7:15-8:30 a.m. Continental breakfast and registration, BC lobby
7:30-8:30 a.m. Meeting of Virginia Woolf Society (Room 205)
8:30-10 a.m. Concurrent panels #3 (themes and locations as follows:)
(1) Woolf and Women Visual Artists (Room 205)Sixto Torres, Clemson University (chair)
Ellen Blaney, New York University, "A Shadow Here, a Light There:Revisioning the Sister in the Feminism of Virginia Woolf"
Jeanette Mirjam Osthus, University of Bonn, "'Wordless voices, breaking the silence'--Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell and the Early Years of the Hogarth Press: An Analysis of Text and Illustrations in Kew Gardens"
Geneviéve Sanchis Morgan, University of California at Davis, "Pouring out Tea and Emptying Chamber Pots: Woolf, Carrington, and the Creation of a Domestic Front"
Dagmar Stuehrk Corrigan, University of Houston, "Art of the Moment in To the Lighthouse and in the Art of Judy Chicago"
(2) Woolf in the Photographic Scene, Woolf and the Photographic Seen (Recital Hall 117) Karen Schiff and Sue Sun Yom, University of Pennsylvania (joint chairs)
"Cindy Sherman's 'History Portraits'--Orlando in the '90s"
"My Own Virginia Woolf (A Photographic Interlude)"
"Virginia Woolf, Julia Margaret Cameron, and the Atmospheric Image"
"Who's Setting the Scene? An Interactive Photography Session"
(3) Semiotics of Dressing (Room 206) Elisa Sparks, Clemson University (chair)
Diana Royer, Miami University, "A Semiotics of Apparel in Three Woolf Novels"
Laura Edson, New York University, "Foundation Garments: Clothing as Structure in Mrs. Dalloway"
Stacy Thompson, Purdue University, "Orlando and the Lack of Recognizable Constructions of Gender: Why Orlando’s Clothing Doesn't Fit"
Michele Hilton, Acadia University, "The Naked Truth: Dressing and Expressing the Self in Orlando"
(4) Woolf and Contemporary Women Writers (Brooks Theater Dress Circle) Kevin Dettmar, Clemson University (chair)
Rebecca Stephens, Carlow College, "Envisioning Audience: Jeanette Winterson and Virginia Woolf"
Lucille Lawrence, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, "Love Is Love, Isn't It?: Transcending Gender and Sexuality in Woolf and Winterson"
Ann Gibaldi Campbell, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, "Zoe's Book or Possession by the Woolf"
Jacqueline Wilkotz, Towson State University, “Allusive Arts: Elizabeth Taylor's Homage to Virginia Woolf"
(5) Between the Acts (Room 108) Svetlana Drachova, Clemson University (chair)
Mary Ellen Braun, California State University, Bakersfield, "Airborne Contrapuntal Forms: Birds and Aeroplanes in Between the Acts"
Meg Albrinck, University of Wisconsin, Madison, "'A Painful Jolt in Perspective': Generic Disruption as Political Act in Virginia Woolf's Later Work"
Traci S. Smrcka, University of Southwestern Louisiana,"Transforming Women: Virginia Woolf's Prophetic Vision in Between the Acts"
Nicoletta Pireddu, University of California, Los Angeles, "Woolf's last pageant: acting, reacting, reenacting in Between the Acts"
(6) Woolf and Philosophical Trends (Room 218) Marilyn Zucker, Seattle Central Community College (chair)
Tracey Sherard, Washington State University, "Voyage Through the Waves: Woolf's Kaleidoscope of the 'Unpresentable'"
Michael A. Torok, University of Southwestern Louisiana,"Virginia Woolf's The Waves as a Study in Existential Writing, or Is Bernard an Existential Hero?"
