1A: Women Walking the City 
Chair: Emily Kopley, Stanford University

“A New World”: Professions, Freedom and Form in The Years
Evelyn Chan, University of Cambridge

London in Virginia Woolf’s The Years: Mapping and Re-Mapping Gender and Class Hierarchies
Audrey Johnson, Francis Marion University

Rhythmic Reciprocity: Women in Woolf’s London
Stella Deen, SUNY New Paltz

1B: Geographies of Mind
Chair: Eva Stadler, Fordham University

Woolf, Creativity, and Madness: from Freud to f MRI 
Michelle Wick, Smith College
A/V= computer with powerpoint; projector and speakers

"Such is my brain to me; lighted rooms": Virginia Woolf, Doris Lessing and the geographies of the mind 
Dorinda Guest, University of Kent, UK

The Hum of Language: Woolf and Neural Modulation
Laurence Chartier, Common Reader

Precursory Psychogeographic Elements in Virginia Woolf's Urban Novels
Sara Villa, State University of Milan
A/V= computer with powerpoint; projector and speakers

1C: Cities of Feeling: Emotion and the City
Chair: David Garrett Izzo, American Public University

Nailing a flag to a mast in a gale: London and Writing in The Diary of Virginia Woolf
Drew Shannon, College of Mount St. Joseph

“She Knew How to Read the People Who Were Passing Her”: Empathy and Literary Character in Virginia Woolf’s City Scenes
Samuel Cross, Yale University

Where is the Laughter of the Girls? Exploring Ripples of Subversion in Virginia Woolf’s “In the Orchard” and “A Woman’s College from Outside”
Erin Menut, University of Utah

Virginia Woolf and the Sentimental in Mrs. Dalloway
Keri Barber, UC Riverside  A/V=computer projector 

1D: Victorian Woolf
Chair: Travis McKinney, Rutgers University

The Multi-Faceted Virginia Stephen and the Multigenre Biography Paper
Diana Royer, University of Miami
 
On or About 1895: Bloomsbury, Orlando, and the Legacy of the Wilde Trials
Mary Stewart Atwell, Washington University in St. Louis

All the Solid Objects: Characterizing Servants in The Years
Monica Miller, University of California Berkley   A/V= powerpoint using Mac

1E: Woolf in the Wild: Negotiating City and Country
Chair: Renee Dickinson, Radford University

The City, The Forest and Evolutionary Time: An Ecocritical Reading of The Voyage Out
Laura White, Binghamton University

Halting the Urbanization of Consciousness in To the Lighthouse
Kimberly Lamm, Pratt Institute

Woolf’s Naturalist Critique of Culture in Between the Acts
Sarah Dunlap, SUNY Fredonia
 
‘When dogs will become men’: melancholia, canine allegories and theriocephalous figures in Woolf’s urban contact zones’
Jane Goldman, Glasgow University

Session 2 Thursday 2:00-3:30

2A: "Leaving the City": Virginia Woolf's Travelers
Chair: Johanna Garvey, Fairfield University

The Voyage Out and the Hotel
Randi Saloman, Cornell University

“To Live Differently”: Modernity, London, and Female Kinship in The Years
Elise Swinford, Miami University of Ohio

Hiding Behind Text in The Waves
Erin Kay Penner, Cornell University

2B: City Space as Creative Space
Chair: Neva Bermundo, Ateneo de Naga University

Houses of Fiction, Communities of Words: Conceptions of Literature as Environment in Woolf’s Essays
Christina Alt, University of Ottawa
 
‘City Symphonies’ in Modernist Literature and Film
Laura Marcus, University of Edinburgh

More Spatial than Everything Else: Mrs Dalloway and Fredric Jameson’s Theory of Postmodern Urban Space
Arina Lungu-Cirstea, University of Warwick A/V = Needs Powerpoint


2C: Memory, Geography, and War 
Chair: Anne Hoffman, Fordham University
 
“Woolfian meditations on ‘truth’ in the 1930s cultural marketplace”
Jeanette McVicker, SUNY Fredonia

