About Season Three: On Eyre

July 2, 2021 - March 4, 2022

An Eyrehead and a skeptic walk into a podcast…

Join Vanessa Zoltan and new co-host Lauren Sandler as they embark on the English class you always deserved, diving deep into Jane Eyre through the themes of power and desire. The podcast takes a roughly chapter-by-chapter look at the text. Discussions range from ideas of class and colonialism to sex and gender to religion and repression as Lauren and Vanessa explore the roles of oppression and inequality, empowerment and rebellion in the text and beyond, with some help from experts along the way. Major “Eyreheads” and first-time readers alike are invited into Lauren and Vanessa’s conversation as they grapple with this complicated work—and as they try to figure out if Jane Eyre is a book they want to pass on to their daughters, and to future generations.