The Virginia Woolf Podcast

Karina Jakubowicz
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Dr Karina Jakubowicz talks with writers, artists, and academics whose work has been influenced by the modernist writer, Virginia Woolf. This podcast is made in association with Literature Cambridge, an independent educational organisation that provides university-style lectures on a wide range of literary subjects. Head to https://www.literaturecambridge.co.uk for more info.

  1. Frances Spalding on Woolf, Bloomsbury, and Stevie Smith

    FEB 2

    Frances Spalding on Woolf, Bloomsbury, and Stevie Smith

    Send us a text Frances Spalding discusses her thoughts on Bloomsbury, a meeting with Duncan Grant, and the wonderful Stevie Smith.  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

    36 min
  2. 'The Life of Violet' with Urmila Seshagiri

    12/19/2025

    'The Life of Violet' with Urmila Seshagiri

    Send us a text In this episode, Karina speaks with Urmila Seshagiri about 'The Life of Violet,' a previously unpublished manuscript by Virginia Woolf that has just been released by Princeton University Press.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 Past 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

    40 min
  3. The Writer's Room with Katie da Cunha Lewin

    11/16/2025

    The Writer's Room with Katie da Cunha Lewin

    Send us a text This 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

    29 min
  4. Living Dangerously with Katherine Mansfield

    10/03/2025

    Living Dangerously with Katherine Mansfield

    Send us a text Our 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_kimber https://reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/katherine-mansfield 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

    36 min
  5. Mrs Dalloway at 100 with Mark Hussey

    05/14/2025

    Mrs Dalloway at 100 with Mark Hussey

    Send us a text It 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

    34 min
  6. The Bloomsbury Photographs with Maggie Humm

    03/10/2025

    The Bloomsbury Photographs with Maggie Humm

    Send us a text In 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

    31 min
  7. Rural Hours with Harriet Baker

    11/24/2024

    Rural Hours with Harriet Baker

    Send us a text Harriet Baker joins Karina to discuss her new book, 'Rural Hours: The Country Lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Rosamond Lehmann.' Together they explore how rural living affected the work of these three innovative authors, and profoundly shaped their personal and political lives. The book is available from Allen Lane publishers and all good bookshops. https://www.qmul.ac.uk/sed/english/staff/phd/profiles/bakerh.html https://www.waterstones.com/book/rural-hours/harriet-baker/9780241540510 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

    20 min
  8. Virginia Woolf in Japan, episode 2

    11/07/2024

    Virginia Woolf in Japan, episode 2

    Send us a text In the second part of our series on Woolf in Japan, Karina visits Etc bookshop, a feminist bookshop in Tokyo. There, she speaks to the bookshop's founder, Akiko Matsuo, who believes Woolf's work is inspiring a whole community of Japanese feminists. Karina also speaks to the novelist and translator Aoko Matsuda, who discusses what it means to 'think back through our mothers' if we are women. Her book 'Eko no Mori' is partly inspired by Mrs Dalloway. You can find more about Etc books and Aoko Matsuda below: https://www.instagram.com/etc.books_bookshop/ https://www.instagram.com/matsudaoko/ The episode was funded by The Daiwa Foundation. The translator and co-producer was Aki Katyama. 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

    28 min
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Dr Karina Jakubowicz talks with writers, artists, and academics whose work has been influenced by the modernist writer, Virginia Woolf. This podcast is made in association with Literature Cambridge, an independent educational organisation that provides university-style lectures on a wide range of literary subjects. Head to https://www.literaturecambridge.co.uk for more info.

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  • Creator
    Karina Jakubowicz
  • Years Active
    2022 - 2026
  • Episodes
    30
  • Rating
    Clean
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    © 2026 The Virginia Woolf Podcast
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