The Institute for the Humanities at the University of Illinois at Chicago
and the Chicago Humanities Festival
present
Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own: A Working Seminar
Saturday, September 26, 1998 at 9:30 a.m.
Institute for the Humanities, Stevenson Hall
Mary Beth Rose and Peggy McCracken
Feminist Polemics in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Mary Beth Rose is Director of the Institute for the Humanities and Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her publications include Women in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance: Literary and Historical Perspectives, which she edited and The Expense of Spirit: Love and Sexuality in English Renaissance Drama She is currently co-editing the writing of Elizabeth I and completing a study of gender and heroism in English Renaissance culture.
Peggy McCracken is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She has recently published The Romance of Adultery: Queenship and Sexual Transgression in Old French Literature and has written widely on the construction and practice of sexuality in medieval French literature.
Norma Moruzzi
The Politics of Personal Narrative
Assistant Professor of Political Science and Women’s Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Norma Moruzzi centers her research on women and politics, and has completed a study of Hannah Arendt. She is currently working on issues of the social identity that involve gender and nationality.
Lisa Ruddick
A Room of One’s Own and Mind-Boy Awareness
Lisa Ruddick is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Chicago. She is the author of Reading Gertrude Stein: Body, Text, Gnosis and is currently working on a book about Ulysses. She is interested in issues of modernism, psychodynamic theory, and methodological change within literary criticism.
Jaime Hovey
Colonialist Erotics and National Belonging
Jaime Hovey is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her publications include the article “Kissing a Negress in the Dark: Englishness as a Masquerade in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando.”
