COD 2024 - D984

Webinar - Virginia Woolf and A Room of Our Own

Literature lovers

1 sessions, start: 11-May

Course detail

Year: 2024
Level: Distance
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: Distance
Facilitator/s: Mag. Griselda Beacon MA
Print course
ESSARP Schools
Free of charge
Exams Schools
ARS 15000.00
Non affiliate
ARS 15000.00

Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 11 May 2024 10:00 am 11:30 am

Facilitator/s

Griselda Beacon

Griselda Beacon is a teacher educator and specializes in literature & art in English. Her approach follows pedagogies of creativity and of inclusion. Griselda holds an MA in Literature and Foreign Language Teaching from Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany, and has been working in the field of teacher education and Primary curriculum development for over 20 years. She has been sharing her experience as an in-service teacher trainer and curriculum developer in Latin America, Europe, Africa & Asia. She is a co-author of Together (Oxford UP, 2019), an English coursebook series tailor-made for Argentina and co-editor of the books International Perspectives on Diversity in ELT (Palgrave, 2021) and Queer Studies in English Language Education (Brill, 2025).

Griselda has taught Children’s and Young Adult Literature, Creativity, Drama Techniques and Play, Music, Dance & Literature in Pre-Primary Education at Teacher Training Colleges in Buenos Aires. At present, she works as a consultant for educational institutions, lectures in American Literature at Universidad de Buenos Aires –UBA and is a consultant trainer at NILE (Norwich Institute for Language Education) in the UK. Passionate about art in education, Griselda shares literature with a creative twist with all learners and visits schools for storytelling sessions.
Literature lovers
In this online reading breakfast session, we intend:

- To continue creating a reading community of lovers of literature.

- To continue developing reading strategies to tackle the ambiguous nature of literary texts.

- To learn about and explore the literary work of Virginia Woolf; in particular, her essay A Room of One’s Own.
In this session, we will introduce Virginia Woolf, her literary production and the ground-breaking views on women and fiction she put together in her essay A Room of One’s Own. We will discuss her proto-feminism and the struggles women writers underwent at the beginning of the XXth century in Europe so as to have equal access to universities and have a voice in academia. Her work paved the way for the construction of Gender Studies Departments at universities, exposed the struggles women faced when writing fiction and brought to light the hypocrisy of the patriarchal and classist society of her times.
Online Reading Breakfast session. Dialogical and interactive approach in which participants will
discuss the texts and the topics introduced as well as analyse the different ways in which artists
express their concerns.
Marcus, J. (1988). Art and Anger: Reading like a woman. Ohio State University Press.
Patmore, C. (1909). “The Angel in the house” (Poem). Poems. George Bell &Sons.
Pope, R. (1998). The English Studies book. Routledge.
Putnam Tong, R. (1998). Introduction. Feminist thought. A more comprehensive introduction. Westview Press, pp.1-9.
Showalter, E. (1988). Feminist criticism in the wilderness. Modern criticism and theory. A reader. D. Lodge (Ed.). Longman. pp. 331-53.
Woolf, V. (1972). Modern Fiction. 20th century literary criticism. A Reader. D. Lodge (Ed.). Longman, pp. 86-91.
Woolf, V. ([1928] 2004). A room of one’s own. Penguin Books.
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