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Johanna Malt

Professor Johanna Malt

Professor of French Literature & Visual Culture

  • Director of the London Arts and Humanities Partnership

Research interests

  • Culture
  • Literature

Biography

I am a graduate of Cambridge University, where I studied for my BA and PhD and was a lecturer at Christ’s College before coming to King’s in 2000. At King's I have held various roles including Head of French, Vice Dean for Languages and Literatures, and Interim Dean of Arts and Humanities. I am currently Director of the London Arts and Humanities Partnership, an AHRC-funded doctoral training consortium, and editor of Paragraph: A Journal of Modern Critical Theory.

Research interests and PhD supervision

  • Literature and visual art
  • Surrealism
  • Art theory
  • Twentieth-century French literature
  • Avant-gardes

My research interests are in 20th- and 21st-century literature, visual art and theory. I am the author of a book on surrealism and politics and am currently writing another on casts, imprints and traces in modern and contemporary art, which will be published in 2023 by MInnesota University Press. I offer research supervision in the fields of modern French literature (particularly modernism and the avant-garde), critical theory and text-image relations.

For more details, please see my full research profile.

Teaching

I teach a range of undergraduate and MA modules on modern French literature, visual art and theory. I also teach translation from French to English.

Expertise and public engagement

I am happy to speak on surrealism and on aspects of modern French literature and visual art. I was a judge of the 2012 Scott Moncrieff prize for translation into English from French: http://www.societyofauthors.org/scott-moncrieff-past-winners

    Research

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    Centre for Philosophy and Art

    The Centre for Philosophy and Visual Arts aims to bring together academics, artists, curators and gallerists to explore the connections between philosophy, theory and the visual arts.

    Textual Representation PoeticsFictionRhetoric
    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.

    Vis Culture
    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.

    Events

    18Jun240618 relics workshop dllc

    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.

    23AprRéquichot

    Réquichot and Rhythm

    Exploring the work of Réquichot through the broad concept of rhythm

    Please note: this event has passed.

    14OctVWBexteriorwithbike

    Between Anthropometry and Dematerialisation: Yves Klein, Jasper Johns and the return to the figure

    Join Dr Johanna Malt at the Department of French Research Seminar

    Please note: this event has passed.

      Research

      giammarco-zeH-ljawHtg-unsplash
      Centre for Philosophy and Art

      The Centre for Philosophy and Visual Arts aims to bring together academics, artists, curators and gallerists to explore the connections between philosophy, theory and the visual arts.

      Textual Representation PoeticsFictionRhetoric
      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.

      Vis Culture
      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.

      Events

      18Jun240618 relics workshop dllc

      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.

      23AprRéquichot

      Réquichot and Rhythm

      Exploring the work of Réquichot through the broad concept of rhythm

      Please note: this event has passed.

      14OctVWBexteriorwithbike

      Between Anthropometry and Dematerialisation: Yves Klein, Jasper Johns and the return to the figure

      Join Dr Johanna Malt at the Department of French Research Seminar

      Please note: this event has passed.