J. Kurt Barling (born November 1961)[1] is a British professor of journalism at Middlesex University.

[7] Kurt Barling was born in 1961, of mixed Anglo-Irish and African heritage, in north London,[8][9] where he attended comprehensive school.

[3] He gained a BA (Hons) First-Class degree in Politics & Modern Languages from City of London Polytechnic, before winning scholarships to do postgraduate work at the London School of Economics and the Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po Paris),[7] earning an MSc in Government and a PhD in International Relations, and going on to lecture in LSE's International Relations Department.

[2][6] Since 2012 he has been teaching and researching in the School of Media and Performing Arts at Middlesex University, becoming Professor of Journalism in November 2013.

[2][15][16][17] In 2016 Barling edited and wrote an introduction to the book Finsternis in Deutschland, a translation of E. Amy Buller's Darkness over Germany, originally published in English in 1943 during World War II.