Papers Published in Woolf Across Cultures by Pace University, USA in May 2004Hee-Jin Park’s “Translation of Virginia Woolf in Korea” and Myung-Hee Chung’s “Mediating Virginia Woolf for Korean Readers” were published in Woolf Across Cultures by Pace University, USA in May 2004. The two papers were initially presented at “Woolf Across Cultures,” an international symposium…
DetailsPublished: Translation of Virginia Woolf’s Short Stories Twenty-three short stories of Virginia Woolf, half of the Woolf’s short stories anthologized by Susan Dick in The Complete Shorter Fiction of Virginia Woolf, were translated into Korean by the members of the VWSK and published under the title of The Case for Mysterious V by Sol Publishing,…
DetailsIlgok Award for an Outstanding Contribution to Woolf Studies The VWSK has established the Ilgok Award for outstanding papers dealing with Woolf. The award and the prize money of 500,000 won will be given to the author of the best paper on Virginia Woolf published during each academic year. Papers eligible for the first Ilgok…
Details2004 Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf Conference in London
“Back to Bloomsbury,” the 14th International Virginia Woolf Studies Conference, will be held at the Institute of English Studies of the University of London. The VWSK plans to attend the Conference. For more information, contact Myoung-Hee Chung at mhckang@hanmail.net.
Joint Conference with the Virginia Woolf Society of Japan Proposed The friendship between the Virginia Woolf Society of Japan and the VWSK goes back to the time when professor Hee-Jin Park met the members of the VWSJ at the Seventh International Virginia Woolf Studies Conference in Plymouth, USA in June 1997. Keiko Izubuchi, the President…
DetailsThe VWSK Goes to Moscow VWSK founding ‘mother,’ Hee-Jin Park, was invited to present a lecture on “Translation of Virginia Woolf in Korea” at “Woolf Across Cultures,” an international Symposium held at the Russian State University in Moscow on June 27, 2003. The paper opens with the discussion of “Benjamin Lee Whorf’s proposition that our…
DetailsLaunching Lectures on English Literature in Total Museum The VWSK has launched a series of lectures on “Understanding English Literature,” which is part of the 12th Academy Program sponsored by Total Museum, Seoul. Hee-Jin Park opened the series with a lecture entitled “Who is Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” on March 10, 2004. VWSK members are…
DetailsThe Second Biannual Conference of the VWSK The Voyage into Woolf: Short yet Long Stories, the Second Biannual Conference of the VWSK, was held at Kookmin University on October 25, 2003. Jin-Ok Kim’s “Orlando: Deleuze and Guattari–Becoming Woman” and Kum-Joo Kim’s “The Voyage Out: The Young Woman’s Voyage Out and Desire” were presented during the…
DetailsThe First Biannual Conference of the VWSK In Search for Woolf Again, the First Biannual Conference of the VWSK, was held at Kookmin University on April 26, 2003. Presentations on Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, Michael Cunningham’s The Hours and the film adaptation of The Hours were lively, interesting and informative. “The Extension of Meaning: From Mrs.…
DetailsThe VWSK Participates in the 2003 Annual Conference of the English Language and Literature Association of Korea The Virginia Woolf Society of Korea first became publicly known during the Annual Conference of the English Language and Literature Association of Korea held in Onyang, Korea January 23-25, 2003. Young-Joo Kim’s “Virginia Woolf and Little Englandism,” and…
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