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Joseph Prestwich is a Lecturer in German at King’s College London, affiliated with the German Department within the Faculty of Arts & Humanities. He holds a BA in German and English Literature (2015, King’s College London), an MA in Acting (2017, Guildford School of Acting), and is completing an LAHP-funded PhD at King’s College London (2018–present).
- Education: BA (King’s), MA (Guildford), PhD (King’s, ongoing)
Research focuses on Anglo-German theatrical exchange, representations of Germanness in contemporary Britain, and 20th/21st-century political theatre. He has spoken at conferences on Thomas Ostermeier’s adaptations of Didier Eribon and Edouard Louis’s work and is writing a chapter on theatre in Goethe’s Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre.
Teaching spans German literature, film, and theatre (e.g., Kafka, Brecht, Yoko Tawada), medieval German poetry, and Goethe’s novels. At King’s, he teaches modules on European integration via art, Turkish-German cinema, and policies of creative institutions, alongside German-to-English translation.
- Awards: Alice Emily Bithell Prize 2015
He co-organizes the German Department Research Seminars and initiated postgraduate career events at King’s. As an actor and assistant director, he works with ShakeItUp Theatre (Arts Council England-funded) and the Young Vic Theatre’s INNOVATE project (2021–2022).
