Senior Seminar

What happens when we create a community of readers in a comparative literary dialogue around the works of one author? What happens if we delve deeply together into the intricacies of Virginia Woolf’s inimitable language, the translucency of her images, the development of her modernist literary voice across multiple works? This course is a research workshop that delves into an extended series of works by Woolf in order to explore not just modernist narrative but also the diverse ways that Woolf’s work can be approached—from within its own workings and through historical and intertextual comparison, through the lens of temporality and gender—in order to put us in touch with the specificity of her works as well as their continued resonance today.