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.
“Perhaps a mind that is purely masculine cannot create, any more than a mind that is purely feminine.”
Our Readers:
Ben Jefferson
Ben is studying Economics and Philosophy at the ANU and hopes to work in sustainable development in the future. He looks up to his many women role models and friends, and after their example tries to make the world a better place and himself a better person. LinkedIn: Ben Jefferson, Twitter @benjeff199
Chris Wallace
Chris Wallace is a writer, scholar and active political citizen with a PhD in History from ANU. Reading Quentin Bell's Virginia Woolf: A Biography in 1976 was the gateway drug to her lifelong engagement with Bloomsbury. Twitter: @c_s_wallace
Sarah Scott
Sarah Scott is a Lecturer in the Centre for Art History and Art Theory at ANU who is currently co-editing a book entitled Crosscurrents in Australian First Nations and non-Indigenous art for Routledge publishers.
Lara Nicholls
Lara Nicholls is completing a PhD on the professionalisation of women artists in the nineteenth century and is the inaugural Jennifer Strauss Fellow in the Humanities for her research in women artists and Impressionism. She is a Residential Fellow at Burgmann College.
Will Salkeld
Will Salkeld is an Arts Representative and an Academic Network Coordinator at Burgmann College. He is studying a Bachelor of Politics, Philosophy, and Economics at the ANU and is an active musician outside of his studies. https://www.linkedin.com/in/willsalkeldstudent/
Raihan Ismail
Raihan Ismail is a DECRA Fellow and a Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, ANU. Follow her on Twitter @ismail_raih
Poppy Thompson
Poppy Thomson is a young singer-songwriter and aspiring curator from Sydney. She is currently in her second year of a Bachelor of Art History and Curatorship at the ANU and attends Burgmann College.
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