Shahidha Bari

Shahidha Bari is a writer, academic and critic, based in London. She was educated at King's College Cambridge. She is senior lecturer in Romanticism at Queen Mary University of London and Fellow of the Forum for European Philosophy at the London School of Economics.

Contents

• Understanding the Subconcious Shahidha Bari
• Discussion Kwame Anthony Appiah and Shahidha Bari
• References

In 2011, Bari was selected as one of ten BBC Radio 3 New Generation Thinkers, 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".

Her academic work moves between the fields of literature, philosophy, psychoanalysis and visual culture. Her first book, Keats and Philosophy: The Life of Sensations was published in 2012. She is currently working on a book on the philosophy of dress.

She has presented documentaries for BBC Radio 4 and the BBC World Service and is an occasional presenter of BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking. Bari is a regular contributor to BBC Radio 4's "Woman's Hour", Front Row and "Saturday Review".

In print, her writing has appeared in The Financial Times, The Guardian, The Observer and New Statesman. She is a regular columnist for Times Higher Education and a reviewer for "The Times Literary Supplement".

She is a trustee of the educational mentoring charity, The Arts Emergency Service.

She is currently writing about the culture of clothes.