To “make that country our own country”: The Years, Novelistic Historiography, and the 1930s
Erica Delsandro, Washington University in St. Louis and Bucknell University

“Singing to itself, a chorus, alone”: City, Country, and the Representation of War in The Years
Allyson Booth, U.S. Naval Academy

Dead Man Walking: Literalized Metaphor and Traumatic Experience in Mrs. Dalloway
Elizabeth Outka, University of Richmond

 
2D: Cosmopolitan Woolf
Chair: Yvonne Richter, Georgia State University

Virginia Woolf, Urban Warfare, and the Retreat from Moscow
Michael Davis, Le Moyne College
A/V = Needs Computer Hooked up to Screen / Projector

On (Not) Seeing Berlin: Wandering with Woolf, (Wölfli), and Walser
Nathaniel Otting, Simmons College

Cosmopolitanism and Materiality in the Fiction of Virginia Woolf and A. S. Byatt
Elizabeth Hicks, University of Wollongong

Cosmopolitan Woolf: A Lighthouse in the Caribbean
Erica Johnson, Wagner College

2E: Stalking the Cyber-Woolf in a Digital Age 
Chair: Elisa Sparks, Clemson University

Woolf, Cosmopolitanism, and Cyberspace
Lisa Coleman, Oklahoma State University

We Built this City: Constructing Woolf World in Second Life
Jan Holmevik and Sean Callot, Clemson University

Forward into the Past: Virginia Woolf and the Utopian Impulse
Elisa Kay Sparks, Clemson University

PLENARY 1: 4:00-5:30 

        Welcome, Rev. Robert R. Grimes, S.J., Dean of Fordham College at Lincoln Center

        "Pausing, Waiting," Tamar Katz, Brown University

                Introduced by Celia Marshik, Stony Brook University

5:30-6:30 Reception, Cafeteria Atrium

Dinner on your own

8:00 Staged reading of "Vita and Virginia"starring Alison Fraser

FRIDAY JUNE 5

8:00 Continental Breakfast, Lowenstein Plaza Lobby

Session 3 Friday 9:00-10:30

3A: Flush
Chair:

Flush’s Florence
Thaine Stearns, Sonoma State University  A/V=Needs Projector to hook up to Mac Laptop

Dogs, Women, and Adaptation in Flush
Jeanne Dubino, Appalachian State University

“Unleashing the Underdog”: Technology of Place in Virginia Woolf’s Flush
Verita Sriratana, University of St. Andrews A/V = Needs Powerpoint   

Flush’s Room
Molly Hoff,  

3B: Bloomsbury and Fashion 1
Chair: Amy Elkins, University of Virginia

Clothes Make the Flaneuse
Catherine Mintler, University of Oklahoma 

The Language of Shop Windows in Virginia Woolf’s Novels
Katarzyna Rybinska, Wroclaw University

Cities of Fashion: Sartorial Topographies in ‘Street Haunting,’ Mrs Dalloway and The Waves
Randi Koppen, University of Bergen

Self-Fashioning Identity: Clothing and Subjectivity in Orlando: A Biography
Ula Lukszo, Stony Brook University


3C:  Space and Orientation
Chair: Glyn Salton-Cox, Yale University

Cosmopolitanism from Below in Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway and "Street Haunting"
Christine Sizemore, Spelman College

Street Theatre: The Dramatisation of Woolf's London
Elizabeth Wright, Bath Spa University A/V = Needs Powerpoint 

Virginia Woolf and the Threat from Above
Emily Cersonsky, Columbia University

"And myriads of things merged in one thing": metonymy, accumulation and displacement in Mrs. Dalloway
Teresa Prudente, University of Turin

3D: Woolf, Women, and Publishing, 1915-2009
Chair:

Books, Boats, and Bindings: The Voyage Out and the Hogarth Press
Alice Staveley, Stanford University

Virginia Woolf in the Library: Private Collections, Public Institutions, and Lumber Rooms
Denise Marshall, Farleigh Dickinson University A/V = Needs a Projector, Screen, & Internet Access   

The Haunted Room: On Women, Writing and Publishing, 80 Years After A Room of One's Own
Carole DeSanti, Viking/Penguin Group

