Sarah Churchwell is Professor in American Literature and Chair of Public Understanding of the Humanities at the University of London’s School of Advanced Study. She has written four critically acclaimed books and received the Eccles British Library Writer’s Award, was one of Prospect magazine’s Top Fifty Thinkers in 2020, and has been longlisted for the Orwell Prize for Journalism. Her articles have been published in the New York Times, New York Review of Books, the Atlantic, the Washington Post, the Guardian, and the Financial Times, among many others. She also frequently contributes to television and radio, and has appeared many times on the BBC’s ‘Question Time’, ‘Newsnight’, and ‘Breakfast’.