Dr Suzannah Biernoff at the LSE Literary Festival
Suzannah Biernoff, Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Visual Culture, will be chairing an event on Art in Conflict with acclaimed novelist Pat Barker at the LSE Literary Festival in March.
Suzannah Biernoff, Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Visual Culture, will be chairing an event on Art in Conflict with acclaimed novelist Pat Barker at the LSE Literary Festival in March.
Moving from the Slade School of Art to Queen Mary's Hospital, where surgery and art intersect in the rebuilding of the shattered faces of the wounded, Pat Barker’s latest novel Toby's Room is a riveting drama of identity, damage, intimacy and loss. This event will explore art’s responsibility to war, and the links between art, literature, science and history.
Pat Barker was born in Thornaby-on-Tees in 1943. She was educated at LSE and has been a teacher of history and politics. Her books include Union Street (1982), winner of the 1983 Fawcett Prize, which has been filmed as Stanley and Iris; Blow Your House Down (1984); Liza's England (1986), formerly The Century's Daughter, The Man Who Wasn't There (1989); the highly acclaimed Regeneration trilogy, comprising Regeneration,The Eye in The Door, winner of the 1993 Guardian Fiction Prize, and The Ghost Road, winner of the 1995 Booker Prize for Fiction and Another World. Her last novel was Life Class.
The event takes place on March 2 and forms part of LSE's 5th Space for Thought Literary Festival. All the events are free - find out more and book your place on the LSE website.
Dr Biernoff teaches on the BA History of Art, MA History of Art, MA Museum Cultures and MA Medical Humanities.