Arts, Culture & Creative Collaboration​

Centre on Labour and Global Production

Contemp Writing

Raphael Samuel History

Sexual Cultures

18thC Studies​

Religion and Literature in English

Anglo-German Cultural Relations​

Catalan Studies​

Film and Ethics​

Childhood Cultures ​

Study of 19thC and its Legacies

History of the Emotions​

Renaissance and Early Modern Studies​

LINKS (London Intercollegiate Network for Comparative Studies)​

Postcolonial Seminar​

Translation, Transmission & Cultural Transfer

Literary Theory / Literature and Philosophy / History of Lit Studies

World Literature

Child language acquisition - speech and reading

Neurolinguistics - brain and language processing

Language perception

Formal Linguistics​:

Universal building blocks of human language

Morphology, syntax, semantics, phonology

Formal/logical foundations of language

Language variation

Endangered Languages

Sociolinguistics​:

Accent and dialect birth/variation/change

Language and (social/print/broadcast) media

Language over the lifespan

Interaction and emotion

Medieval​, Early Modern

18thC and Romanticism​

Victorian

Modernism and Early 20C

Contemporary​

Postcolonial and World Literature​

Literary Theory, Aesthetics, and Philosophy​

Creative Writing

Film Practice​

Film Philosophy​

Film Culture​

Film History 

Hispanic Studies​

Russian​

French​ and Francophone Studies

German​ (and Dutch)

Translation & Adaption​

moving beyond European lang towards global coverage

Arabic expertise

Medical Humanities 

Global Epistemologies 

Language/Nation/Identity 

Language and Social Justice

Global Majority and Diasporic Performance​

Socially Engaged Performance Practices​

Live Art and Canonicity​

Feeling Medicine​

Dorothy Richardson

Henry Crabb Robinson

Ann Radcliffe

Sermons of John Donne

Marian martyrs

Ignatius Sancho

Decadent texts

Shelley

William Harborne

Isaac Casaubon

Augusto Boal - Digital Archive

Departmental Guest Speaker Seminar Series 

Postgraduate Research Afternoons 

LingLunch talk series 

Reading groups for formal linguistics, sociolinguistics, and experimental linguistics 

Quorum 

English Postgraduate Research

IHR/IES/Warburg History of Libraries

London Eighteenth-Century Reading Group 

London Modernism

London Nineteenth Century Studies

London-Paris Romanticism Seminar

Media History

Centre for Religion and Literature

Eighteenth-Century Studies

Postcolonial

histories of diaspora, and decolonisation

race, empire, world writing 

marginalised identities and radical writing 

Digital Humanities  

Textual scholarship and editing; book history, material text 

History of ideas, of science, of political thought 

Cartographies 

Networks  

Material culture 

Media history 

Creative non-fiction 

Urban studies  

Disability studies 

Literature and religion 

Contemporary fiction, poetry 

Modernist studies 

Critical and cultural theory 

Multiculturalism

Visual & Material Culture 

Medical Humanities 

Global Epistemologies 

Language/Nation/Identity 

Language and Social Justice

Digital AI-Andalus: Radical Perspectives Of and Through Al-Andalus 

Generations of London English: Language and Social Change in Real Time 

Systematicity and Variation in Word Structure Processing Across Languages: a Neuro-Typology approach

Connecting Creative Industries and Cultural Heritage: India-UK Film Festival Federation, Youth Curation and Community Co-creation 

The Ethics of Linguistic Integration

Film Studios: Infrastructure, Culture, Innovation in Britain, France, Germany and Italy, 1930- 

International Research Network “Language and Gender: Academic Research and Practical Implementation” #

Annual Jenny Cheshire Lecture 

Annual London Semantics Day 

Randolph Quirk Fellow workshops and public lecture 

Lisa Jardine Lecture

Peopling the Palaces Festival

Season of Bangla Drama Festival (with Tower Hamlets Council)

Mad Hearts annual conference

Catherine Silverstone Lecture

Centre for Film & Ethics Annual Lecture 

Blue Festival - The Art of Mental Health (Annual)

Echoes Festival - Brazilian Indigenous Film Festival (Bi-annual)

Rema Maré - annual festival on arts and mental health in 16 favelas of Rio de Janeiro

International Graduate Summer School of Romanticism (Prague/ Ghent/ Paris)

Joanot Martorell Lecture in Catalan Literature

Annual Catalan Lecture

Catalan Bookclub

Public Lectures on German Linguistics (once per semester), organised by the Association for the German Language (Gesellschaft für deutsche Sprache [GfdS]), UK branch (London) gfds.org.uk

