Dr. Jeanette McVicker
Dr. Jeanette McVicker has engaged in scholarly work with the modernist writer Virginia Woolf for much of her career.
McVicker, who is professor of English and coordinator of Ethnic and Gender Studies at SUNY Fredonia, delivered a paper at the 34th Annual International Conference on Woolf, held at the University of Sussex, U.K., in early July. The paper, “Mourning as Dissidence,” extended a research focus on Woolf’s uses of classic Greek tragedy, especially Sophocles’s Antigone, that began several years ago, partially supported by her sabbatical in 2022-23.
In addition to the July conference presentation, her paper from the 33rd conference (held at Fresno State University) in 2024, “Reimagining technē: Woolf’s Meditative Thinking and the Role of Antigone in Three Guineas and The Years,” will be published in the Selected Papers by Clemson University Press online.
McVicker is contributing a major chapter to the forthcoming Routledge Companion to Virginia Woolf, discussing Woolf’s work in relation to philosophy and theory. In addition, her paper from the 31st annual conference in 2022, “Woolfian ethics, heterotopias, and nonviolence,” appeared in spring in the Selected Papers by Clemson University Press online.