 
3E: Woolf and Other Modernists
Chair: Angel Jimenez, University of South Florida

"I can't / I must go slowly": Hope Mirrlees's Paris and the Hostile City
Sandeep Parmar, University of Cambridge
A/V= powerpoint 

The City of the Mind in a Time of War: Virginia Woolf and Elizabeth Bowen
Patricia Laurence, CUNY Brooklyn College A/V = Needs an Overhead Projector

Woolf is the City: At the Intersection  of Virginia Woolf Street and Marinetti Avenue
Bradley Bowers, Barry University A/V = Needs Powerpoint

Sex and the City: Eliot and Woolf's Vision of Post WWI London
Anne Collett, University of Wollongong


3F: Woolf and Plagiarism/Plagiarizing Woolf and Her Readers: If it
can happen here… 
Chair: Karen Levenback, Virginia Woolf Miscellany

Reading Plagiarism: Sheep in Woolf’s Clothing
Karen Levenback, Virginia Woolf Miscellany
A/V=Powerpoint presentation

Woolf Studies in the Era of Imagined Originality
Vara Neverow, Southern Connecticut State University

The Art of Borrowing, Or What Parroting Woolf Taught Me about the Legal, Ethical, and Economic Consequences of Using Another’s Words
Danell Jones, Montana State University

Avoiding Plagiarism: Sumara’s “Eccentric Curriculum” Teaches Woolf
Jane Wood, Park University

10:30-11:00 Coffee break, Lowenstein Plaza Lobby

11:00-12:30 PLENARY 2: The Years, Street Music and Acoustic Space, Anna Snaith, Kings College London

            Introduced by Alice Staveley, Stanford University            

12:30-1:30 Lunch, Cafeteria Atrium

Session 4 Friday 1:30-3:00

4A: Woolf's Creative Violence (powerpoint/projector)
Chair: Brenda Silver, Dartmouth College

War and Violence in the 1930s: Woolf's Aesthetics of Anti-Action
Sarah Cole, Columbia University

No Retreat: Writing, Renovating and Resisting at Monk's House
Victoria Rosner, Columbia University and Texas A & M University

Woolf and the Falling Man: Spectatorship, Violence, and Trauma
Mark Hussey, Pace University

4B: Queer City/Feminist Geography
Chair: Bryony Randall, University of Glasgow

Feminist Geographies in Virginia Woolf's The London Scene
Alessandra Capperdoni, Simon Fraser University

Constantinople and the Dark Continent: Lesbian Desire and Empire in Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse and Orlando
Marieka Kalkhove, Queens University

Other Tongues: Orientalist Identification and Same-Sex Desire in Woolf and Bryher
Joanna Grant, Tuskegee University

The Roman and the Feminine
Keith Haughton, University of Waterloo

4C: How Should One Read a Map?: Intersections of Public and Private
Mappings 
Chair: Steven Funk, American Jewish University

“I shall fit a plug into the wall; and listen to the past”: The City, Escape, and Virginia Woolf’s Wartime London
Lolly Ockerstrom, Park University

Mapping the Interior: the City and Identity in the Travel Writing of Virginia Woolf and Jan Morris
Jane Wood, Park University

Woolf’s Aesthetics of Disorientation: Death in “Flying Over London” 
Virginia Brackett, Park University

4D: From London to New York
Chair: Christopher French, Hartwick College

Imagination and the City: Literary myth-making in Virginia's Woolf's Orlando and Hart Crane's The Bridge
Erik Fuhrer, University of Glasgow

Grace Paley's New Yorkers and Mrs. Dalloway's Londoners
Margaret Schramm, Hartwick College

Street-Haunting with Virginia Woolf and Rebecca Solnit
William Morgan, New York University

Woolf’s Ameritopia
Genevieve Abravanel, Franklin and Marshall College

4E: 3504: Fordham University Undergraduate Roundtable
Chair: Anne Fernald (Students will give brief, 6-minute presentations.)