Digital AI-Andalus: Radical Perspectives Of and Through Al-Andalus​

British Academy Global Professorship (Prof Michael Gamer)​

Generations of London English: Language and Social Change in Real Time​

Systematicity and Variation in Word Structure Processing Across Languages: a Neuro-Typology approach​

Building the barricades: three interdisciplinary studies on poverty, violence and mental health in Brazilian favelas​

PIECES (in collaboration with FMD)

OLA (in collaboration with FMD)

LATAM (in collaboration with FMD)

Build back better: A Participatory Approach To mapping, measuring and mobilising cultural heritage in Brazil's Iron Quadrangle​

Roots of Resilience: building secure societies through preserving cultural heritage

Autism through Cinema​

Autism in affinity spaces: Interest-driven social media practices during the transition to adulthood​

Living with Machines: data science transforming history via Alan Turing​

Making and Remaking the Jewish East End: Space, Language and Time​

Autistic adults online: Understanding and enabling autistic sociality in digital networking environments​

Performance, Possession and Automation​

Postdoctoral Fellowship (Jiri Anger): Videographic Archives: Understanding Transitional Audiovisual Objects in the Online Landscape​

Remaking Britain: South Asian Connections and Networks, 1830s to the present​

Clean Break: Women, Theatre and the Criminal Justice System​

Classical Apocrypha and Forgery in the Middle Ages (c. 1100–1500)

Film Studios: Infrastructure, Culture, Innovation in Britain, France, Germany and Italy, 1930-60​

Festival as Form​

Medical Humanities

Public Health

Disability studies

Global Literatures, Languages, Cultures

Social justice and inequalities

Climate Crisis

Decolonisation

Global Epistemologies 

Language/Nation/Identity

AI / Digital cultures

Language, mind and society

Childhood studies

Work and labour

Visual cultures

Religion

Wasafiri Magazine

Spitalfields Music

Contemporary Music for All (CoMA)

Mile End Community Project

Swadhinata Trust

Strategic university partners:

Arts Council England - London Area Team

Tower Hamlets Council Culture team

Historic Royal Palaces

Donmar Warehouse

Language Acquisition Lab (child-friendly lab space, with behavioural and neural set-ups - EEG). Director: Kathleen McCarthy

Phonetics Lab - sound proof booth, high tech audio recording set-up, behavioural perception set-up, ultra-sound. Director: Adam Chong

Experimental Linguistics Lab - larger space, suitable for group testing / collaborative work and analysis. Eyetracking facilities, small sound-proof both for testing. Director: Linnaea Stockall

TextDiveGlobal - Warren Boutcher

Early English melodrama database (1770-1850) - Michael Gamer

CREAATIF: assesses impact of AI on creative work - Aoife Monks

Digital Al-Andalus: Radical Perspectives Of and Through Al-Andalus - Cristina Moreno Almeida

AI/computational language analysis - Linguistics

My Child the Algorithm - Hannah Silva (neuroqueering AI)

The Sacred Cave of the Kamukuwaká: Digital re-materialisation of indigenous culture in the Xingu Territories (Brazil) - Paul Heritage/PPP/Jerry Brotton

Kamukuwaká VR: Visiting a Sacred Cave - Paul Heritage/PPP

Xingu Village: Museum-based AR experience - Paul Heritage/PPP

Factum Foundation London - Jerry Brotton (Trustee)

Performance and Political Economy - Blackwell-Pal, Boyle, McKinnie, Ridout

Verbatim Formula - Maggie Inchley

Street performance in Delhi - Swati Arora

Hamad Butt - Dominic Johnson

Performance, possession, automation - Nick Ridout

Art of Logistics - Shane Boyle

Extractivisma and Art - Shane Boyle

Clean Break, imprisoned women's art and experiences - Caoimhe McAvinchey

The Perfect Storm - Ansuman Biswas

Theatre and economics / Crisis - Michael McKinnie

Climate Crisis and the Arts - Paul Heritage/PPP

Indigenous Cultural Exchange - Paul Heritage/PPP

Arts and Public Health (with a focus on mental health) - Paul Heritage/PPP

The Abyss System #3…#2: #1. - Julia Bardsley

Martin O'Brien

Maggie Inchley

Zara Dinnen

Sam McBean

Dominic Johnson

Paul Heritage/PPP

Developing Theatre of the Oppressed strategies for/by/with people with severe psychosis in Karachi (Pakistan) and Chennai (India) - Paul Heritage/PPP with Vicky Bird/USCP

