Helen Brookman, Kings College, London

Dr. Brookman is currently the Director of Liberal Arts and Pro-Vice-Dean (Innovation in Education) at King’s College, London, where she has taught since 2015. She completed her academic studies at Wadham College, Oxford, and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge where she worked within the interdisciplinary Victorian Studies Group. Her research interests include medievalism and feminist histories of the Humanities; she is currently Deputy Director of the Centre for Late Antique and Medieval Studies at King’s. 

Her professional career has been education-focused.  She taught medieval English literature at both Oxford and Cambridge and was the recipient of a Teaching Excellence Award from the Humanities Division of the University of Oxford in 2013; she was also a recipient of a King’s College London Teaching Excellence Award for Innovation in 2019. She also publishes in the field of educational enquiry, with interests in (co)creativity and interdisciplinarity in Arts and Humanities Higher Education. She is currently chair of the UK Liberal Arts+ Network.