Zoe Strimpel

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.

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

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]