The academic and podcaster Hannah McGregor discusses her new memoir A Sentimental Education (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2022), with Joseph Planta.

A Sentimental Education by Hannah McGregor (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2022). Click to buy this book from Amazon.ca: A Sentimental Journey

Text of introduction by Joseph Planta:

I am Planta: On the Line, in Vancouver, British Columbia, at TheCommentary.ca.

One of the more fascinating reads of the season is the new memoir from Hannah McGregor. A Sentimental Education looks at that word sentimental and what it means to her and how it shaped her life, her academic career, and her feminism. She looks critically and carefully at the works that inform her thinking then as now. The reader is invited to think critically about their own education as it were, in all its forms, sentimental or otherwise, which is an added experience to reading Hannah’s own thinking about education, feminism, and culture itself. I’ll ask Hannah about change in her own trajectory, as well as change in others. I’ll ask her about how she works to dismantle barriers to academia, as well as the vital work she does in tearing down hierarchies not just with regards to culture, but everything else. The book is engaging and thoughtful. She shares stories about her mother, as well as her work as an academic. She thinks critically about her role as a public intellectual, and examines her work in recent years as a podcaster. She is the host of the podcasts Secret Feminist Agenda, and the SpokenWeb Podcast, and co-host of Witch, Please. Hannah McGregor is an Assistant Professor of Publishing at Simon Fraser University, and co-edited the book Refuse: CanLit in Ruins. Her website is at www.hannahmcgregor.com. This new book is from Wilfrid Laurier University Press. We spoke nearly two weeks ago. Please welcome back to the Planta: On the Line program, Hannah McGregor; Dr. McGregor, good morning.

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