Biography
Bari studied English at King's College, Cambridge. She now 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. [8] 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. [9] [10] Her latest book, Look Again: Fashion is a viewer's guide to fashion in the Tate Britain art collection. [11]
In 2011, Bari was selected as one of ten BBC Radio 3 New Generation Thinkers, [12] 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. [13]
In print, her writing appears in The Financial Times , [14] The Observer and the New Statesman . She is one of the regular books reviewers for The Guardian [15] and The Times Literary Supplement , [16] a contributor to Aeon [17] and frieze [18] and appears as a cultural critic on BBC TV. [19] 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. [20] She was the chair of judges for the Forward Prizes for Poetry in 2019, [21] a judge for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction in 2020 [22] and on the judging panel for The Booker Prize 2022. [23]
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