Modernist Life Righting
Corrective Self-Portraiture in the 20th and 21st century
Institute of English and American Studies, Goethe University Frankfurt
22-23 May 2025
Lauren Arrington (University of South Florida)
Scarlett Baron (University College London)
Julie Bates (Trinity College Dublin)
Dúnlaith Bird (Université Sorbonne Paris Nord)
Laura Cernat (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
Ronan Crowley (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main)
Julia Dallaway (University of Oxford)
Anne Fogarty (University College Dublin)
Megan Girdwood (University of Edinburgh)
Leeann Lane (Dublin City University)
Zachary Leader (University of Roehampton)
Lianna Mark (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
Emilie Morin (University of York)
Georgina Nugent (University College Cork)
Leeanne Quinn (poet-creative)
Sam Thompson (Queen's University Belfast)
Feargal Whelan (Trinity College Dublin)
For more information about the conference or to register, please contact Georgina Nugent georginanugent@ucc.ie or Ronan Crowley crowley@em.uni-frankfurt.de.
Very happy to share the speaker list for "Modernist Life Righting: Corrective Self-Portraiture in the 20th and 21st Century", a two day conference I've co-organized with Ronan Crowley. Taking place later this month at @goetheuni.bsky.social. Look at this amazing lineup of speakers!!
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A (very large) mojito, actually!
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3.5 years and 90,719 words later, I finally passed my DPhil English viva with no corrections last week! I'm immensely grateful to my lovely examiners Prof Alexandra Harris and Prof Matthew Bevis, my supervisor Prof Kate McLoughlin, and my friends who organised a celebratory dinner afterwards 💗
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Volume 31: Virginia Woolf Selected Papers
Exciting news for literary lovers! 📚 Virginia Woolf Selected Papers, Volume 31 is now available to read on ClemsonOPEN! Dive into fresh insights and scholarly takes on one of modernism’s most iconic writers. Available here: open.clemson.edu/vwoolfselect...
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Your research sounds absolutely fascinating - please do let me know what you think of my paper, if you read it!
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Why does Virginia Woolf describe her memories as 'little corks that mark a sunken net'? My research rabbit hole regarding C19th Cornish fishing nets led to an interesting discovery...
At last, my paper from the 2022 Woolf conference is out (open access!): open.clemson.edu/vwoolfselect...
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