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Virginia Woolf Lecture by NU Professor Christine Froula

Professor Froula has published widely on interdisciplinary modernism and feminist and gender theory, including the book: Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Avant-Garde: War, Civilization, Modernity.

Join us for this virtual event! Professor Froula will discuss Virginia Woolf and her works, with a focus on Mrs. Dalloway, To The Lighthouse, and Orlando.

Christine Froula, professor of English, Comparative Literature, and Gender Studies at Northwestern University, life member of Clare Hall, Cambridge, and past president of the International Virginia Woolf Society, has published widely on interdisciplinary modernism, feminist and gender theory, and genetic criticism, including A Guide to Ezra Pound's Selected Poems (New Directions), To Write Paradise: Style and Error in Pound's Cantos (Yale), Modernism's Body: Sex, Culture, and Joyce (Columbia), Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Avant-Garde: War, Civilization, Modernity (Columbia), and, recently, “Sex” (James Joyce in Context), “Proust's China” (Modernism/Modernity), “War, Empire, and Modernist Poetry, 1914-1922” (Cambridge Companion to the Poetry of the First World War), “War, Peace, Internationalism” (Cambridge Companion to the Bloomsbury Group), “‘Dangerous Thoughts in Bloomsbury’: Fictions of Empire and British Aestheticism” (Reconnecting Aestheticism and Modernism), “Ezra Pound and the Comparative Literature of the Present, or, Triptych: Rome/London/Pisa” (Ezra Pound in the Present), “The Zeppelin in the Sky of the Mind” (The First World War: Literature, Culture, Modernity), “Unwriting The Waves” (Genesis and Revision in Modern British and Irish Writers), “Thinking Sideways through One’s Sisters: Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf” (introduction) and “Katherine’s Secrets” (both Katherine Mansfield Studies 10), and "Goldie's 'War and Peace': Marinetti Meets Aristophanese and Beethoven in Bloomsbury" (Virginia Woolf, Europe, and Peace). She is currently working on 21st century adaptations of ancient and modernist classics and, with Helen Wussow, on an anthology of Bloomsbury drama.

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