Notes on a Scandal

Out-of-Print is back for Season 2! Join hosts Alice Garnett, Emmeline Armitage and Sophie Parke as they attempt to decode a new batch of books with contemporary social and pop culture in mind. In this episode, they’re delving into the complex literary history of student/teacher relationships, and asking whether the English classroom is the greatest site of self-discovery?

Texts Covered:
On Beauty, Zadie Smith
Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
Teaching to Transgress, bell hooks
The Groves of Academe, Mary McCarthy
‘When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision’, Adrienne Rich
‘Reading Ourselves: Toward a Feminist Theory of Reading’, Patrocinio P. Schweickart,
Three Women, Lisa Taddeo
My Dark Vanessa, Kate Elizabeth Russell

Further Reading:
‘Managing Misogyny’, Susan Wheeler
Ordinary Light, Tracey K. Smith
Stoner, John Williams
Disgrace, JM Coetzee
‘Women and the Literary Curriculum’, Elaine Showalter

Resources for support:
Mind
https://www.mind.org.uk/information-support/guides-to-support-and-services/abuse/
NHS
https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/getting-help-for-domestic-violence/
Women’s Aid
https://womensaid.org.uk/information-support/