Shahidha Bari

Shahidha Bari (born 1980) is a British academic, critic and broadcaster in the fields of literature, philosophy and art.[1][2] She is a professor at the University of the Arts London based at London College of Fashion.[3] She is a host of the topical arts television programme Inside Culture on BBC Two, standing in for Mary Beard,[4] one of the presenters of the BBC Radio 3 arts and ideas programme Free Thinking (previously titled Night Waves),[5] and an occasional presenter of BBC Radio 4's Front Row.[6]

Prof Shahidha Bari
Born1980 (age 42–43)
NationalityBritish
EducationKing's College, Cambridge
Occupation(s)Academic, critic, broadcaster
EmployerUniversity of the Arts London

Biography

She was educated at King's College, Cambridge, and lives in London. She is a Fellow of the Forum for Philosophy at the London School of Economics and an arts reviewer for a number of publications.[7] She comes from a family of Bengali Muslims.

Her academic work moves between philosophy, literature and visual culture. Her book Dressed: The Philosophy of Clothes was published in 2019.[8][9] Her latest book, Look Again: Fashion is a viewer's guide to fashion in the Tate Britain art collection.[10]

In 2011, Bari was selected as one of ten BBC Radio 3 New Generation Thinkers,[11] 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.[12]

In print, her writing appears in The Financial Times,[13] The Observer and the New Statesman. She is one of the regular books reviewers for The Guardian[14] and The Times Literary Supplement,[15] a contributor to Aeon[16] and frieze[17] and appears as a cultural critic on BBC TV.[18] 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.[19] She was the chair of judges for the Forward Prizes for Poetry in 2019, [20] a judge for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction in 2020 [21] and on the judging panel for The Booker Prize 2022.[22]

References
  1. Bari, Shahidh (2019), Dressed The Secret Life Of Clothes, Vintage, (About the Author).
  2. "Shahidha Bari". Penguin Books Australia. Retrieved 18 July 2023.
  3. "Shahidha Bari". UAL.
  4. "How we read". Inside Culture. BBC Two.
  5. "Jeremy Dyson and Irving Finkel". Free Thinking. BBC Radio 3.
  6. "Tributes to Clive James and Jonathan Miller". Front Row. 2019. BBC Radio 4.
  7. "Forum for European Philosophy". London School of Economics. Retrieved 8 April 2017.
  8. "Dressed". Amazon. ASIN 1787331490.
  9. Hughes, Kathryn Hughes (6 June 2019). "Review | Dressed by Shahidha Bari and The Pocket review – two books on the secret life of clothes". Guardian.
  10. "Look Again: Fashion". Tate.
  11. Brown, Mark (28 June 2011). "X Factor-style search for 10 academics from generation think". The Guardian. Retrieved 5 October 2013.
  12. Bari, Shahidha (8 March 2015). "Anthony Burgess prize-winning essay, 2014: National Theatre's Medea". The Observer.
  13. Bari, Shahidha (18 March 2016). "Rain: Four Walks in English Weather', by Melissa Harrison". Financial Times Life and Arts.
  14. "Game Theory'". The Guardian.
  15. Bari, Shahidha (6 February 2017). "Undone Done, Sam McKnight, Somerset House, London". Times Literary Supplement.
  16. Bari, Shahidha (19 May 2016). "What do clothes say?". Aeon.
  17. "Life and times of Alexander McQueen". Frieze Art Magazine.
  18. "Front Row Late". BBC. 18 January 2019.
  19. "Art Night 2021".
  20. "Forward Prizes for Poetry 2019". Forward Prizes for Poetry.
  21. "Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction".
  22. "Booker Prize Judges in 2022".


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