Overheard in Blackwell’s

Very glamorous South African girl, at the next table —
“Realistically, you can’t be a Professor in the University before the age of thirty-six.”
No shit, Sherlock!
(sidenote: 36??)
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Dr Sophie Duncan is Fellow in English at Christ Church, University of Oxford. She works regularly as a historical advisor and as a dramaturg for theatre, TV, radio and film. She likes theatre, detective fiction and cocktails.
I do believe the youngest University Professor, Alia Sabur, was 19 when she began working in 2008.
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To which I can only say: mother of God. While weeping, silently.
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