Lectureship in Drama, Theatre and Performance, 1560 – present

at  Kings College London

Job id: 090931. Salary: £43,205 - £50,585 per annum including London weighting.
Posted: 11 June 2024. Closing date: 02 July 2024.
Business unit: Faculty of Arts & Humanities. Department: English Language & Literature.
Contact details: Alan Marshall, Head of English / Brian Hayward, Business Support Manager. alan.marshall@kcl.ac.uk / brian.hayward@kcl.ac.uk
Location: Strand Campus. Category: Academic & Teaching.
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About us
King’s College London is one of England’s oldest and most prestigious universities, founded within the tradition of the Church of England by King George IV and the Duke of Wellington who granted our royal charter in 1829.
King’s has a proud history of inspiring and supporting those who seek to solve the world’s most pressing problems. For almost 200 years, our community has been deeply rooted in the belief that learning and research should serve society.
This commitment to knowledge with purpose – using our expertise as a force for good – lies at the heart of our core mission at King’s. From research that led to the discovery of the structure of DNA, to developing life-changing therapies and making maths education available to underrepresented groups, we continue to have a transformational impact on society.
Fourteen people from King’s and its associated institutions have been awarded the Nobel Prize, including Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu for his role in South Africa’s anti-apartheid campaign, and Professor Michael Levitt for his joint work in developing multiscale models for complex chemical systems.
Notable alumni include British sprinter and world-record holder Dina Asher-Smith, biophysicist Dr. Rosalind Franklin, famous for her work in X-ray spectroscopy, and acclaimed children’s writer Sir Michael Morpurgo.
The Faculty of Arts & Humanities at King’s is distinctive in representing exceptional strength in both the longer established disciplines (such as Philosophy, Classics, Theology, English, History, Languages, and Music) and world-leading quality in more recently established fields (such as Digital Humanities, Film, Interdisciplinary Liberal Arts, and Culture, Media and Creative Industries).
About the role
The Department of English wishes to appoint a full-time Lecturer in Drama, Theatre and Performance, 1560-present, for a fixed-term period of 12 months from 1 September 2024 to cover for a colleague on maternity leave. The successful applicant will have a strong record of university teaching in the broad fields of drama, theatre and performance from the Early Modern period to the present. They will be able to teach a range of undergraduate and postgraduate modules, and although it is not possible to be definitive at the time of writing, these are likely to include, in the first semester, the final-year undergraduate module 6AAEC052 Shakespeare’s London, the second-year module 5AAEB043 Comedy & Identity, and the first-year, introductory module 4AAEA003: Reading Poetry; and, in the second semester, the second-year undergraduate modules 5AAEB070 Gender & Performance and 5AAEB021 Theatre Capital. The postholder will also be required to supervise UG and MA dissertations, and contribute as personal tutor to the pastoral care of students. They will be responsible to the Head of Department.
The Department of English at King’s was one of the first university English departments ever to be established and is acknowledged as world-leading in both teaching and research. Students learn as part of a university that is shaped by research of the highest quality (90 per cent of the department’s research was rated as either ‘world leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’ in REF 2021), and our undergraduates enjoy a syllabus which spans the seventh century to the present day and includes literature from English speaking countries around the world. At postgraduate level, long-established partnerships, such as that with Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, further enrich our teaching.
This is fixed term full-time post (35 hours per week) from 1 September 2024-31 August 2025 (Academic Education Pathway).
This is a full time post (35 Hours per week), and you will be offered an a fixed term contract from 1 September 2024-31 August 2025 (Academic Education Pathway).
About you
To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience:

Essential criteria

• PhD in English literature or related field
• Promisingly distinctive academic profile that complements the department’s strengths in the field
• Experience of teaching drama, theatre and performance from 1560 to the present day to undergraduate and postgraduate students of literature
• High quality teaching skills: ability to communicate difficult concepts and material to students of all levels; ability to inspire and innovate as appropriate; skilled at helping students to develop their individual intellectual and personal potential
• Excellent administrative skills: ability to support the organisational aspects of teaching and learning in an academic context
• Experience of working with virtual learning environments
• Collegiate, proven ability to work with others and to support them where necessary.
• Experience of contributing to the pastoral care of students

Desirable criteria

• Experience of taught postgraduate dissertation supervision
• Evidence of service, such as engagement in professional organisations and broad participation in the field (conference papers, workshops, memberships)

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