Teaching Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own in a Feminist Classroom: An Intersectional, Transnational Perspective

Using an intersectional and transnational feminist lens, this article examines the theoretical and pedagogical challenges of teaching A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf in today’s feminist classroom. Rather than relegating this classic feminist text to the pedagogical margins owing to its sometimes-problematic treatment of race, class, and dated understanding of imperialism, the piece argues for an approach that acknowledges A Room of One’s Own’s deployment of uncertainty as a productive feminist category. Ultimately, it demonstrates how the pedagogical use of textual pairings or clusters within an intersectional and postcolonial framework can make the teaching of Woolf’s text relevant in contemporary feminist undergraduate courses.