Trauma translated in Mrs. Dalloway
Achira Beach

"Shall we lay the blame on the War?": War and Physicality in Saturday and Mrs. Dalloway
Megan Branch

Lily Briscoe: A Feminist? 
Adelle Pica

The Bracketed Form: Roger Fry's Significant Form in "Time Passes"
Roksana Filipowska

Orlando: Androgyny in Fiction and Film
Justine Rella

The Waves: A Prose Poem
Becca Webster

"Woolfish, Alas, but Tough": Sylvia Plath's Inheritance of Woolf's Legacy
Diana Rankin

4F: Creative Writers Reading 1
Chair: Delano Greenidge-Copprue, Manhattan School of Music

Reading from Mrs. Ramsay's Knee, a new collection of poems focusing on "intimacy itself," as Lily thought, leaning her head on Mrs. Ramsay's knee.
Idris Anderson, San Francisco Poet    

Reading from  "Peter Walsh," a long poem which borrows the name of a character from Mrs. Dalloway. 
Dawn Potter

"A Gap of Sky": Woolf's "Street Haunting, A London Adventure" for 2009 
A reading of a short story based on Woolf's 1930 essay; "A Gap of Sky" was described by the Times Literary Supplement as 'a modernist comic epic in miniature.'
Anna Hope

"Mr. Dabydeen" (fiction)
Abby Durden

      

3:00-3:30 Snack break, Lowenstein Plaza Lobby

3:30-5:00, KEYNOTE ADDRESS: "Private Revelations and Public Revolutions: Some Routes Through Woolf’s Work," Rebecca Solnit

            Introduced by William Morgan, New York University

5:30-7:00 RECEPTION, Mercantile Library, 17 E 47th St.

            Take the B or the D two stops Downtown to 47th-50th/Rockefeller Center. Walk 1 1/2 blocks East on 47th.

Dinner on your own

8:00 The Stephen Pelton Dance Theater performs with Princeton

10:00 Post-performance meet and mingle, Library Bar at the Hudson Hotel, 356 W 58th St. (Cash/Credit Bar)

SATURDAY, JUNE 6

8:00 Breakfast, Lowenstein Plaza Lobby

Session 5 Saturday 9:00-10:30

5A: "Enough Powder to Blow up St. Pauls:" The Documentary Forms of  The Years  and  Three Guineas
Chair: Dr. Jean Mills, CUNY John Jay College

Witnessing the "Martyrdom of Madrid": Weeping Women and Slaughter in the City
Ashley Foster, CUNY Graduate Center and Baruch College

Scrapbooking Modernity: The 1930s Photomontages of Hannah Höch and Virgina Woolf
Anne Donlon, CUNY Graduate Center and John Jay College

Transient Space, Cityscapes: Mapping "The Sexual Life of Women" from The Pargiters to  The Years
Rowena Kennedy-Epstein, CUNY Graduate Center


5B: Navigating the Teeming Streets: Female Flânerie in Woolf  
Chair: Evelyn Haller, Doane College
 
"Street Haunting”: Commodity Culture, Generosity and the Woman Artist
Kathryn Simpson, University of Birmingham

Public Privacy: Woolf, Flânerie and the City 
Wendy Gan, University of Hong Kong

The Comparison of City Female’s Consciousness and Marriage in Virginia Woolf and Zhang Ailing’s works
Li Jiayang, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
    read by: 

 
5C: Woolf's Twenty-First Century
Chair: Lily-Marie Lamar, Mills College

Mapping and Re-mapping the Metropolis: Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway and Zadie Smith’s White Teeth
Barbara Lonnquist, Chestnut Hill College

Like a cheap ticket out of here: Sandra Cisneros's Revision of Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own
Heather Alumbaugh, College of Mount Saint Vincent

Beyond the Icon: Virginia Woolf in Contemporary Fiction
Alice Lowe, Common Reader

From Wednesday to Saturday: Woolf’s London through McEwan’s Eyes
Meg Albrinck, Lakeland College


5D: Woolf and the Language of Music 
Chair: 

Reconfigured Terrain: Aural Architecture in Woolf's Novels
Elicia Clements, York University  A/V= Needs Powerpoint

