This lecture, held at Bush House North East Wing, Strand Campus, of King’s College London will examine the nature of identity and historical discontinuity in Patrick Leigh Fermor’s travel writing.

It will be held on 30 March 2026 from 18.00 – 19.30 in room 9.03 on the 9th floor of Bush House NE, King’s College London. Please enter using the North East entrance of Bush House on Aldwych. The lecture is open to the public but advanced registration is required.

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SPEAKER

Charles Lock has been Professor of English Literature at the University of Copenhagen since 1996. He had previously been Professor of English at the University of Toronto. Educated at Oxford, his doctoral dissertation was dedicated to the novels of John Cowper Powys. He has made numerous contributions to literary theory, notably by means of M M Bakhtin and Roman Jakobson. From 2012-18 he was responsible for disbursing the Sophia Scopetéa bequest for promoting Modern Greek Studies at the University of Copenhagen; some ten conferences were arranged, with publications ensuing; the last symposium, on the English travel writer, Patrick Leigh Fermor, was held in January 2018 in the presence of H.M. Dronningen Margrethe and her sister, H.M. the Queen of Greece. More information about Professor Lock’s wide-ranging research interests and publications can be found here