Possible themes include but are not limited to:

Woolf as a world writer, including reception and/or influence of her work
Writing as world creation
Globalization of Woolf studies

Feminist re-envisionings of the world Lesbian, gay, and/or queer worlds Living worlds
Natural worlds

Cosmology, physics, different kinds of worlds Geography(y)(ies) and/or mapping the world “First” and “Third” worlds
Postcolonialism

The centenary of World War I
The World Wars
Peace, justice, war, and violence
Feminist writers of 1914 and/or suffragettes and WWI Pacifist and conscientious objector movements

Class and/in Woolf’s world(s) Writing the working class Socialists “righting” the world Expatriate worlds

artistic worlds
Inter-arts influences, including painting, cinema, music, and journalism
The publishing world
Transnational modernisms and postmodernisms
Woolf and/on international relations
Imperialism and anti-imperialism
Teaching Woolf in global contexts
Teaching Woolf outside of the traditional 4-year college classroom
Woolf and the new global media
Woolf and Chicago connections/reception