Call for Papers

For the 19th Annual Woolf Conference, we return to the site of the first: New York City. With this return, we embark on new critical and theoretical ground. Our theme, Woolf and the City, encompasses the familiar and the new, the material and the imaginative.

Topics might include (but are not limited to):
• Woolf and urban theory
• mapping Woolf’s London
• public and private spaces in Woolf
• women in the modern city
• object theory, material culture, trash
• cities and empire
• cosmopolitanism in Woolf
• lesbians and the city, urban sexualities
• imaginary geographies, unreal cities
• teaching Woolf and the city
• films in and of the city
• print culture and the masses
• public memory, monuments, and memorials
• historical London, London past
• New York, Paris, Constantinople
• Wartime London
• Bloomsbury, neighborhoods, and suburbs
• streetwalking, street haunting, and flanerie

Proposals for individual papers and/or panels due by February 1, 2009. We also welcome alternative proposals such as workshops or readings. Independent scholars, high school teachers, and “common readers” are encouraged to submit proposals. Please send 250-word abstracts as Word attachments; because this is a blind submission process, please do not include your name on your abstract. In your email, please include name(s), paper title, institutional affiliation(s) and email address(es). Please submit your abstract to woolf@fordham.edu.

Conference Organizer: Anne Fernald, Associate Professor of English and Director of Writing & Composition, Fordham University, Lincoln Center, 113 W 60th Street, New York, NY 10023
 (woolf@fordham.edu)