huge thanks to @mfoxontherun and all who attended her brilliant talking in oning with Julian of Norwich
stay tuned for more events and summer courses starting in just a few weeks (and register now!)
Our spring talk is happening in LESS THAN TWO DAYS!
Monday May 11 AT ONE PM EST/10 AM PST/6PM BST with our Assistant Director @mfoxontherun
While Enclosure Group events remain free and open to the public, we now ask for donations to Enclosure Academy ($10 suggested, more or less depending on your ability).
email us to register:
[email protected] & [email protected]
ENROLLING NOW!
Join me for a two-part summer course, BOOKWOMEN
summer 2026
Bookwomen I:
Medieval Women “Lewd, Feeble & Frail”
Tuesdays in June: 2 pm CDT (instructor based in Chicago this month)
OR NOON PST/3 pm EST/8 pm BST (UK)
This portion of the course will explore women readers, writers, owners, and makers of books in the
medieval period with an emphasis on England and English translations of texts in other languages.
Figures include both poetic creations and historical figures from the Wife of Bath, Margaret
Beaufort, Jane Scrope, Juliana Berners and Margery Kempe to Julian of Norwich, Margaret Paston,
Hroswitha of Gandersheim and Christine de Pizan. Consulting excerpts, manuscripts, and objects
from the medieval era, we will investigate what it meant to be a woman reader in the Middle Ages.
Bookwomen II:
Enemies of Books
Tuesdays in August: 9:30 am PST/5:30 pm BST (UK: instructor based here)/12:30 EST
It was once written that women were the enemies of books because they ruined them while cleaning
the house or chucked them into the fire. Bookwomen Part Two looks at how some women in the early 20th century organized themselves around the book, forging individual and community
structures of learning well before women could attend university for formal degrees. These women
looked back to medieval figures as models for an autonomous relationship to the book. Figures
included in our reading will include Virginia Woolf, Belle da Costa Greene and the Hroswitha Club, the
Guild of Women Binders, and Christopher St. John, author of the first Catholic lesbian novel:
Hungerheart.
cost $395* per course or $695 for both
*returning students $300/575 for both; individualized sliding scale for those in need
deadline for part 1
extended preregistration by May 11 ($15 off)
regular registration by May 15
late registration by June 1 (+$30 fee)
for part 2: pre-reg: July 1 ($30 off); regular by July 15; late registration by Aug. 1 (+$30 fee)
contact
[email protected]
all courses listed on Enclosure Group Blog: see bio!
((ad by the intrepid @jeffrey_stuker ))
A recent class with Enclosure Academy, led by Stacie Vos and Jeffrey Stuker, focused on close reading of Orlando by Virginia Woolf.
It opened into something much larger—layered reflections on time, nature, identity, and the role of the biographer.
As a curator, writer, and artist, I was especially drawn to Woolf’s fluid treatment of time and transformation—how narrative itself becomes a living structure, shifting alongside the conditions of being.
There is so much within Orlando—passages on age, transition, class, and the quiet forces that shape us within both nature and society.
Grateful for the depth, care, and insight shared throughout.
If you’re looking to bring more literary influence into your practice—whether from medieval texts or contemporary modernism—I highly recommend exploring Enclosure Academy and the courses led by Stacie Vos and Jeffrey Stuker.
Their approach to close reading is both rigorous and expansive—attending not only to what is written, but how and why it was written, along with the layers of influence and the quiet mysteries that unfold along the way.
If you haven’t read Orlando, I recommend it.
If you have, read it again ❤️
@virginiawoolfsociety@bookcradle@enclosedwithin@jeffrey_stuker #art #writing #thinking #reflection #reading
*preregister* by MAY 1
summer 2026
Bookwomen I:
Medieval Women “Lewd, Feeble & Frail”
Tuesdays in June: 2 pm CDT (instructor based in Chicago this month)
OR NOON PST/3 pm EST/8 pm BST (UK)
This portion of the course will explore women readers, writers, owners, and makers of books in the
medieval period with an emphasis on England and English translations of texts in other languages.
Figures include both poetic creations and historical figures from the Wife of Bath, Margaret
Beaufort, Jane Scrope, Juliana Berners and Margery Kempe to Julian of Norwich, Margaret Paston,
Hroswitha of Gandersheim and Christine de Pizan. Consulting excerpts, manuscripts, and objects
from the medieval era, we will investigate what it meant to be a woman reader in the Middle Ages.
