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Předmět je vyučován v anglickém jazyce a další informace následují v angličtině. This course focuses on the modernist woman writer Virginia Woolf and her novels, short fiction, and essays. Its objective is not only to introduce the author's opus as it gradually evolved stylistically and thematically but mainly to provide an insight into contemporary critical approaches to her fiction. In this way, the students will be encouraged to explore various critical frames which they might later apply to their own research. Moreover, this conception of the seminar allows students to discover the diversity of methodological approaches that might be utilized in relation to a single author. The first sessions of the seminar will focus on Woolf´s short fiction in relation to object-oriented ontology and process philosophy, her masterpiece To the Lighthouse read from psychoanalytic perspective, the novel Orlando related to queer theory and concepts of identity and her feminist manifesto A Room of One´s Own, which would introduce the feminist thought. The following sessions would be concerned with Woolf´s novel The Waves and its proto-postmodern nature and concept of interpersonal identity, animal studies in relation to Flush, a biography narrated from a dog's point of view, posthuman nature of the passage "Time Passes" and natural interludes in The Waves and Woolf´s proto-ecological thinking and discussion of consumerism in several of her essays. The last sessions would focus on Woolf´s philosophy of interconnection outlined in "A Sketch of the Past" and further developed in Three Guineas and Between the Acts. As a result, the seminar provides a summary of critical approaches to Woolf's works and at the same time analyses the topics of materiality, gender, the posthuman, social justice and community that have dominated recent conferences and academic papers on Woolf. Tento seminář je veden pouze v anglickém jazyce. The seminar is taught/led only in English.