Description: Explores Virginia Woolf as a transnational figure, her composite legacy and her impact in various cultural and political contexts.
Brief description: Mine Özyurt Kılıç is a Professor of English Literature at the Social Sciences University of Ankara (ASBU), Turkey. Her research areas include Modernism, contemporary British fiction, empathy studies, matricentric feminism and women's writing. She authored Maggie Gee: Writing the Condition-of-England Novel (Bloomsbury, 2013). In 2017, she co-organized the centenary celebration of the Hogarth Press at Harvard University, which included a seminar, letterpress printing workshops and an exhibition. Özyurt Kılıç co-founded the Virginia Woolf Studies in Turkey Initiative and with the support of the British Council in Turkey, co-curated its symposium at the Pera Museum, İstanbul in 2023. She has been instrumental in integrating Woolf studies into the English curricula in Turkey. Currently, she is editing and translating a forthcoming collection of Virginia Woolf's essays on writing (Ve Yayınevi). Özyurt Kılıç is also the founder of the Woolf Arts Archive (WAA), a global project dedicated to the collection and appreciation of art inspired by the life and works of Virginia Woolf. www.woolfartsarchive.org
Review Quotes: This extraordinarily rich, multifaceted and complex volume affirms that Virginia Woolf's work has been embraced globally. The range and depth of the collection is invaluable, and the contributors offer exceptionally fresh insights that magnify Brenda Silver's landmark 1999 Virginia Woolf Icon and situate Woolf as an integral presence across cultures.--Vara Neverow, Southern Connecticut State University