Career
In interview, Helen Young observed that D'Arcens' research had moved from 'traditional medieval studies' during her PhD to focus on medievalism. D'Arcens explained that her interest emerged during her doctoral research, when she began to consider how academic medieval studies responds to the pressures of the present:
what I was trying to track down was this question: when did this topic of authority become so interesting to medievalists? Why do we keep returning to this question of authority, because there had been all of these fantastic scholarly books written on it. When I started doing a little mini-genealogy ... I noticed was that the topic of authority became interesting to medievalists right at the point that their authority - the authority of the discipline - came under quite serious questioning. [2]
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). [3]
She was an Associate Investigator at the Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions (2012 - 2016).
Until 2016, D'Arcens was an Associate Professor at the University of Wollagong.
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. [4] [5]
Publications
D'Arcens has written three monographs to date:
- World Medievalism (Oxford University Press, 2021). [9]
- Comic medievalism (Boydell & Brewer, 2014). [10]
- Old songs in the timeless land (UWA Publishing, 2011). [11]
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.' [12] World Medievalism was also well received, with positive reviews in the journals Studies in the Age of Chaucer and Comitatus. [13] [14]
D'Arcens edited The Cambridge Companion to Medievalism (Cambridge University Press, 2016) as well as co-editing a number of other collections, which include:
- Maistresse of My Wit: Medieval Women, Modern Scholars (Brepols, 2004) with Juanita Feros Ruys [15] [16]
- International Medievalism and Popular Culture (Cambria, 2014) with Andrew Lynch [17]
- Medieval Literary Voices (Manchester University Press, 2022) with Sif Ríkharðsdóttir [18]
She has also published articles in and edited Special Issues in journals such as Representations and postmedieval. [19] [20]
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