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English Research
|MPhil/PhD, option of joint PhD with HKU/NUS/Humboldt
|Part Time, Full Time
RESEARCH PROFILE
- Research income: AHRC/Leverhume/British Academy combined: £300,000.
- Current number of academic staff: 23.
- Current number of research students: 38.
- Recent publications:
- Suspended Animation: Pain, Pleasure and Punishment in Medieval Culture.
- Eighteenth-Century Letters and British Culture.
- Double Agents: Women and Clerical Culture in Anglo-Saxon England.
- Dr Livingstone, I Presume: Missionaries, Journalists, Explorers and Empire.
- Shakespeare and the Rise of the Editor.
- Current research projects:
- Women of Reason from Enlightenment to Romanticism.
- Narrative in Relation to the Experience of Illness.
- Textual and Visual Culture in Anglo-Saxon England.
- The Victorian Past. (A major Leverhulme project).
- Irish Revivalism.
- Partner organisations:
- Shakespeare's Globe,
- Royal Academy of Dramatic Art,
- Imperial War Museum,
- Guy's Hospital,
- National Portrait Gallery,
- British Library,
- British Museum.
- Joint PhDs available: Exciting opportunities to gain a joint PhD with either the National University of Singapore or Hong Kong University or Humboldt.
KEY FACTS
Head of group/division
Professor Josephine McDonagh
Awarding institution
King's College London/King's and HKU/NUS/Humboldt for joint programme
Duration
Expected to be MPhil two years FT, three years PT. PhD three years FT, four-six years PT.
Location
Strand Campus.
Student destinations
Our research students have continued in academia, or have developed their skills in teaching, journalism, cultural arts and management, or the legal and financial sectors.
Year of entry 2013
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