The Virginia Woolf Podcast

Send us Fan Mail Karina interviews drag king Holly James Johnston, who created a drag act entirely based on Woolf's character, Orlando. She regularly performs as Orlando and has spoken about what it means to apply Woolf's novel to the art of drag and dress. Her photographs for 'Adventures in Time and Gender' vividly reimagined what Orlando would have looked like during the 2020...

Send us Fan Mail Karina talks with Prof Susan Sellers about her newest novel, Firebird , which documents the extraordinary life of ballerina and Bloomsbury icon, Lydia Lopokova. You can find a review of Firebird on the Literature Cambridge website. Susan is an academic, writer, and translator. She the author of Vanessa and Virginia , a novel that gives a fictionalised account of the relationship b...

Send us Fan Mail In this podcast, writer Peter Fullagar and sculptor Laury Dizengremel talk to Karina Jakubowicz about the campaign to place a life-sized statue of Virginia Woolf at Richmond. The campaign was founded by Aurora Metro Arts and Media organisation. Recorded in spring 2021. To support this campaign, head over to their fundraising page .  To learn more about Literature Cambridge, go to...

Send us Fan Mail   Karina talks with Prof Maggie Humm's about her debut novel, Talland House .  Talland House builds on Woolf's famous novel To the Lighthouse, exploring the Cornish art scene in the 1920s, expanding on the character of Lily Briscoe, and asking the ultimate question - who killed Mrs Ramsay? Maggie Humm is an Emeritus Professor at the University of East London in the UK. A...

Send us Fan Mail Karina talks with Prof Emma Sutton about the myriad of ways that classical music is relevant to Woolf's life and work. They discuss how innovations in early twentieth century music influenced changes in modern literature and how this music impacted on Woolf's writing process.  Prof Emma Sutton a professor of English at the University of St Andrews, and has published wide...

Send us Fan Mail Sarah M. Hall, writer and editor, talks to Karina about her book, Before Leonard: The Early Suitors of Virginia Woolf . Sarah is on the Council of the Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain and is a regular contributor to the Virginia Woolf Bulletin. You can buy Sarah's book from the Charleston Farmhouse bookshop . To learn more about Literature Cambridge, go to https://www....

Send us Fan Mail What would it be like to live in Monk's House, former home of Virginia Woolf? Caroline Zoob and her husband Jonathan are some of the few people who know the answer to that question. They lived in Monk's House as tenants for the National Trust for over a decade, and in this episode they talk with Karina about what it was like to share their home with Woolf's legacy,...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode Karina chats with Prof Susan Sellers about her novel, Vanessa and Virginia , which explores the fascinating relationship between Virginia Woolf and her sister, the artist Vanessa Bell. Susan is Professor of English and Related Literature at the University of St Andrews, where she teaches modernist and contemporary literature and creative writing. She won the Canong...