Use of arts-based resources to build resistance, resilience and recovery for young people with depression and anxiety in Bogotá, Lima and Buenos Aires – Paul Heritage/PPP with Vicky Bird/USCP

Developing arts resources for community-based health care for four non-contagious diseases in Bolivia, Colombia and Guatemala – Paul Heritage/PPP with Vicky Bird/USCP

Studies of the intersections of Poverty, Violence, Mental Health and the Arts in Brazilian favelas – Paul Heritage/PPP with USCP

Mapping cultural resources for addressing key public health issues in the favelas of Manguinhos, Maré and Cidade de Deus (Rio de Janeiro) – Paul Heritage

Developing theatre-based resources for working with young people with severe autism in Peru – Paul Heritage/PPP

Developing arts-based mental health toolkits for use in schools in Newham and São Paulo and with Higher Education students in Karachi – Paul Heritage/PPP

Arts-based studies of young people and medical professionals during COVID-19 pandemic - Paul Heritage/PPP&Clod Ensemble

Arts and psychiatry research to produce a fuller account of UK young people's experiences of loneliness and produce a rigorous measurement scale as a first step towards effective interventions - Paul Heritage/PPP with Jennifer Lau/YRU

Effects of festivals and poetry on capacity for change and adaptation to life crises - Peter Howarth

psychoanalysis and psychiatry:

Katherine Angel

Katherine Fleming

Molly McDonald

Epistemologies of the Global South (Ananya Mishra, Swati Arora, Valentina Aparicio)

Indigenous Theory Reading Group (Ananya Mishra)

Conflict, borders, literary form, graphic narratives, postcolonial theory, social movements (Charlotta Salmi)

Migration, mobility, ethnicity, gender, photography, refugees, displacement (Parvati Nair)

Literature, multilingualism, language politics, UK asylum system (Rachael Gilmour)

Indigenous Research Methods (Paul Heritage/PPP)

Brazilian Indigenous Film Festival (UK) (Paul Heritage/PPP)

Archaeological and cultural Indigenous Brazilian patrimony: preservation, dissemination, activation (Paul Heritage/PPP)

Resistance and Resilience of Haitian refugees in Brazil (Paul Heritage/PPP)

Early modern global encounters, exchanges, travel and the rhetoric of 'discovery' (Jerry Brotton)

Colonial continuities and decoloniality in the French-speaking world; Jewish-Muslim interactions in North Africa (Rebekah Vince)

Rehana Ahmed: race in the literary marketplace; cultural representations of anti-racist activism, solidarities and networks; Islamophobia 

Swati Arora: coloniality; performance and visual culture in India and South Africa; geographies of race and caste 

Nadia Atia: Middle Eastern diasporic writing, exile, legacies of the colonial history of the region from WW1 to the contemporary period 

Sita Balani: relationship between race and sexuality, state racism, nationalism, surveillance 

Andrea Brady: Contemporary Black poetries and poetics 

Markman Ellis: Eighteenth-century Black writing 

Jerry Brotton: Tudor race, empire and ethnicity, Anglo-Islamic cultural exchange, media and curation

Sam Halliday: C20th African American writers, including Ralph Ellison 

Suvir Kaul: Eighteenth century studies, racial capitalism, contemporary South Asia 

Ania Loomba: Early modern studies, racial capitalism, caste studies, feminism 

Ananya Mishra: Indigenous studies and literatures from North America, India and Australia/ Settler colonial histories/ Anthropocene/ Museums work 

Nisha Ramayya: Poetics/performance of self & collectives, solidarity/ incommensurability across Black, brown, Indigenous study & politics 

Hannah Silva: Black British poetry in performance 

Lucy Bolton: Whiteness of Film stardom: industry, discourse, worship, luminosity. 

Thomas H. Kaal: Jews (Conversos) in late medieval/early modern Iberia 

Angus Nicholls: German discourses on race in relation to First Nations Australians around 1900; the early work of Franz Boas 

Shital Pravinchandra: Postcolonial literatures, medical humanities and postcoloniality, ideas of race in life sciences and healthcare 

Devyani Sharma: Postcolonial English dialects, ethnicity and London speech, accent bias 

Mario Slugan: Early Cinema in the British Colonies (1890s-1910s) 

Maggie Inchley: using voice, song, and sound in navigating and performing contemporary identity and community in British theatre particularly with regard to intersectional identities (overlaps with gender and sexuality).

