June 3-6, 2010
Georgetown College
Thomas & King Leadership and Conference Center
International Annual Conference
Nearest Airport: Lexington, KY
Driving Directions
“Sharp stripes of shadow lay on the grass, and the dew dancing on the tips of the flowers and leaves made the garden like a mosaic of single sparks not yet formed into one whole. The birds, whose breasts were specked canary and rose, now sang a strain or two together, wildly, like skaters rollicking arm-in-arm, and were suddenly silent, breaking asunder.”
Virginia Woolf—The Waves
Keynote Speakers
- Bonnie Kime Scott, San Diego State University
Bonnie Kime Scott is Professor and Chair of Women's Studies at San Diego State University. She is a former President of the International Virginia Woolf Society. Her earliest writing helped set the Irish political and literary contexts of James Joyce, including the feminism of his day, as found in Joyce and Feminism (1984). The feminist re-vision of literary modernism has been at the heart of her research for decades. The collaborative critical anthology, Gender in Modernism: New Geographies, Complex Intersections (2007), serves as a sequel to The Gender of Modernism (1990), her ground breaking work in this area. Woolf is one of three women authors investigated in her two-volume study, Re-Figuring Modernism (1995). Recently she has pursued a lifelong interest in the environment. She teaches a course on "Women and the Environment" and recently completed the manuscript of Virginia Woolf and Modernist Uses of Nature: 'in the hollow of the wave.'
- Diana Swanson, Northern Illinois University
Diana Swanson is Acting Director of Women's Studies and Associate Professor of Women's Studies and English at Northern Illinois University. She teaches Feminist Theory, Growing Up Female, Women Across Cultures and Centuries, LBGT Studies, and Weird Books by Women Writers, among other courses. She researches and writes about Virginia Woolf, sexuality, feminism, environmental issues, and lesbian literature. Her publications include articles and book chapters in Palgrave Advances in Woolf Studies, Safe Space: Violence and Women's Writing, Woolf Studies Annual, and Twentieth Century Literature.
- Carrie Rohman, Lafayette College
Carrie Rohman joined the English faculty at Lafayette College in Easton, PA, two years ago. She was working in the area of "animal studies" long before the sub-discipline acquired its name, and her other research interests include modernism, posthumanism, and, recently, aesthetic theory. Her essays on writers such as Djuna Barnes, D.H. Lawrence, Rebecca West, and Italo Calvino have appeared in such journals as American Literature, Criticism, and Mosaic, and in a number of essay collections. Her book, Stalking the Subject: Modernism and the Animal, was published last year by Columbia University Press.
Art and Rare Book Exhibit,
Anne Wright
Wilson Gallery, Main Campus
May 13 - June 9
Silent Auction, with proceeds going to Old Friends, a Kentucky Facility for Retired Thoroughbreds.
The Virginia Woolf Collection©
Enjoy jewelry designed by Cynthia Nash® to commemorate
the 20th International Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf.
Made of tanzanite and garnet Swarovski® crystals, the
jewelry is elegant, sparkling, and natural, like Virginia
Woolf, one of the foremost writers of the twentieth century
whose life and literature we come together to celebrate.
With tanzanite representing Woolf’s favorite colored ink and
garnet symbolizing friendship, wholeness, and success,
Cynthia Nash’s Virginia Woolf jewelry is a lovely, lasting
memento of Woolf’s significance in our lives and the
fellowship we enjoy at each year’s conference.
To order, go to http://www.cynthianash.com/VirginiaWoolf.html. Orders placed by May 10th receive a 10% pre-conference discount and free shipping; use the code vwoolf at checkout. Your order will be waiting for you when you arrive at the conference.
Cost: Bracelet – $45, earrings – $30, necklace – $75
Contact Conference Organizer
Kristin Czarnecki
Assistant Professor of English
Georgetown College
400 E. College St.
Georgetown, KY 40324
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