“Flourish, spring, burgeon, burst!”: The Joycean Conceit of Language as Music in Virginia Woolf’s “The String Quartet”
Wayne Chapman, Clemson University A/V = Needs Powerpoint   

A Match Burning in a Crocus: Form, Meaning and the Unifying Power of Language in Virginia Woolf's The Waves
Magdalen Wolfe, Common Reader

Urban Soundscapes and the Rhythm of The Waves
Mariko Dawson Zare, University of Southern California


5E:Archival Treasure Hunts: Urban, Rural, Global A/V =Needs Computer & Projector for Powerpoint
Chair: Judith Allen, University of Pennsylvania 

A City in the Archives: Virginia Woolf and the Statues of London
Diane F. Gillespie, Washington State University

An Archive in the City: The Suffragettes and Anna Karenina in the Berg Collection: Treasures in the Holographs of Virginia Woolf's "The Movies"
Leslie Kathleen Hankins, Cornell College

New World Archives: Scattered Seeds of a New Scholarship
Suzanne Bellamy, University of Sydney

 
5F: "More Forms and Stranger": Woolf, Theory and Teaching
Chair: Cheryl Hindrichs, Boise State University

“Find Our Own Way for Ourselves”: Orlando as an Uncommon Reader in the Critical Theory Classroom
Cheryl Hindrichs, Boise State University

“Clarissa Had a Theory”: Mrs. Dalloway and the Value of Literary Studies
Nick Smart, The College of New Rochelle

Rags, Matches, and Petrol… Burning “Theory” and Engaged Pedagogy
Madelyn Detloff, Miami University

10:30-11:00 Coffee break, Lowenstein Plaza Lobby

Session 6 Saturday 11:00-12:30

6A: Walking into History: Mapping London's Past (Alexandra Harris)
Chair: Alexandra Harris, University of Liverpool

'Great avenues of civilisation'
David Bradshaw, University of Oxford

Virginia Woolf Underground
Alexandra Harris, University of Liverpool

The News in the Streets
Lara Feigel, King's College London

Sculptural Presences in the Work of Virginia Woolf
Frances Spalding, Newcastle University A/V = Digital Slide Projector for a Powerpoint Presentation (I think a computer / projector will suffice) 

6B: The Somatic City: Woolf and Phenomenology
Chair: Charley Mull, University of Massachusetts, Boston

Imagining Flânerie Beyond Anthropocentrism: Virginia Woolf, the London Archipelago, and City Tortoises
Caroline Pollentier, Université de Paris 7

"Oddities, beauties, rarities may occur": The Journey In or the Uncanny Aestheticization of the City in The London Scene
Laetitia Rech, University of Provence

"London Lies Before Me under Mist": The Role of the City in Navigating Subjectivity in The Waves.
Meghan Fox, SUNY, Stony Brook

6C: Urban Genders
Chair: Izabela Filipiak, Mills College

Sex & the City: Gendered Bodies and the Cityscape in Mrs. Dalloway
Lynn Hall, Miami University

Women’s 'Herstory'/Cities of Women
Jane Lilienfeld, Lincoln University of Missouri (to be read by another)

Queering London: Virginia Woolf and the Politics of Perception
Kimberly Coates, Bowling Green State University

Gender, territory, and religion in Three Guineas
Alyda Faber, Atlantic School of Theology


6D: Nationalism and British Politics
Chair: Jamie McDaniel, Case Western Reserve University
 
The London Suburb that Framed the World: Virginia Woolf and the 1924 British Empire Exhibition
Alexandra Peat, University of Toronto

Woolf and the Whig Interpretation of History
Elizabeth Hirsh, University of South Florida

Uneasy Heads: Woolf, Westminster & Whitehall
Benjamin Harvey, Mississippi State University A/V = Needs Powerpoint  

For Civilization’s Sake: Mrs. Dalloway and Oppositional Englishness
Ana Mitric, University of Richmond


6E: Exhibiting Virginia Woolf’s Urban Affiliations: An
Undergraduate Research Project at Alfred University
Chair: Robert Reginio, Alfred University

