School of Arts

We offer imaginative and critical English literature, creative writing and theatre studies programmes at all levels.

Students can undertake cultural studies across film, journalism, screenwriting, arts management and digital media.

Our department's academic and research interests include art history, architecture, photography, screen media and museum cultures.

We offer a range of exciting single and combined language programmes, as well as courses in applied linguistics.

Joanne Leal, the Dean of the School of Arts, warmly welcomes you to Birkbeck

Find out about the key staff in Birkbeck's School of Arts and how to contact them.

Our Gordon Square building has a rich heritage, and our cafe, theatre, cinema and gallery facilities support our commitment to the arts and humanities.

A week of events showcasing the latest creativity and research from Birkbeck's School of Arts.

We showcase the creative, interdisciplinary and experimental research produced by academic staff and postgraduates in the School of Arts.

We run a very wide range of events, representing the breadth of our academic and research interests.

Documents and guidelines expected of staff, students and those conducting research at Birkbeck.

Explore students conducting research in arts, humanities and cultural studies as well as the London Consortium.

We offer several postdoctoral, early career and honorary research fellowships. Take a look and get in touch with us if you're interested in continuing your career in research.

Based in Birkbeck’s School of Arts, we provide a focus for the research activities taking place within Birkbeck and beyond in the area of architectural, design, and landscape history, contemporary architectural humanities and archaeology.

We provide a unique space for reflective critical inquiry, where researchers from different disciplines can gather and participate in a sustained intellectual conversation in a truly interdisciplinary context.

Our centre exists in order to explore the potential of artistic representation to interrogate – and reconfigure – our cultures’ various conceptualisations of relating and belonging.

We offer a space in which theatre makers, critics and audiences gather to share knowledge, ideas and practices relating to contemporary theatre and performance.

We offer a space in which theatre makers, critics and audiences gather to share knowledge, ideas and practices relating to contemporary theatre and performance.

We aim to facilitate, exchange and showcase existing and new interdisciplinary research on the History and Theory of Photography at Birkbeck and in the wider photographic and academic community.

We offer a unique environment in which to undertake collaborative, cross-disciplinary and comparative research on visual subjects in the Hispanic and Lusophone world, Latin America and the Caribbean.

We explore the emergent fields of medical humanities and intercultural medicine to explore and develop the lived experience of clinicians in the everyday complexities of real-life clinical settings.

We bring together and promote the best of Birkbeck's, as well as the University of London's, research across the spectrum of multilingualism and multiculturalism.

We are a hub for intellectual exchange and debate relating to all aspects of museology, curation, and heritage.

Birkbeck is renowned for its research into the long nineteenth century (c. 1789-1914) and we foster this through innovative research, conferences, seminars and exhibitions.

Our centre is a forum for the study and performance of contemporary poetries, and research into their historical, political and theoretical contexts.

We have strong links to researchers, centres, museums and galleries globally, and host a lively cycle of symposia and conferences to strengthen these ties.

Peltz Gallery is based in Birkbeck's School of Arts building. Exhibitions combine artistic practice and academic research, and are uniquely driven by questions about culture.

We provide a forum for discussing the (historical) avant-garde.

We facilitate innovative interdisciplinary collaboration and exchange in gender and sexuality studies.

We are the focal point for social research at Birkbeck, and a hub for the dissemination and discussion of social research in London and beyond.

We draw together research in the field of Medical Humanities which take place across Birkbeck.

We are a research forum housed in a beautiful cinema, combining original film curating with academic research and creative interaction with the community.

Corkscrew is a network that brings together practice-based researchers at Birkbeck - and beyond.

This group brings together researchers from across Birkbeck who are researching various aspects of the eighteenth century.

This forum discusses and examines all aspects of early modern history, literature and culture.

We encourage critical and imaginative thinking about the relationship between material culture and literary studies.

The Derek Jarman Lab is the media hub at Birkbeck offering filmmaking training, support and facilities to its postgraduate students.

The Mechanics’ Institute Review (MIR) is a forum for the most exciting new writing in short fiction, poetry and creative non-fiction.

The Open Library of Humanities (OLH) is a scholarly publishing project which aims to provide a platform for Open Access publishing.

We promote research into the life and work of the Elizabethan mathematician Thomas Harriot.