Bio


Alice Staveley teaches a range of courses on British modernism, contemporary British and Canadian fiction, and Virginia Woolf. She has won the Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching (2016-2017) and directs the Honors Program in English and the Digital Humanities Minor.  She has taught in the Oxford tutorial system, the History and Literature concentration at Harvard University, and Stanford's Introduction to the Humanities Program (2001-2006).  Research interests include: modernism; narratology; book and periodical history; women and the professions; feminist and cultural theory; and digital humanities.  Her current book project examines Virginia Woolf's life as a publisher. Select publications include: Woolf’s short fictional feminist narratology; Woolf’s European reception; photography in Three Guineas; modernist marketing; and transnational archival feminisms.  She co-founded and co-directs of The Modernist Archives Publishing Project, a critical digital archive of documents related to modernist publishing supported by grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK), and the Roberta Bowman Denning Digital Fund for Humanities and Technologies.  http://modernistarchives.com Recent digital humanities research involves quantitative analysis of modernist book-sales records.

Academic Appointments


  • Senior Lecturer, English

Administrative Appointments


  • Director, Digital Humanities Minor, Stanford University (2018 - Present)
  • Director of Honors, Department of English (2013 - Present)

Professional Education


  • B.A., University of Toronto, English
  • D.Phil., University of Oxford, English

All Publications


  • Who We Are SCHOLARLY ADVENTURES IN DIGITAL HUMANITIES: MAKING THE MODERNIST ARCHIVES PUBLISHING PROJECT Battershill, C., Southworth, H., Staveley, A., Widner, M., Gordon, E., Wilson, N., Battershill, C., Southworth, H., Staveley, A., Widner, M., Gordon, E., Wilson, N. 2017: 31–46
  • Reflections on Collaboration SCHOLARLY ADVENTURES IN DIGITAL HUMANITIES: MAKING THE MODERNIST ARCHIVES PUBLISHING PROJECT Battershill, C., Southworth, H., Staveley, A., Widner, M., Gordon, E., Wilson, N., Battershill, C., Southworth, H., Staveley, A., Widner, M., Gordon, E., Wilson, N. 2017: 47–67
  • Building a Critical Digital Archive SCHOLARLY ADVENTURES IN DIGITAL HUMANITIES: MAKING THE MODERNIST ARCHIVES PUBLISHING PROJECT Battershill, C., Southworth, H., Staveley, A., Widner, M., Gordon, E., Wilson, N., Battershill, C., Southworth, H., Staveley, A., Widner, M., Gordon, E., Wilson, N. 2017: 69–88
  • A FIELD GUIDE TO DIGITAL PROJECTS SCHOLARLY ADVENTURES IN DIGITAL HUMANITIES: MAKING THE MODERNIST ARCHIVES PUBLISHING PROJECT Battershill, C., Southworth, H., Staveley, A., Widner, M., Gordon, E., Wilson, N., Battershill, C., Southworth, H., Staveley, A., Widner, M., Gordon, E., Wilson, N. 2017: 145–65
  • Scholarly Adventures in Digital Humanities Making The Modernist Archives Publishing Project Introduction SCHOLARLY ADVENTURES IN DIGITAL HUMANITIES: MAKING THE MODERNIST ARCHIVES PUBLISHING PROJECT Battershill, C., Southworth, H., Staveley, A., Widner, M., Gordon, E., Wilson, N., Battershill, C., Southworth, H., Staveley, A., Widner, M., Gordon, E., Wilson, N. 2017: 1-+
  • Public Scholarship SCHOLARLY ADVENTURES IN DIGITAL HUMANITIES: MAKING THE MODERNIST ARCHIVES PUBLISHING PROJECT Battershill, C., Southworth, H., Staveley, A., Widner, M., Gordon, E., Wilson, N., Battershill, C., Southworth, H., Staveley, A., Widner, M., Gordon, E., Wilson, N. 2017: 111–24
  • GLOSSARY OF DIGITAL HUMANITIES TERMINOLOGY SCHOLARLY ADVENTURES IN DIGITAL HUMANITIES: MAKING THE MODERNIST ARCHIVES PUBLISHING PROJECT Battershill, C., Southworth, H., Staveley, A., Widner, M., Gordon, E., Wilson, N., Battershill, C., Southworth, H., Staveley, A., Widner, M., Gordon, E., Wilson, N. 2017: 129–44
  • Scholarly Adventures in Digital Humanities Making The Modernist Archives Publishing Project Coda SCHOLARLY ADVENTURES IN DIGITAL HUMANITIES: MAKING THE MODERNIST ARCHIVES PUBLISHING PROJECT Battershill, C., Southworth, H., Staveley, A., Widner, M., Gordon, E., Wilson, N., Battershill, C., Southworth, H., Staveley, A., Widner, M., Gordon, E., Wilson, N. 2017: 125–28
  • Digital Humanities in the Classroom SCHOLARLY ADVENTURES IN DIGITAL HUMANITIES: MAKING THE MODERNIST ARCHIVES PUBLISHING PROJECT Battershill, C., Southworth, H., Staveley, A., Widner, M., Gordon, E., Wilson, N., Battershill, C., Southworth, H., Staveley, A., Widner, M., Gordon, E., Wilson, N. 2017: 89–109
  • What is MAPP? SCHOLARLY ADVENTURES IN DIGITAL HUMANITIES: MAKING THE MODERNIST ARCHIVES PUBLISHING PROJECT Battershill, C., Southworth, H., Staveley, A., Widner, M., Gordon, E., Wilson, N., Battershill, C., Southworth, H., Staveley, A., Widner, M., Gordon, E., Wilson, N. 2017: 17–29
  • Katherine Mansfield and the Modernist Marketplace: At the Mercy of the Public (Book Review) REVIEW OF ENGLISH STUDIES Book Review Authored by: Staveley, A. 2011; 62 (255): 493–95

    View details for DOI 10.1093/res/hgr032

    View details for Web of Science ID 000292316900023

  • Birthday Notes MILTON QUARTERLY Staveley, A. 2010; 44 (4): 215-220
  • Conversations at Kew: Reading Woolf's Feminist Narratology TRESPASSING BOUNDARIES: VIRGINIA WOOLFS SHORT FICTION Staveley, A., Benzel, K. N., Hoberman, R. 2010: 39–62
  • european reception studies PALGRAVE ADVANCES IN VIRGINIA WOOLF STUDIES Luckhurst, N., Staveley, A., Snaith, A. 2007: 227–52