
Dr Alice Hazard
Senior Lecturer in Medieval French Education
Biography
I graduated from UCL in 2010 and worked in publishing for two years before studying for an MPhil at Cambridge. I moved back to London to begin my PhD at King’s in 2013. Immediately after this I spent some time working on the Language Acts and Worldmaking project researching different kinds of language learning undertaken by UK-based research students. I have been teaching French at King’s since beginning my PhD and now teach full-time. My first book, The Face and Faciality in Medieval French Literature 1170-1390 was published by Boydell & Brewer in May 2021.
Research interests and PhD supervision
- Intersections between modern theory and medieval art and literature
- Digital mediations of the medieval
- Language pedagogy
My research is all driven by a profound interest in how we learn and interact with literature, art and language. My current book project explores the concept of the face as a mediating surface, and uses modern theoretical writing as a way of opening up different kinds of faciality in medieval literature and manuscript production. I am also interested in the history of queer readings of medieval texts, and in the use of digital technology to read and engage with the medieval.
Teaching
I teach several language modules, convene the final year translation course, and run all the Old French workshops across the year groups. In my content teaching, I teach and convene literature modules ranging 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.
Expertise and public engagement
Through my work with Language Acts and Worldmaking I have been involved in school translations workshops. I also co-organised a workshop for public service interpreters to use dramatic and visual techniques to express and explore aspects of their work that are otherwise difficult to talk about.
Research

Centre for Late Antique and Medieval Studies
Interdisciplinary centre for the study of late antique and medieval history, languages, philosophy, religion, literature and music in western and eastern Europe.

Cultural Competency Education Mapping
Research on the inclusion of cultural competency (CC) components in all undergraduate and postgraduate programmes at King's.
Project status: Completed

Textual Representation: Poetics/Fiction/Rhetoric
Researchers within the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Culture at King’s College London are dedicated to exploring literary texts in multilingual contexts.

Visual Culture
The Visual Culture research group is a network of scholars within King’s College London working across a diverse historical range of film, art, and performance.

A College-wide educational endeavour to shape a culturally competent King’s
This project will evaluate King’s cultural competency programme to gain an understanding of its impact on students and staff.
Project status: Ongoing
News
Dr Alice Hazard publishes new book on the Face and Faciality
The Face and Faciality in Medieval French Literature (1170-1390) is a monograph about how the role of the faces is less about identity and rather about how we...

Events

Relics: An Exploratory Workshop
Join us for an afternoon workshop thinking with and through relics in the Western European Christian tradition.
Please note: this event has passed.
Features
Exploring insights: early findings from King's Cultural Competency evaluation and future directions
Discover results and proposed actions from an evaluation of Cultural Competence, a College-wide initiative that is a core part of King's Internationalisation...

Research

Centre for Late Antique and Medieval Studies
Interdisciplinary centre for the study of late antique and medieval history, languages, philosophy, religion, literature and music in western and eastern Europe.

Cultural Competency Education Mapping
Research on the inclusion of cultural competency (CC) components in all undergraduate and postgraduate programmes at King's.
Project status: Completed

Textual Representation: Poetics/Fiction/Rhetoric
Researchers within the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Culture at King’s College London are dedicated to exploring literary texts in multilingual contexts.

Visual Culture
The Visual Culture research group is a network of scholars within King’s College London working across a diverse historical range of film, art, and performance.

A College-wide educational endeavour to shape a culturally competent King’s
This project will evaluate King’s cultural competency programme to gain an understanding of its impact on students and staff.
Project status: Ongoing
News
Dr Alice Hazard publishes new book on the Face and Faciality
The Face and Faciality in Medieval French Literature (1170-1390) is a monograph about how the role of the faces is less about identity and rather about how we...

Events

Relics: An Exploratory Workshop
Join us for an afternoon workshop thinking with and through relics in the Western European Christian tradition.
Please note: this event has passed.
Features
Exploring insights: early findings from King's Cultural Competency evaluation and future directions
Discover results and proposed actions from an evaluation of Cultural Competence, a College-wide initiative that is a core part of King's Internationalisation...
