Sarah Churchwell
Sarah Bartlett Churchwell (born May 27, 1970) is a professor of American Literature and Public Understanding of the Humanities at the School of Advanced Study,
Early life
Churchwell grew up in Winnetka, near Chicago, Illinois. She earned a BA in English Literature from Vassar College and an MA and PhD in English and American Literature from Princeton University.[1]
Career
Churchwell lectured at the University of East Anglia from 1999 until 2015, when she became Professor of American Literature and Public Understanding of the Humanities and director of the Being Human festival at the School of Advanced Study at London University.[2]
She has written for
Her books include The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe (2004); and Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and the Invention of The Great Gatsby (2013) about F. Scott Fitzgerald.[4][5]
Her television appearances include on . C-Span, the Today Show (NBC), BBC Politics Live, Sunday Morning Live, This Week, Sky News, BBC Breakfast, The Cinema Show, the Sunday Programme, ITV This Morning, the Culture Show, the DVD Collection, and Before the Booker. She has contributed to many documentaries including BBC2’s Novels that Shaped Our World (2019), Icons, with Kathleen Turner (2019), Unfinished Masterpieces (2014), Arena’s T. S. Eliot, The Rules of Film Noir, and Great Poets: In Their Own Words, and the feature film Love, Marilyn (d: Liz Garbus, 2012).
Radio appearances include the Today Programme, Front Row, Any Questions, Woman’s Hour, The Jeremy Vine show, BBC World Service, Radio Five Live, The Verb, Free Word, BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking, BBC Radio 3 Essays, BBC Radio 4 In Our Time[6] and Great Lives, among many others. She has written and presented Radio 4 documentaries on Henry James, the American Dream and America First,[7] The Great Gatsby, When Harry Met Sally, and Radio 3 essays on Screen Goddesses (2017) and Screen Gods (2019).
Churchwell was a judge for the 2014 Man Booker Prize,[8] the 2017 Baillie Gifford Prize, and the 2019 Sunday Times Short Story Prize.
She was Writer in Residence at the Eccles Centre for American Studies in 2015.[9][10]
Work
- The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe. Picador, 2005. ISBN 0-312-42565-1.
- Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and the Invention of The Great Gatsby. Little, Brown Book Group Ltd, 2013. ISBN 1-84408-767-0.
- Behold America: A History of America First and the American Dream. Bloomsbury, 2018. ISBN 978-1-4088-9480-4.
- The Wrath to Come: Gone with the Wind and the Lies America Tells. Apollo Publishing International, 2022. ISBN 978-1-7895-4298-1.
Edited volumes
- Forgotten Fitzgerald: Echoes of a Lost America. (London: Virago, October 2014). ISBN 978-0-349-14026-1.
- Must Read: Rediscovering American Bestsellers, co-editor with Dr Thomas Ruys Smith. (New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2012). ISBN 978-1-4411-6216-8.
- Introduction to L. Frank Baum, The Wizard of Oz (London: Pan Macmillan, 2018).
- Introduction to Henry James, The Ambassadors (London: Everyman, 2016).
- Introduction to ISBN 978-1-84159-370-8.
- Introduction to ISBN 978-1-84159-348-7.
- Introduction to James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans (London: Folio Society, 2011).
- Introduction to Pale Horse, Pale Rider: The Selected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter (London: Penguin Books, 2011). ISBN 978-0-14-119531-5.
- Introduction to Flappers and Philosophers: The Collected Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald. (London: Penguin Books, 2010). ISBN 978-0-14-119250-5.
References
- ^ "Session on the Profession--Sarah Churchwell | Department of English". english.princeton.edu. Retrieved 2021-05-30.
- ^ "Sarah Churchwell to lead public engagement at School of Advanced Study". School of Advanced Study, University of London. 14 July 2015. Retrieved 21 September 2015.
- ^ "Sarah Churchwell". The New Statesman. Retrieved 26 June 2018.
- ^ "Sarah Churchwell", Prague Writers' Festival. Retrieved 16 October 2012.
- ^ "Sarah Churchwell", Newsnight Review, BBC. Retrieved 16 October 2012.
- ^ "BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, The Great Gatsby". BBC. Retrieved 2021-05-30.
- ^ "BBC Radio 4 - The Origins of the American Dream". BBC. Retrieved 2021-05-30.
- ^ "Meet The Man Booker Prrize 2014 Judges", 12 December 2013. Retrieved 26 June 2018.
- ^ "Prof Sarah Churchwell (AMA) has been announced as the joint winner of the 2015 Eccles British Library Writer-in-Residence Award", UEA, 3 December 2014.
- ^ "Sarah Churchwell wins the 2015 Eccles British Library Writer in Residence Award", 31 October 2014, Virago.
External links
- Sarah Churchwell Profile at School of Advanced Study, University of London
- Sarah Churchwell at IMDb
- Sarah Churchwell, columns at The Guardian
- Sarah Churchwell Princeton
- Mark Gustafson, "The World Behind Gatsby: An Interview with Sarah Churchwell" at Rain Taxi.
- Appearances on C-SPAN
- Sarah Churchwell on the BBC