Course summary

Our dynamic English BA degree offers you the chance to study in the heart of London and engage with its literary history. You'll be able to select from a wide array of exciting areas of study – with world-class lecturers working on everything from contemporary poetry to medieval performance, from South Asian fiction to creative writing. During the degree, you will discover a range of theoretical and historical approaches to literary study and develop essential skills in critical thinking, expression and research. Key benefits

• One of the oldest English departments in the country, with an international reputation for the quality of its teaching and research.

• Central London location offers opportunities to work with Shakespeare's Globe as well as an exciting range of other sites and archives.

• Ours is a department committed to teaching English literatures of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries written in America, Anglophone Africa, Australia, Ireland and South Asia as well as within the UK.

• Personal attention is given to each student, creating a vibrant intellectual atmosphere and a network of support.

• Graduates develop transferable analytical and communications skills making them highly desirable to employers across a range of sectors.

• With several research centres at King's, including the Centre for Modern Literature and Culture, Queer @ King's and the London Shakespeare Centre, you will be working alongside cutting-edge research across a range of fields.