(June 29, 2026) “The Lives of Women: Urmila Seshagiri in conversation with Marina Sagona,” Waterstones Gower St., London
UPCOMING TALK
(June 24-27, 2026) Urmila Seshagiri will give the talk “Conversations in Context: The Life of Violet,” at the 35th International Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf. This will be a featured event at the conference in Istanbul Bilgi University.
UPCOMING TALK
(June 30, 2026) Join us for an evening with Urmila Seshagiri at Blackwell’s Oxford in conversation with David James about The Life of Violet.
TALKS
Keynote Addresses
“‘Sure and Certain Knowledge’: Virginia Woolf’s Literary Lives”
- British Association of Modernist Studies Conference
- Bristol, England | June 23-25, 2022
“Metamodernism: Contemporary Fiction and the Problem of Modernism”
- Metamodernism Conference
- University of Manchester, Manchester, England | January 31, 2018
“Plotting Against Modernism”
- Modernist Legacies: (Post)-Postmodernism Conference
- Loyola University, Chicago, Illinois | April 11, 2015
“Atoning for Modernism: Ian McEwan, Virginia Woolf, and the Limits of Fiction”
- Southern Appalachian Student Conference on Literature
- East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee | October 2007
Plenary Presentations
“Virginia Woolf’s Dissident Memoir”
- 34th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf
- King’s College London and the University of Sussex, London, England | July 4, 2025 and July 5-8, 2025
“Woolf’s A Sketch of the Past and the Imperfect Archive”
- 30th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf
- The University of South Dakota, Vermilion, South Dakota | June 10-13, 2021 (via Zoom)
“High Anxiety: The Modernist Communities of Vanity Fair Magazine”
- International Conference of the French Society of Modernist Studies
- University of Paris, Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, France | April 24-26, 2014
“Atoning for Modernism: Ian McEwan, Virginia Woolf, and the Limits of Fiction”
- Art, Education, and Internationalism: The Seventeenth Annual International Virginia Woolf Conference
- Miami University, Oxford, Ohio | June 7-10, 2007
Invited Talks
- The Lives of Women: Urmila Seshagiri in conversation with Marina Sagona
- Waterstones | June 29, 2026
- 35th International Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf
- Istanbul Bilgi University | June 24-27, 2026
- Join us for an evening with Urmila Seshagiri at Blackwell's Oxford in conversation with David James.
- Blackwell’s, Broad Street, Oxford | Tuesday, June 30, 2026 5:30pm-6:30pm
- A Conversation with Anne Fernald
- The Center for Fiction, New York City, New York | October 16, 2025
“J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace at 25”
- Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar, with Elleke Boehmer and Derek Attridge
- Wadham College, Oxford University, Oxford, England | November 21, 2024
“Buried Treasures: Virginia Woolf In and Out of the Archive”
- Persephone Books Literary Festival
- Bath, England | April 19-21, 2024
- Work/Cited
- New York Public Library, New York City, New York | November 30, 2022 (via Zoom)
“Editing Jacob’s Room”
- Graduate Seminar on Modernism
- East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee | November 8, 2022
“House, Nation, World: Woolf and the Idea of Home”
- Panel Discussion About The Oxford Handbook to Virginia Woolf, ed. Anne Fernald, for the International Virginia Woolf Society
- Online via Zoom | April 8, 2022
“Editing Woolf: Sketch of the Past and Jacob’s Room”
- Graduate Seminar on Virginia Woolf
- Loyola University, Chicago, Illinois | November 1, 2021 (via Zoom)
“Modernism and Forms of Feminism”
- Seminar on Transatlantic Modern Women
- Fordham University, New York City, New York | April 16, 2021 (via Zoom)
“To the Lighthouse and the Humanities Today”
- Literary Humanities Seminar Faculty Lecture
- Columbia University, New York City, New York | April 6, 2020 (via Zoom)
“Archives and Autobiography: Virginia Woolf’s Sketch of the Past”
- Modernist Studies Workshop
- Penn State, State College, Pennsylvania | March 13, 2019
“Encounters with Modernism”
- Department of Comparative Literature Talk
- University of California, Davis, California | April 17, 2018
“Global Modernism and Jean Rhys”
- Seminar on Modernism and its Global Inheritors
- Ithaca College, Ithaca, New York | March 9, 2017
“Still Shocking: Modernism at the Millenium”
- Global Modernism Symposium
- Ithaca College, Ithaca, New York | March 8, 2017
“Modernism at One Hundred”
- Aging Modernisms: A Symposium
- Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana | March 25-27, 2016
“Transnational Women Modernists: New Directions”
- Modernist Studies Association XVI
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania | November 6-9, 2014
“Modernism, Feminism, and Cultural Inheritance”
- Modernist Studies Association XVI
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania | November 6-9, 2014
“Bloomsbury Worlds”
- 24th Annual International Virginia Woolf Conference (with Rishona Zimring)
- Loyola University, Chicago, Illinois | June 5-8, 2014
“Facing the Future of the Yellow Peril”
- Workshop
- New York University, New York City, New York | March 7, 2014
“Who’s Afraid of Fu-Manchu?”
- Detoxifying Fear: A Conference on the Yellow Peril
- The Asia/Pacific/America Institute, New York University, New York City, New York | March 7, 2014
“Transnational Modernism and Feminism”
- Modernist Studies Association XIII
- Buffalo, New York | October 6-9, 2011
“Race and the Modernist Imagination”
- Modernist Studies Workshop
- Penn State University, State College, Pennsylvania | September 2010
“Vita, Virginia, and the Allure of the East”
- “A Room of Their Own: The Bloomsbury Artists in American Collections”
- Palmer Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania | September 2010
“Race and the Cultural Logic of Modernity”
- The Humanities Initiative Committee
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville | February 16, 2005
“T. S. Eliot and Jews/Modernism and Its Others”
- Modernist Studies Association Conference VI
- Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada | October 21-24, 2004
“Virginia Woolf and the Making of Modernism”
- Department of English Talk
- Ethiraj College for Women, Madras, India | July 8, 2004
“Marriage and Miscegenation in Mira Nair’s Mississippi Masala”
- Seminar on Race and Gender in Asian America
- MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts | April 1, 2002