After studying at UCL and Cambridge I came to King's for my PhD under the supervision of the late Simon Gaunt. I then worked on the Language Acts and Worldmaking project, researching language learning in UK universities, before joining the Department of French, now the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, as a full-time lecturer. My first book, The Face and Faciality in Medieval French Literature 1170-1390 was published by Boydell & Brewer in May 2021 and I am currently working on a project that explores the intersections of modern technology and medieval literature.

I am the director of the King’s Centre for Late Antique and Medieval Studies, which hosts an annual series of lectures, reading groups, workshops and other events for the scholarly community at King’s and beyond.

I have previously been the director of the MA Global Cultures.

I am the Department for Languages, Literatures and Cultures admissions and outreach lead and welcome any related enquiries.

Research interests and PhD supervision

• Intersections between modern theory and medieval art and literature
• Digital mediations of the medieval
• The philosophy of technology
• Queer medievalisms

My current research project explores technological thinking in medieval French narrative, the intersections of different genres in medieval writing technologies and digital mediations of medieval texts. I am currently supervising and second supervising a range of different medieval projects, and welcome enquiries from prospective students in any of the above, or related, areas.

Teaching

I teach on a range of undergraduate literature modules in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, from the first-year overview module to more specialist final-year courses in medieval literature and including early-modern texts, post-1700 novels and twentieth-century film. I also teach French language modules at all undergraduate levels, and oversee the department's medieval French provision. In addition, I teach on the MA Medieval Studies programme, and the online-only MA Global Cultures.

Expertise and public engagement

I have spoken on a variety of topics in different contexts, including the British Film Institute and at language teachers' conferences.

Selected publications 

• Tardif and Technics: Bernard Stiegler’s Technique in the Roman de Renart, Hazard, A., 2 Feb 2026, The Horizons of Medieval French and Occitan: New Approaches to Manuscripts and Texts. Brill, p. 309-327 18 p.
• The Face and Faciality in Medieval French Literature (1170-1390). Hazard, A., May 2021, Cambridge: Boydell & Brewer Ltd. 227 p. (Gallica)
• Language learning experiences of postgraduate research students in the UK. Álvarez, I., Montoro, C., de Medeiros, A., Kelly, D. & Hazard, A., 2 Sept 2020, In: Language Learning Journal. 48, 5, p. 672-684 .