Rivkah Brown (UK)

Rivkah Brown
MSt in English (World Literatures)

With the Ertegun Scholarship I completed the MSt in World Literatures in English, a course convened by Professor Elleke Boehmer and Dr. Michelle Kelly. My dissertation was supervised by Dr. Justine McConnell and entitled 'The Middle Repassage', examining African diasporic travelogues that retrace histories of slavery.

Ertegun House was my home in Oxford, and the Ertegun community remains an integral part of my intellectual and social life.

Life After Ertegun House

For 18 months after leaving Oxford I worked at the UK Government Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport as a Creative Industries Policy Advisor. I found the role immensely rewarding - not least because it involved furthering the mission of the Ertegun Programme through promoting creative and humanities education. More recently, I've moved out of government and into journalism, starting with an internship at the Financial Times Weekend Magazine. I am now a freelance contributor to FT Life & Arts, The Sunday Times Magazine, The Telegraph and The Baffler among others. Being part of Ertegun House strengthened my desire to have a global impact through my work, which focuses on issues of migration, diaspora and identity in culture and politics.