Fara Dabhoiwala teaches at Princeton, and writes about the social, cultural, and intellectual history of the English-speaking world, from the middle ages to the present. He previously taught at Oxford, where he is now a life fellow of All Souls College and of Exeter College.
He has made radio and TV for the BBC and other channels, and his writing has appeared in The New York Review of Books, The Guardian, The Shanghai Review of Books, and many other places.
He is writing a global history of free speech, to be published by Harvard University Press in the U.S., and Penguin Random House in the rest of the world. Future projects include a history of the signature and the biography of a 17th-century scrivener and spy. He is the author of The Origins of Sex: A History of the First Sexual Revolution, which has been translated into several languages and widely reviewed.