King's College London Faculty of Arts and Humanities

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]

Faculty of Arts & Humanities,
King's College London
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)
Established1831 (1831)
Parent institution
King's College London
Executive Dean of FacultyProfessor Marion Thain
Location
London
,
United Kingdom
Websitekcl.ac.uk/artshums/

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
Greek marble statues at the main hall of King's Building: lyric poet Sappho (fronting) and dramatist Sophocles (back turned)

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
  • Liberal Arts
  • 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

Auto-icon of the famous writer and King's alumna, Virginia Woolf, in a building named after her that houses some of the departments under Arts and Humanities.

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

Former academic staff

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
See also: List of King's College London alumni
Further information: List of RADA alumni

[6][7]

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
  1. http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/partners/index.aspx
  2. "THES World University Rankings - Arts & Humanities". Times Higher Education. Retrieved 25 May 2016.
  3. http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/study/index.aspx
  4. https://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/ahfest/index.aspx
  5. http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/about/index.aspx
  6. "RADA: An introduction". Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Retrieved 20 May 2016.
  7. "King's College London Dates and Locations". King's College London. Retrieved 20 May 2016.
  8. http://www.kcl.ac.uk/study/summerschool/index.aspx
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