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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Greetings, all!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>More details about the 2019 Woolf Conference below. Should you wish to have a copy of the conference’s poster, please e-mail me and I can send it to you as an attachment; the listserv isn’t allowing me to send it to the whole list as the file is too large.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>In the meantime, I’m happy to share a bit more about what’s in store at the conference:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><ul style='margin-top:0in' type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>Our plenary speakers will include Elizabeth Abel (UC Berkeley) on Woolf and the Literary Implications of Social Justice; Anne Fernald (Fordham University) and Tonya Krouse (Northern Kentucky University) on Woolf in the Era of #MeToo; Kristin Czarnecki (Georgetown College) and Erica Delsandro (Bucknell University) on Woolf and Inclusivity; and Ellen McLaughlin (Actor [<i>Angels in America</i>, among many others], Director, Playwright [<i>Septimus and Clarissa, A Narrow Bed</i>, among others) on Woolf, Theater, and Activism.<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>Our June 6<sup>th</sup> evening celebration will be at the historic Taft Art Museum in downtown Cincinnati, a Greek revival, National Historic Landmark building that originally served as the home of the Taft family (and from which William Howard Taft accepted his presidential nomination in 1908). The museum will be closed to the public and attendees will be able to peruse the collection and the garden at their leisure. For more information on the venue, visit <a href="https://taftmuseum.org/"><span style='color:#0563C1'>https://taftmuseum.org/</span></a>. <o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>June 7<sup>th</sup> will feature a performance of Leonard Woolf’s play <i>The Hotel</i>, featuring students and faculty from the Mount and supervised by Ellen McLaughlin. <o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>An all-conference roundtable event will conclude the conference on Sunday morning, to be followed by a visit to the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in downtown Cincinnati, a museum commemorating Cincinnati’s historic location as the border between North and South, and the place to which escaped slaves fled to their freedom. For more information, visit <a href="https://www.freedomcenter.org/"><span style='color:#0563C1'>https://www.freedomcenter.org/</span></a>. <o:p></o:p></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Looking forward to seeing many of you in six months!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Cheers,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Drew<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=0 style='width:364.5pt'><tr style='height:96.0pt'><td width=201 style='width:120.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;height:96.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><img border=0 width=201 height=170 id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image001.png@01D4A2B6.A0973A40"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=285 valign=top style='width:244.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;height:96.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#104E96'><br>Drew Shannon</span></b><b><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'><br></span></b><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'>Associate Professor of English<br>Department of Liberal Arts<br>Historian / Bibliography of the International Virginia Woolf Society </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'><br></span><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'>Mount St. Joseph University<br>5701 Delhi Road | Cincinnati, OH 45233-1672<br>513-244-4541 | </span><a href="mailto:Drew.Shannon@msj.edu"><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:blue'>Drew.Shannon@msj.edu</span></a><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>"I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual." -- Virginia Woolf, Diary, 17 February 1922<span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;color:#385623'>Please consider the environment before printing this email.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>