In 2000 Taylor & Francis published my edited collection, Virginia Woolf in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, part of the Border Crossings series edited by Daniel Albright. The collection focused on Woolf’s writings in relation to a range of new technologies of her day. Two contributions in particular featured sound technologies: Bonnie Kime Scott’s analysis ...

Virginia Woolf’s Life and Writing: The Embodiment of Animal Studies Jeanne Dubino Animals abound in Virginia Woolf’s life and work. She refers to them in her diaries and letters; she uses animal names for herself, family, and friends—sometimes disparagingly, but generally with affection. She represents animals in multiple ways throughout her fiction and nonfiction: as ...

Brief Summary of the Talk The intellectual significance of Night and Day in Woolf’s development as a writer and thinker has long been overlooked. In this paper, I consider Woolf’s critical engagement with Platonism in the novel, where it appears both as genre model and as a reservoir of imagery, to which Woolf makes polyvalent references that ...

Woolf Seminar Luca Pinelli – Virginia Woolf, Simone de Beauvoir, and the Materiality of Life/Writing 24 October 2025 – 19.00 pm (Turkey time) This talk addresses the resonances between Virginia Woolf and Simone de Beauvoir, in particular by arguing that both authors engage, though from sometimes different angles, with the very ‘stuff’ of life. Although ...

Christine Froula Victorian intellectual Leslie Stephen’s public and private stances toward women, as well as actual and fictional women in his personal orbit and public purview, cast fresh, scintillating light over his life, work, and biography. This talk foregrounds a select array of the women in Stephen’s private and public life to sketch backgrounds for ...

Title: Virginia Woolf, Money, and the Oldest Profession for Women Speaker: Vara Neverow Date: 28.12.2024 Dr. Neverow’s talk will bring together various aspects of Woolf’s sustained focus on prostitution throughout her work. Woolf consistently defends those who work in the “world’s oldest profession for women” because those women have extremely limited alternatives to survive. However, ...