7:15-8:30 a.m. Continental breakfast and registration, Brooks Center lobby
7:30-8:30 a.m. Meeting of Virginia Woolf Miscellany (Room 115)
8:30-10 a.m. Concurrent panels #1 (themes and locations as follows:)
(1) Contested Ground: Feminist Interrogations of A Room of One's Own--A Graduate Student-Teacher Dialogue (Room 115) Mary DeShazer, Wake Forest University (chair)
Mary DeShazer, "Class, Colonization, and A Room of One's Own"
Valerie C. Leeper, Wake Forest University, "Whose Mother's Gardens: Virginia Woolf and Alice Walker in A Room of One's Own"
June T. Piscitelli, Wake Forest University, "Politics Versus Aesthetics in A Room of One's Own"
Lauren Rusk, Stanford University, "White Woman and Empire in A Room of One's Own"
(2) Electronic Media and Texts (Recital Hall 117) Vara Neverow, Southern Connecticut State University (chair)
Vara Neverow, Southern Connecticut State University, and Merry M. Pawlowski, California State University, Bakersfield, jointly present "Annotating the Sources of Three Guineas: An Archeology of Anger" (their hypertextual work in progress)
Frank Menchaca, Senior Editor, Primary Source Media, "Virginia Woolf on CD-ROM: Research, Development, Design and Publication of a Full-Text Database, a Publisher's Perspective"
(3) Prefiguring the Psychoanalytic Subject (Room 108) Kristina Busse, Tulane University (chair)
Kristina Busse, Tulane University, "Reflecting the Subject: The 'Return of the Real' in Virginia Woolf's Between the Acts"
Brandy Brown, Tulane Univesity, "Lily's Last Stroke: Painting en Procés in Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse"
Robert Brazeau, McMaster University, "Mrs Dalloway: Woolf's Subject in Process"
(4) Impressions over Time: Virginia Woolf, Artist and Watchkeeper (Brooks Theater Dress Circle) Susan Rochette-Crawley, University of Northern Iowa (chair)
Keith H. Bockoven, University of Northern Iowa, "Lily Briscoe's Artistic Journey"
Susan Rochette-Crawley, University of Northern Iowa, "Virginia Woolf's 'Moments of Being' as Rubric for the Twentieth-Century Short Story"
Barbara Lounsberry, University of Northern Iowa, "'Real Interest in Every Sort of Art': References to Music, Art, Drama, Dance, Film and Photography in Virginia Woolf's Diaries"
(5) Mock Biography and Photography (Room 218) Samuel Wang, Clemson University (chair)
Erika Flesher, University of California, Irvine, "Picturing the Truth in Fiction: Re-Visionary Biography and the Illustrative Portraits for Orlando"
Cecile Kandl, LeHigh University, "Writing the body: Language and feminism in Virginia Woolf's Orlando"
Natsha Alksiuk, Queens University, "Photographic Lying in Victorian Photographs of Famous Men and Fair Women, Flush and Orlando"
10-10:30 a.m. Coffee break
10:30-12:15.* International Symposium 3: British (BC Theater) Wayne Chapman, Clemson University (chair)
Sybil Oldfield, University of Sussex, "Virginia Woolf and Antigone: Thinking Against the Current"
Marion Shaw, Loughborough University, "From A Room of One's Own to A Literature of Their Own"
Julia Briggs, Hertford College, Oxford University, "Editing Woolf for the Nineties"
12:15-1:15 p.m. Lunch
1:15-2:45 p.m. Concurrent panels #2 (themes and locations as follows:)
(1) Post-Impressionism I (Room 205) Bindu Malieckel, Texas Tech (chair)
Gillian Huang-Tiller, University of Notre Dame, "Beyond Bloomsbury: Vision and Design of Woolf's 'Sister Arts' in To the Lighthouse"
Anne H. Blackwill, Gordon College, "Reseeing the Self: Virginia Woolf’s Post-Impressionist Vision"
Liesl Marie Olson, Stanford University, "Distance and Desire: The Artistic Form of Virginia Woolf and Paul Cezanne"
Christine W. Sizemore, Spelman College, "Virginia Woolfand African Sculpture"
(2) Visual Images and Verbal Subtexts (Recital Hall 117) Diane Gillespie, Washington State University (chair)
Diane Gillespie, Washington State University, "Photography and Constructions of the 'I': Virginia Woolf and Bernard Shaw"
Helen Wussow, University of Memphis, "Travesties of Excellence: Julia Margaret Cameron, Lytton Strachey, Virginia Woolf, and the Photographic Image"
Krystyna Colburn, Independent Scholar, "Flowers Between Them: Virginia and Vanessa"
(3) Visualizing the Feminine: Fashion, Flowers and Other Fine Arts (Room 206) Kathryn N. Benzel, University of Nebraska, Kearney (chair)
Alice Staveley, Christ Church College, Oxford University, "'Kew will do': Cultivating Fictions of Kew Gardens"
Kathryn Laing, St. John's College, Oxford University, "Addressing Femininity in the Twenties: Virginia Woolf and Rebecca West on Money, Mirrors and Masquerade"
Nicola Luckhurst, St. John's College, Oxford University, "Vogue is going to take up Mrs. Woolf, to boom her..."
