Merve Emre, Shapiro-Silverberg Professor of Creative Writing and Criticism at Wesleyan University and director of the Shapiro Center for Creative Writing and Criticism, presents the keynote lecture for the A Room of Her Own Symposium. The lecture is titled "Virginia Woolf's Incomparable Female Gaze."
Virginia Woolf is one of the great social theorists of the school. The fact that she has never been described as such testifies to the two exclusions of which she speaks in A Room of One’s Own (1929)—the exclusion of women from the university and the exclusion of fiction from the received genres of knowledge. That …
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