Christina Lupton

Christina Lupton grew up in communes in London and Australia, dropped out of school at 15 and recovered her taste in study to take a degree in critical and cultural theory at the University of Sussex and then to do a PhD at Rutgers in New Jersey. She has taught English Literature at universities around the world and written on novels and the history of reading, including in her book, Reading and the Making of Time (2018). She is currently a Professor at the University of Warwick, but is on leave while serving as the Dean of Modern Languages at KU in Copenhagen. She lives in that city with her partner and children.