11 Facts About Sandra Kemp

Sandra Kemp was born on 10 March 1957 and is an academic and curator with a background in English literature.

Sandra Kemp is the director, The Ruskin - Library, Museum and Research Centre at University of Lancaster and visiting professor in the Department of Materials at Imperial College London.

Sandra Kemp curated the Wellcome Trust-sponsored exhibition Future Face: Image, Identity, Innovation at the Science Museum, with a related programme at the National Portrait Gallery, a film festival and a debate on BBC Radio Five Live.

Sandra Kemp has published and given public lectures in the fields of fiction, literary theory and cultural studies.

Sandra Kemp has a Bachelor of Arts and DPhil from the University of Oxford.

Sandra Kemp has worked in the cultural sector, holding research fellowships at the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution and the National Portrait Gallery, London, and most recently at the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Sandra Kemp has been a panel member of the Higher Education Funding Council for England Research Assessment Exercise, and the Arts and Humanities Research Council's Visual Arts and Media Panel.

Sandra Kemp has appeared on television in the UK and abroad, including Omnibus and London Tonight, and broadcasts regularly, most recently on the BBC's Night Waves and Woman's Hour and on Chicago Public Radio's Odyssey.

Sandra Kemp has published books, articles and critical editions of modernist fiction, including Virginia Woolf, Henry James, Rudyard Kipling, Wilkie Collins, Charlotte Bronte and the Oxford Companion to Edwardian Fiction.

Sandra Kemp has published on feminism and literary theory, including an Oxford Reader with Judith Squires.

Sandra Kemp stated that she had "successfully completed" the first stage of restructuring, "balanced the budgets and in 2011 achieved a significant increase in the College's National Student Survey scores".