Annual International Virginia Woolf Conference 2017: Virginia Woolf and the World of Books
University of Reading
Berkshire, UK
June 29 – July 2, 2017
The 27th Annual International conference on Virginia Woolf will mark the centenary of the founding of the Hogarth Press. The conference aims to celebrate Leonard and Virginia Woolf’s Hogarth Press as a key intervention in modernist and women’s writing and to mark its importance to independent publishing and bookselling.
CALL FOR PAPERS:
‘Virginia Woolf and the World of Books’ invites you to consider the past, present and future of Virginia Woolf’s works. Attendees are invited to submit papers relating to all aspects of the Woolfs, the world of books, and print cultures, including topics related to Leonard and Virginia Woolf and the Hogarth Press; the production, reception and distribution of Woolf’s works; editing, revision and translation; periodicals and book publishing; Woolf and her readers; global and planetary modernisms; Bloomsbury and its networks; Hogarth Press authors and illustrators; modernist publishing houses and publishers; Woolf and the Digital Humanities.
Submissions for papers are due February 1st 2017 to vwoolf2017@gmail.com
Abstracts should be between 200-250 words. Please include a cover note with brief biography, affiliation, and contact details including email.
Further details can be found at www.woolf2017.com
There will be day rates and reduced rates for students/non-waged available.
Please direct any enquiries to vwoolf2017@gmail.com