Research & Expertise

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.

The Department ranked second in the UK for the number of top-rated (4*) research outputs 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 department celebrates the historical and geographical scope of our research and our engagement with the cultural organisations around us. 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

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.