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About this event
This is the penultimate lecture in the 'Beyond the Dark Clouds' lecture series - "Catholicism and the Curious Outsider: The Case of Virginia Woolf". This lecture will be given by Professor Jane De Gay, Leeds Trinity University.
Rev Prof Jane de Gay is Professor of English Literature at Leeds Trinity University and honorary Associate Priest and Lecturer at Leeds Minster.
Jane's research combines literary scholarship with theology and religious studies. Her monograph, Virginia Woolf and Christian Culture (Edinburgh University Press, 2018), is a wide-ranging, comprehensive study which reveals that Virginia Woolf was profoundly interested in, and knowledgeable about, Christianity as a faith and as a socio-political movement. Recent publications arising from this research include an invited chapter in The Edinburgh Companion to Modernism, Myth and Religion (Edinburgh University Press, 2023).
The second strand of Jane's research is allusion and intertextuality. Her first monograph, Virginia Woolf’s Novels and the Literary Past (Edinburgh University Press, 2006), was the first book to explore Woolf’s preoccupation with the literary past and its profound impact on the content and structure of her novels. Publications from this project include an invited chapter in The Oxford Handbook of Virginia Woolf (2021). She was organizer of the 26th International Virginia Woolf Conference: Virginia Woolf and Heritage (16-19 June 2016), which brought over 220 international scholars to campus.
The aim of our inaugural lecture series 'Beyond the Dark Clouds' is to support the university, with its Catholic roots, to have a voice in the public square about justice, law-enforcement, the police, the nature of education, business ethics, spirituality, leadership and contemplation and the arts. Open to all, we encourage you to be a part of these public discussions about how to humanise our world and to bring about the conditions that enable the flourishing of all individuals and groups.
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Further Information
For more information please email Ann Marie Mealey (a.mealey@leedstrinity.ac.uk) or to view the full lecture schedule alongside other university events, click here.