Shahidha Bari

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Prof Shahidha Bari
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NationalityBritish
EducationKing's College, Cambridge
OccupationAcademic, critic, broadcaster
EmployerLondon College of Fashion

Shahidha Bari is a British academic, critic and broadcaster. She is a Professor at the University of the Arts London based at London College of Fashion.[1] She is a host of the topical arts television programme Inside Culture on BBC Two, standing in for Mary Beard,[2] one of the presenters of the BBC Radio 3 arts and ideas programme Night Waves (now titled Free Thinking),[3] and an occasional presenter of BBC Radio 4's Front Row.[4]

Biography[]

She was educated at King's College, Cambridge and lives in London. She is a Fellow of the at the London School of Economics and an arts reviewer for a number of publications.[5] She comes from a family of Bengali Muslims.

Her academic work moves between philosophy, literature and visual culture. Her book Dressed: The Secret Life of Clothes was published in 2019.[6][7] She is currently working on a viewer's guide to fashion in the Tate Britain art collection and a philosophical study of beauty.

In 2011, Bari was selected as one of ten BBC Radio 3 New Generation Thinkers,[8] a new project launched in conjunction with the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) to communicate academic research to a wider audience. She is the winner of the 2014/15 Observer Anthony Burgess Arts Journalism Prize, for a "powerful and insightful" review of the National Theatre's Medea.[9]

In print, her writing appears in The Financial Times,[10] The Observer and the New Statesman. She is one of the regular books reviewers for The Guardian[11] and The Times Literary Supplement,[12] a contributor to Aeon[13] and frieze[14] and appears as a cultural critic on BBC TV.[15] She has presented documentaries for BBC Radio 4 and the BBC World Service.

Bari was on the board of the educational mentoring charity The Arts Emergency Service and currently is a trustee of the Brontë Parsonage Museum and Art Night.[16] She was the Chair of Judges for the Forward Prizes for Poetry in 2019, [17] a judge for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction in 2020 [18] and is on the judging panel for The Booker Prize 2022.[19]

References[]

  1. ^ "Shahidha Bari".
  2. ^ "How we read". Inside Culture. BBC Two.
  3. ^ "Jeremy Dyson and Irving Finkel". Free Thinking. BBC Radio 3.
  4. ^ "Tributes to Clive James and Jonathan Miller". Front Row. BBC Radio 4.
  5. ^ "Forum for European Philosophy". London School of Economics. Retrieved 8 April 2017.
  6. ^ "Dressed". Amazon. ASIN 1787331490.
  7. ^ "Book of the Day". Guardian.
  8. ^ Mark Brown (28 June 2011). "X Factor-style search for 10 academics from generation think". The Guardian. Retrieved 5 October 2013.
  9. ^ Shahidha Bari (8 March 2015). "Anthony Burgess prize-winning essay, 2014: National Theatre's Medea". The Observer.
  10. ^ "Rain: Four Walks in English Weather'". Financial Times Life and Arts.
  11. ^ "Game Theory'". The Guardian.
  12. ^ Shahidha Bari (6 February 2017). "Undone Done, Sam McKnight, Somerset House, London". Times Literary Supplement.
  13. ^ Shahidha Bari (19 May 2016). "What do clothes say?". Aeon.
  14. ^ "Life and times of Alexander McQueen". Frieze Art Magazine.
  15. ^ "Front Row Late". BBC. 18 January 2019.
  16. ^ "Art Night 2021".
  17. ^ "Forward Prizes for Poetry 2019". Forward Prizes for Poetry.
  18. ^ "Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction".
  19. ^ "Booker Prize Judges in 2022".

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