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Alicia Kent

Dr Alicia Kent

Senior Lecturer in Comparative Literature & Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies

Research interests

  • Languages

Biography

Alicia Kent was awarded her PhD by the University of London in 2006. She was a teaching fellow in the departments of French and Spanish and Spanish-American Studies at King’s College London before taking up her current post in Comparative Literature and Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies. She is Chair of the Comparative Literature Staff-Student Liaison Committee.

Research Interests and PhD Supervision

  • Literature & visual arts of early 20th-century Europe

Alicia Kent’s doctoral research focussed on interwar surrealist literary reviews in France and Spain. Current research includes a project on domesticity in surrealism and the European avant-garde.

Alicia welcomes enquiries from prospective graduate students interested in surrealism, the avant-garde, and intermediality (word and image studies).

For more details, please see her full research profile.

Teaching

Alicia Kent teaches on comparative readings and theories, literature of empire, modern Spanish culture, surrealism and visuality, and travel writing.

    Research

    Textual Representation PoeticsFictionRhetoric
    Textual Representation: Poetics/Fiction/Rhetoric

    Researchers within the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Culture at King’s College London are dedicated to exploring literary texts in multilingual contexts.

    Vis Culture
    Visual Culture

    The Visual Culture research group is a network of scholars within King’s College London working across a diverse historical range of film, art, and performance.

      Research

      Textual Representation PoeticsFictionRhetoric
      Textual Representation: Poetics/Fiction/Rhetoric

      Researchers within the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Culture at King’s College London are dedicated to exploring literary texts in multilingual contexts.

      Vis Culture
      Visual Culture

      The Visual Culture research group is a network of scholars within King’s College London working across a diverse historical range of film, art, and performance.