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Introducing the 2024-25 Editors

Co-Editors of the KCL English Department’s Blog Katherine Randall and Isabella Mann introduce themselves and invite submissions.

We are back for the new academic year and raring to go! This year, Katherine Randall and Isabella Mann will be editing the blog and managing the department’s social media.

We are thrilled to be working with the English department to keep you updated on all things King’s English. We would like to recognize the work of previous editors in curating this space. A big thank you to Alexander Giesen and Felix Antelme (2023-2024), Samantha Seto and Alexander Giesen (2022-2023), George Kowalik and Graham Fifoot (2021-2022), Katie Arthur and Harriet Thompson (2019-2021), Fran Allfrey and Diya Gupta (2017-2019), and Founding Editors Penny Newell and Ella Parry-Davies (2016-2017).

We invite anyone interested, from first-years to tenured professors, to submit blog posts of up to 2,000 words. Blogs can range from short reviews or reflective pieces to longer-form conversations and interviews, as well as pieces on research at any level.

If you are interested in contributing or have any other questions, please get in touch with us via the blog’s email address: blog.english.kcl@gmail.com.

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Aesthetics, Philosophy, Theory Insights Literature, Medicine and Science

REFLECTIONS ON FOUCAULT, 40 YEARS AFTER

By Alexander Giesen

Doctoral researcher Alexander Giesen reflects on the legacy of Michel Foucault 40 years after his death and “The Workshop on the Culture of the Self” as part of the World Congress Foucault: 40 Years After.

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Insights

Hourly-Paid Teaching Opportunity (Poetry)

The Department of English welcomes applications for an hourly-paid teaching opportunity for the first semester of 2024/25.

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Early Modern and Shakespeare

Shakespeare Centre London and Shakespeare’s Globe 2024 Graduate Conference

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The annual Shakespeare Centre London’s post-graduate conference, hosted by both King’s College London and The Globe, takes place 10th-11th May. With Dr Natalya Din-Kariuki, Professor Tiffany Stern and Rob Myles as plenaries, the event promises to be a fascinating meeting of scholarly interests and academic disciplines, exploring what the term ‘Innovation’ means to our understanding of the early modern today.

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Critical Race Studies and Global Englishes Life writing, Creative writing and Performance Long Read

An Interview with Anthony Joseph: Afrofuturism, Black Surrealism, Sonic Revolution

By Samridhi Aggarwal, Esther de Bruijn and Anthony Joseph

The following interview with Anthony Joseph was conducted by Samridhi Aggarwal (Joint PhD Scholar with the National University of Singapore) on 5 December, 2022 in a seminar for the module Afrofuturism.[1]

The conversation covers several topics, which we’ve divided into sections for those who’d like to dip in and collect gems of insights on Afrofuturism, black surrealism, black stealth, the revolutionary force of music, and practicing writing into being. Anthony talks about his album The Rich Are Only Defeated When Running for Their Lives (2021) and his novel The African Origins of UFOs (2006), and we’ve reproduced the excerpts of the novel that he read on the day.

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