By Nell Prince
Previous Creative Writing PhD student Nell Prince reflects on her experience in her first and second year at King’s College London.
I recently read Leonora Carrington’s harrowing account of her descent into madness, Down Below. It made me relive my own bout of psychosis during the second year of a PhD.
Clare Pettitt’s Valedictory Lecture is on Wednesday, the 29th of March, at 6pm in the Edmond J. Safra Lecture Theatre on the Strand and will be followed by a drinks reception at the Terrace Café in the Macadam Building. All welcome!
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By Amalia Costa
The year is 1677, and Aphra Behn has gatecrashed her own play. Instead of a pre-scheduled performance of The Rover, Behn takes to the stage to tell the story of her life up until this point, in a one-woman show by Claire Amias, whose charismatic portrayal of Behn reveals a character study rich in humour and pathos.
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The Department of English welcomes applications for an hourly-paid teaching opportunity for the second semester of 2022/23.
The Department of English welcomes applications for an hourly-paid teaching opportunity in American Literature for the second semester of 2022/23.
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