Ophelia Field is currently Director of the London-based MA/PhD Biography Programme, having lectured on the Programme since 2019 and previously at the University of London’s Centre for Editing Lives and Letters (CELL).
Field is the author of the critically acclaimed life of Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough (1660-1744) titled THE FAVOURITE, first published in 2002 and in revised edition in 2018. In 2008, her group biography, again set in the early eighteenth century, THE KIT-CAT CLUB: FRIENDS WHO IMAGINED A NATION, was published by HarperCollins and was named as one of the FT History Books of the Year.
In addition to book reviewing, she has published articles and reports related to her parallel career in the refugee, migration and human rights field (most recently specialising in narrative strategy) and contributed a chapter on political essayists to ON ESSAYS: MONTAIGNE TO THE PRESENT (OUP, 2020).
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