Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- KEYNOTES
- NAVIGATING LONDON
- SPATIAL PERCEPTIONS AND THE CITYSCAPE
- REGARDING OTHERS
- THE LITERARY PUBLIC SPHERE
- BORDER CROSSINGS AND LIMINAL LANDSCAPES
- TEACHING WOOLF, WOOLF TEACHING
- INSPIRED BY WOOLF: A CONVERSATION
- Forward: The Legacy of Virginia Woolf
- Inspired by Woolf: A Conversation
- Notes on Contributors
- Conference Program
Forward: The Legacy of Virginia Woolf
from INSPIRED BY WOOLF: A CONVERSATION
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- KEYNOTES
- NAVIGATING LONDON
- SPATIAL PERCEPTIONS AND THE CITYSCAPE
- REGARDING OTHERS
- THE LITERARY PUBLIC SPHERE
- BORDER CROSSINGS AND LIMINAL LANDSCAPES
- TEACHING WOOLF, WOOLF TEACHING
- INSPIRED BY WOOLF: A CONVERSATION
- Forward: The Legacy of Virginia Woolf
- Inspired by Woolf: A Conversation
- Notes on Contributors
- Conference Program
Summary
After taking Dr. Anne Fernald's undergraduate seminar on Virginia Woolf in the Spring of 2009, Megan Branch knew that her interest in Woolf was much more than just a passing phase.In addition to presenting work on Dr. Fernald's undergraduate panel at the “Woolf and the City” conference, Megan blogged about the event for Oxford University Press, where she held an internship, invited local NYC bloggers to attend and write about the special talks and performances,and was available tirelessly throughout the weekend to help make things run smoothly. As an aspiring writer and scholar who also feels inspired by Woolf, Megan energetically took on this project of transcribing the “Inspired by Woolf “ panel for inclusion in this volume. Megan will present her first formal academic paper at the Woolf Conference in Georgetown, Kentucky in June 2010. She will be a Senior at Fordham University in 2010–11. —S. Cornish
In June of 2009, as part of the nineteenth annual Virginia Woolf conference, three women sat on the stage of Fordham University's Pope Auditorium to speak on a panel, hosted by Katherine Lanpher, about the work that they do—work that is heavily influenced by Virginia Woolf. The ages of the women onstage, Ms. Kris Lundberg, Dr. Susan Sellers, and Dr. Ruth Gruber, spanned several generations, and, while they each had followed a different path, all had held Woolf as a compass. Many of us in the audience had come to be there for different reasons but shared this sense of Woolf as our compass. I was there as a young woman, a college student, and a writer. I learned that Lundberg, Sellers, and Gruber have each looked to Woolf for direction and have each used the creative legacy that Woolf left as an inspiration and a guide.
In her doctoral dissertation on Virginia Woolf, Dr. Ruth Gruber writes: “The psychic consciousness of woman is her imperative medium. Her struggle for the ‘true’ style and philosophy is determined not only by her own feminine impulses, but by her inheritance from the creative women who have preceded her” (63). That creative inheritance, from women for women, has informed the work that Gruber, Sellers, and Lundberg have done throughout their lives.
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- Woolf and the City , pp. 218 - 220Publisher: Liverpool University PressPrint publication year: 2010