
Join us to discuss the stories that shaped us!
Join us to discuss the stories that shaped us!
Welcome to In Walks a Woman, the podcast where we go down well-worn historical and literary pathways with new questions about the female experience and how the stories of our past and in our fiction frame women's life today.
The short answer is...all by ourselves. We got the idea in December of 2024, and Sonja found out our very own Lawrence Public Library had a studio we could reserve, and in January 2025 we launched. Sonja does all the editing, and Vanessa writes the show notes, and both do their best to wrangle social media. We dream that someday we can have a producer and someone to help us with social media...but until then, we're doing our best, loving the research, loving the times we record and discuss, and we appreciate all the positive feedback from our wonderful listeners. Thank you for supporting us!
In Walks A Woman podcast is the natural evolution of a nearly 15-year-long conversation between Sonja and Vanessa who love to talk history, literature, pop culture, and always find themselves thinking about how all these arenas are influenced by and an influence upon women.
When not in the classroom, Sonja enjoys playing in the dirt (sometimes growing vegetables), cooking, reading, and podcasting with Vanessa. Sonja and her husband Eric have two grown kids, and a diabolical tuxedo cat named Lina.
Vanessa loves a little chaos in her life, enjoys teaching middle and high school, might own a cat or two (Monroe pictured), has taught for over 25 years, has raised a daughter and a son, and adores literature and history--especially where they intersect.
Write to us with ideas for future podcasts!
It can be about history or literature
or pop culture overlapping
with either of those topics.
Let us know what you'd like to hear about!
Contact us through the website, Instagram, or FB to let us know books or time periods you'd like us to cover. Right now, we are planning for Season 4, Haunted Places, and we have already added a listener-requested episode to our line up.
Recorded in the Visual and Sound Studio of the Lawrence Public Library, in beautiful, historical, and always quirky Lawrence, Kansas.
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