Patricia Laurence

Talks (selected)

China Book Tour, September 2008:
The Narrow Bridge of Art: Bloomsbury, Modernism and China. Fudan University, Shanghai; East China Normal University, Shanghai; Beijing Bookworm, Beijing.

Modernism's Quarrel with the Lyric Voice: East-West Views. Modern Language Association, Chicago, December 2008.

Waking the Sleeping Books of the Republican Era: Virginia Woolf and Ling Shuhua, Julian Bell and Ye Junjian. Modernist Studies Associatiion Conference, Long Beach, Ca., Nov.2, 2007.

Hours in a Chinese Library: Re-Reading Virginia Woolf, Bloomsbury and Modernism. Invited Plenary Speaker, Annual Virginia Woolf Conference, Miami University, Ohio, June 8, 2007.

Virginia Woolf and International Women Writers, Moderator, MLA, Washington, D.C., December, 2005

Recording Family History: An Oral History Workshop, Family History Fair, Graduate Center, CUNY, October 24, 2004.

Julian Bell's China Album, Annual Virginia Woolf Conference Institute of English Studies, London, June 27, 2004.

A King’s Quartet: G.L. Dickinson, Xu Zhimo, Julian Bell, Xiao Qian, Modernism and Orientalism Conference, King’s College, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England, June 14, 2004.

Literature, History and Social Responsibility. CUNY-Taiyuan Educational Exchange Conference, Brooklyn College, CUNY, June 6, 2004.

Bloomsbury, Modernism and China, China Institute, Library, 125 East 65th St., NYC, April 27, 2004.

History, Memory and Fiction: Ling Shuhua, Virginia Woolf and Julian Bell, East Asian Institute, Columbia University, International Affairs Building, February 10, 2004.

Lily Briscoe’s Chinese Eyes: Virginia Woolf and Ling Shuhua, Brooklyn College, The Wolfe Institute, November 13, 2003.

Multiple Modernisms, The Graduate Center, CUNY, English Department Lounge, October 24, 2003.

Books
BOOKS Lily Briscoe’s Chinese Eyes: Bloomsbury, Modernism, and China (University of South Carolina Press, 2003)
It is a rich tale told with critical acumen
--Peter Stansky, Stanford University
The Reading of Silence: Virginia Woolf in the English Tradition (Stanford University Press, 1992)
“In its theoretical treatment of ‘silence’ and in the originality of its explications, this study establishes new directions for Woolf studies.”
--Lucio P. Ruotolo, Stanford University
Monograph
MONOGRAPH Julian Bell: The Violent Pacifist (Cecil Woolf, Bloomsbury Heritage Series, 2006)
Julian Bell, the nephew of Virginia Woolf, embodied the contradictions of his generation in 1930s England. Under the threat of fascism, his "peace mind" grew into a "war mind." This monograph traces his transformation.

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