Louise D’Arcens is Professor of English and Deputy Dean of Research and Innovation in the Faculty of Arts at Macquarie University, Sydney. Her publications include the books World Medievalism: The Middle Ages in Modern Textual Culture (2021), Comic Medievalism: Laughing at the Middle Ages (2014), Old Songs in the Timeless Land: Medievalism in Australian Literature 1840-1910 (2011) and the co/edited volumes Medieval Literary Voices: Embodiment, Materiality and Performance (2022), The Cambridge Companion to Medievalism (2016), International Medievalism and Popular Culture (2014), The Unsociable Sociability of Women’s Lifewriting (2010), and Maistresse of My Wit: Medieval Women, Modern Scholars (2004). She has also published chapters on medievalism and articles in journals such as Representations, Exemplaria, Screening the Past, Studies in Medievalism and postmedieval. She is recent former director of the Macquarie University node of the Australian Research Council Centre for the History of Emotions.