Zoe Strimpel

Zoe Strimpel
Born	Zoe Strimpel 8 July 1982 (1982-07-08) (age 43) London, England
Nationality	British
Alma mater	Jesus College, Cambridge Wolfson College, Cambridge University of Sussex
Occupation(s)	Journalist, academic (Gender Studies)
Years active	2010-present

Zoe Strimpel (born 8 July 1982) is a British columnist and commentator. Strimpel writes opinion columns for The Sunday Telegraph . ^[1] She has appeared on BBC Radio 4's A Point Of View and presents a podcast on culture called Hyped! with the historian Tom Stammers.

Early life and education

Strimpel was born into a Jewish family in London in 1982. ^{[2] [3]} She grew up in Boston in the United States, and moved back to England aged 16. ^[3] She attended the independent Bedales School, then studied English at Jesus College, Cambridge, and later attended Wolfson College, Cambridge, ^[4] where she completed an MPhil in Gender Studies. She then undertook a PhD in Modern British History at the University of Sussex, funded by an Asa Briggs scholarship, before becoming a research fellow for two years on a Leverhulme Trust-funded project at Sussex, Cambridge and the British Library on the business practices of feminist publishers in the 1970s. ^[5]

In November 2020, Strimpel became a British Academy postdoctoral fellow at the University of Warwick, researching relational tumult following the Divorce Reform Act 1969. ^[5]

Career

From 2008, Strimpel was a features and lifestyle writer for City AM , a business-orientated London daily newspaper. ^[6] She has written on relations between men and women for Elle , ^[7] the Sunday Times Style magazine, ^[8] and HuffPost . ^[9] She has also contributed to The Jewish Chronicle , ^[10] and writes for The Spectator , ^[11] and UnHerd . ^[12] She is a columnist for The Sunday Telegraph .

Strimpel has appeared on radio and television as a commentator to discuss topics such as dating, feminism, and diversity, ^{[13] [14] [15]} including the BBC ^[16] and Al Jazeera. ^[17] She appeared in the HBO documentary Swiped: Hooking Up in the Digital Age in 2018 to discuss online dating apps. ^{[18] [19]}

Personal life

Strimpel lives in London. ^[20]

References

1. "The Telegraph, Articles".
2. Strimpel, Zoe (23 June 2022). "Like many Jews, I always feel like an outsider". The JC . Retrieved 5 April 2024.
3. "London men: playboys or losers". Evening Standard . 10 April 2012. Retrieved 5 April 2024.
4. The Wolfson Review, 2012-2013 no. 37, Wolfson College, Cambridge, p. 32
5. "Dr Zoe Strimpel". University of Warwick - Department of History. 10 December 2020. Retrieved 3 January 2023.
6. Gunter, Joel (19 May 2008). "Zoe Strimpel joins City AM". journalism.co.uk. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
7. "Elle Magazine, Article". 27 April 2015.
8. "The People's Book Prize Website" (PDF). 20 April 2010.
9. "HuffPost, Articles". HuffPost .
10. "Zoe Strimpel (articles)". The Jewish Chronicle. Retrieved 3 January 2023.
11. "The Spectator, Articles".
12. "UnHerd, Articles".
13. Dunant, Sarah (Host) (1 October 2018). The Dating Game (Radio broadcast). When Greeks Flew Kites. BBC.
14. Gittos, Luke (14 October 2018). "Let's Talk About Sex, Baby". Battle of Ideas. Retrieved 4 November 2018.
15. Buerk, Michael (Host) (25 July 2018). The Morality of Diversity (Radio broadcast). Moral Maze. BBC.
16. Murray, Jenni (Host) (18 October 2017). The Problem With #MeToo (Radio broadcast). Woman's Hour. BBC.
17. Hasan, Mehdi (Host) (10 October 2018). Head to Head - Has #MeToo failed? (Television production). Al Jazeera.
18. Sales, Nancy Jo (Director) (10 September 2018). Swiped: Hooking Up in the Digital Age (Television production). HBO.
19. Johnson, Eric (19 September 2018). "'Swiped' HBO documentary - director Nancy Jo Sales explains why swiping on Tinder is addictive". recode.com. Retrieved 4 November 2018.
20. Strimpel, Zoe (21 June 2025). "London's graffiti-riddled corpse is a warning of our apocalyptic future". The Telegraph . ISSN   0307-1235 . Retrieved 10 July 2025.