English Research

Overview
King’s is one of the oldest English departments in the country and is home to a lively and supportive group of academics and students engaged in the exploration of literary cultures from the 7th to the 21st centuries. Our Ph.D. students are at the very centre of our research culture and we welcome applications from prospective doctoral students working on any aspect of literary and cultural studies from the medieval to the contemporary. Our research is fuelled by our proximity to many of London’s artistic and cultural institutions and staff and students in the Department work in collaboration with our many cultural partners. Ph.D. students in English at King’s have access not only to expert and attentive supervision, but also a full programme of training in addition to the opportunity to teach.
REF rankings 2014: King's is one of the top 20 leading institutions worldwide (2014 QS World University Rankings). The 2014 Research Excellence Framework confirmed the world-class standard of research undertaken in the Faculty of Arts & Humanities and its leading international reputation. The Department of English is ranked 8th in the UK and 2nd amongst Russell Group universities according to the framework's "power" metric, which takes into account both the quality and quantity of research activity.

Research income: AHRC/Leverhume/British Academy combined: £1,245,000
Current number of academic staff: 57
Current number of research students: 122
Recent publications:
Paul Gilroy, Darker Than Blue: On the Moral Economies of Black Atlantic Culture
Lucy Munro, Archaic Style in English Literature, 1590-1674 Clare Lees (ed), The Cambridge History of Early Medieval Literature
Alan Read, Theatre in the Expanded Field
Anna Snaith, Modernist Voyages: Colonial Women Writers in London 1890-1945
Zoe Norridge, Perceiving Pain in African Literature
Seb Franklin, Control: Digitality as Cultural Logic
Clara Jones, Virginia Woolf: Ambivalent Activist
Current research projects: