Tutor information
Mariachiara Leteo
Mariachiara is Departmental Tutor at Oxford Lifelong Learning, where she teaches Virginia Woolf and other modern women writers. She has completed her DPhil in English at Oxford on Virginia Woolf's theory of poetry and the poetic qualities of her novels, set in dialogue with the ideas and work of an Italian modernist author. Her first monograph, Poetic Effects in the Prose of Virginia Woolf and Emilio Cecchi, is forthcoming, and she regularly writes about literature on her website.
Courses
Delve into Virginia Woolf’s writing desk to discover how she viewed the challenges of writing a novel. Guided by her theory of fiction, we will learn how she developed her unique style in 'Jacob’s Room', 'Mrs Dalloway' and 'To the Lighthouse'.
Dive into modernist women’s fiction through the works of Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf, Gertrude Stein and Djuna Barnes. We will investigate their short stories as a privileged space of literary innovation.