Description:
Virginia Woolf: Profession and Performance explores the intersection of Virginia Woolf's conceptualization of art, labor, education, and socio-political networks. The volume offers cutting-edge readings of primary texts, comparative studies of Woolf and other modernist professionals-performers, and fresh accounts of Woolf's relationship to women's professional and public labor.
Brief description:
Benjamin D. Hagen teaches at the University of South Dakota. He is a past president of the International Virginia Woolf Society, a past organizer of the Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf, the current editor of Woolf Studies Annual, and the author of The Sensuous Pedagogies of Virginia Woolf and D. H. Lawrence (Clemson University Press, 2020). His research has appeared in the journals Age, Culture, Humanities; Comparative Critical Studies; Modernism/modernity; PMLA; Twentieth-Century Literature; and Virginia Woolf Miscellany as well as in book collections focused on Virginia Woolf, the Bloomsbury Group, and Louise DeSalvo.