Please click HERE for registration.  Please register by April 20 to avoid a higher rate.  Online registration ends on May 15, 2009.

Frequently asked questions:

1. All attendees must pay the registration fee. Presenters comprise a majority of the conference attendees. Academic conferences are not for-profit ventures; we are not rolling in cash. The registration fee covers food (continental breakfasts, lunches, and evening receptions), printing the program, office supplies, and the meager hourly wage for the tech assistants and stagehands. Conference attendees underwrite the program. At the end of the day, our hope is to break even. This is the norm for academic conferences.

2. Reduced registration is for people on limited incomes (i.e. graduate students, adjuncts, the unemployed, and retirees). We ask you to select your registration rate on the honor system. We understand that everyone is nervous about the economy, but anxiety alone is not a sufficient qualifier for a reduced rate.

3. We will have on-site one-day registration for $45/day. Payment for this will have to be by cash or check. We do not have the ability to take credit card payments on site.

4. Applicants for the travel fund. If you are applying for travel monies, please indicate that on your registration form. (There is a radio button for this). Then, as the form instructs, please send a brief email to woolf@fordham.edu indicating why you need the funds (i.e. your institution is not paying for any travel and you're a graduate student) and how far you're traveling from. Grant amounts are unlikely to cover the full cost of travel. To date, we have $300 in the fund. Please consider donating if you can.

5. Tickets for the theater performance ($15) and the joint performance by the Stephen Pelton Dance Theater and the band Princeton ($20) will also be available at the box office. You can learn more about Stephen’s dance company here. More information about Princeton is here. They are collaborating on what promises to be an awesome evening of song and dance. The theater performance should be set very soon… I’m very excited about it, but it’s too early to for me to make an announcement.

6. The Berg Tours will be held on Thursday and Friday, early evening (during the evening receptions).  Tour tickets are free, but are limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis. We are sorry, but we cannot accommodate requests for date preferences. Those going on the tour must meet at the Berg Collection, in the Schwarzman building (the main New York Public Library Building on 42nd and 5th) by 5:30 on the appointed day. The curator will then escort you to the staff lounge. Please expect to wait in the lounge while the curator puts away materials from the day and sets up the exhibit.

We are so excited about coming together to exchange ideas about Virginia Woolf in June. We have a sparkling program of academic, pedagogical, and creative panels. The proposals we received were strikingly interdisciplinary. Nearly every paper session (of eight) has a theoretical panel on Woolf and urban themes as well as a cultural-historical panel on Woolf’s London. We also have three undergraduate panels and several pedagogy panels. We have a panel of high school readers and a panel of senior citizens reading. In short, these four days should provide food for mind, body, and soul. We cannot wait to see you.