Hear Virginia Woolf's classic feminist text A Room of One's Own as never before: read aloud by 40 academics, students, alumni and leaders from the Australian National University community. Together, they engage with the question of how far we've come in achieving gender equality since the book was published almost 100 years ago.
PRODUCERS
Lara Nicholls - PhD candidate in the ANU Centre for Art History and Art Theory
Fiona Jenkins - Convenor of the ANU Gender Institute and Associate Professor in the ANU School of Philosophy
Evana Ho - Communications Coordinator in the ANU College of Arts & Social Sciences
EDITORS
Evana Ho and Grace Nicholls (student at ANU)
MUSIC
“String Quartet in E minor” composed by Dame Ethel Mary Smyth and performed by the Archaeus String Quartet. Released by LORELT (Lontano Records Ltd). To purchase the full digital album, visit: www.lorelt.co.uk/114
ARTWORK
Our beautiful Virginia Woolf artwork was designed by ANU School of Art & Design students Lara White and Kate Rice.
WARM THANKS
This podcast is a reading of the Popular Penguins edition of A Room of One’s Own. Penguin Random House provided copies of the book; these were vital to this project.
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Hear Virginia Woolf's classic feminist text A Room of One's Own as never before: read aloud by 40 academics, students, alumni and leaders from the Australian National University community. Together, they engage with the question of how far we've come in achieving gender equality since the book was published almost 100 years ago.
PRODUCERS
Lara Nicholls - PhD candidate in the ANU Centre for Art History and Art Theory
Fiona Jenkins - Convenor of the ANU Gender Institute and Associate Professor in the ANU School of Philosophy
Evana Ho - Communications Coordinator in the ANU College of Arts & Social Sciences
EDITORS
Evana Ho and Grace Nicholls (student at ANU)
MUSIC
“String Quartet in E minor” composed by Dame Ethel Mary Smyth and performed by the Archaeus String Quartet. Released by LORELT (Lontano Records Ltd). To purchase the full digital album, visit: www.lorelt.co.uk/114
ARTWORK
Our beautiful Virginia Woolf artwork was designed by ANU School of Art & Design students Lara White and Kate Rice.
WARM THANKS
This podcast is a reading of the Popular Penguins edition of A Room of One’s Own. Penguin Random House provided copies of the book; these were vital to this project.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Our Readers:
Jessica Benter
Jessica Benter is a writer and Honours student at The Australian National University studying Art History and Curatorship. She has previously interned at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice and the National Gallery of Australia.
Inger Mewburn
Professor Inger Mewburn is the Director of Researcher Development at the Australian National University and editor of the Thesis Whisperer blog (www.thesiswhisperer.com)
Will Adams
William Adams is a third-year law and politics, philosophy and economics student at the Australian National University.
Shalom Chalson
Shalom is a PhD Candidate in the School of Philosophy at The Australian National University. She works on what discrimination is and what makes it wrong.
Roseanne Kennedy
Rosanne Kennedy is Associate Professor of Literature and Gender, Sexuality and Culture at the Australian National University. Working at the intersection of transnational memory studies, feminist theory, and literature, law and human rights, her research explores memories and mediations of violence, trauma and injustice in cultural and legal texts and contexts.
Lucy Neave
Lucy Neave's second novel, Believe in Me, will be published by UQP in September 2021. She researches in the area of contemporary literature and is Associate Dean, Student Experience at the ANU.
Beck Davis
Beck Davis is Head of School at the Australian National University, School of Art & Design. She is also a Board Member of the Design Institute of Australia, and Art Monthly Australasia. Twitter: _beck_
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