[Vwoolf] Rather unexpected Woolf sighting in video game

Sat Dec 11 08:42:46 EST 2021

For those following this fascinating exchange about Woolf’s appearance in videogames (thank you Graham, Jean, and Adela!), I just wanted to chime in with a reminder about the special issue of Virginia Woolf Miscellany that Shilo McGiff and Valérie Favre are co-editing (Portmanteau Woolf). I think a piece that unpacks some of this material would be a fantastic fit for their issue.

Here’s a link to their call for submission (deadline 31 January 2022):

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Best,
Ben
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From: Vwoolf <vwoolf-bounces at lists.osu.edu> on behalf of Jean Mills via Vwoolf <vwoolf at lists.osu.edu>
Date: Monday, December 6, 2021 at 11:18 AM
To: Adela M Hurtado <amh581 at nyu.edu>
Cc: vwoolf <Vwoolf at lists.osu.edu>
Subject: Re: [Vwoolf] Rather unexpected Woolf sighting in video game
Exactly, Adela! There's much to unpack.

On Mon, Dec 6, 2021 at 12:09 PM Adela M Hurtado via Vwoolf <vwoolf at lists.osu.edu<mailto:vwoolf at lists.osu.edu>> wrote:
Hi there,

Thank you for sharing this! I’ll keep a look out for the suicide note quote once I get my hands on the new Xbox. An interesting tidbit is that the studio behind the Halo franchise is run by a woman, Bonnie Ross, who helped found it nearly 15 years ago. She has led initiatives for women, girls, and minorities in STEM and gaming careers and for diversity in video game storytelling, which she has purposefully done in the Halo series that she loves. Maybe she’s also a Woolf fan!

Just looked her up now and she’s one of only two women inducted into the industry’s Hall of Fame!

I have fun memories playing the Halo series with friends in high school, and so thank you for sharing this Woolf news.

Adela Hurtado

On Dec 6, 2021, at 11:11 AM, Graham Borland via Vwoolf <vwoolf at lists.osu.edu<mailto:vwoolf at lists.osu.edu>> wrote:

Hi Woolfians,

In an unusual enough Woolf sighting, I stumbled across a review of a new video game in the Halo franchise which mentions that a character in it quotes Woolf in a cutscene.

If the reviewer is to believed, however, the game seems to somewhat insensitively cite a perhaps all-too-predicable text of Woolf’s in an attempt to lend seriousness to the plot.

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Not the first Woolf-ism in a video game, however, as Jean Mills noted in her essay in the Cambridge Companion to To the Lighthouse.

Best wishes,
Graham
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"Feminist Theory" in The Oxford Handbook of Virginia Woolf, ed. by Anne Fernald, Oxford University Press, 2021.

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"'With every nerve in my body I stand for peace': Jane Ellen Harrison and the Heresy of War" in Reconsidering Peace and Patriotism during the First World War (Palgrave/Macmillan, 2017)
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Virginia Woolf, Jane Ellen Harrison, and the Spirit of Modernist Classicism (The Ohio State University Press, 2014)
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