Paul Heritage/PPP: Museum of Colour; AfroBrazilian cultural strategies and exchange; Brazilian Indigenous Cultural Movements

Falco Pfalzgraf: Racist and extremist discourses.

The relationships between politics, language, and culture

Swati Arora: Transnational feminisms; gender and sexuality in the Global South; gender, performance and coloniality 

Andrea Brady: Contemporary poetry by women, feminism, Marxist feminism, care and reproductive labour in poetry and poetics

Jen Harvie: Feminism and contemporary performance; gender and ageing; feminism and neoliberalism 

Sam McBean: Feminist theory; queer theory; contemporary women’s writing; contemporary LGBTQ writing; popular culture; politics of care 

Will McMorran: sexual and gender-based violence in 18th c fiction, history of sexology, embodied approaches to art/literature

Camille Terrier: Gender inequalities in schools (achievement, educational choices). Stereotypes. Gender norms in education contexts.  

Rachel Randall: Gender, labour and social reproduction in Latin America, particularly paid domestic work and the historical practice of wet nursing; women’s writing and filmmaking in Latin America. 

Xumeng Xie: Digital feminisms in China, feminism as transnational project, gendered and affective labour in the digital sphere 

 Paul Heritage/PPP: Violence Against Women and Girls: arts-based studies of dignity and survival (in Brazilian favelas and with Brazilian migrants in London)

Paul Heritage/PPP: performance-based programme with incarcerated women and young girls in Brazil

Falco Pfalzgraf: Founder & Chair of the International Research Network Language and Gender: Academic Research and Practical Implementation (gender.pfalzgraf.net); specialises in cross-language research on gender-inclusive language

Rachael Allen: Ecocritical theory and literature, poetry and the Anthropocene, animal and vegan studies, metaphor and climate narratives, cli-fi and experimental ecologically minded literatures

Shane Boyle: Extractivism and resource consumption in the arts, sustainability initiatives in the arts and their effects on art workers

Richard Coulton: Global histories of botany and natural history, including Indigenous / Traditional Knowledge about plants and the natural world 

Clio Doyle: Stories about the invention of agriculture, pastoral and georgic 

Angie Dunstan: Climate/environmental activism in literature and visual culture 

Sarah Faulkner: Contemporary performance as an arena for intergenerational engagement with the earth crisis 

Ananya Mishra: Adivasi, Native American and Australian First nations climate vocabularies, literatures and histories/ Indigenous land rights movements/ Anthropocene/ theatre work on feelings of ecological loss 

Martin Welton: Affect and aesthetics of atmosphere/s; cultural responses to climate crisis;  

Nelya Koteyko: Climate change communication, young people and climate advocacy, social media campaigns 

Rachel Randall: Sex work, health and urban environments in Latin America; representations of the natural world in Latin American culture 

Paul Heritage/PPP: Mapping, evaluation and dissemination of cultural resistance and resilience to mining catastrophes in the Iron Quadrangle, Brazil; Developing youth-led sustainable arts-based strategies for peripheral communities in Rio de Janeiro;  Developing sustainable, ecological artistic residencies with indigenous peoples in Brazil; Indigenous representation and participation in the annual COP programme; Cultural Heritage and the Climate crisis: coordination of a programme of research activities with AHRC/DCMS

Peter Howarth: Poetry and its mediations, esp. live settings

Sam Halliday: Sound, Technology / Cinema

Remaking Britain: South Asian Connections and Networks, 1830s to the present - Rehana Ahmed

Mapping Multifaith London - Tessa Whitehouse

Writing Rent Now - Matt Ingleby

Gender-based violence in Nepal - Charlotta Salmi

Dissenting Academies - Isabel Rivers

Romantic Letters - Will Bowers

History of Discovery - Jerry Brotton

Urban policy and creative industry evaluation tools - Ed Charlton

Autoethnography of death doula work; digital/late capitalist forms in contemporary queer lit and culture - Sam McBean

Undercover policing and the psychohistory of spy cops - Sita Balani

Shipping and the archives of the East India Co - Richard Coulton and Matthew Mauger

Romantic Prospectuses - David Duff

Blushing in the 18th century - Merilees Roberts

Cybernetics - Sam Halliday

Taylor Swift - Clio Doyle

Reading Victorian Sculpture - Angie Dunstan

Literary East London - Nadia Valman

1880s-1980s prophetic or 'pre-cognitive' dreams - kitt price

History of botany - Richard Coulton

Festival as Form - Peter Howarth