Sarah Churchwell is Chair of Public Humanities and Professor of American literature at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, where she directs the UK’s national festival of humanities research, the Being Human Festival. She is the author of several acclaimed books, most recently The Wrath to Come: Gone with the Wind and the Lies America Tells (2022). She comments widely on politics, culture and art in print, television, radio, and film.
She has been a winner of the Eccles British Library Writer’s Award, longlisted for the Orwell Prize for Journalism and named one of Prospect magazine’s Top 50 World Thinkers. She is co-host, with historian David Olusoga, of the Goalhanger podcast, Journey Through Time.