Louise Darcens
Professor
Department of English
Macquarie University
Australia
Biography
Louise's main current research area is medievalism. Medievalism examines post-medieval receptions and constructions of the Middle Ages, and considers the impact of these constructions on modern cultural, political, and social life. Her current research is on comic representations of the medieval past, trans-historical emotion, and how ideas about the medieval past have figured in modern political cultures. She has also worked extensively on the long afterlife of the Middle Ages in Australian cultural life. Her 1997 PhD thesis examined the concepts of political and literary authority in the writings of medieval women, and she maintains an interest in this area, publishing academic work on the 15thC French writer Christine de Pizan.
Research Interest
Medievalism
Publications
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Feeling medieval: mood and transhistorical empathy in Justin Kurzel's Macbeth D'Arcens, L. 2016 In : Screening the past. 41, p. e1-e10 10 p.
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Art, heritage industries, and the legacy of William Morris in Michel Houellebecq's The Map and the Territory D'Arcens, L. 2016 In : Studies in Medievalism. 25, p. 71-88 18 p.
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Mirthful faces in The Name of the Rose D'Arcens, L. 2017 In : Postmedieval : a journal of medieval cultural studies. 8, 1, p. 51-66 16 p.
