Join us for the fourth event in the Wild Court Reading Series.

For the event, we welcome celebrated US-based poet, translator and literary critic Kimberly Johnson, reading and in conversation with Dr Hannah Crawforth, Reader in Early Modern Literature at King’s College London.

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Kimberly Johnson is a poet, translator, and literary critic. Her work has appeared widely in publications including The New Yorker, Poetry, Ploughshares, PMLA, and Modern Philology. Recipient of grants and fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Amy Lowell Trust, and the Mellon Foundation, Johnson holds an MA from the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars, an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and a PhD in Renaissance Literature from the University of California at Berkeley. Kimberly Johnson lives in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Hannah Crawforth is Reader in Early Modern Literature at King’s College London, where her research is primarily concerned with the under-examined political, religious and literary implications of the history of the English language as it was studied in the Renaissance. She is also one of the four faculty members comprising the London Shakespeare Centre, launched at King’s in 2009, currently working on several collaborative projects.

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_{This event will be held in the River Room, located on the second floor of King’s Building, King’s College London, on the Strand.}

_{Entry is free, but please reserve your tickets in advance below, as space is limited.}