Articles


“Hours in a Chinese Library: Re-Reading Virginia Woolf, Bloomsbury and Modernism”

in Diane Royer & Madelyn Detloff, ed. Virginia Woolf: Art, Education and Internationalism (Keynote at 17th Annual Virginia Woolf conference, June 2007) Clemson UP, 2008, 8-16.

http://www.clemson.edu/caah/cedp/cudp/pubs/vwcon/17.html


“The Intimate Spaces of Community: J.M. Keynes and the Arts”

History of Political Economy
Spring 2007, 292-317.

“Part of America is Missing: Literature Anthologies in the People’s Republic of China”

Long Wind
Summer 2006

“Biography and Fiction”

Legendaria (Rome)
November 2004, 7-9.

“Catherine Bertini Meets GERWUN”

Equal Time: Equal Rights for Women at the UN
Spring, 2003

“Bloomsburied in China: Hong Ying’s ‘K’ ”

The Nation
April 4, 2003

“Collapsing Inside and Outside: Reading ‘The Friend of the Friends’”

in The Finer Thread, the Tighter Weave: Essays on the Short Fiction of Henry James
eds. Brooke Horvath & Joseph Dewey, Indiana: Purdue University Press, 2002. pp. 117-125.

“A Rope to Throw the Reader: Reading the Diverse Rhythms of To the Lighthouse”

in Approaches to Teaching Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse, eds. Beth Rigel Dougherty and Mary Beth Pringle. New York: Modern Language Association (March 2001), 93-101.

“Holding Her Pen Like a Broom’: Virginia Woolf’s Anxieties about Working Class Women”

“Everything sounds in its own way. Slllt,” writes James Joyce in Ulysses. The same might be said of Virginia Woolf whose style embodies not only the sound of things—for example, a gramophone’s “un-dis,” a machine’s “tick tick,” a cow’s coughing, a plane’s “zoom” cutting words in two (BA) —but also the more subtle rhythms and metaphors of body, mind, nature, and, yes, even class. The sounds, rhythms and metaphors in her writing are examples of the subject’s experience of the object or what might be termed, the continuity of the subject and the object. This is a quality of style that distinguishes Woolf from other modernists. In her short story “Solid Objects,” the aesthete, John who is obsessed with looking at and touching beautiful stones, notes that “looked at again and again. . . any object mixes itself so profoundly with the stuff of thought that it loses its actual form” (98). Woolf’s treatment of things (objects), then, is not, as with other Modernists, just “regard for the physical object as object—not self, not-subject—fragment of Being, as solidity, as otherness” (4) as Douglas Mao asserts. Rather, objects and things in Woolf are the extension of her own subjectivity as a writer as well as the subjectivity of the characters and things that she seeks to describe. As readers of Woolf, we cannot tell the difference between the object being described and the consciousness perceiving it or the writer writing it.
Etudes Brittaniques Contemporains (Automne 1999), 5-18.

“Virginia Woolf in/​on Translation”

Virginia Woolf Miscellany (fall 1999), editor of issue, introduction.

“In Memoriam, East & West: Dadie Rylands & Xiao Qian”

Virginia Woolf Miscellany (Spring 1999), 2.

“Oral History Across the Disciplines: Roundtable Discussion”

Oral History Association Newsletter, fall 1998, 3-12

“A Writing Couple: Shared Ideology in Virginia Woolf’s Three Guineas and Leonard Woolf’s Quack, Quack!”

Peace, Politics and Women around Bloomsbury, ed. Wayne Chapman, New York: Pace UP, 1998, 125-143.

“The China Letters: Vanessa Bell, Julian Bell and Ling Shuhua”

South Carolina Review (spring 1997) 122-131.

“Third Wave Feminism: the Joining of University and Community Women”

Spring 1996 in Center for the Study of Women Newsletter, CUNY Graduate Center.

“Response to Gerald Graff”

College English (October 1995): 731-733.

“Feminism as a Tiger: Interviewing Shanghai Women Writers”

Fall 1995 in Center for the Study of Women Newsletter, CUNY Graduate Center.

“The Collective Voice of Women”

Spring 1995 in Center for the Study of Women Newsletter, CUNY Graduate Center.

“After Winning a Room of Your Own: Women’s Studies in the Academy”

Fall 1994; in Center for the Study of Women Newsletter, CUNY Graduate Center.

“James Dickey’s Puella in Flight”

South Carolina Review (Spring 1994) 2:62, 61-71

“Symposium on Basic Writing, Conflict and Struggle, and the legacy of Mina Shaughnessy”

College English, 53:4 (December 1993), 44-47.

“Issues in World Literature: Introduction for Students, Introduction for Instructors”

(co-author with Sarah Bird Wright)
in Issues in World Literature, New York: HarperCollins, December 1993.

“The Vanishing Site of Mina Shaughnessy’s Errors and Expectations”

Journal of Basic Writing, Fall 1993.

“Reading and Writing About World Literature”

(co-author with Sarah Bird Wright)
in HarperCollins World Reader, ed. M.A. Caws and Christopher Prendergast, New York: HarpercCollins, 1993

“Virginia Woolf and Music”

Virginia Woolf Miscellany, spring 1992: 4-5.

“The Reading of Rhythm in Virginia Woolf”

Virginia Woolf Miscellanies: Proceedings. New York: Pace University Press, 1992.

“The Facts and Fugue of War: From Three Guineas to Between the Acts”

in Virginia Woolf and War: The Fiction, the Myth, the Reality, ed. Mark Hussey, New York: Syracuse UP, 1991: 225-246

“City College’s Family Narrative Collection”

Resource (1989) 4-8