[Vwoolf] Issue 100 of the Virginia Woolf Miscellany--the final draft is now on WordPress

Fri Aug 25 15:00:36 EDT 2023

I second Mark’s congratulations, Vera. And a deeply felt thank you. It is easy to take for granted this wonderful resource that has appeared so regularly over the years. But how fortunately we all are! Thank you for this labor of love that teaches and entertains us all. 

Danell

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Congratulations Vara. VWM is such an incredibly rich resource, to say nothing of the fascinating story of Woolf studies it tells from the early 1970s to today! From: Neverow, Vara S. <neverowv1@ southernct. edu> Sent: Friday, August 25, 

Congratulations Vara. VWM is such an incredibly rich resource, to say nothing of the fascinating story of Woolf studies it tells from the early 1970s to today!

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Subject: Issue 100 of the Virginia Woolf Miscellany--the final draft is now on WordPress

Dear Woolfians, 

The final version of Issue 100 of the <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/virginiawoolfmiscellany.wordpress.com/virginia-woolf-miscellany-issue-100-spring-summer-2023/__;!!KGKeukY!ytL5fDDqMnmbmVJo4MbX2Fxx8OCBRkDNk3XnVybGcW1XUe2kUeqFUMj1HoXwBQ0K_kyyEx9tm0bcZILGEWVfJQ$>  Virginia Woolf Miscellany is now available on WordPress.

This version is longer than the previous draft that was posted in early August. It includes more contributions as well as a short bibliography of recent publications and also has a number of different illustrations. 

Should you wish to glance at the updated overview of the issue in this email rather than on the webpage, it is included below. The summary provides more information about the issue than the previous one.

Please contact me if you have any questions about contributing to the Miscellany or acquiring copies of the Miscellany. 

Best wishes,

Vara

Virginia Woolf Miscellany, Issue 100, Spring/Summer 2023

Special Topic: The Evolution of the Virginia Woolf Miscellany

This issue of the Miscellany is dedicated to the special topic “The Evolution of the Virginia Woolf Miscellany.” To access the final version of the issue, click  <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/virginiawoolfmiscellany.files.wordpress.com/2023/08/vwm100spring-summer2023-final.pdf__;!!KGKeukY!ytL5fDDqMnmbmVJo4MbX2Fxx8OCBRkDNk3XnVybGcW1XUe2kUeqFUMj1HoXwBQ0K_kyyEx9tm0bcZIL24-ABQw$> here. (If you downloaded the earlier iteration of the issue, please discard it–this final version is different and includes additional contributions.)

To view the Table of Contents, go to page 25.

This special theme, which focuses on the origins, history, and impact of the Miscellany, was edited by J. J. Wilson (the founding editor of the Miscellany), Vara Neverow (the current editor), and Alec Pollak (the guest editor). The “To the Readers” section (pages 1-5) offers each editor’s introductory statement.

The contributors to this special topic, in the order of their work, are Morris Beja (who discusses the founding of the Virginia Woolf Society and notes its early and ongoing affiliation with the Miscellany), Diane F. Gillespie, Peter Stansky, Sandra Inskeep-Fox, Katherine C. Hill-Miller, Maggie Humm, Beth Rigel Daugherty, Karen Levenback, Rebecca McNeer, Emily Kopley, Joel Hawkes, JoAnn Borri, Robert B. Todd, Alex Clarke, Gill Lowe, Lesley Higgins, Arpi Sarafian, Rowena Kennedy-Epstein, AnneMarie Bantzinger, Anne Byrne, Stefano Rozzoni, Mine Özyurt Kiliç, and Robert McDowell (see pages 26-47).

These contributions provide a rich and varied range of perspectives including historical details, insights about the benefits provided by the Miscellany, many different personal recollections and reflections, several engaging teaching techniques, and a poem.

Remembering Suzanne Bellamy

The issue also offers heartfelt tributes to Suzanne Bellamy (1948-2022), an artist and sculptor and feminist whose invaluable work has inspired the Woolfian community (pages 11-22). 

Calls for Papers

The Call for Papers for the 33rd Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf: Woolf, Modernity, Technology, which will be hosted by J. Ashley Foster and held at California State University–Fresno, can be accessed on page 6.

