Your journey studying English at King's starts here

Congratulations on your offer! We've curated this hub to support your next steps.

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Hear from our course lead Dr Lara Feigal and Head of Department Professor Anna Snaith as they run through the details of our English degrees.

• Learn more about the Department of English at King’s, including its research strengths and the support available to you throughout your studies
• Hear from current students about their experience on the English course, including how they’ve tailored their studies through a wide range of modules, along with practical tips to help you get off to a strong start

Blogs and articles

• Deep Dive into the BA English Curriculum to get a taste of what you will be studying.
• From helping human trafficking survivors to disability representation in art — how King's humanities research is impacting society
• Professor Clare Pettitt's - Emily Brontë’s fierce, flawed women: not your usual Gothic female characters
• Dr Edward Sugden - Moby-Dick doesn’t deserve the ‘difficult’ label – this sea romance was once loved by office workers, sailors and children
• Dr Adelene Buckland - Wuthering Heights casting row: most adaptations struggle with picking the right Heathcliff and Cathy, but we deserve better in 2024
• Professor Anna Snaith - Mrs Dalloway at 100: Virginia Woolf’s timeless novel is a work of pandemic fiction
• Dr Emily Rowe - Juliet and Romeo strains to be meaningful but never earns its emotional crescendos
• Dr Emily Rowe - Shakespearean References in White Lotus Season three.

Podcasts

• Listen to Professor Lara Feigel on BBC Radio 4’s Front Row talking about VE Day literature
• Listen to Professor Lara Feigel in a new BBC Radio 4 Artworks series on DH Lawrence
• Listen to Dr Daniel Starza Smith (Early Modern English MA) on the New Books Network podcast talking about letterlocking

Visit the English BA course page to discover more on:

• Module lists
• Assessment information
• Teaching methods

Joint Honours

For those with an joint honours offer holders, here is a link to the other subject hubs:

• Film studies offer holders
• Modern Languages offer holders

Read our blogs to find out more about student life: 

• Faye tells us what she wished people knew about an English degree
• Evie tells us why she chose to study an English BA
• Take a look at the summer reading list for English BA offer holders
• Sophia talks about the jump between year 1 and year 2 for English and Modern Languages

Where could your degree from the faculty of Arts and Humanities take you?

Meet Robin Stevens from King's Careers & Employability Centre, who runs through all the services available to help you find your dream job.

Find out about career paths that students have taken after studying English.

• Chat with current students on Unibuddy
• Follow our Arts & Humanities Instagram
• Hear more about accommodation, funding and student life by signing up to our in-person and online events.
• Visit us on a tour of the Strand campus