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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Californian FB",serif'>Dear Woolfians,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Californian FB",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Californian FB",serif'>I am working on a book about Woolf’s involvement in the <i>Dreadnought </i>hoax and would like to propose something—perhaps a round-table discussion?—at the next Woolf conference and would like your advice about the best format, questions, etc. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Californian FB",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Californian FB",serif'>I am very interested in how Woolf scholars and others have thought about the hoax in the past and how views of it have changed over time. As I write in my manuscript, “</span>The <i>Dreadnought</i> hoax may have started out as a joke, but it engages a powerful nexus of competing ideas about militarism, imperialism, race, and feminism as important today as it was a hundred years ago. Still struggling for equality, women lean into it for its feminist daring and defiance. In a world capable of self-destruction, pacifists celebrate its stand against militarism. More aware than ever of the damage caused by racism, people fighting for social justice call out its bigotry and use it to remind readers of our racist past and present.”<span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Californian FB",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Californian FB",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Californian FB",serif'>My questions for a discussion would be twofold: <br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p><ol style='margin-top:0in' start=1 type=1><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Californian FB",serif'>How have we (Woolf scholars) talked about the hoax in the past and why did we talk about it that way?<br><br><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Californian FB",serif'>How are we talking about the hoax now? How do we use/reinterpret/reject earlier interpretations?<o:p></o:p></span></li></ol><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Californian FB",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Californian FB",serif'>Do you think a roundtable would be a good format? Would some kind of panel be better? I really want this to be a fruitful discussion about changing perspectives and not any kind of personal attack on anyone. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Californian FB",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Californian FB",serif'>I would love feedback on the idea, format, questions, or anything else you think is important. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Californian FB",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Californian FB",serif'>Thank you so much for your help,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Californian FB",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Californian FB",serif'>Danell<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Californian FB",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>