Professor Sara Upstone

About

I am Professor of Contemporary Literature and Faculty Director of Postgraduate Research. I coordinate the provision of and have overall management responsibility for PhD and research MA programmes across Kingston School of Art. I am also currently the Faculty Athena Swan Lead, and a member of the Faculty EDI Committee. 

I teach across creative writing, English literature, and film studies, and accept proposals for PhD research in these areas. I welcome all proposals, but as a disabled scholar with a working class background I am very keen to offer project development support to groups who are underrepresented in academia. Please get in touch if I can help. 

I've worked at Kingston since 2005, and before being Faculty Director of PGR was Head of the School of Arts, Culture and Communication, Head of Department of Humanities, and a School Director of Learning and Teaching.

Academic responsibilities

Faculty Director of Postgraduate Research and Professor of Contemporary Literature

Qualifications

  • PhD English Literature
  • MA English Literary Research
  • BA English Literature with History
  • Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (PGCLTHE)

Teaching and learning

Research