Timothy J. Wager, University of California, Santa Barbara ,"Becoming intellectual in Bloomsbury: Towards an Alternative to Individual and Class Histories"
Marilyn Zucker, Seattle Central Community College, "Writing the Woman's Body: Woolf's Material Metaphors"
(7) Writing and Texts (Room 115) James Andreas, Clemson University (chair)
L. M. Brosnan, University of Salford, "'Words Fail Me': Virginia Woolf and the Wireless"
Ted Taylor, Rutgers University, "The Textual Self"
Sheila Deane, University of Western Ontario, "'The words escaped her': From the Diaries to Between the Acts"
10-10:30 a.m. Coffee break
10:30 a.m.-12* International Symposium 5: Far Eastern (BC Theater) Patricia Laurence, City College, CUNY (chair)
Melba Cuddy-Keane, University of Toronto, and Kay Li, York University, "Passage to China: East and West and Woolf"
12-1 p.m. Lunch
1-2:30 p.m. Concurrent panels #4 (themes and location as follows:)
(1) Post-Impressionism II--Roger Fry (Room 205) Alma Bennett, Clemson University (chair)
Lisa Bryce, University of Calgary, "Unrepresentable Reality in Between the Acts"
Sally A. Jacobsen, Northern Kentucky University, "Semi-Transparent Envelopes and Luminous Apples, Rhythm of Language and Line: Woolf's Aesthetics and Fry's Formalism"
Georgia Johnston, St. Louis University, "Woolf Revising Roger Fry Into the Frames of 'A Sketch of the Past'"
Brent MacLaine, University of Prince Edward Island, "Lines down the Middle: The Post-Impressionist Art of Lily Briscoe, Virginia Woolf and Paul Cezanne"
(2) "A Place in the Country": Monk's House and Charleston (Recital Hall 117) Kathryn N. Benzel, University of Nebraska, Kearney (chair)
Julia Briggs, Hertford College, Oxford University, "About the House: Virginia Woolf and Her Interiors"
Kathryn N. Benzel, University of Nebraska, Kearney, "A Red Cave and a Thin Blue Day: Charleston and Woolf"
(3) Feminist History and Global Politics (Room 206) Janet Marilyn Manson, Clemson University (chair)
Janet Marilyn Manson, Clemson University, "The League of Nations and the U.S.: Lord Robert Cecil's and Ray Strachey's American Tour of 1923"
Sowon S. Park, Wolfson College, Oxford, "Literary Elitism and the Culture of Suffrage: The Case of Virginia Woolf"
Kathryn Harvey, University of Alberta, Edmonton, "Historical Notes on Woolf and the Women's International League"
Alisha C. Rohde, Ohio State University, "Transformations in the Writing of Lives: Virginia Woolf and History in The Years"
(4) Woolf and Toni Morrison (Brooks Theater Dress Circle) Cheryl Collier, Clemson University (chair)
Ellen Argyros, University of Wisconsin-Fox Valley, "Haunted Houses as Symbols of Familial Disarray and Loss in Beloved and To the Lighthouse"
Susan E. Howard, University of Houston, "Virginia Woolf and Toni Morrison: The Intersection of Discourse Communities in The Waves and The Bluest Eye"
Jennifer Margulis, Emory University, "Madness, Suicide, and Community: Toni Morrison’s Signifying on Mrs. Dalloway"
(5) Orlando I (Room 115) Audrey Johnson, Tri-County Technical College (chair)
Linda Bannister, Loyola Marymount University, "Literature Into Film: A Rhetorical Model of Two Orlandos"
Karyn Z. Sproles, Hamline University, "Working Through Biography: Orlando's Psychological Project"
Marylu Hill, Villanova University, "'Fertile Facts': Synthesis, Art and the Woman Biographer"
(6) Androgyny (Room 218) Debra Staed, Clemson University (chair)
Elizabeth Fischel, Hawaii Pacific University, "The Feminization of Patriarchy: Virginia Woolf's Account of Androgyny"
Meghan Mullaney, University of Southwestern Louisiana, "The Lighthouse and Its Light: Androgyny and Artistic Endeavor in Woolf's To the Lighthouse, Orlando, and Between the Acts"
Sherri C. Helvie, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, "Hoping to Tell the Truth: Interrogating the Deployment of Androgyny"
Amanda Yurick, Illinois State University, "Achieving the Androgynous Vision: Killing the Angel and the Tyrant"
(7) Dreams, Vision, Patriarchy, and Literature (Room 108) Matthew Pollack, Clemson University (chair)
Joerg Drewitz, Boston College, "Peter Walsh, Solitary Traveler: Trauma, Dreams, and Alternate Families in Mrs. Dalloway"
Bruce Gilman, Salem State College, "Miss Vinrace, Miss La Trobe: The Fictional Parameters of Woolf's Artistic Vision"
Tonya Krouse, Kent State University, "Emerging from Patriarchy: A Discussion of Virginia Woolf's Analysis of Patriarchy as a Starting Point for Her Feminist and Androgynous Themes in The Years"
