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Research Centres

Centre for Early Modern Studies

The Centre for Early Modern Studies was established in 2015 to promote research in the early modern period (understood in its broadest sense, roughly 1400-1700).

Centre for Enlightenment Studies

The Centre for Enlightenment Studies at King’s supports 18th century research strengths across the Faculty of Arts & Humanities.

Network for Life-Writing Research (formerly CLWR)

Formely Centre for Life-Writing Research (CLWR), the network creates research-led events which aim to promote and increase understanding of life writing as a literary field, in association with visual and material arts.

Centre for Modern Literature and Culture

The Centre for Modern Literature and Culture is a forum for academics, writers and artists to explore, interrogate, dismantle and reinvent the notion of the ‘modern’.

Performance@King's

Performance@King’s is a cross-college performance and theatre research and teaching grouping.

presentPasts

Across the Faculty of Arts & Humanities, King’s academics study cultural interactions across time and the transhistorical traditions that often frame, foster, and shape them.

Queer@King's

Centre for research and teaching in gender and sexuality studies and a hub for collaborative work with queer activists, artists, and communities.

 

Projects

Projects

Learn more about current and past research projects from the Department of English.

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