Women writers challenged ideas about class, gender and domestic life by experimenting with genre, suggests Dr Clara Jones, Reader in Modern Literature in the Department of English.

The Bayeux tapestry is back after a thousand years. Made in England at the end of the 11th century, the 70-metre masterpiece has returned for the first time in a blockbuster exhibition at the British…

Sensors that monitor vehicle volume are said to be ‘electronic assault weapons’ by the ‘Blade Runners’ group

A screening of Onyeka Igwe's film A Radical Duet (2023), followed by a conversation between the filmmaker and Alexander G. Weheliye.

Two King’s academics have co-edited a special journal issue on the history of the medical humanities, representing a major milestone in the field.

Driven by her experience as a young carer, Pierrette is building SenaForma to put disabled people, not their diagnosis, at the centre of product design. Read her story.

Professor Anna Snaith, Professor of Twentieth-Century Literature in the Department of English, provides a fresh ‘earspective’ on the sonic legacy of the First World War through analysis of modernist…

The new film is inspired by research from The Sciences of Ageing and Culture of Youth (SAACY) and set for release in 2027.

Three leading scholars explore the history of print and printing in London from the eighteenth to the twentieth century

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Haunting the Black Air by Anthony Joseph; Selected Poems by Leontia Flynn; Sparrow on the Rooftop by Rachel Long; You Must Live: New Poetry from Palestine, edited by Jorie Graham; Melete by Jennifer L...

Texts about the inhabitants of our oceans can be seen as life writing, says Professor Clare Brant, Professor Emeritus in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture in the Department of English.

This Spotlight article looks at ten of King’s Digital Lab’s most impactful projects as the lab marks its 10th anniversary.

You are warmly invited to the launch of Clare Brant's new book, Underwater Lives: Humans, Species, Ocean.

A new film adaptation of Virginia Woolf's second novel, Night and Day.

Join us for a seminar exploring the enduring legacy of Zumbi dos Palmares in Brazilian theatre and culture.

The Department of English now offers an undergraduate degree in English with Creative Writing.

A special seminar with Professor Hanna Rose Shell, historian of art / cinema / science from the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Karen Downs-Barton (Creative Writing PhD) has received the 2026 John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize for her debut poetry collection Minx.

Sophie O’Grady (English Research PhD) received the British Association for Irish Studies (BAIS) Postgraduate Essay Prize.

King’s College London is saddened to hear of the death of King’s alumna, Maureen Duffy FKC (English, 1956), author of more than 30 published works of fiction, non-fiction, poetry and plays.

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Colin Grant, director of <em>WritersMosaic</em>, hosts this conversation between storytellers of the migrant experience.

The English and Creative Writing programmes are delighted to invite you to the annual PGR Conference on the theme of “Crossroads: People, Places, and Ideas”.

Rachel Long reads from and discusses her latest poetry collection, Sparrow on the Rooftop, with poet and editor Sarah Howe.

The Devil Wears Prada 2 director David Frankel. David Haig's new play. Kissing on stage.

How the bias against the cormorant took flight

Zuzu Burton (English BA) won the British Association of American Studies (BAAS) Undergraduate Essay Prize for her piece on ‘Calvinist Theology and Sacred Landscape in Marilynne Robinson’s…

Four King's students have been chosen as winners and runners-up of the Cosmo Davenport-Hines Poetry Prize.

When we think about prejudice, we think about people. People who are prejudiced against us; people whom we may be prejudiced against (whether we admit it or not).

Over the past few years, a new kind of traveling book club has sprung up across the US and the UK.

This event introduces Minoli Salgado’s recent monograph, Witness Literature: Culture, Memory and Contested Truths