Louise is a literary and cultural historian whose 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 theMiddle Ages in modern global culture, comic representations of the medieval past, trans-historical emotion, and how ideas about the medieval past have figured in modern political cultures, especially extremist politics. 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.

medievalism

medieval literature

women's writing

cinema and history

ENGL204 Medieval Literature: Dreams and Debates

ENGL309 Shakespeare and the Renaissance

ENGL733: Textual Theory