This special cluster of the Virginia Woolf Miscellany set itself the task of exploring the portmanteau—a word, in modernist studies, most often associated with the apotheosized linguistic acrobatics of James Joyce in Finnegans Wake or with the legacyworld of sense and nonsense traversed by an intrepid Alice in the fantasyscapes of Lewis Carroll’s Victorian novel. Yet very little has been said about Woolf and the portmanteau. Where might we locate the “portmanteau” in Woolf’s own writings? In what way is Woolf herself a portmanteau figure? What might a reconsideration of the portmanteau have to offer to Woolf studies? To what degrees can we identify the portmanteau as a process or tool in cultural, literary, and feminist criticism? We’ve attempted to answer these questions by exploring intuitive echoes, unlikely pairings, interdisciplinary encounters, strange mash-ups, and generative (mis)alliances in the Woolfian world.