Dr Sarah Churchwell
| Job Title | Contact | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Senior Lecturer |
Tel: +44 (0)1603 59 2293 |
Arts Building 2.44 |
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Biography
Sarah Churchwell's research expertise and teaching experience are in 20th century and contemporary American literature and culture; American film history and theory, gender theory; cultural studies and popular culture; life-writing and literary theory. Her principal interests involve questions of literature, film, cultural value and gender, including the relationship of literature to canon formation, representations of women, feminism, film and visual media; popular culture and the history of popular literature; biography and life-writing; serial fiction and print media; reception histories and the role of audiences/readers; and popular intellectualism.
Dr Churchwell writes regularly for the Guardian, the Independent, the New York Times Book Review, and the TLS, and has a regular monthly column on popular film for Psychologies magazine. Her work has also appeared in publications including: the Independant on Sunday, the Observer, the Times, the New Statesman, the Spectator, the Liberal, the Daily Mail, the Evening Standard, Harper's Bazaar, Esquire, Pop magazine, De Morgen (Brussels), Qvest (Germany), the Seattle Post/Intelligencer, the Kuwait Times and the Hindu Times, among others.
In 2009, she was one of the judges of the Orange Prize for Fiction. In the autumn of 2009 she appeared at the Cheltenham Literary Festival, and at the Tate Modern discussing the work of David Lynch. She is a regular panelist on Newsnight Review (BBC2); other television appearances include This Week (BBC1), The Cinema Show (BBC4), The DVD Collection (BBC4), Death by Excess (SkyOne), The Sharp End with Clive Anderson (BBC2), The Last Word (More4) , Before the Booker (BBC4), and various film documentaries for the BBC, Channel 4, Channel 5, SkyOne, on topics such as Marilyn Monroe, the Boston Strangler, film icons, and classic films. Most recently she appeared on Arena’s TS Eliot (BBC2) and The Rules of Film Noir (BBC4). Radio appearances include Any Questions, Front Row, Woman's Hour, the Jeremy Vine show, Radio Five Live, and various regional radio programmes. Most recently she has written and narrated a documentary for Radio 4 on the 20th anniversary of When Harry Met Sally.
Key Research Interests
Forthcoming publications:
Must Read: The History of the American Bestseller, co-editor with Dr Thomas Ruys Smith, UEA. Ms under consideration by Palgrave.
Selected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter, edited and with an introduction, Penguin Books, forthcoming 2010.
Ship of Fools by Katherine Anne Porter, edited and with an introduction, Penguin Books, forthcoming 2010.
The Collected Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald, edited and with an introduction, Penguin Books, forthcoming 2010
Past Research Projects and Grants
| Project Title | Start Date | End Date | Funding Body |
|---|---|---|---|
| What Americans Like: Popular Narratives and Mythology in the American 21st Century | 3/7/2006 | 1/10/2006 | British Academy |
Publications
- Sarah Churchwell, 2008, Entries in The Little Black Book: Books, Octopus Books, (ISBN: 978-84403-588-5).
- Sarah Churchwell, 2007, '"All You Need is Love?"', in Time Out Guides Ltd. (ed), "Time Out" 1000 Books to Change Your Life, Time Out Group Ltd.
- Sarah Churchwell, 2007, ''"Fuck reality!": Janis Joplin and Performance Anxiety', in Sally Bayley & William May (ed), From Self to Shelf: The Artist under Construction, Cambridge Scholars Press. (ISBN: 1847181376).
- Sarah Churchwell, 2006, 'Your Sentence Is Mine Too: Reading Sylvia Plath in Ted Hughes's Birthday Letters', in Marjorue Stone & Judith Thompson (ed), Literary Couplings: Writing Couples, Collaborators and the Construction of Authorship, University of Wisconsin Press. (ISBN: 0299217604).
- Sarah Churchwell, 2006, '“A Daughter of God.”', in Ian Ayres (ed), Van Gogh’s Ear: The Celebrity Edition, French Connection Press.
- Sarah Churchwell 2005, ''$4000 a Screw': F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway and their Prostituted Art', European Journal of American Culture, pp. 105-130.
- Sarah Churchwell, 2004, The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe, Picador, (ISBN: 0312425651).
- Sarah Churchwell, 2003, 'Lost among the Ads' : Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and the Politics of Imitation', in Lisa Botshon & Meredith Goldsmith (ed), Middlebrow Moderns: Popular American Women Writers of the 1920s, Northeastern University Press. (ISBN: 1-55553-556-9).
- Sarah Churchwell 2001, 'Secrets and Lies: Plath, Privacy, Publication and Ted Hughes' Birthday Letters', Contemporary Literature, pp. 102-148.
- Sarah Churchwell Winter 1999, '“The Naked Truth: Pathography and the Dissection of Marilyn Monroe.”', a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, pp. 161-85.
- Sarah Churchwell, 1999, Entries in The Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, (ISBN: 0-521-66813-1).
- Sarah Churchwell Winter 1998, '“Ted Hughes and the Corpus of Sylvia Plath.”', Criticism, pp. 99-132.
- Sarah Churchwell Spring 1998, '"Swimming Lessons"', The Antioch Review,
- Sarah Churchwell Spring 1996, '"Backgrounds"', American Literary Review,