Research
Research in English at King’s can mean a variety of things:
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collecting and editing Oscar Wilde’s writing for the magazines
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reconstructing performances of Shakespeare’s plays at The Globe Theatre
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thinking about where Anglo-Saxon stories turn up in our culture today
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investigating the lives that have been lived on the Strand over the centuries
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thinking about how Early Modern poets thought about the past lives of the words they used
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asking what has happened to theory after ‘Theory’
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studying the sex lives of medieval monks
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mapping the traces of Inigo Jones at Somerset House through performance and spaces
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assessing the cultural significance of metal-mining of the American West in the 19th century
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thinking about how commodities and culture moved around the colonial word
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considering what kinds of modernist texts were produced by colonial women writers in London
The English Department at King’s is one of the oldest in the world and from its historic site in central London it continues to grow and change in response to the challenges and new agendas emerging in the wider world. In very different ways, the research in the Department addresses the place and role of ‘English’ in the 21st century.
This exceptionally dynamic range of research activities is reflected at all levels of our teaching programme here in the English Department at King’s. You can find out more about research projects that members of the Department are currently involved in under the following headings: