Virginia Woolf
Profession and Performance
Edited by Benjamin D. Hagen and Taya Sazama
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Virginia Woolf: Profession and Performance studies the intersection of Woolf’s repeated critical and creative engagements with literal and figurative stagings (i.e., performance) and declarations and occupations (i.e., profession). In chapters that range from a comparative study of Woolf and Sylvia Beach as publishers and booksellers to studies that situate Woolf’s life and work in relation to the culture of cosmetics, the theater, journalism, photography, printmaking, as well as career politics, contributors disclose how critical attention to this entanglement of “profession” and “performance” expands and enriches our understanding of modernist networks, women’s labor in literary and other aesthetic fields, and gender politics that reward the reproduction of professional status quos. As an extension of the feminist turn in modernist studies, this volume contributes focused and nuanced studies to the collective project of understanding modernism as something women have made, professed, and performed.
About the Editors
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.
Taya Sazama is a PhD candidate at the University of South Dakota studying eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literature with an emphasis on marriage, courtship, and education. Her review of Karen Bourrier’s Victorian Bestseller: The Life of Dinah Craik (2019) appeared in the 2021 spring issue of Victorian Periodicals Review and her review of Freya Johnston’s Jane Austen, Early and Late (2021) was published with Review 19 in 2024. She currently serves on the steering committee to host the 2025 British Women Writers Conference in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
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Published: July 2025
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ISBN: 9781638041627
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LiteratureModernism