The Archive in the Classroom: Teaching Woolf’s Novels Through Primary Source Research
Robert Reginio, Alfred University A/V = Needs Powerpoint 

Existing Between the Acts: Reconciling Past and Present in Virginia Woolf’s Novels
Lyndsey Morris, Alfred University (Class of 2010)

The Friendship and Affair of Woolf and Vita Sackville-West: Redefining
Family and the Role of Women
Laura Reyome, Alfred University (class of 2010)

6F: Creative Writers Reading 2
Chair: Delano Greenidge-Copprue, Manhattan School of Music

Reading from What I Saw and How I Lied (fiction)
Judy Blundell

"The Collection" (fiction)
Daniel A. Hoyt, Baldwin-Wallace College

The Wall between our Worlds: Writing a Novel,  Musing on Woolf.
Some thoughts on this process, and a reading from  some passages in Cost, where the wall between our  worlds wore thin.
Roxana Robinson

12:30-2:00 Lunch on your own

  

Session 7: Saturday 2:00-3:30

7A: Bloomsbury and Fashion 2   
Chair: Elizabeth Sheehan

"Definite, rather bad, taste?": Ottoline Morrell In and Out of
the Eyes of Bloomsbury
Celia Marshik, Stony Book University A/V = Needs a Computer and Projector

"for ever and ever she will make my clothes": Virginia Woolf
and Dressmaking at the Omega
Elizabeth Sheehan, University of Virginia A/V = Needs a Computer and Projector 

Virginia Woolf's Couture Dress
Jane Garrity, University of Colorado, Boulder A/V = Needs a Computer and Projector

7B: Architectural and Material Woolf 
Chair: Allison Britt, Mills College

Representations of Urban Transformation in The Years
Xiaoqin Cao, North University of China (to be read by Suzanne Bellamy)

City Types in Jacob's Room
Georgia Johnston, St. Louis University

Back Alleys and Boulevards: The Monumental City of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway
Katherine Evans, Boston University

The Bestseller and “Literature of Quality”: Flush, The Barretts of Wimpole Street, and Cultural Hierarchies
Melissa Sullivan, Rosemont College

7C: Theories of Woolfian Space
Chair: Patricia Morgne Cramer, 

"Dark pours over the outlines of houses and towers": Virginia Woolf’s Prismatic Poetics of Space
Federico Sabatini, University of Turin

A ‘Thirdspace’ of one’s own: Virginia Woolf and re-conceptualizing the ‘space of representation’
Sumandro Chattapadhyay, Jawaharlal Nehru University

Virginia Woolf and the Gendering of Sacred Space
Jane DeGay, Leeds Trinity and All Saints


7D: Woolf & Visual Culture 
Chair: Cheryl Mares,

Mrs Dempster Aloft: Mrs Dalloway's Cubist Narrative
Susan Kennedy, Mills College 

The Long Take: Cinematizing Stream of Consciousness
Tiffany DeRewal, Villanova University

Urban Space and the Hieroglyphics of 'The Cinema'
Jesse Schotter, Yale University

"I had to put some lipstick on her mouth" – Man Ray Shaping Virginia Woolf’s Image
Silke Greskamp, University of Oldenburg A/V = Needs Powerpoint   


7E: Woolf Teaching, Teaching Woolf  
Chair: 

The Streets of London:Virginia Woolf’s Development of a Pedagogical Style
Beth Daugherty, Otterbein College

On Not Teaching Virginia Woolf: Sylvia Plath Reading Woolf and Teaching Modernism
Amanda Golden, University of Washington

How Should One Write an Essay? Teaching Virginia Woolf in First-Year Composition”
Kristin Czarnecki, Georgetown College

Recreating Woolf’s Public and Private Spaces in Architectural Design Education
Sevinc Kurt, Cyprus International University A/V = Needs Powerpoint


7F: Creating Rooms of Our Own: Girls Write Now on Woolf's Urban Legacy

This session will feature GWN mentor-mentee pairs reading their own original works inspired by Virginia Woolf and the city, reflecting on the Women’s Project recent production of Virginia Woolf's “Freshwater," and engaging in a group creative writing exercise based on the GWN workshop model.The silent auction this year will benefit Girls Write Now. 

