Dr Kerri Andrews is a Reader in Women’s Literature and Textual Editing at Edge Hill University and her book, ‘Wanderers: A History of Women Walking’ traces the footsteps of ten women walker-writers. Considering women from eighteenth-century parson’s daughter Elizabeth Carter – who desired nothing more than to be taken for a vagabond in the wilds of southern England – to modern walker-writers such as Nan Shepherd and Cheryl Strayed, ‘Wanderers’ offers a beguiling, alternative view of the history of walking. 

Her current research project is on walking and motherhood and Kerri is also one of the leaders of Women In The Hills, an Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded project aimed at exploring the factors enabling and inhibiting women’s access to upland landscapes.

This ‘In Conversation’ event launches the Women Walking Festival and will see Kerri provide an insight into the history of women walking, re-examining assumptions of gender and exercise, before moving to consider contemporary aspects of women walking and walking the pandemic more generally.

This event will be co-chaired by Evelyn Wilson, Co-Director, TCCE and Dr Gemma Outen, Programme Curator, TCCE.