(4) Texts Continue Texts: Reading The Voyage Out through Morrison, Walker and Campion (Room 115) Chella Courington, Huntingdon College (chair)
Lisa Williams, Jersey City State College & CUNY Grad Center, "Playing in the Dark and The Voyage Out: Reading Woolf with Morrison's Criticism"
Tuzyline Allan, SUNY Stony Brook, "Victorian Manhood in Black and White: A Reading of The Voyage Out and Color Purple"
Chella Courington, "Woolf through the Lens of Campion: The Piano and The Voyage Out"
(5) Jacob's Room (Brooks Theater Dress Circle) Martin Jacobi, Clemson University (chair)
Genevieve Brassard, University of Connecticut, "'Venerable are Letters': Letters as Symbols of Unknowability andDisconnectedness in Jacob's Room"
Andrea Adolf, Independent Scholar, "'Then Florinda laid her hand upon his knee': Virginia Woolf's Shady Ladies"
Celia J. Marshik, Northwestern University, "Who's in Jacob's Room?: Prostitution, War, and Woolf"
Harte Weiner, Independent Scholar, "Real Rocks: Jacob Flanders as Object of Art"
(6) Virginia Woolf and Mysticism (Room 218) Madeline Moore, University of California, Santa Cruz (chair)
Mark Hussey, Pace University, "In What Sense Was Virginia Woolf a Mystic?"
Val Gough, Liverpool University, "'With Some Irony in Her Interrogation': Woolf's Ironic Mysticism"
Makiko Minow-Pinkney, Bolton Institute of Higher Education, "'How then does light return to the world after the eclipse of the sun? Miraculously. Frailly' (The Waves): A Psychoanalytic Interpretation of Woolf's Mysticism"
Shaista Rahman, Brooklyn College, CUNY, "Artists, Intellectuals, and Mystics in Virginia Woolf's Novels"
(7) Psychoanalysis, Life and French Feminists (Room 108) Lucy Rollin, Clemson University (chair)
Carol Niemezura, Case Western Reserve University, "Woolf's Midwifery: Killing the Angel; Freeing the Mother"
Gail Arnoff, John Carroll University, "Another Kind of Voyage Out: Cam's Crises in To the Lighthouse"
Christina Moriconi, San Jose State University, "Against the Confines of Verbal Language: Lily's Plurality in To the Lighthouse"
Yvonne Lavender, Southwest Texas State University, "'What does patriotism mean to her?': The History of Women in Between the Acts"
2:45-3:15 p.m. Coffee break
3:15-5 p.m.* International Symposium 4: European (BC Theater) Judy Melton, Clemson University (chair)
Catherine Sandbach-Dahlström, Stockholm University, "Virginia Woolf with and without State Feminism"
Vera and Ansgar Nünning, University of Cologne, "From Thematics and Formalism to Aesthetics and History: Phases and Trends of Virginia Woolf Criticism in Germany, 1946-1996"
Pierre-Eric Villeneuve, University of Montreal, "Virginia Woolf and the French Reader: An Overview"
5-8 p.m. Dinner break (local restaurants)
8-11 p.m. Ethel Smyth and Argento/Woolf recital and Freshwater (BC Theater) Alma Bennett, Clemson University (presiding)
March of the Women and Mass in D (Smyth), Linda Smith (vocalist) and Alma Bennett (pianist)
"From the Diary of Virginia Woolf: A Recital Performance" (Argento), Noelle Woods (vocalist) and Barbara Sahr (pianist)
Intermission (c. 15 minutes)
Lucio Ruotolo, Stanford University (informance)
Staged Reading of Freshwater by the Clemson Players
