SHARP (Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing) on Woolf & book arts & history: letterpress, typesetting, bookbinding, manuscripts, the material book . . . her books in book history, and more.

Angles for this panel include Virginia Woolf, history, & the book arts. Woolf and letterpress, bookbinding, the book arts; depictions of the material book or the printing process in Woolf; or bibliographical or manuscript-based studies. Sly references to letterpress, type and typesetting, bookbinding and the Book Arts, glimpses in bookshop windows, descriptions of books on tables, with just a line of text to tease the reader, books wrapped in plain brown wrapper, manuscripts tucked in the bosom, books abound within the text of Woolf’s books. How do they work? Can they be identified? What do they mean? How do they shed light on Woolf as a book-maker/book-binder, a lover of the history and art of the book—in addition to her love of writing?

Organizers: Leslie K. Hankins at lhankins@cornellcollege.edu and Greg Barnhisel at barnhiselg@duq.edu

Deadline: 300-word abstracts are due March 8 to the organizers.

MLA Woolf Bash

The society’s annual MLA bash will be held at the home of Pamela Caughie.

Important note: You must be on the books as a member of MLA to organize or present on a panel.

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Woolf newsletter seeks contributions

Editors of the International Virginia Woolf Society newsletter, the Virginia Woolf Miscellany, are looking for contributions of different kinds for the next issue. The following submissions are welcome:

• information about upcoming conferences, symposia, reading and/or writing events
• conference reports and reports from other gatherings (300 words or so)
• book announcements, book readings – short book reviews (300 words or so)
• interviews with creative writers working on Woolf-related things
• reports on recent events and/or on exhibitions – notice of upcoming Woolf-related events and/or exhibitions
• anything else that falls within the realm of the Woolfian

According to the submission guidelines, electronic submissions are preferred in MS Word and using MLA format. Hard-copy manuscripts will not be returned to the sender. Submissions are not refereed. In most cases, submissions are reviewed and selected by the editor of record for the issue in which the submission will be published.

Send submissions to Kathryn Simpson at k.l.simpson@bham.ac.uk by March 5.

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Last call for panel proposal for MLA Convention 2014

This is the last call to submit a panel topic for the Modern Language Association Convention in Chicago, scheduled for Jan. 9-12, 2014. The deadline was slightly extended due to individuals having the flu.

The International Virginia Woolf Society will have one guaranteed panel, and the group can submit one additional panel, as it did for the 2013 MLA Convention in Boston with the Katherine Mansfield Society. It may also (as for this past MLA with the Joseph Conrad Society) collaborate with another Allied Organization and submit a third panel.

Organizers would like to continue the tradition of submitting multiple excellent panel proposals. Note that this is a call for panels, not individual paper proposals. Please submit only one topic.

What you should submit:

1. a 35-word description (word count includes title)
2. the name(s) and contact information of the proposed organizer(s). [email addresses required.] Note: It can be quite helpful to have more than one organizer, especially if seasonal illness strikes

Submit to Leslie Kathleen Hankins electronically at lhankins@cornellcollege.edu or by mail. Electronic submissions are strongly preferred. The topic line should read: Woolf MLA 2014.

Deadline: Jan. 15 for the receipt of proposals.

The IVWS will vote on the resulting proposals in January, so as to meet MLA deadlines.

If you wish to propose your own special session outside of the IVWS process, please go to the MLA website, http://www.mla.org.

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Call for papers: Woolf and materiality

Here is a new call for papers from the Virginia Woolf Miscellany. Editors of the spring 2014 issue invite discussion of how Woolf’s writings explore the material world.

Articles that directly address the relationship between meaning and materiality are particularly welcome, and potential topics include fresh considerations of Woolf’s engagement with:

• the natural sciences;
• philosophical conceptualisations of materiality;
• non/human bodies and objects;
• fabrics and “things”;
• the materiality of language and art.

Send submissions of not more than 2,500 words to Derek Ryan, d.ryan@exeter.ac.uk by Aug. 1, 2013.

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Call for papers: 23rd Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf

The 23rd Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf has issued a call for papers. The conference will be held in Vancouver, British Columbia, from June 6 to June 9, 2013.

Here are the details of the call for papers:

The topic of the conference, “Virginia Woolf and the Common(wealth) Reader,” encompasses Woolf’s interactions with/influence on Commonwealth writers, the issues of “common” wealth, discussions of wealth and gender, colonialism and gender, imperialism, politics, and a host of other related topics.

The conference also invites explorations of Virginia Woolf’s work from a range of different disciplinary practices: history, economics, politics, post-imperial/colonial studies, gender studies, psychology, cultural studies, legal studies, anthropology, ethnic studies, indigenous studies, publishing, and visual/art history.

We especially welcome papers or performances that:

• explore Virginia Woolf’s interactions with/influence on Commonwealth writers.
• engage with discussions carried on by Virginia Woolf, Leonard Woolf, and other members of their circle on issues of wealth, gender, imperialism, class, and economics
• read Virginia Woolf as a member of the British Commonwealth, later the Commonwealth of Nations

Submissions are welcome from common readers, artists, writers, community activists, teachers, students, academics, and administrators.

For paper proposals, please send a 250-word abstract as a Word attachment. For panel proposals, please submit a 250-word abstract of each paper to be presented by each of the three panel participants along with the proposed panel title. We will be using a blind-submission process. Please do not include your name on your proposal. Instead, in your covering email, please include your name(s), institutional affiliation (if any), paper title(s), and contact information.

Proposals and inquiries should be directed to: virginia-woolf@sfu.ca

The deadline for submissions is Feb. 1, 2013.

