Monica Latham is Professor in British Literature at Université de Lorraine in Nancy, France. She is a specialist of Virginia Woolf and genetic criticism and has published numerous articles on modernist and postmodernist authors. She is the author of A Poetics of Postmodernism and Neomodernism: Rewriting Mrs Dalloway (2015), Virginia Woolf’s Afterlives: The Author as Character in Contemporary Fiction and Drama (2021) and Dans l’atelier de Virginia Woolf (2025).

• IntroductionChapter 1: Biographoid Portraits: Virginia Woolf Made in FranceChapter 2: Virginia Woolf: Idol and IconChapter 3: A (Bio)Graphic WoolfChapter 4: Visits on French SoilChapter 5: Specters of Virginia and the Ghost of WoolfChapter 6: Conversations Beyond the GraveChapter 7: Double ‘Double V’Chapter 8: The Birth of the Writer and The Death of the AuthorConclusion: Virginia Woolf: A ‘Biografictionable’ Literary and Cultural Figure

Monica Latham is Professor in British Literature at Université de Lorraine in Nancy, France. She is a specialist of Virginia Woolf and genetic criticism and has published numerous articles on modernist and postmodernist authors. She is the author of A Poetics of Postmodernism and Neomodernism: Rewriting Mrs Dalloway (2015), Virginia Woolf’s Afterlives: The Author as Character in Contemporary Fiction and Drama (2021) and Dans l’atelier de Virginia Woolf (2025).

• IntroductionChapter 1: Biographoid Portraits: Virginia Woolf Made in FranceChapter 2: Virginia Woolf: Idol and IconChapter 3: A (Bio)Graphic WoolfChapter 4: Visits on French SoilChapter 5: Specters of Virginia and the Ghost of WoolfChapter 6: Conversations Beyond the GraveChapter 7: Double ‘Double V’Chapter 8: The Birth of the Writer and The Death of the AuthorConclusion: Virginia Woolf: A ‘Biografictionable’ Literary and Cultural Figure

Monica Latham is Professor in British Literature at Université de Lorraine in Nancy, France. She is a specialist of Virginia Woolf and genetic criticism and has published numerous articles on modernist and postmodernist authors. She is the author of A Poetics of Postmodernism and Neomodernism: Rewriting Mrs Dalloway (2015), Virginia Woolf’s Afterlives: The Author as Character in Contemporary Fiction and Drama (2021) and Dans l’atelier de Virginia Woolf (2025).

• IntroductionChapter 1: Biographoid Portraits: Virginia Woolf Made in FranceChapter 2: Virginia Woolf: Idol and IconChapter 3: A (Bio)Graphic WoolfChapter 4: Visits on French SoilChapter 5: Specters of Virginia and the Ghost of WoolfChapter 6: Conversations Beyond the GraveChapter 7: Double ‘Double V’Chapter 8: The Birth of the Writer and The Death of the AuthorConclusion: Virginia Woolf: A ‘Biografictionable’ Literary and Cultural Figure