VARA NEVEROW English
BOOKS PUBLISHED:
Edited Collections And Books:
With Mark Hussey. Virginia Woolf:
Emerging Perspectives. NY:
With Mark Hussey. Virginia Woolf: Themes
and Variations. NY:
With Mark Hussey. Virginia Woolf
Miscellanies. NY:
With Lil Brannon and Melinda Knight. Writers
Writing.
PAPERS PUBLISHED IN PROCEEDINGS AND
EDITED COLLECTIONS:
"The Return of the Great
Goddess:Immortal Virginity, Sexual Autonomy and Lesbian Possibility in Jacob's
Room." Under consideration for Virginia Woolf and Literary. History.
Eds. Jane Lilienfeld and Jeffrey Oxford.
"The Lesbian Continuum in To the
Lighthouse: A Women's Studies Approach." In Approaches to Teaching To
the Lighthouse, by Beth Daugherty and Mary Beth Pringle, MLA, 2000.
"Freudian Seduction and the Fallacies
of Dictatorship." Forthcoming in Virginia Woolf and Fascism: Resisting
the Dictators' Seduction. Ed. Merry Pawlowski. Macmillan, 2000.
"Researching the Minimum Wage: A Moral
Economy for the Classroom." College Composition and Communication
(December 1991) republished in Critical Literacy in Action: Writing, Words,
Changing Worlds: A Tribute to the Teachings of Paulo Freire. Eds. Ira Shor
and Caroline Pari. Boynton/Cook, 1999.
"Thinking Back Through Our Mothers,
Thinking in Common: Virginia Woolf's Photographic Imagination and the Community
of Narratorsin Jacob’s Room, A Room of One’s Own, and Three
Guineas," in Virginia Woolf and Community: Selected Papers from the
Eighth Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf. Pace University Press, 1998.
"Reading A Room of One's Own as a Model
of Composition Theory." In Virginia Woolf.
"'Tak[ing] our stand openly under the
lamps of Piccadilly’: Footnoting the Influence of Josephine Butler on
Three Guineas." In Virginia Woolf and the Arts: Selected Papers
from the Seventh Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf. Pace University
Press, 1997.
JOURNAL ARTICLES PUBLISHED:
"Preliminary Bibliographic Guide to the
Footnotes of Three
"The Politics of Incorporation and
Embodiment: Feminist Epistemology as Resistance in Marge Piercy's He, She and
It." Utopian Studies (Spring 1995).
"'Mrs. Rayley is out, Sir': Re-reading
that Hole in Minta's Stocking." Virginia Woolf Miscellany (Fall
1992).
"The Impact of Childhood Sexual Abuse
on Virginia Woolf's Reading of Sara
Coleridge." Virginia Woolf
Miscellany (Spring 1990).
Response to Michael L. Johnson's March 1988 College
English article, "Hell is the Place We Don't Know We're In." College
English (February 1990).
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
President, International Virginia Woolf
Society (2000-2003)
Editorial Board, Woolf Studies Annual.
Manuscript Reader, Utopian Studies
BOOK REVIEWS:
Review of "Ladies, Please Don't
Smash These Window": Women's Writing, Feminist Consciousness and Social
Change 1918-38 by Maroula Joannou and Thinking Fascism : Sapphic
Modernism and Fascist Modernity by Erin G. Carlston in Woolf Studies
Annual (1999).
Review of Anglo-American Feminist
Challenges to the Rhetorical Traditions by Krista Ratcliffe, in Woolf
Studies Annual (1997).
Review article of three books on modernism
in Woolf Studies Annual (1996).
"Re-Viewing Women's Studies"
(review article of four books), in Transformations: The New Jersey Project
Journal (Fall 1995).
Fighting Forces, Writing Women: Ideology
and Identity in the First World War,
by Sharon Ouditt, English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920 (Fall
1994).
