CFP: Woolf & Communities (2/1; 6/4-6/7)

CALL FOR PAPERS
Eighth Annual Virginia Woolf Conference
VIRGINIA WOOLF AND COMMUNITIES
June 4 - 7, 1998
Saint Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri

This conference will explore Virginia Woolf and her
writings in terms of communities. Presentations may
focus on any one or several of Woolf's texts or on the
cultural/textual contexts before, coterminous, or after
Woolf's writing. Presentations may take any perspective
as long as they address, in some way, the issue of
community.

The definition of community is deliberately left general. Presentations may
address communities of which Virginia Woolf was a part--for example, Female
Modernists, the Memoir Group, the Bloomsbury community, the feminist
community, communities of artists, communities formed by letter writing, the
lesbian community, the British community, the pacifist community--or not a
part--for example, the Apostles, the working class. Presenters may analyze
communities that Woolf describes in her writings--for example, the community
of the "outsider," of the woman writer, of the village pageant, of the
Dalloway's party, of _The Voyage Out_ travellers, of _Orlando's_ biographer.
Focuses may be on textual communities outside the spheres in which Woolf is
generally explored--for example, the Harlem Renaissance or Socialism--making
connections and/or distinctions. Community may be interpreted as national,
geographical, pedagogical, sexual, gendered, ideological, economic, racials,
cultural, psychoanalytical, colonial, post-colonial. Community need not be
restricted to Woolf's own era; a presentation of future, current, or past
communities in terms of Woolf would be appropriate--for example, evaluating
current communities of critics (Woolf and autobiography studies, Woolf and
lesbian studies).

Proposals for individual papers, films or alternative types of presentations,
performances, readings, and multi-media presentations are welcomed, as are
proposals for three- or four-person panels, workshops, round tables, and
conversations. Independent scholars are encouraged to submit proposals.

Proposals must include: one cover page, with name(s) and address(es),
institutional affiliations (if any), phone numbers, title of individual
paper(s), or panel, and format; and 15 copies of a one-page, 250-word
abstract for an individual paper or for each presentation in a panel--include
title of paper(s) or panel on the abstract, but _not_ names. Conference
sessions will be 90 minutes.

*Deadline: February 1, 1998 postmark*

Mail proposals to Georgia Johnston, Women's Studies Program, Saint Louis
University, 221 North Grand Ave., St. Louis, MO 63103. Queries? Email
johnstgk_at_slu.edu or call 314-977-3003. Selected conference _Proceedings_ will
be published.

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