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Professor Clare Brant is a distinguished academic at King's College London, where she serves as Professor of Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture in the Department of English within the Faculty of Arts & Humanities. She is also Co-Director of the Centre for Life-Writing Research and serves as Editor of the European Journal of Life Writing. Her work spans multiple disciplines including literature, cultural studies, and digital humanities.
Professor Brant's research focuses on three primary areas: eighteenth-century literature and culture, life writing, and blue humanities. She has pioneered work in underwater literature and marine contexts, exploring the relationship between humans, marine species, and oceans. Her innovative Strandlines project documents lives on the Strand in London, while her EGO MEDIA research investigates digital forms of life writing. Professor Brant is also an accomplished poet with four published collections whose work has been translated into Italian, Dutch, and Polish.
Her recent publications demonstrate a clear trajectory toward environmental humanities, particularly ocean studies and climate crisis narratives. She has increasingly focused on underwater lives, aquanautics, and the intersection of literature with marine science, while maintaining her foundational work in eighteenth-century studies and life writing traditions.
Professor Brant has received numerous prestigious awards for her work, including:
- ESSE Book Award (2008) for 'Eighteenth-Century Letters and British Culture'
- British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Teaching Award (2011)
- ERC Advanced Grant for EGO MEDIA (2014-2019, €2 million)
- Election to Academia Europaea (2022)
As a dedicated educator and mentor, Professor Brant has supervised numerous PhD students and postdoctoral researchers through her ERC-funded projects. She has secured significant research funding including the Leverhulme Trust grant for her 'Underwater Lives' project (2022-2025) and participation in a long-COVID-19 research project (2024-2026). She welcomes PhD students working on eighteenth-century topics and selected contemporary subjects.
Professor Brant leads several research initiatives including the Centre for Life-Writing Research, the Strandlines digital community project, and the Ocean Space research community. She co-curated the 'DEAR DIARY' exhibition at Somerset House (2017), which was nominated for REF 2020 impact study. Her transdisciplinary approach connects literary studies with environmental concerns, digital media, and public engagement through projects that bridge academic research and community involvement.
