Connections & Outreach

Research and teaching in the Department of English has been galvanised by its core principle of diversity as well as its London, UK, European and international connections.

On the doorstep of King’s in central London the Globe Theatre, the Courtauld Institute of Art, the Royal Society of Literature, the British Museum and the Imperial War Museum have all provided stimulating contexts for continuing working partnerships.

Further afield, postgraduate exchanges with the University of North Carolina, National University of Singapore and the Global Edge programme with UC Berkeley foster research and teaching across Medical Humanities, English and Theatre Studies. Our offer includes:

A dedicated Creative and External Relations Committee embedded in the Department supports this ever-growing repertoire of pedagogic engagements, research placements and collaborative events.
Professor Anna Snaith is currently leading on a longstanding collaboration with Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, involving joint PhD students and an established research exchange.
Dr Anna Bernard is involved in an international collaboration with Dr Jessica Stites Mor (University of British Columbia) and Professor Anthony Alessandrini (CUNY): the International Solidarity Action Research Network. The ISARN investigates new directions in interdisciplinary scholarship on solidarity. They were recently awarded a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Grant (Canada) to support an event in Toronto, and are planning co-edited publications and a podcast.

Contact us

Want to learn more about English at King's? Get in touch with us.

english@kcl.ac.uk

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Featured: Configurations of Empire

Configurations of Empire is an interdisciplinary reading group for researchers and postgraduate students that explores the conditions of life, labour, and belonging under contemporary formations of empire. It runs in parallel from two sites: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and through the London Arts and Humanities Partnership network at King's College London.

We meet regularly to share individual projects and discuss readings from the latest scholarship in critical race, feminist, queer, postcolonial and decolonial theory.