Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald and the 1920s
Published: 9 October 2013
Sarah Churchwell, Professor of American Literature and Public Understanding of the Humanities at the University of East Anglia, is this week's guest in the School of Critical Studies Distinguished Speaker Series. Her talk, on Thursday 17 October, is on The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald and the 1920s.
Sarah Churchwell, Professor of American Literature and Public Understanding of the Humanities at the University of East Anglia, is this week's guest in the School of Critical Studies Distinguished Speaker Series. Her talk is on The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald and the 1920s.
Thursday 17 October 2013
5.15pm (Reception to follow)
Yudowitz Lecture Theatre, Wolfson Medical Building
Sarah Churchwell's research and teaching expertise are in 20th-21st century and contemporary American literature and culture; American film history; gender theory; cultural studies and popular culture; and biography and autobiography. 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 (see research and publications tabs, above). Her new book, Careless People, about F. Scott Fitzgerald and 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, and she is a contributing writer 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 panellist on The Review Show (BBC2); other television appearances include 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).
First published: 9 October 2013
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