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Call for papers from VWM on Woolf and literary genre

The Virginia Woolf Miscellany has issued a call for papers for its 83rd issue, which will be published in spring 2013 on the theme of Virginia Woolf and literary genre.

The publication  invites short essays (up to 2,500 words) on the relationship between Woolf and literary genre, a category that includes the novel, the short story, the essay, poetry, drama and biography, as well as more specific genres such as lyric, epic, verse drama, elegy, satire, detective fiction, etc.

Potential topics include Woolf’s definition of a particular genre, her adherence to or challenging of generic conventions, her blending of genres, her relationship to writers of a particular genre and her work’s reception in varied genres.

Please send submissions to both guest editors Sara Sullam and Emily Kopley at sara.sullam@gmail.com and emily.kopley@gmail.com by June 1.

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Call for papers: IVWS panel at 2013 U of Louisville Conference

The International Virginia Woolf Society will host its 12th consecutive panel at the University of Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900, Feb. 21-23, 2013, and invites proposals for critical papers on any topic concerning Woolf studies.

A particular panel theme may be chosen depending on the proposals received.

Proposals should include the following, submitted by email:

• A cover page with your name, email address, mailing address, phone number, professional affiliation (if any), and the title of your paper
• A second anonymous page containing a 250-word paper proposal

Send to Kristin Czarnecki, kristin_czarnecki@georgetowncollege.edu, by Friday, Sept. 14.

The panel selection committee includes Jeanne Dubino, Mark Hussey, Jane Lilienfeld and Vara Neverow

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Call for papers on topic of Woolf and animals

Vara Neverow and Kristin Czarnecki, editors of the Virginia Woolf Miscellany, have issued a call for papers for the fall 2013 issue, #84.

The theme is Woolf and animals. From the animal nicknames she shared with loved ones; to the purchase of “a beautiful cat, a Persian cat” with her first earnings as a writer; from the cawing rooks in To the Lighthouse to the complex life of Flush to the disturbing animal imagery in Between the Acts, animals play a key role in Woolf’s life and writing.

The editors invite submissions discussing animals in Woolf both fictional and actual. They also welcome articles that align Woolf with animal elements in the work and lives of others.

Please send papers of up to 2,500 words to: Kristin Czarnecki at kristin_czarnecki@georgetowncollege.edu and Vara Neverow neverowv1@southernct.edu by Feb. 1, 2013.

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Submissions, latest issue of Virginia Woolf Miscellany

The fall 2012 issue of the Virginia Woolf Miscellany invites brief analyses and explorations of how queer studies can help or has helped illuminate Woolf’s life and work, and vice versa – how Woolf’s work and life nuances or otherwise influences queer studies, broadly conceived.

Send submissions of not more than 2,000 words to Madelyn Detloff and Brenda Helt at detlofmm@muohio.edu and helt0010@umn.edu by Feb. 15.

Read the newly published issue of Virginia Woolf Miscellany (No. 80, Fall 2011). It includes:

• Christine Froula’s review of The Essays of VW, VI (Random House, Chatto and Windus, Hogarth): pp. 26-28.
• Roberta Rubenstein’s review of The Edinburgh Companion to VW and the Arts (Edinburgh UP): pp.28-30.
• Leslie Hankins’ review of VW, Modernity and History (Palgrave Macmillan): pp. 30-31.
• My review of VW and the Study of Nature (Cambridge UP): pp.31-32.
• Jane Lilienfeld’s review of A Great Unrecorded History (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) : pp.32-33.
• Vara Neverow’s review of A Room of Their Own (Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University): pp. 33-35.

 

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Call for papers: Special issue of Woolf Studies Annual on Jews/Jewishness

The 2013 volume of Woolf Studies Annual will be devoted to the topic of Jews and/or Jewishness in Woolf’s writing.

We are less interested in the question of whether or not Woolf herself was or was not antisemitic (except insofar as this can be articulated in readings of her texts) than in how the figure of the Jew operates within her work. The special issue is not limited to work on Virginia Woolf herself, but also will welcome contributions on Leonard Woolf, and on the Bloomsbury milieu. In addition to full-length articles, we also envisage a forum of short commentary, and an annotated bibliography.

Forum:

• We invite brief commentary of up to 750 words on a relevant short passage from Woolf’s writing: for example, from the “Present Day” chapter of The Years; “The Duchess and the Jeweller”; “Street Haunting”; Three Guineas; Between the Acts, and elsewhere—there is no limitation on what you might select.
• Additionally, we welcome brief statements in response to the following broad questions:
  • How do Woolf’s representations of Jews compare with those of other modernist writers?
  • How have treatments of Woolf’s antisemitism/prejudice figured within Woolf scholarship?
  • In treating this topic within Woolf’s work, what are the salient issues?
  • What is the relation between her fiction and the extensive biographical record of Woolf’s comments/ruminations about Jews and Jewishness available in her letters, diaries, and memoirs? A number of such brief commentaries and statements would then be shared for response, and the opportunity for dialogue enabled, with the resulting texts published as a forum on the topic.
• Annotated Bibliography Recommendations for previously published scholarship and sources on the topic are also welcome and will be included as an annotated bibliography in the special issue.

Deadlines:

Forum commentaries/statements: June 30, 2012
Full-length articles (8,000-10,000 words): August 30, 2012 N.B. WSA submission guidelines apply.
Annotated Bibliography recommendations: November 15, 2012

(General articles on any topic may continue to be submitted for consideration.) please direct all correspondence, inquiries, submissions to woolfstudiesannual@gmail.com

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