Prof. Sarah Churchwell

Sarah Churchwell is Professor of American Literature and Public Understanding of the Humanities at the University of East Anglia. She is the author of The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe (Granta 2004), co-editor of Must Read: Rediscovering the Bestseller (Continuum 2012), and author of various articles, chapters and introductions. Her new book, Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and the Invention of The Great Gatsby, will be published in early 2013.

Her journalism has appeared in the Guardian, the Independent, the New York Times Book Review, the TLS, the Observer, the Times, the Telegraph, the New Statesman, the Spectator, the Liberal, the Financial Times, Glamour, Elle, Harper’s Bazaar, Esquire and Psychologies, among others. She also writes a monthly feature on cultural criticism for New Statesman magazine.

Radio appearances include Any Questions, Front Row, Woman’s Hour, the Jeremy Vine show, Radio Five Live, and various regional radio programmes, and a documentary for Radio 4 on the 20th anniversary of When Harry Met Sally.

She is a regular panelist on The Review Show (BBC2) and on Sky News Sunrise; other television appearances include The Today Show (NBC) and in the UK, Newsnight, This Week, The Cinema Show, ITV This Morning, BBC News and World News, Sky News, The DVD Collection, The Sharp End with Clive Anderson, The Last Word, Before the Booker, and various film documentaries for the BBC, Channel 4, Channel 5, and SkyOne, including Arena’s TS Eliot (BBC2), The Rules of Film Noir (BBC4), and Unfinished Masterpieces (BBC2), and the upcoming theatrical release film Marilyn: Fragments.