Anke Bernau lectures in Medieval Literature and Culture at the University of Manchester. She is co-editor of Medieval Film (2009) and author of Virgins: A Cultural History (2007), and has authored numerous essays on medieval literature and medievalism. She is currently working on the Albina myth and theories of memory and history in the late medieval and early modern periods.
Narelle Campbell is a PhD student at the University of Wollongong. Her thesis concerns contemporary representations of the past and medievalist nostalgia in genre fantasy. Other research interests include Jane Austen and adaptation, on which she has a forthcoming article in the journal Adaptations.
Louise D’Arcens is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Wollongong. She has published on medieval literature and medievalism, is co-editor of Maistresse of My Wit: Medieval Women, Modern Scholars(Brepols 2004) and Unsocial Sociability in Women’s Lifewriting (Palgrave forthcoming), and is author of Old Songs in the Timeless Land: Medievalism in Nineteenth-century Australian Literature (UOW Press forthcoming).
Helen Dell is a Research Fellow in Literary Studies in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne. Her PhD was written on desire in medieval French secular song, published last year as “Desire by Gender and Genre in Trouvère Song”. Her current research is on the role of music in the medievalism of nostalgia.
Laura Ginters lectures in Performance Studies at the University of Sydney. She has had articles in areas such as feminism and theatre, Indigenous theatre, opera and theatre rehearsal and radio drama published nationally and internationally. She works occasionally as a dramaturg and her translations of German plays have been both performed and published.
Sylvia Kershaw is a full-time PhD candidate in English at the University of Western Australia. The topic of her PhD is contemporary Australian medievalist literature. Last year she attended the ANZAMEMS 7th Biennial Conference in Hobart, where she presented a paper entitled “Impossibly Modern: The Anxiety of Scholarship in Gillian Polack’s Illuminations”. She is currently on maternity leave.
Christina Loong is a second year PhD student at the University of Sydney’s Department of History. Her doctoral project focuses on the construction and maintenance of British expatriate identity in Florence between 1890 and 1940, and she also maintains research interests in modern Italian, British, and expatriate history. She has recently reviewed Australians in Italy: Contemporary Lives and Impressions edited by Bill Kent, Ros Pesman and Cynthia Troup for the tenth edition of Monash University’s Eras Journal.
Dr. Adrian Martin is Senior Research Fellow in Film and Television Studies, Monash University. He is the author of Que es el cine moderno? (Uqbar 2008), The Mad Max Movies (Currency 2003), Once Upon a Time In America (BFI 1998) and Phantasms (Penguin 1994), and is Co-Editor of Rouge.
Laurie Ormond is a doctoral candidate at the University of Western Australia, writing about magic in contemporary fantasy fiction. Her PhD is titled “A World Worth Saving: How Contemporary Fantasy Fiction Negotiates Genre”. Her research interests include fantasy fiction, children’s fiction, folklore and myth in modern fiction, and ecocritical studies of the same. Laurie’s creative interests range across similarly fantastic territories, and into comedy and pantomime as well.
Robert Sinnerbrink is a Lecturer in Philosophy at Macquarie University, Sydney. He is the author of Understanding Hegelianism (Acumen, 2007), co-editor of Critique Today (Brill, 2006). He has published numerous articles on contemporary European philosophy, critical theory, and philosophy of film, including essays on the films of David Lynch, Terrence Malick, and Lars von Trier. He is currently writing a book on new approaches in film-philosophy.
Stephanie Trigg is Professor of Medieval and Modern Literature in the English Program, University of Melbourne. She has published widely on medieval literature, and is editor of Medievalism and the Gothic in Australian Culture (2006). Current projects include a cultural history of the Order of the Garter, 1348-2008; medievalism in Australian cultural memory; and the relationship between medieval studies and medievalism studies.
Created on: Saturday, 19 December 2009