Sydney Janet Kaplan, University of Washington, "Woolf, Mansfield, Eliot and Murry's The Athenaeum"
2:30-3 p.m. Coffee break
3-4:30 p.m. Concurrent panel #5 (themes and locations as follows:)
(1) Woolf Across the Arts: Pedagogy and Media (Room 205) Barbara Weaver, Clemson University (chair)
Mary Aswell Doll, Our Lady of Holy Cross College, "Virginia Woolf and the Non-reading Student"
Lisa Tyler and Tess Little, Sinclair Community College, "Multimedia Bloomsbury: The Arts and Crafts of the Bloomsbury Group"
Nicole Blair, University of Washington, "The Waves: Woolf's Search for the 'silent kingdom of paint'"
(2) Music (Recital Hall 117) Trent Hill, Clemson University (chair)
Sonita Sarker, Macalester College, "The Melodies You May or May Not Hear: Virginia Woolf's Fiction and Modernist Music"
Gyllian Phillips, University of Western Ontario, "From Parsifal to Percival: The Waves and Wagnerian Opera"
Andreas Mielke, University of Georgia, "Shakespear[e]'s Sisters View Sitwell's Facade"
(3) Issues of Colonialism and Race (Room 206) Beth Daugherty, Otterbein College (chair)
Sydney Gail Recht, Fordham University, "Virginia Woolf and Zora Neale Hurston: Female Voice and the Dynamics of Female Communal Expression"
Ji-Moon Suh, Korea University, "Unravelling the Mysteries of the Human Personality and Consciousness: A Comparative Look at Virginia Woolf's and Theresa Kyung Cha's Biographical Methods"
Beth Rigel Daugherty, Otterbein College, "Teaching Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway and Paule Marshall's Praisesong for the Widow"
June Cummins, Columbia University, "Lily Briscoe's Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland: Kuntslerroman, Colonial Travelogue, or Intertextual Appreciation?"
(4) Virginia Woolf and Men I (Brooks Theater Dress Circle) Suzanne Sinke, Clemson University (chair)
Venus S. Freeman, University of Florida, "Deconstructing Freud: Psychoanalytic Discourse in Three Guineas"
David Bradshaw, Oxford University, "Ethical Subversion: The Metaphysical Theory of the State and The Voyage Out"
Sara Cole, University of California, Berkeley, "The Ambivalence of the Outsider: Virginia Woolf and Male Friendship"
Margaret Connolly, Villanova University, "Meredith, Woolf, and the Art of Comedy"
(5) Orlando II--Sexuality (Room 115) Kevin Dettmar, Clemson University (chair)
Marla L. Weitzman, University of Virginia, "'Though she herself was a woman, it was still a woman she loved': Cross-Dressing, Cross-Sexing and Desire in Orlando"
James M. Ivory, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, "Virginia Woolf and the Palimpsest of Identity in the Female Artist"
Patricia Feito, Barry University, "Virginia Woolf's Orlando and the Legacy of Fiction"
Robert West, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, "Orlando after Sally Potter: Why Is It Still Difficult?"
(6) Sources (Room 218) Meredith Love, Clemson University (chair)
C. Anita Tarr, Illinois State University, "'Watchman, what of the Night?': To the Lighthouse as Response to Thomas Carlyle"
Pat Cramer, University of Connecticut, "Vita Nuova: How Virginia Woolf Rewrites Dante in The Years"
Ruth Vanita, University of Delhi, "The Common Ancestress: Absent Presences in A Room of One's Own"
Lise M. Schlosser, Northern Illinois University, "'Turn Them Towards Society, Not Private Life': Virginia Woolf's Shift of Focus"
(7) Suicide (Room 108) Bill Martin, Clemson University (chair)
Tracy Brain, Bath College of Higher Education, "Literary Mothers and Rebellious Daughters: Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath"
Barbara W. Morningstar, California State Polytechnic University, "Women Can Paint, Women Can Write: The Artistic Appropriation of Chivalric Duty in To the Lighthouse"
Laura Troiano, John Carroll University, "Vanquished; Vanished: Feminine Annihilation in Between the Acts"
Michael Lackey, University of Kentucky, " Suicide Artist: The Art of Dying in The Voyage Out, Mrs. Dalloway, and The Waves"
5:30-7:30 p.m. Banquet at the Clemson House; entertainment by Woolf Society Players
8-11 p.m. Writings, Readings, Musings, and Film (Lee Hall Auditorium, 111) Alma Bennett (officiating)
Jean Moorcroft Wilson, Cecil Woolf Publishers/University of London, reading from Mrs. Dalloway
Louise DeSalvo, Hunter College, CUNY, reading "Working on Virginia Woolf/Working on Myself" and Vertigo
Intermission (c. 15 minutes)
John Fuegi and Jo Francis (dir.), showing the 1996 documentary The War Within: A Portrait of Virginia Woolf (53 minutes), discussion after
