helen Brookman

Biography

"Helen studied English Language and Literature at Wadham College, Oxford, and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. She undertook her doctoral research with the interdisciplinary Leverhulme Trust-funded Cambridge Victorian Studies Group; her dissertation title was: From the margins: Scholarly women and the translation and editing of medieval English literature in the nineteenth century. Helen's career has been education-focused. She taught medieval English literature at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge for five years. She gained Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy with the Oxford Learning Institute in 2012 and received a Teaching Excellence Award from the Humanities Division of the University of Oxford in November 2013. Helen moved to UCL in 2013 as a Senior Teaching Fellow at the Centre for the Advancement of Learning and Teaching, where she worked particularly with Arts and Humanities and led a university-wide development programme for graduate teaching assistants. Helen joined King’s in June 2015."   "Helen studied English Language and Literature at Wadham College, Oxford, and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. She undertook her doctoral research with the interdisciplinary Leverhulme Trust-funded Cambridge Victorian Studies Group; her dissertation title was: From the margins: Scholarly women and the translation and editing of medieval English literature in the nineteenth century. Helen's career has been education-focused. She taught medieval English literature at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge for five years. She gained Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy with the Oxford Learning Institute in 2012 and received a Teaching Excellence Award from the Humanities Division of the University of Oxford in November 2013. Helen moved to UCL in 2013 as a Senior Teaching Fellow at the Centre for the Advancement of Learning and Teaching, where she worked particularly with Arts and Humanities and led a university-wide development programme for graduate teaching assistants. Helen joined King’s in June 2015."  

Research Interest

"Teaching and learning, especially creativity and interdisciplinarity in Arts and Humanities education Medievalism, particularly scholarly and literary translation The history of medieval scholarship"