King's College London Faculty of Arts and Humanities
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Former names | King's College, London Faculty of Arts (1831) King's College, London Faculties of Music and Theology (1831) King's College London School of Humanities (1988) King's College London School of Arts and Humanities (2009) King's College London Faculty of Arts & Humanities (2014) |
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| Established | 1831 |
Parent institution | King's College London |
| Executive Dean of Faculty | Professor Marion Thain |
| Location | London , United Kingdom |
| Website | kcl |
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The King's College London Faculty of Arts & Humanities is one of the nine academic Faculties of Study of King's College London. It is situated on the Strand in the heart of central London, in the vicinity of many renowned cultural institutions with which the Faculty has close links including the British Museum, Shakespeare's Globe, the National Portrait Gallery and the British Library.[1] As of 2016, the Times Higher Education comparison of world-class universities ranked it amongst the top twenty arts and humanities faculties in the world.[2]
The Faculty of Arts & Humanities offers study at undergraduate and graduate level in a wide range of subject areas. Many of the departments and programmes offer joint undergraduate degrees, including some with the Departments of Geography and War Studies, in the Faculty of Social Science & Public Policy and with Mathematics in the Faculty of Natural & Mathematical Sciences.[3] As a member of the Russell Group and the Golden triangle, the Faculty receives a high number of applications.
A highlight of the academic calendar is the Faculty's Arts & Humanities Festival[4] when, as one of Britain's pre-eminent centres of research in the Arts and Humanities, the Faculty opens its doors for a fortnight of debate and exploration about a topic and its reverberation in a range of cultural forms, from fiction and theatre to art. The Festival includes a series of lectures by King's academics, exhibitions, round-table discussions and workshops.
The Faculty is a member of The Council of University Deans of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (DASSH UK), and of London Citizens. The current Executive Dean of Faculty is Professor Marion Thain, who took over from Professor Russell Goulbourne in December 2018.
History[]
Departments like English and German are among England's oldest and were founded in the 19th century. King's College London's Faculty of Arts merged with the Faculties of Music and Theology as the School of Humanities in the late 1980s and took on the name of the School of Arts & Humanities in 2009. The original Arts departments such as War Studies and Geography formed part of the School of Social Science & Public Policy in 2001, while the Arts & Humanities expanded from its 'classical' humanities roots.[5] Over the past few years, the School has established interdisciplinary programmes such as Comparative Literature and a new BA in Liberal Arts launched in 2012. It has led new developments in teaching and research, for instance through the Department of Digital Humanities, Department of Culture, Media & Creative Industries, and the Modern Language Centre. The School of Arts & Humanities became the Faculty of Arts & Humanities in 2014.
Departments[]
The following departments and centres can be found in the Faculty of Arts & Humanities:
- Centre for Hellenic Studies (incorporating Byzantine & Modern Greek Studies)
- Classics
- Comparative Literature
- Culture, Media & Creative Industries
- Digital Humanities
- English Language & Literature
- Film Studies
- French
- German
- History
- Modern Language Centre
- Music
- Philosophy
- Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies
- Theology & Religious Studies
Arts and Humanities Research Institute and Interdisciplinary Research Centres
Director: Professor Anna Reading
The Arts and Humanities Research Institute leads socially engaged interdisciplinary research in arts and humanities across the College and with external partners. It is home to the innovative REACH space designed to develop creative research and many of the Faculty's interdisciplinary research centres which support King's art and humanities research-led teaching.
