The Virginia Woolf Podcast

Send us a textIn this episode, Karina speaks with Urmila Seshagiri about 'The Life of Violet,' a previously unpublished manuscript by Virginia Woolf that has just been released by Princeton University Press. Urmila is Distinguished Professor in Humanities and Professor of English at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She is the author of Race and the Modernist Imagination (Cornell UP), and is the editor of Virginia Woolf’s The Life of Violet (Princeton UP), Jacob’s Room (Oxford UP), and To the Lighthouse (W. W. Norton; in preparation), and she is preparing the first scholarly edition of Woolf’s memoir, A Sketch of the PastTo learn more about Literature Cambridge, go to https://www.literaturecambridge.co.uk or follow them on:https://litcamb.substack.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/literature-cambridge and Instagram @litcamb

Send us a textThis is episode is all about writers' rooms - where do writers really work, and why are we so invested in the romance of the writing process? Academic and author, Katie da Cunha Lewin has thought a great deal about this subject, and her recent book 'The Writer's Room' explores it in depth. In this episode, Karina chats to Katie about the politics and practicalities of authorship, and (of course) about Virginia Woolf's own writing process. To learn more about Literature Cambridge, go to https://www.literaturecambridge.co.uk or follow them on:https://litcamb.substack.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/literature-cambridge and Instagram @litcamb

Send us a textOur previous episode on Katherine Mansfield was so successful that we've prepared this sequel entirely dedicated to her life and work. In this episode, Karina speaks with Dr Gerri Kimber about her new biography, 'Katherine Mansfield: A Hidden Life,' an incredibly rich examination of the wild and dangerous legacy left  by one of one of the twentieth century's greatest writers. Woolf said that Mansfield was the only writer she was jealous of, and in many ways it's easy to see why.  The book is available from Reaction from Nov 1st 2025. You can see Gerri speak at the Oxford Literary Festival and at Hatchard's Piccadilly, and follow her on instagram at @gerri_kimberhttps://reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/katherine-mansfieldTo learn more about Literature Cambridge, go to https://www.literaturecambridge.co.uk or follow them on:https://litcamb.substack.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/literature-cambridge and Instagram @litcamb

Send us a textIt is officially 100yrs since the publication of Mrs Dalloway. To celebrate, we have just released a podcast episode with Prof Mark Hussey on his new 'biography' of the novel. In the course of this interview we discussed the evolution of Mrs Dalloway, Woolf's various sources of inspiration, and the novel's many afterlives.  We also talked about how re-reading the novel across a lifetime grants it a new kind of biography, an autobiography mapped on to our own lives and experiences. To learn more about Literature Cambridge, go to https://www.literaturecambridge.co.uk or follow them on:https://litcamb.substack.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/literature-cambridge and Instagram @litcamb

Send us a textIn this episode, Karina speaks with Professor Maggie Humm about her new book, 'The Bloomsbury Photographs.' They discuss the importance of photography to the Bloomsbury members, the cameras they used, and the role of photograph albums in the curation of their intimate, creative lives. http://www.maggiehumm.net/ https://yalebooksblog.co.uk/2024/10/25/the-bloomsbury-photographs/To learn more about Literature Cambridge, go to https://www.literaturecambridge.co.uk or follow them on:https://litcamb.substack.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/literature-cambridge and Instagram @litcamb