The Virginia Woolf Miscellany

The Virginia Woolf Miscellany is a bi-annual (Spring and Fall) publication focusing on Woolf studies and related topics. The publication includes reviews as well as articles and ranges from 8 pages to 34 pages in length. The hard copy of the publication includes reviews of books relating to Woolf studies as well as short articles, black and white photographs, line drawings, and commentaries.

The publication is indexed in the Modern Language Association Bibliography and is also available through EBSCOhost. Soon, the entire backfile of the publication will be available electronically. At this point, the PDF version (beginning with the Spring 2003 issue) includes links and color photographs. Click here for the online version (you will need Adobe Reader to view the document).

Each issue of the publication also includes the International Virginia Woolf Society column and updates on the annual conferences on Virginia Woolf as well as other events relevant to Woolf studies.

Beginning in Fall 2003, the Virginia Woolf Miscellany became a subscription publication (see below for information).

To subscribe to the Virginia Woolf Miscellany, click here for a subscription form.

Editorial Board

Jeanne Dubino is currently the Secretary-Treasurer of the International Virginia Woolf Society and will, as of Fall 2004, be the chair of the English Department at Southeast Louisiana University.
Editor
Her e-mail through July 31st, 2004 is jdubino@plymouth.edu
As of August 1st, 2004, it will be jdubino@selu.edu

Mark Hussey, who has served as an editor of the Virginia Woolf Miscellany with J.J. Wilson, Peter Stansky, and Lucio Ruotolo, is continuing in this role after the transition of the Miscellany from Sonoma State University to Southern Connecticut State University. Mark Hussey, a professor of English, women’s studies and gender studies at Pace University, is the Editor of the Pace University Press and founder of Woolf Studies Annual. Among his publications are Virginia Woolf: A to Z and The Singing of the Real World. He is currently Historian-Bibliographer of the International Virginia Woolf Society.
Editor
mhussey@pace.edu

Vara Neverow is President of the International Virginia Woolf Society and is a professor of English and feminist theory at Southern Connecticut State University. She is currently chair of her department. Her publications include articles on Virginia Woolf, a web-published facsimile of the reading notebooks of Three Guineas (co-edited with Merry Pawlowski), and the first three volumes of the selected papers from the annual conference on Virginia Woolf (co-edited with Mark Hussey). She has also published articles on utopian studies and composition.
Managing Editor
neverowv1@southernct.edu

Merry Pawlowski is professor and chair of the Department of English at California State University, Bakersfield. She has recently published an edited collection entitled Virginia Woolf and Fascism (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2001), and has authored numerous articles on Woolf and fascism, Woolf and male modernism, and Woolf and Conrad. She is currently editing, with Vara Neverow, the online Virginia Woolf’s Reading Notebooks for Three Guineas, and, with Eileen Barrett, Across the Generations: Selected Papers from the Twelfth Annual Virginia Woolf Conference.
Editor
Merry_Pawlowski@firstclass1.csubak.edu

Karen L. Levenback, who served as both president and secretary-treasurer of the Virginia Woolf Society, is the author of Virginia Woolf and the Great War and
book-review editor of the Virginia Woolf Miscellany. She has published numerous reviews and articles, and after years on one side of the lectern, both here and abroad, she has moved to the other, in pursuit of the MLIS at Catholic University.
Book-Review Editor
kllevenback@worldnet.att.net

Jennifer A. Hudson received her M.A. in English, along with her Advanced Graduate Certificate in Women’s Studies, from Southern Connecticut State University. Ms. Hudson’s areas of scholarly interest include women writers, feminist theory, and the feminist utopias of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, one of Woolf’s American contemporaries. Ms. Hudson’s critical essays, articles, short fiction, and poetry have already appeared in such diverse publications as Sage Woman, Moondance, Horizons, Medieval Forum, and The Delta Epsilon Sigma Journal,

and she has delivered several papers. Ms. Hudson is an active member of the Charlotte Perkins Gilman Society and the National Association of Women Writers. She is currently working on a critical analysis of David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive.
Assistant Editor
buffelina22@hotmail.com

