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The memoir that changed my mind – 11 experts share a perspective‑shifting read

By Katayoun Shahandeh, Lecturer in Museum Studies, SOAS, University of London
Cassia Hayward-Fitch, Associate Tutor, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of East Anglia
Colin Tyler, Professor of Social and Political Thought, University of Hull
Emily Zobel Marshall, Reader in Postcolonial Literature, Leeds Beckett University
Fareda Banda, Professor of Law, SOAS, University of London
Jade King, Teaching Fellow in Creative Writing, University of Lincoln
Lyn Jehu, Lecturer in Community Football Development, University of South Wales
Sarah Richmond, Honorary Associate Professor of Philosophy, UCL
Simon Hinde, Programme Director, Journalism and Publishing, University of the Arts London
Yi Wang, PhD Candidate in Education, University of Cambridge
Our beliefs aren’t fixed. They’re shaped, stretched and sometimes overturned by the ideas we encounter as we move through life. For many of us, memoirs are the moments where that shift happens, through an argument that unsettles us or an inspiring story that re-frames how we see the world. We asked 11 academic experts to share a memoir that challenged their assumptions and changed their thinking in a lasting way.


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