Calls for papers for future issues of the Miscellany can be viewed on pages 23 and 24:

—Issue 102, Spring 2024: Special Topic on Twenty-First-Century Perspectives on Virginia Woolf: Feminisms, Genders, Politics, and Patriarchy;

—Issue 103, Fall 2024: Special Topic on Virginia Woolf and George Eliot;

—Issue 104, Spring 2025: Special Topic on Virginia Woolf and D. H, Lawrence;

—Issue 105, Fall 2025: Special Topic on Virginia Woolf and Failure.

Also of interest are the Clemson University Press’s Call for Annotated Woolf (page 6) and the advertisements for rare books– <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/virginiawoolfmiscellany.wordpress.com/virginia-woolf-miscellany-issue-100-spring-summer-2023/yorkharborbooks@aol.com__;!!KGKeukY!ytL5fDDqMnmbmVJo4MbX2Fxx8OCBRkDNk3XnVybGcW1XUe2kUeqFUMj1HoXwBQ0K_kyyEx9tm0bcZIKc3t_1XA$> Jon S. Richardson’s Rare Books (page 7),  <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.honeyandwaxbooks.com/__;!!KGKeukY!ytL5fDDqMnmbmVJo4MbX2Fxx8OCBRkDNk3XnVybGcW1XUe2kUeqFUMj1HoXwBQ0K_kyyEx9tm0bcZIKH-BnNvQ$> Honey & Wax Booksellers (page 8), and  <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.secondwindbks.com/__;!!KGKeukY!ytL5fDDqMnmbmVJo4MbX2Fxx8OCBRkDNk3XnVybGcW1XUe2kUeqFUMj1HoXwBQ0K_kyyEx9tm0bcZIIpgRj4Ng$> Second Wind Books (page 24).

Furthermore, included in this issue is one of Farrah Alkhadra's drawings of snails that illustrated Woolf and Ecologies, the 32 Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf, and were crafted for call for papers, the webpage, and the programs. Farrah Alkhadra's work can be viewed on Instagram <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.instagram.com/farrahsdesigns/__;!!KGKeukY!ytL5fDDqMnmbmVJo4MbX2Fxx8OCBRkDNk3XnVybGcW1XUe2kUeqFUMj1HoXwBQ0K_kyyEx9tm0bcZIIykCskJQ$> , and the reader can access a link to an article <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/fgcu360.com/2021/05/27/art-grad-shares-illuminating-perspective-on-fgcu-experience/__;!!KGKeukY!ytL5fDDqMnmbmVJo4MbX2Fxx8OCBRkDNk3XnVybGcW1XUe2kUeqFUMj1HoXwBQ0K_kyyEx9tm0bcZILazQRRNQ$>  that focuses on her work while she pursued her degree at FGCU (see page 40).

The 2023 Angelica Garnett Undergraduate Essay Prize

The essays submitted by Eleanor Clark, the winner of the 2023 Angelica Garnett Undergraduate Essay Prize, and Saskia May and Jasmine Woodcock, the runners-up for the prize, are included in this issue (see pages 47-54).

Eleanor Clark’s essay is titled “‘Breaking the Silence?’: Talking, Speaking, and the Dissipation of Meaning in Virginia Woolf’s Novels” (47-49); Saskia May’s is “Abandoned, Domestic Objects ‘continuing without us’ in Ecological Landscapes in Virginia Woolf’s ‘Solid Objects” (49-51), and Jasmine Woodcock’s is “Predicting the Present: Orlando Is Trans*” (51-53).

“Truly Miscellaneous” Contributions

The “Truly Miscellaneous” section of this issue features Cécile Wajsbrot’s “Outside” (54-56), Rhonda Mayne’s “Mrs. Papworth: The Working-Class Woman in Virginia Woolf’s Novel Jacob’s Room” (56-57), Ane Thun Knutsen’s “Virginia Woolf and the Letterpress” (57-59), Rasha Alijararwa’s “The Power of Silence: Understanding Women’s Resistance in Woolf’s To the Lighthouse” (59-62), and Megan Pollard’s “A Deliberate Failure: Politics, Form, and Woolf Between the Wars” (62-66).