Debra Sims (née Schotten)
I “met” Virginia Woolf in 1996, during a four-week British Literature seminar at Southern Connecticut State University, where I was completing my undergraduate work. My first reading was Jacob’s Room, and I was immediately captivated. Three years later, I embarked on a Master’s degree program with Woolf in mind. It seemed only fitting that I should further explore Jacob’s Room, and thus, with Dr. Vara Neverow’s and Dr. Edward Bishop’s assistance, I began in 2000 to compose a Master’s thesis in which I explore “The Hero’s Evolution in Virginia Woolf’s Jacob’s Room: Tracing Jacob Flanders through the Holograph Draft and the Published Novel.” After a year of extensive research and writing, I submitted my thesis mere weeks after presenting a portion of it at the 2001 International Virginia Woolf Conference in Wales.
Well aware of my fondness for Woolf, Dr. Neverow proposed that I begin work on the Virginia Woolf Miscellany with her. In my role as Production Editor, I will oversee the physical publication of the newsletter and assist with copy-editing and design. I look forward to the experience, confident that under the new auspices of Southern Connecticut State University, the Miscellany will provide the same level of informative and entertaining articles that readers have come to expect.
Production Editor
simsdebra@yahoo.com

Susan Wegener
As a student with a minor in Women’s Studies and a major British literature, I combined my interests in Virginia Woolf, and by the end of four years at Southern Connecticut State Univeristy I had grown to appreciate Woolf’s life and works enough to write my honors thesis on Orlando. Research introduced me to the International Virginia Woolf Society, and I submitted the proposal that brought me an enriching experience at the eleventh annual Virginia Woolf conference and an unbelievable trip to Wales. To meet the scholars whose books I had read and articles I had quoted was an undergraduate’s thrill, and I knew then that I forever wanted to be part of this group who understands Woolf’s importance to me because she too means so much to them.
In February, with much excitement and a little trepidation, I took on the tasks and privilege of working on this issue of the Miscellany. A formidable legacy, the VWM proved to exist on its own and require only subtle shaping by those who preside over it with the best of their skills. I worked hard to meet the impressive standards set by Sonoma State, and I will continue to perform my duties with diligence and enthusiasm.
Design Editor
sweg@earthlink.net

 

Subscriptions

1) The Miscellany accepts membership-orders through a third party such as EBSCO or Swets-Blackwell.
2) We offer two kinds of services:
a) a membership in the International Virginia Woolf Society ($20.00 for full-time employed individuals; $10.00 for those who are students, retired, or part-time employed; $20.00 for libraries and corporations; and we also accept donations to the Society.)
b) a separate subscription to the Virginia Woolf Miscellany ($10.00 for individuals and $15 for libraries and corporations) does not include membership in the IVWS.
Note: The IVWS and the Virginia Woolf Miscellany are independent entities.
3) Members in the IVWS receive different mailings and privileges from subscribers to the Virginia Woolf Miscellany
a) Members of the IVWS receive newsletters, an annual bibliography, and a list of members with contact information as well as the Virginia Woolf Miscellany . Members of the IVWS do not need to subscribe to the Virginia Woolf Miscellany .
b) Subscribers to the Virginia Woolf Miscellany receive ONLY the Virginia Woolf Miscellany .
c) both members and subscribers can make donations in addition to their payment of dues/subscriptions.
4) In lieu of a brochure, please go to our website http://www.utoronto.ca/IVWS/ for information about the International Virginia Woolf Society.

Submission Guidelines


The Virginia Woolf Miscellany accepts 800-2500 word submissions. Electronic submissions are strongly preferred. Editors (and their themes and contact information) are specified in the preceding issue(s).

Submissions should be in MS Word and in MLA format.

We cannot return hard-copy manuscripts to the sender.

Submissions are not refereed.

In most cases, submissions are reviewed and selected by the editor of record for the issue in which the submission will be published.

The Modern Language Association indexes articles in the Virginia Woolf Miscellany.

EBSCOhost has digitalized the backfile of the Virginia Woolf Miscellany.

Due to the publication schedule, submissions accepted for publication are not returned to the author for proofing.

All rights to the material published in the Virginia Woolf Miscellany revert to the author upon publication.

The Virginia Woolf Miscellany is not responsible for the ideas or opinions expressed in the articles it publishes.

The Virginia Woolf Miscellany is published both in hard copy and electronically.

History
The Virginia Woolf Miscellany was founded by Dr. J. J. Wilson, now Emerita Professor of English at Sonoma State University in California. The first issue of the Virginia Woolf Miscellany was published in Fall 1973. The first editors were Lucio Ruotolo, Ellen Hawkes Rogat and Margaret Comstock. Later, Peter Stansky and Mark Hussey became members of the editorial staff and Ellen Hawkes Rogat and Margaret Comstock stepped down. During its 29 years at Sonoma State University, the Miscellany was supported by the excellent staff of Reprographics. Izzi Magee has been especially helpful both in the publication of the Miscellany at Sonoma and in assisting the transition to Southern Connecticut State University where the publication now resides.the first

Southern Connecticut State University
is the current home of the the Virginia Woolf Miscellany