We caught up with Senior Lecturer in Linguistics, Dr Christina Kim to find out more about English Language and Linguistics at Kent. Dr Kim shares the highlights:
- We have an incredible student society: EllSoc (English Language and Linguistics Society – geek out with other language nerds, and even help organise a real life conference!
- We get some amazing speakers to visit throughout the year – to give you an idea of how cool these are, here are a couple examples from previous years:
- Gretchen McCullough, who writes about internet language and has a regular column in Wired.
- Francis Nolan (Cambridge), who created Parseltongue for the Harry Potter films.
- Hang out and work on assignments etc. with classmates in our very own computer lab just for English Language and Linguistics students.
- Volunteer to teach English to refugees at The English Hub for Refugees.
- Get your writing out there as part of hands-on modules like Writing in the Media – check out their Medium.com page.
- Lots of opportunities to get involved in research (guided research projects during the academic year, Summer internships – some of our past interns have their names on international conference presentations!