Book Reviews and Publications

The book reviewers for this issue are Charles Andrews, who reviewed the edited collection Virginia Woolf: Primary and Critical Sources (2021) (66-68); Lisa Tyler, who reviewed Virginia Woolf’s Mythic Method by Amy C. Smith (2022) (68-69); Sayaka Okumura, who reviewed the edited collection The Ediburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf and Contemporary Global Literature (2022) (69-71); Ria Banerjee, who reviewed The Sensuous Pedagogies of Virginia Woolf and D. H. Lawrence, by Benjamin D. Hagen (2020) (71-72), Mark Hussey, who reviewed Feminism from Literary Modernism to the Multimedia Present (2022) (72-73), and Linda Camarasana, who reviewed England’s Lane by Emma Woolf (2018) (73-74).

Page 74 also includes a list of recent publications relating to Woolf and Bloomsbury, including book-length works, articles, chapters, translations, and theses.

The Society Column

The Society Column, written by Benjamin Hagen, the President of the International Virginia Woolf Society, starts on page 76 and continues onto page 75. Also on page 75 is the list of the IVWS officers, the members-at-large, and the archival liaison.

The information in the Society Column ranges from a report on Woolf panels at the 2023 MLA Convention and the upcoming 2024 Convention to the CFP for the Louisville Conference on Literature since 1900, the publication of Woolf Studies Annual 29, the 32nd Conference on Virginia Woolf with the topic Woolf and Ecologies held at Florida Gulf Coast University in June 2023, hosted by Laci Mattison, with a second virtual reprise of the conference–Woolf and Ecologies II–hosted by the IVWS with Derek Ryan as the organizer this fall. Also mentioned is the 33rd Conference on Virginia Woolf, to be hosted by J. Ashley Foster at Fresno State University–California in June 2024. And the column includes a reference to a link to Kabe Wilson’s film to “ <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.sussex.ac.uk/research/centres/centre-for-modernist-studies/artist-in-residence__;!!KGKeukY!ytL5fDDqMnmbmVJo4MbX2Fxx8OCBRkDNk3XnVybGcW1XUe2kUeqFUMj1HoXwBQ0K_kyyEx9tm0bcZIIslJiTCg$> Looking for Virginia: An Artist’s Journey Through 100 Archives.” Other information included the previous and upcoming Woolf Salon Projects, the special online event for the Angelica Garnett Undergraduate Prize, and the 2022 IVWS Fall Lecture with Beth Rigel Daugherty.

Submitting Contributions

Contributions to the Miscellany can include scholarly work, reviews of relevant exhibitions, films, and performances, short poetry, photographs, and other forms of artwork. The submission should be sent to  <mailto:neverowv1 at southernct.du> Vara Neverow. Similarly, if you are interested in proposing a special topic for the Miscellany, please contact  <mailto:neverowv1 at southernct.du> Vara Neverow.

Vara Neverow 

(she/her/hers)
Professor, English Department

Editor, Virginia Woolf Miscellany
Southern Connecticut State University
New Haven, CT 06515
203-392-6717
neverowv1 at southernct.edu <mailto:neverowv1 at southernct.edu> 

I acknowledge that Southern Connecticut State University was built on traditional territory of the indigenous peoples and nations of the Paugussett and Quinnipiac peoples.  

Recent Publications:

Lead editor, Virginia Woolf: Critical and Primary Sources (Bloomsbury, 2020; with Jeanne Dubino, Kathryn Simpson, and Gill Lowe); Editor, Volume One, 1975-1984, Virginia Woolf: Critical and Primary Sources (Bloomsbury, 2020); Co-editor, The Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf and Contemporary Global Literature (Edinburgh, 2020; with Jeanne Dubino, Paulina Pająk, Catherine Hollis, and Celiese Lypka)

Vara Neverow 

(she/her/hers)
Professor, English Department

Editor, Virginia Woolf Miscellany
Southern Connecticut State University
New Haven, CT 06515
203-392-6717
neverowv1 at southernct.edu <mailto:neverowv1 at southernct.edu> 

I acknowledge that Southern Connecticut State University was built on traditional territory of the indigenous peoples and nations of the Paugussett and Quinnipiac peoples.  

Recent Publications:

Lead editor, Virginia Woolf: Critical and Primary Sources (Bloomsbury, 2020; with Jeanne Dubino, Kathryn Simpson, and Gill Lowe); Editor, Volume One, 1975-1984, Virginia Woolf: Critical and Primary Sources (Bloomsbury, 2020); Co-editor, The Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf and Contemporary Global Literature (Edinburgh, 2020; with Jeanne Dubino, Paulina Pająk, Catherine Hollis, and Celiese Lypka)

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