| First Name |
Sarah
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| Middle Name |
Bartlett
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| Last Name |
Churchwell
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| Maiden Name |
Churchwell
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| Full Name at Birth |
Sarah Bartlett Churchwell
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| Alternative Name |
Dr. Sarah Churchwell, Prof Sarah Churchwell, Prof. Sarah Churchwell, Sarah Churchwell PhD, @sarahchurchwell (twitter), Sarah.Churchwell@sas.ac.uk (e-mail), Professor Sarah Churchwell
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| Birthday |
27th May, 1970
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| Birthplace |
Virginia, USA
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| Build |
Slim
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| Eye Color |
Blue
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| Hair Color |
Blonde
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| Distinctive Feature |
> Leading cultural critic and expert on American literature., > Expert on the narratives that shape American culture., > First ever Chair in Public Understanding Of The Humanities, University of London.
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| Zodiac Sign |
Gemini
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| Sexuality |
Straight
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| Ethnicity |
White
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| Nationality |
American
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| University |
[1987-1991] Vassar College (BA in English Literature), [????-????] Princeton University (MA in English and American Literature), [1992-1998] Princeton University (PhD in English and American Literature)
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| Occupation Text |
professor of American literature and the public understanding of the humanities, author, literary prize judge, literary journalist, public speaker
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| Occupation |
Historian
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| Claim to Fame |
First ever Chair in Public Understanding Of The Humanities, University of London
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| Music Genre (Text) |
20th-21st century and contemporary American literature and culture., Biography And Autobiography., American film history., Gender Theory., Cultural Studies And Popular Culture.
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| Year(s) Active |
???? > present
(columnist: the Guardian, the Sunday Times, the New York Times Book Review, the TLS, the Independent, the Financial Times, the Observer, the Times, the Telegraph, the Spectator, the Liberal, Glamour, Elle, Harper's Bazaar, Esquire and Psychologies), 2015 > present
(Chair of Public Understanding of the Humanities: the University of London’s School of Advanced Study), ???? > present
(Director: the 'Being Human festival'), 2004 > present
(Author: 5 books), 1999 > present
(Professor of American literature and public understanding of the humanities: the University of East Anglia), 2015 > present
(Professor of American Literature: at the University of London’s School of Advanced Study), 2015 > 2015
(Co-winner: the 2015 Eccles British Library Writer’s Award), ???? > present
(Fellow: the Royal Society of the Arts), ???? > present
(Member: the Folio Prize Academy), 2017 > 2017
(Literary Judge: the 2017 Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction), 2014 > 2014
(Literary Judge: the 2014 Man Booker Prize for Fiction), 2007 > present (tv appearances: guest / panellist / interviewee / commentator / critic), 2004 > 2014
(*Artsnight* (TV Series) 24 appearances), ???? > present
(radio appearances: Any Questions, Front Row, Woman's Hour, the Jeremy Vine show, Radio Five Live, and various regional radio programmes), ???? > ????
(Literary Judge: the Women's Prize for Fiction), ???? > ????
(Literary Judge: the David Cohen Prize), ???? > ????
(Literary Judge: the Guardian First Book Award), ???? > ????
(Literary Judge: the East Anglian Book Awards)
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| Record Label |
Henry Holt (book publisher), Brown Book Group Ltd (book publisher), Bloomsbury Publishing (book publisher), Virago (book publisher), Continuum (book publisher), Picador (book publisher), Penguin Press (book publisher)
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| Talent Agency (e.g. Modelling) |
1> Agency: Rogers, Coleridge & White | Literary Agency, 2> Url: https://www.rcwlitagency.com/, 3> Profile: https://www.rcwlitagency.com/authors/churchwell-sarah/, 6> Profile: https://www.chartwellspeakers.com/speaker/sarah-churchwell/, 4> Agency: Expert Keynote Speakers | Chartwell Speakers Bureau, 5> Url: https://www.chartwellspeakers.com/
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| Official Websites |
twitter.com/sarahchurchwell, sarahchurchwell.com/, sarahchurchwell.blogspot.com/
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| Favorite People |
Marilyn Monroe, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, Janis Joplin, Katherine Anne Porter, Nicholas Sparks, Ruys Smith (writing colleague), Zelda Fitzgerald, Burton Rascoe, Hillary Clinton, Barbara Stanwyck, Katherine Hepburn, Madonna, Nancy Pelosi, David Aaronovitch, Philip K. Dick, Emily Dickinson, James Baldwin, Gabriel García Márquez, Agatha Christie, Henry James, Linda Grant
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| Favorite Movies |
Some Like It Hot, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
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| Favorite TV Shows |
Game of Thrones, The Handmaid's Tale
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| Favorite Bands |
Bob Dylan
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| Favorite Books |
The Great Gatsby
(by F. Scott Fitzgerald), The Sea, The Sea
(by Iris Murdoch), The Voyeur's Motel
(by Gaye Talese), Commonwealth
(by Ann Patchett), Prairie Fires
(by Caroline Fraser), Passing
(by Nella Larsen), Quicksand
(by Nella Larsen), Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
(by Winifred Watson), The Tempest
(by William Shakespeare), Down the Rabbit Hole
(by Juan Pablo Villalobos)
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Sarah Bartlett Churchwell (born May 27, 1970) is a professor of American Literature and Public Understanding of the Humanities at the University of London, UK. Her expertise is in 20th- and 21st-century fiction. She has appeared on British television and radio and has been a judge for the Booker Prize, the Women's Prize for Fiction, and the David Cohen Prize for Literature. She is the director of the Being Human festival.
