Call for Papers

Woolf Editing / Editing Woolf

“The editor is regarded by most authors as a person whose mission is the suppression of rising genius, or as a traitor who has left their ranks to help their natural enemy, the publisher.” (Leslie Stephen, “The Evolution of Editors” 1896)

“Any text is an edited text, and critics and theorists neglect the principles of its editing and construction at their peril.” (George Bornstein, “Why Editing Matters,” Representing Modernist Texts: Editing as Interpretation, 1991)

The Conference Coordinators welcome submissions on the following topics:

• Editing as revision, recovering lost voices, censorship, biography, translation
• Woolf’s “orts and fragments,” drafting, rewriting
• Editing as a profession: Hogarth Press
• Leonard Woolf as editor
• Leslie Stephen and the Victorian editor
• Editions of Woolf’s Works: Print, Film, Theatre, Digital, Online
• Woolf’s relationships with editors
• Editing and Anonymity
• Special Editions / Collections / Teaching Editions
• Letters to the Editor
• Editing / Adapting Woolf’s texts for other media (film, theatre, dance, music, art)

Panel Proposals Due by December 15, 2007
Paper Proposals Due by February 1, 2008.
Please send 250 word abstracts as Word attachments with a separate sheet indicating name, institutional affiliation and email address.