Ford Madox Ford was an English novelist, poet, critic and editor whose journals The English Review and The Transatlantic Review were important in the development of early 20th-century English and American literature.
Parade's End is a tetralogy of novels by the British novelist and poet Ford Madox Ford, written from 1924 to 1928. The novels chronicle the life of a member of the English gentry before, during and after World War I. The setting is mainly England and the Western Front of the First World War, in which Ford had served as an officer in the Welch Regiment, a life he vividly depicts. The individual novels are Some Do Not ... (1924), No More Parades (1925), A Man Could Stand Up — (1926) and Last Post (1928).
Marilynne Summers Robinson is an American novelist and essayist. Across her writing career, Robinson has received numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2005, National Humanities Medal in 2012, and the 2016 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction. In 2016, Robinson was named in Time magazine's list of 100 most influential people. Robinson began teaching at the Iowa Writers' Workshop in 1991 and retired in the spring of 2016.
John Barton is a British Anglican priest and biblical scholar. From 1991 to 2014, he was the Oriel and Laing Professor of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Oriel College. In addition to his academic career, he has been an ordained and serving priest in the Church of England since 1973.
Charles Hubert Sisson, CH, usually cited as C. H. Sisson, was a British writer, best known as a poet and translator.
Gabriel David Josipovici is a British novelist, short story writer, critic, literary theorist, and playwright. He is an Emeritus professor, after having been Professor at the University of Sussex.
Richard Drayton FRHistS is a Guyana-born historian and Rhodes Professor of Imperial History at King's College London.
Richard Stang was an American literary critic, author, scholar, and professor whose groundbreaking insights on the nineteenth-century English novel have shaped the attitudes of subsequent writers and critics for more than six decades. He was the first critic to recognize and document the sophistication of contemporary mid-Victorian criticism of the novel, and to show that it in effect amounted to a holistic aesthetics of fiction for the English novel in the mid-century.
Robert Gavin Hampson FEA FRSA is a British poet and academic. Hampson was born and raised in Liverpool, studied in London and Toronto and settled in London. He is currently Research Fellow at the Institute for English Studies, University of London and Emeritus Professor at Royal Holloway. He was also Visiting Professor at the University of Northumbria (2018-21). He is a member of the Poetics Research Centre and the Centre for GeoHumanities at Royal Holloway. He is well known for his contributions to contemporary innovative poetry and the international study of Joseph Conrad.
Daniel Weissbort was a poet, translator, multilingual academic and founder and editor of the literary magazine Modern Poetry in Translation. He died at the age of 78, and was buried in the Brompton Cemetery in west London.
Maria Rosa Antognazza was an Italian-British philosopher who served as professor of philosophy at King's College London.
The Department of Classics is an academic division in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at King's College London. It is one of the oldest university-level institutions specialising in the study of classical languages, literature, thought, religion, art, archaeology and ancient history in the United Kingdom.
Paula Jane Booth is an English chemist who holds the Daniell Chair of Chemistry at King's College London and is Head of Department. Booth was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize in 2003, a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award in 2008 and an ERC Advanced grant in 2012 for her novel work on investigating the mechanisms of biological self-assembly.
Autobiografiction is a literary fiction genre that blends autobiography with fiction; it fictionalizes autobiographical experiences, often by altering them, attributing them to fictional characters or reinventing them into other experiences. The concept of autobiografiction was invented by Stephen Reynolds in 1906, and then researched and described in depth by Max Saunders in 2010.
Maleiha Malik is a professor of law at King’s College London (KCL), lecturing in jurisprudence and legal theory, discrimination law and European law; she is also an attorney, and a member of the Honourable Society of Gray's Inn.
Busby Hall is a Grade II* listed Country House in Little Busby, North Yorkshire, England, close to the village of Carlton-in-Cleveland. The house and parkland sits within the North York Moors National Park.
Prabha Kotiswaran is a professor of law and social justice working at King's College London (KCL) in the United Kingdom.
Jennifer Beam Dowd is an American social scientist who is a Professor of Demography and Population Health and deputy director of the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science at the University of Oxford. Her research considers the social determinants of health and the relationship between infections and immune function. She is a member of Those Nerdy Girls, an all-woman team of public health researchers who are relaying COVID-19 information as part of Dear Pandemic.
Professor Bronwyn Parry is an Australian Professor who is currently the Dean of The Australian National University's College of Arts and Social Sciences; Parry took her position in early November 2022. Parry specializes in social impact work undertaken at academic institutions. Parry was previously the Vice President & Vice Principal for Service at King's College London from 2020 to 2022. She was a Professor of Global Health & Social Medicine at King's College London from 2016 to 2022.
Elsie Martindale Hueffer was an early translator of Guy de Maupassant’s short stories into English. She was married to the novelist and poet Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939).
