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Department of English
Faculty of Arts & Humanities

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Research

Colleagues, postdoctoral fellows and postgraduate research students in the Department of English produce world-leading and impactful research on literary culture and creative practice from the medieval to the contemporary.

Our department celebrates the historical and geographical scope of our research and our engagement with the cultural organisations around us.

Research at the Department has been recognised in the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021, with 90 per cent overall rating for either ‘world leading’ (4*) or ‘internationally excellent’ (3*) research and 100 per cent at 4* and 3* for research environment.

Our research is organised around six strands, each of which brings research staff and postgraduate research students together to organise conferences, seminars, and research projects: 

  • Creative Practice, Performance and Theatrical Culture· 
  • Critical Race Studies and Global Englishes 
  • Cultural Production and the Organisation of Knowledge 
  • Environmental Humanities 
  • Medical Humanities 
  • Visual, Material and Sonic Cultures 

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Postgraduate Research

The Department of English at King’s has a vibrant postgraduate research culture, with doctoral candidates contributing to teaching and research.

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Creative Writing at King’s

The English department is home to award-winning novelists, poets, essayists, biographers, non-fiction authors, and literary critics, who teach undergraduate modules in a range of disciplines. They also supervise creative projects at doctoral level within their specialisms.

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Expertise

Expertise

Areas of particular academic expertise represented within the King's Department of English

Projects

Projects

Examples of current and past research projects from the King's Department of English

Research Centres

Research Centres

A list of key research centres connected to the King's Department of English

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Career Paths

Career Paths

Hear about the career paths from former Undergraduate English students at King's College London

International

International

Our international partners include institutions across Asia, Europe and North America

Widening Participation

Widening Participation

The Department has launched a number of exciting initiatives to widen participation in the study of…

People

People

Department of English people pages and academic profiles

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