- Camões Centre for Portuguese Language & Culture
- Centre for Enlightenment Studies @ King's
- Centre for Hellenic Studies
- Centre for Late Antique & Medieval Studies
- Centre for Language Acts and World Making
- Centre for Life Writing
- Centre for Modern Literature and Culture
- Centre for Philosophy and Visual Culture
- London Shakespeare Centre
- Queer@King’s
Cross Faculty research centres[]
- Centre for Language, Discourse and Communication (with the Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy)
- Centre for the Humanities & Health
Notable people[]
Current academic staff[]
- Roderick Beaton, Koraes Professor of Modern Greek & Byzantine History, Language & Literature
- George Benjamin, Henry Purcell Professor of Composition
- Francisco Bethencourt, Charles Boxer Professor
- Catherine Boyle , Professor of Latin American Cultural Studies
- David Carpenter, Professor of Medieval History
- Richard Drayton, Rhodes Professor of Imperial History
- Richard Dyer , Professor of Film Studies
- Simon Gaunt , Professor of French Literature
- Paul Gilroy , Professor of American & English Literature
- Edith Hall, Professor of Classics
- Brian Hurwitz, D'Oyly Carte Professor of Medicine & the Arts
- , Samuel Davidson Professor of Old Testament/Hebrew Bible
- Roger Parker , Thurston Dart Professor of Music
- Martin Stokes, King Edward Professor of Music
- Joan E. Taylor, Professor of Christian Origins and Second Temple Judaism
- Patrick Wright, Professor of Literature and Visual & Material Culture
Former academic staff[]
- Harrison Birtwistle, British contemporary composer
- Averil Cameron, Warden of Keble College, Oxford, Professor of Late Antique and Byzantine History in the University of Oxford, and Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford
- A. G. Dickens (1910-2001) , historian, former Director of the Institute of Historical Research
- John Eliot Gardiner, English conductor
- John Elliott , historian
- F. J. C. Hearnshaw (1869-1946) , historian
- Judith Herrin , Emeritus Professor of Late Antique and Byzantine Studies
- Efraim Karsh, Founding Director and Emeritus Professor of Middle East and Mediterranean Studies
- Mario Vargas Llosa , Peruvian writer, politician, journalist, essayist, and Nobel Prize laureate
- P. J. Marshall, Emeritus Rhodes Professor of Imperial History, President of the Royal Historical Society from 1997-2001
- Janet Nelson , Emeritus Professor of Medieval History, President of the Royal Historical Society from 2001 to 2005
- Richard Overy , historian
- Curtis Price , Warden of New College, Oxford
- David Profumo , an English novelist, 6th Baron Profumo
- Conrad Russell, 5th Earl Russell (1937-2004), 5th Earl Russell
- Richard Sorabji, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy
- Susan Stebbing (1885-1943), Lecturer in Philosophy
Deans of Faculty[]
- Barry Ife (Spanish): August 1989 - July 1997
- Linda Newson (Geography): August 1997 - July 2000
- Michael Knibb (Theology): August 2000 - July 2001
- David Ricks (CHS/CompLit): August 2001 - July 2004
- Ann Thompson (English): August 2004 - December 2007
- Jan Palmowski (German): January 2008 - December 2012
- Simon Gaunt (French): January 2013 - December 2013
- Russell Goulbourne (French): January 2014 - August 2018
- Jo Malt (French): September 2018 - December 2018 (Interim)
- Marion Thain (English): December 2018 -
Notable alumni[]
Jonathan Sacks
Summer School[]
The Faculty also offers well recognised Summer School courses as part of the King's College London Summer School.[8] Courses are intensive and use the Faculty’s links with external cultural institutions and make 'London a classroom’. Courses on offer showcase work done in research centres such as Queer@Kings or the Centre for Humanities & Health.
Publications[]
Many academic staff at King's are editors and contributors to many standard editions such as the Arden Shakespeare series. The Faculty of Arts & Humanities houses several publication series, from monographs produced in conjunction with other publishing houses such as Ashgate to small in-house series.
The current list of series includes
- Modern Poetry in Translation (Second Series)
- Plain Text Series
- Centre for Hellenic Studies Publications
- Institute of Advanced Musical Studies: Study Texts
- Adam Archive Publications
- Centre for Twentieth-Century Studies Publications
- King’s College London Medieval Series
- King’s College London Hispanic Series
- Office for Humanities Communication Series
- Mediterranean Studies Monographs
References[]
- ^ http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/partners/index.aspx[bare URL]
- ^ "THES World University Rankings - Arts & Humanities". Times Higher Education. Retrieved 25 May 2016.
- ^ http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/study/index.aspx[bare URL]
- ^ "King's College London - Arts & Humanities Festival".
- ^ "About the Faculty of Arts & Humanities | Faculty of Arts & Humanities | King's College London".
- ^ "RADA: An introduction". Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Retrieved 20 May 2016.
- ^ "King's College London Dates and Locations". King's College London. Retrieved 20 May 2016.
- ^ "Summer at King's | Summer Programmes | King's College London".
External links[]
- King's College London Faculty of Arts & Humanities homepage
- Arts & Humanities Festival website
- King's College London Summer School homepage
- The Council of University Deans of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities website
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