Brittany Barker, mentee              Naz Riahi, mentor       
Josleen Wilson, mentor                Diana Diaz, mentee
Ceilidh Morgan, mentee               Erin Baer, mentor
Reema Sharma, mentee

4:00-5:30 INSPIRED BY WOOLF: KATHERINE LANPHER in conversation with DR. RUTH GRUBER, SUSAN SELLERS, and KRIS LUNDBERG

5:30-7:00 RECEPTION, Cafeteria Atrium

7:00 BANQUET, 12th Floor Lounge 

        Take the elevator to 11 and then walk up the glass-fronted central stair. 

        Elevator car 6 goes all the way to the 12th floor.

SUNDAY, JUNE 7

8:00 Continental breakfast, Lowenstein Plaza Lobby

Session 8 Sunday 9:00-10:30

8A: London in Motion
Chair: Teresa Prudente, University of Turin

Public Transport in Woolf’s City Novels: The London Omnibus
Eleanor McNees, University of Denver AV Powerpoint

The (Modernist) View from Woolf’s Automobiles: Urban Topography, Fractured Topology, and Modern Subjectivity
Brenda Helt, Metropolitan State University  A/V= powerpoint 

From “all novels begin with an old lady in the corner opposite” to “the little stories that one made up in omnibuses”: Vehicles of Public Transport in Woolf’s City Writing
Elizabeth Evans, Wake Forest University

Avoid the Tube: "Strolling Through London with Woolf"
Ruth Saxton, Mills College

 
8B: Objects, Scraps, and Flowers
Chair:
 
The Lost Unity of the Object as the Condition to a New Unity of Meaning in "Solid Objects" of Virginia Woolf
Nuno Silva, University of Coimbra

Flowers of London: Defining Identity in "Portrait of a Londoner" and Mrs. Dalloway
Ryan Fletcher, University of Texas at Dallas

"Orts, scraps and fragments": National Identity and Empire Cities in Troilus and Cressida and Between the Acts
Iolanda Plescia, Roma Tre University


8C: Contemporary Woolf
Chair: Sara Prieto, SUNY New Paltz

Scattered Hours: How Virginia Woolf Haunts Penelope Lively’s City of the Mind
Adrienne McCormick, SUNY Fredonia

To the Lighthouse by the Bay: Inter/Views on the Berkeley Repertory Theatre’s Adaptation of Woolf's Novel Eighty Years On
Janet Winston, Humboldt State University A/V = Needs Laptop Hookup for Mac, Projector/Screen, VCR/DVD Players

Virginia Woolf in the Cyber City: Connecting in the Virtual Public Square
Paula Maggio, The University of Akron A/V = Needs Projector, Speakers, & VGA Cord

 
8D: Woolf and Empire 
Chair: Elizabeth Foley, Fordham University

Street Haunting from Abroad
Scott Cohen, Stonehill College

“All India lay behind him”: Metropolitan Perception(s) in the London of Mrs. Dalloway
Sara Gerend, Aurora University

“Moments of pride in England:” Woolf, Joyce, and the Complexities of Colonial India
Lynne Bongiovanni, College of Mount Saint Vincent

A Passage From India: Peter Walsh, London and Support of Empire in Mrs. Dalloway
Irene Klosko, Holy Family University

8E: Far From the Madding Crowd: Woolf in the Country 
Chair:

Sapphism in the Country: Virginia Woolf's Lesbians in Mrs. Dalloway , Orlando , and To the Lighthouse
Kathryn Klein, SUNY Stony Brook

“No Room for More”: Woolf’s Escape from London to Scotland, 1938
Rishona Zimring, Lewis and Clark College

Town Queer, Country Queer: Homographesis and London’s Role
in Woolf’s Orlando and Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray
Emily Lyons, Northern Arizona University

Virginia Woolf and Hampstead: Familiar Not Intimate Spaces
Krystyna Colburn, Common Reader A/V = Needs Computer & Projector (She is Bringing a Flash Drive)   

8F: NEW DIRECTIONS IN WOOLF CRITICISM
Pat Laurence, Karen Levenback
A roundtable discussion on recent Woolf criticism. 

