Seal by Appa Josephine (Inuit)

oooh, love another reason to procrastinate!

okay i know you said essays, but i'm going to start with books (many of which contain essays!):

[these first ones are a bit outdated (to say the least), but i think it's also important to have a sense of the history of woolf criticism (if you're doing a deep dive)]

nancy topping bazin's virginia woolf and androgynous vision

elizabeth abel's virginia woolf and the fictions of psychoanalysis

virginia woolf's mrs. dalloway, ed. harold bloom

ellen tremper's "who lived at alfoxton?"

rachel bowlby's virginia woolf: feminist destinations

jane marcus's virginia woolf and the languages of patriarchy

and some more recent(-ish) stuff (in no particular order):

from virginia woolf: writing the world, ed. pamela l. caughie and diana swanson:

joyce e. kelley's "stretching our antennae': converging worlds of the seen and the unseen in 'kew gardens'"

elsa högberg's "virginia woolf's object-oriented ecology"

elisa kay sparks's "'whose woods these are': virginia woolf and the primeval forests of the mind"

gillian beer's virginia woolf: the common ground

jane goldman's the cambridge introduction to virginia woolf

naomi black's virginia woolf as feminist

trespassing boundaries: virginia woolf's short fiction, ed. kathryn n. benzel and ruth hoberman

emily blair's virginia woolf and the nineteenth-century domestic novel

palgrave advances in virginia woolf studies, ed. anna snaith

anna snaith's virginia woolf: public and private negotiations

and then some of my favorites:

judith allen's virginia woolf and the politics of language (esp. the chapter "interrogating 'wildness'")

bonnie kime scott's in the hollow of the wave: virginia woolf and modernist uses of nature

christina alt's virginia woolf and the study of nature

savina stevanato's visuality and spatiality in virginia woolf's fiction

justyna kostkowska's ecocriticism and women writers: environmentalist poetics of virginia woolf, jeanette winterson, and ali smith

virginia woolf and the natural world, ed. kristin czarneck and carrie rohman

nuala hancock's charleston and monk's house: the intimate house museums of virginia woolf and vanessa bell

lisbeth larson's walking virginia woolf's london: an investigation in literary geography

suzana zink's virginia woolf's rooms and spaces of modernity

maxwell bennett's virginia woolf and neuropsychiatry

reina van der wiel's literary aesthetics of trauma: virginia woolf and jeanette winterson

patricia moran's virgnia woolf, jean rhys, and the aesthetics of trauma

okay and for articles/essays/chapters:

stefanie heine's "forces of unworking in virginia woolf's 'time passes'" in textual cultures. vol. 12, no. 1 (spring 2019)

allison hild's "community/communication in woolf's 'the waves': the language of motion" in the journal of narrative technique. vol. 24, no. 1 (winter, 1994)

johanna x. k. garvey's "difference and continuity: the voices of mrs. dalloway" in college english. vol. 53, no. 1 (jan., 1991)

roberta rubenstein's "'i meant nothing by the lighthouse': virginia woolf's poetics of negation" in journal of modern literature. vol. 31, no. 4 (summer, 2008)

jack stewart's "a 'need of distance and blue': space, color, and creativity in to the lighthouse" in twentieth century literature. vol. 46, no. 1 (spring, 2000)

john lurz's "the binding of the waves" in the death of the book: modernist novels and the time of reading

christie purifoy's "melancholic patriotism and the waves" in twentieth century literature. vol. 56, no. 1 (spring 2010)

elicia clement's "transforming musical sounds into words: narrative method in virginia woolf's the waves" in narrative. vol. 13, no. 2 (may, 2005)

nuala hancock's "virginia woolf and gardens" in the edinburgh companion to virginia woolf and the arts

ewa płonowska ziarek's "woolf's aesthetics of potentiality" in feminist aesthetics and the politics of modernism

sam wiseman's "all boundaries are lost: travel, fragmentation and interconnection in virginia woolf" in the reimagining of place in english modernism

from virginia woolf and her female contemporaries:

jeffrey brown's "'a verbal life on the lips of the living': virginia woolf, ellen terry, and the victorian contemporary"

elisa kay spark's "twists of the lily: floral ambivalence in the work of virginia woolf and georgia o’keeffe"

patrizia a. muscogiuri's "reconfiguring the mermaid: H.D., virginia woolf, and the radical ethics of writing as marine practice"

kimberly engdahl coates's "mad women: dance, female sexuality, and surveillance in the work of virginia woolf and emily holmes coleman"

emily rials's "the weight of 'formal obstructions' and punctuation in mrs. dalloway and pointed roofs"

susan david bernstein's "reading woolf's roomscapes" in roomscape: women writers in the british museum from george eliot to virginia woolf

and these are so recent that i haven't even browsed yet, but i'm looking forward to them:

merve emre's the annotated mrs. dalloway