Bookwomen II:
Enemies of Books
Tuesdays in August: 9:30 am PST/5:30 pm BST (UK: instructor based here)/12:30 EST
It was once written that women were the enemies of books because they ruined them while cleaning
the house or chucked them into the fire. Bookwomen Part Two looks at how some women in the
early 20th century organized themselves around the book, forging individual and community
structures of learning well before women could attend university for formal degrees. These women
looked back to medieval figures as models for an autonomous relationship to the book. Figures
included in our reading will include Virginia Woolf, Belle da Costa Greene and the Hroswitha Club, the
Guild of Women Binders, and Christopher St. John, author of the first Catholic lesbian novel:
Hungerheart.
cost $395* per course or $695 for both
*returning students $300/575 for both; individualized sliding scale for those in need
deadline for part 1
preregistration by May 1 ($30 off)
regular registration by May 15
late registration by June 1 (+$30 fee)
for part 2: pre-reg: July 1 ($30 off); regular by July 15; late registration by Aug. 1 (+$30 fee)
contact
[email protected]
all courses listed on Enclosure Group Blog: see bio!
((ad by the intrepid @jeffrey_stuker ))
Two 2-part courses meeting in June & August
BOOKWOMEN with STACIE VOS
MIMICRY with JEFFREY STUKER
plus a premodern writing workshop in July
details to follow
preregistration open and strongly encouraged
my original photographs from the @grolierclub relating to my next class for @enclosedwithin : BOOKWOMEN: a two part course offered in June and August—
stay tuned for details this week
(( featuring early print nail art by @kelly_k_cloud ))
Enclosure Academy welcomes everyone and especially you heroes working Monday to Friday
Now opening Saturday courses for all time zones (if a little monastic for the Europeans)
Register by April 1
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weekend sessions of spring courses on Orlando and Post-Impressionism and Julian of Norwich as a Woman “Author”
Saturdays from April 4 to May 2
5:30 pm GMT/9:30 am PST:
Woolf and the Photographic Image
8 pm GMT/noon PST:
Julian & Woman Writers from Manuscript to Print
Usual charge of $395
with sliding scale/installments available
registration by email: [email protected]
Join @enclosedwithin for a new seminar on Julian of Norwich and Unlettered Authors, beginning March 18
(Wednesdays at 10:30 AM PST) guided by Dr. Stacie Vos
Another seminar that started this week is Orlando by Virginia Woolf
(Thursdays at 10:30 AM PST), guided by Dr. Stacie Vos with Jeffrey Stuker.
This is my fourth class with this intimate online group—an ongoing space of artists, scholars, and curious minds in search of meaningful dialogue through literature.
I first came to these classes seeking literary influences for my curatorial and personal creative practice. What I found was a deep and unfolding journey through texts and time.
We began with The Lives of Good Women—Ancrene Wisse, Chaucer’s Wife of Bath, The Book of Margery Kempe—then moved into Urn Burial by Sir Thomas Browne, studied in tandem with Virginia Woolf (The Elizabethan Lumber Room, A Room of One’s Own). From there, into Dorothy Wordsworth’s Grasmere Journals and Emma by Jane Austen.
Each class is rooted in close reading, opening into layered conversations—historical, philosophical, and deeply human.
The group is intimate, thoughtful, and welcoming.
Drop-ins are welcome.
The classes are weekly and run about a month’s time.
Contact @bookcradle for more information.
#JulianOfNorwich #VirginiaWoolf #Orlando #JaneAusten #Emma SirThomasBrowne MargeryKempe CloseReading LiteraryStudies ArtistsAndWriters CuratorialPractice CreativePractice
Congratulations to the graduating class of Enclosure Academy Winter 2026
What a beautifully thoughtful group of readers we had to learn from. I am so grateful to you all—
We focused on Virginia Woolf and Thomas Browne and will continue on this course starting in two weeks with a class on Julian of Norwich and one on Woolf’s Orlando
Enrolling now!
SHARING Spring Course
for @enclosedwithin
co-taught by Stacie Vos @bookcradle & @jeffrey_stuker
ORLANDO by Virginia Woolf
This is a novel that fashions its modernity in part by way of an inclusion of photographic images set within the book’s type. Orlando proffers its connection to the distant past by means of a speculative suspension of the assumed workings of time worthy of Sir Thomas Browne, from whom Woolf borrows the uncommon word for long duration—diuturnity—which we use, with tongue firmly placed in cheek, in our title.
Orlando constructs a fiction of a life that exceeds the constraints of social inscription and biological determination. In keeping with this, the novel conveys its story by a sprawling collection of artworks by Vanessa Bell, Woolf’s sister, which will allow us to immerse ourselves in the visual culture of Bloomsbury and beyond.
March 19-April 30
Thursdays at 5:30 GMT/BST
$395 w/ sliding scale and returning student rate
email [email protected] with subject line “Orlando course”