10:30 Coffee break, Lowenstein Plaza Lobby

Session 9 Sunday 11:00-12:30

9A: The City as Transitional Text: Woolf, London, and Modernity
Chair: Federico Sabatini, University of Turin

Re-Negotiating London: Virginia Woolf's 1924 Return to the City
Jean Mills, John Jay College, CUNY
 
Domestic Place and Public Space: Mrs. Dalloway's London
Linda Camarasana, SUNY College at Old Westbury
 
Circulating London: National Projection and "The London Scene"
Rebecca Wisor, St. Joseph's University

 
9B: City and Country Contrasts 
Chair: Vara Neverow

Leslie Stephen’s Empirical Sublime
Catherine Hollis, University of California Berkeley 
A/V=Mac and Powerpoint

The Telescope and "The Searchlight": Rural Spying and Aerial Bombing
Gregory Feeley, Common Reader

A ‘pink and gold; domed’ Scarborough: Seeing Constantinople from Dods Hill
Melissa Wisner, Yale University

Transgressive Sex and the City: Contrasting Woolf’s Urban and Rural
Sexualities
Vara Neverow, Southern Connecticut State University

9C: Movement and Rhythm in the City
Chair: Sarah Cornish, Fordham University

Intensity of place and circulating atoms in Mrs Dalloway
Juliana Lopoukhine, Paris-Ouest Nanterre La Défense

"The Burden of Individual Life": Urban Character in The Waves
Eric Sandberg, University of Edinburgh

"Dispersed Are We": The Private 'I' and the Public Sphere in Virginia Woolf's Between the Acts
Mia Spiro, York University


9D: Virginia Woolf's Postwar London
Chair: Teresa Boyer, Claremont Graduate University

War and the City: The Grey Ghost in Mrs. Dalloway
Renee Dickinson, Radford University
 A/V = powerpoint, would like to know if personal computer is necessary or if she may only bring a zip drive 

"How Strange": Septimus Smith in Postwar London
Molly Hite, Cornell University

Posthumous Was a Woman: World War I Memorials and Woolf's Dead Poet's Society
Bette London, University of Rochester

9E: An Undergraduate Course Looks at Virginia Woolf and Toni
Morrison
Chair, Lisa Williams, Ramapo College of New Jersey

Imprints of Colonialism in Woolf and Morrison
Tracey Spinato, undergraduate student, Ramapo College of New Jersey

Memory and the Past in Woolf and Morrison
Gretchen Kaser, undergraduate student, Ramapo College of New Jersey

Fire and Water in the Novels of Toni Morrison and Virginia Woolf
Elyse Wunschel, undergraduate student, Ramapo College of New Jersey

Loss and Healing in Beloved and To the Lighthouse
Kristen Moledo, undergraduate student, Ramapo College of New Jersey

9F: Writers Read 3: Contests Winners from the College at Sixty read their work
The College at Sixty, named for Fordham's location on 60th Street, is a nationally recognized program here at Fordham's Lincoln Center Campus, serving as a bridge back into the classroom for persons over 50 interested in learning  in a relaxed, intellectual environment. College at Sixty students were invited to submit creative work inspired by or in the style of Virginia Woolf. The winning entrants will read their work during this session.

Chair: Laura Greeney, Fordham University

Terry Herbert, "The Minutes: An Homage to Virginia Woolf and Michael Cunningham"
Joanna DeWitt, "Farewell to the Admiral"
Allen Beyer, "And One to Grow On" (to be read by Charlotte Beyer Fiveson)
Myra Feder, "Coming of Age"
Joyce Hilly, "Beautiful Boy"
Isabela Garcia Spiegel, "A Letter"
Tony Herbert, "The Visitor"

12:30 Box lunch pick-up, Lowenstein Plaza Lobby

12:30-2:00 CLOSING PLENARY: Jessica Berman, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

            Introduced by Mark Hussey, Pace University