CONFERENCE PAPERS ORALLY DELIVERED:
"Resisting Patriarchy: Virginia Woolf
and Suzy McKee Charnas." A Millennium of Utopias,
"Paterfamilias, Pater Ecclesias, Pater
Patrias: Photographic Portraits of the Domestic Father and the Public Father
Taken from a Monks' House Album" with Krystyna Colburn, Ninth Annual
International Conference on Virginia Woolf,
"Thinking Back Through Our Mothers,
Thinking in Common: Virginia Woolf's Photographic Imagination and the Community
of Narratorsin Jacob’s Room, A Room of One’s Own, and Three
Guineas." Keynote Address. Eighth Annual International Conference on
Virginia Woolf,
"An Archeology of Anger: Tracing the
Sources of Virginia Woolf’s Three Guineas." Society for Textual
Scholarship, City
"The Goddess Figure in Virginia Woolf’s
Jacob’s Room." Seventh Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf,
"Focusing on the Periphery: The Female
Minor Characters in Jacob's Room." Experimental Writers, Northeast Modern
Language Association (NEMLA) Convention,
"Defying the Dictators from Freud to
Fascism." Woolf and Fascism, Modern Language Association (MLA)
Convention,
"Reading A Room of One's Own as a Model
of Composition Theory." Woolf and Rhetoric, Virginia Woolf: Emerging
Perspectives: The Third Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf,
"The Politics of Incorporation and
Embodiment: Feminist Epistemology and Resistance in Marge Piercy's He, She and
It." Popular Culture Convention,
"Transforming the Curriculum: A Women's
Studies Approach."
"Fresh(wo)man Composition: Patriarchal
Discourse, l'ecriture feminine, and the Politics of Coherence." Escape
from Objectivity,
"Applied Women's Studies:
Cross-Disciplinary Approaches from Classroom to Residence Hall."
"Imagining Utopia in the Classroom:
Bakhtin, Collaborative Learning, and Utopian Thought." Annual Meeting of
the Society for Utopian Studies,
"Ethos, Ecologics, and Rhetorical
Responsibility: Utopian Texts for a Writing Class in the Multi-national,
Post-natural,
CONFERENCE SESSIONS ORGANIZED:
"The Illustrated Woolf." Virginia
Woolf: The Turning of the Centuries: The Ninth Annual International Conference
on Virginia Woolf,
"Utopia Studies: Revisioning
"Woolf and Bio/Psycho/Graphies."
Featured Panel, Virginia Woolf: Emerging Perspectives: The Third Annual
Conference on Virginia Woolf,
"Life/Studies: Virginia Woolf,
Psychoanalysis and Biography." Featured Panel, Virginia Woolf
Miscellanies: The First Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf,
"Utopia and Its Discontents."
Utopian Literature Session, Session Chair, Northeast MLA Convention, Hartford,
April 1991.
With Jane Lilienfeld. "Telling the
Truth of the Body: Literary Representations of Domestic
Violence and Father/Daughter Incest."
Special session, MLA Convention, Washington, DC, December 1989.
CONFERENCES ORGANIZED:
Founder/Principal Organizer: The Annual
Women's Studies Conference at Southern Connecticut State University
(1991-present) (Conference topics include: African Women of the Diaspora
[2000], Global Justice/Women's Rights [1999], Women and Girls with Disabilities
[1998], Latina Visions [1997])
"Women's Studies for a New Millennium:
A Regional Colloquium," May 1999
Women’s Weekend Workshops on various special
topics (1992-present).
Program Committee Member: Annual Conferences
on Virginia Woolf (1993-present).
Principal Organizer: Virginia Woolf:
Themes and Variations: The Second Annual International Conference on Virginia
Woolf, 1992.
Standing Member: Steering Committee for the
Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf.
RECENT GRANTS:
Connecticut State University Research Grant,
1998-99, 1989-90
Connecticut Humanities Council, ($8000 grant
funding speakers for Latina Visions, the Seventh Annual Women's Studies
Conference, October 1997)
Southern Connecticut State University
Department Reassigned Time, Fall 1995, Spring 1991
Dean's Reassigned Time, Spring 1997, Fall
1989
New York University Gordon Ray Scholarship
for Dissertation Research Abroad, 1986
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Virginia Woolf; Feminist Theory; Composition
Theory and Pedagogy, Utopias
CURRENT/FUTURE SPECIFIC RESEARCH
PROJECTS:
An Annotated Hypertext Archive and
Edition of the Sources for Virginia Woolf's "Three Guineas"
DISSERTATION TITLE:
The Diacritics of Desire: Virginia Woolf
and the Rhetoric of Modernism and Feminism
INSTITUTION GRANTING PH.D.:
New York University.