How highly does University of Wisconsin English and women’s studies professor Susan Friedman regard the British writer Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)?
So highly that when Friedman was awarded a special chair professorship from the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, she broke with the precedent of naming her chair after a UW-related person. Friedman, who came of age academically during the feminist revival of the 1960s and 1970s, asked instead to become the UW Virginia Woolf Professor of English.