English Department News
arts@work
Two days of special workshops to be held on 28th and 29th June in the Old Anatomy Museum, King’s College London.
Do you want a job in the creative industries which allows you to apply the skills you have acquired during your degree?
This two day event aims to provide an opportunity to get closer to exactly this position. arts@work will be for 30 second and third year BA students from both the English and Film departments. Programme details and how to apply.
New Appointment - Professor Javed Majeed
The Department is very happy to welcome Professor Javed Majeed as our new Professor in English and Comparative Literature. Professor Majeed, who will join us in January 2012, comes to King's from the School of English at Queen Mary University of London, where he was Professor of Postcolonial Literature. On arrival at King's he will assume duties as the Director of the Comparative Literature Programme.
Professor Majeed's research combines literary studies with the intellectual and cultural history of colonialism and postcolonialism in South Asia. His books include Ungoverned Imaginings. James Mill’s The History of British India and Orientalism; Autobiography, Travel, and Postnational Identity. Nehru, Gandhi and Iqbal; and Muhammad Iqbal: Islam, Aesthetics and Postcolonialism, and he is currently writing about the linguistic survey of India at the turn of the 20th century. At King's he will teach courses in Comparative Literature and English, including a course on postcolonial literature, translation and theory at postgraduate level, and on the novel in British India at undergraduate level.
He has recently spent a period researching in the Centre for Indian Studies in Africa at the University of the Witswatersrand, Joannesburg.
'...Of Cabbages and Kings'
This year, KCL English Society has embarked on an exciting new venture – the launch of its very own literary journal - '...Of Cabbages and Kings'. Indeed, 'the time has come my little friends, to talk of many things. Of shoes and ships and sealing wax, of cabbages and kings!'
Still in its early stages, the journal is a modest yet inspiring project aimed at publishing the opinions, explorations and literary musings of KCL students from all disciplines.
The Society is currently accepting submissions for the following sections:
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Creative writing and flashfiction
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Theatre reviews
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Book reviews
as well as a short essay section for those of you who find yourself constantly pondering the big literary questions – an 'I Was Thinking...' section.
Other sections include interviews, a 'Professor's Note', a department newsletter and a calendar of Society events.
If you have a poem to share, a book to promote or simply a question to answer, send it in to the
English Society - it's never too late to become involved!
Copies of the journal are currently available from the department office.