Louise D'Arcens

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Louise D'Arcens is an Australian professor in the Department of English at Macquarie University, known for her research on medievalism and late medieval women's writing.

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Education

D'Arcens gained her BA (1990) and PhD (1997), focusing on authority in medieval women's writing, from the University of Sydney. [1]

Career

Until 2016, D'Arcens was an Associate Professor at the University of Wollagong.

Between 2008 - 2022, D'Arcens was a Chief Investigator on the ARC Discovery Grant for the project 'Medievalism in Australian Cultural Memory', along with Stephanie Trigg (University of Melbourne), Andrew Lynch (University of Western Australia), and John Ganim (University of California, Riverside). [2]

She was an Associate Investigator at the Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions (2012 - 2016).

Between 2013 - 2017, D'Arcens held an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship (2013 - 2017) and in 2021 was elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. [3] [4]

Expertise

D'Arcens has worked extensively on popular and political medievalism for academic and general audiences. [5] [6] She has published on a range of others topics such as women's life writing and Christine de Pizan. [7]

Publications

D'Arcens has written three monographs to date:

Jenna Mead described Comic Medievalism as a significant contribution 'to a new field of inquiry', praising her 'agile forays in (diachronic) literary history and (synchronic) close reading.' [11] World Medievalism was also well received, with positive reviews in the journals Studies in the Age of Chaucer and Comitatus. [12] [13]

D'Arcens edited The Cambridge Companion to Medievalism (Cambridge University Press, 2016) as well as co-editing a number of other collections, which include:

She has also both published articles in and edited Special Issues in journals such as Representations and postmedieval. [17] [18]

References

  1. ↑ Young, Helen (2013-05-05). "Medievally Speaking: "I see medievalism as a pretty promiscuous thing": an Interview with Louise D'Arcens". Medievally Speaking. Retrieved 2025-08-26.
  2. ↑ "About the Project · Medievalism in Australian Cultural Memory". ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au. Retrieved 2025-08-26.
  3. ↑ "Grant - Grants Data Portal". dataportal.arc.gov.au. Retrieved 2025-08-26.
  4. ↑ Austlit. "Australian Academy of the Humanities Fellowships and Medals - Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities | AustLit: Discover Australian Stories". www.austlit.edu.au. Retrieved 2025-08-26.
  5. ↑ D'Arcens, Louise (2011-10-01). "Meta-Medievalism and the Future of the Past in the 'Australian Girl' Novel". Australian Literary Studies. 26 (3–4 –). Archived from the original on 2025-04-30. Retrieved 2025-08-26.
  6. ↑ "Louise D'Arcens". The Conversation. 2021-02-15. Retrieved 2025-08-26.
  7. ↑ D’Arcens, Louise (2010), Collett, Anne; D’Arcens, Louise (eds.), "'Je, Christine': Christine de Pizan's Autobiographical Topoi", The Unsociable Sociability of Women’s Lifewriting, London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp. 18–36, doi:10.1057/9780230294868_2, ISBN   978-0-230-29486-8 , retrieved 2025-08-26
  8. ↑ "World Medievalism: The Middle Ages in Modern Textual Culture". global.oup.com. Retrieved 2025-08-26.
  9. ↑ "Comic Medievalism". Boydell and Brewer. Retrieved 2025-08-26.
  10. ↑ "Old Songs in the Timeless Land: Medievalism in Australian literature 1840–1910". UWA Publishing. Retrieved 2025-08-26.
  11. ↑ Mead, Jenna (2017). "Comic Medievalism: Laughing at the Middle Ages by Louise D'Arcens (review)". Studies in the Age of Chaucer. 39 (1): 320–325. doi:10.1353/sac.2017.0063. ISSN   1949-0755.
  12. ↑ Wilson, Anna (2024). "World Medievalism: The Middle Ages in Modern Textual Culture by Louise D'Arcens (review)". Studies in the Age of Chaucer. 46 (1): 308–312. doi:10.1353/sac.2024.a946184. ISSN   1949-0755.
  13. ↑ Cheramie, Hillary (2023). "World Medievalism: The Middle Ages in Modern Textual Culture by Louise D'Arcens (review)". Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies. 54 (1): 221–223. doi:10.1353/cjm.2023.a912686. ISSN   1557-0290.
  14. ↑ "Brepols - Maistresse of My Wit". www.brepols.net. Retrieved 2025-08-26.
  15. ↑ Tomas, Natalie (2006). "Maistresse of My Wit: Medieval Women, Modern Scholars (review)". Parergon. 23 (1): 151–153. doi:10.1353/pgn.2006.0100. ISSN   1832-8334.
  16. ↑ "Manchester University Press - Medieval literary voices". Manchester University Press. Retrieved 2025-08-26.
  17. ↑ D'Arcens, Louise, ed. (2016). The Cambridge Companion to Medievalism. Cambridge Companions to Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CCO9781316091708. ISBN   978-1-107-08671-5.
  18. ↑ D’arcens, Louise; Jones, Chris (2013-02-01). "Excavating the Borders of Literary Anglo-Saxonism in Nineteenth-Century Britain and Australia". Representations. 121 (1): 85–106. doi:10.1525/rep.2013.121.1.85. ISSN   0734-6018.
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