Violence and Virginia Woolf: Grappling with the Root Causes of War

This lecture explores the ways in which Woolf’s responses to violence and war were formative in constructing definitions of “positive” peace and in establishing an intellectual climate in which the discipline of Peace Studies and peace research have prospered. Download flier.

Jean Mills, PhD, is Associate Professor of 20th Century British Literature at John Jay College, specializing in Woolf Studies, women’s literature of the 1920’s and 1930’s, Modernism, feminist theory, and Cultural Studies.