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Research Interests:
My main research and postgraduate supervision interests cover four fields, sometimes overlapping:
1. Medieval literature and culture in England, 1100-1500, with special reference to: romance, Arthurian literature; chivalric literature; Thomas Malory; Chaucer and clerkly poetry; the traditions and discourse of war and peace writing; literature and ideology; literature and gender.
2. Post-medieval reception of medieval literature and culture, including editions, adaptations, critical responses, children's versions and original neo-medievalist literature and film.
3. Australian literature and culture, with special reference to poetry; studies in Australian medievalism; Francis Webb; Australia and Ireland.
4. Modern Irish literature Current Projects Apart from work towards ARC-funded projects listed below, articles/chapters currently submitted or in preparation include:
'Lydgate's Troy Book: Unfinished Business';
'How Arthur dies: Malory and Tennyson';
'Bodies, gestures and emotions in the English narratives of Laud Misc. 108', for Julie Nelson Couch and Kimberly Bell, eds., Text and Context in Bodleian Library MS Laud Misc. 108. (Leiden: Brill) (Forthcoming);
With Jacqueline Van Gent, Shane McLeod and Brett Hirsch I recently organised the Perth Medieval and Renaissance Group Symposium, St George's College, UWA. May 23-24, 2008: 'Reading Religious Change in Medieval and Early Modern Europe'. http://sponsored.uwa.edu.au/pmrg/annual_symposium
Other conference papers/sessions in 2008 include: 'The Medieval Imagination', State Library of Victoria, May; International Medieval Congress, Leeds, July; New Chaucer Society, Swansea, July; International Arthurian Society, Rennes, July; 'Medievalism and Modernity in National and Colonial Identities', UCLA Riverside, November.
Grants:
Recent Grants:
2005-2007. ARC Discovery Project grant. 'Medieval war in modern imagination'. $20,000 p.a, CI Andrew Lynch, PROJECT ID DP0558182
2004-2009. ARC Network for Early European Research. One of 50 national research partners. $1.6 m. CI: Dr Pam Sharpe (History, UWA). PROJECT ID RN0460223 .
2008-2011. ARC Discovery Project grant. 'Medievalism in Australian Cultural Memory'. $338,463. Prof. S. J. Trigg (Melbourne); A/Prof A. L. Lynch (UWA); Dr L. D'Arcens (Wollongong); Prof. J. M. Ganim (UCLA, Riverside). PROJECT ID: DP0879058.
2004. ARC Special Research Initiatives Seed Funding. 'Network for Research Development in Medieval and Early Modern European Social and Cultural Studies'. $10,000. CI: Andrew Lynch, with 29 other Investigators, PROJECT ID: SR0354657
Other Activities:
Recent invited plenary addresses: York Medieval Seminar, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York (UK), June, 2000; Australian Victorian Studies Association, UWA, 2000; Perth Medieval and Renaissance Group Annual Conference 2000; Sydney Centre for Medieval Studies 2002; 'Once and Future Medievalisms' Conference, University of Melbourne 2004. 'Cultural Translations' Conference of ARC Network for Early European Research, Melbourne, November 2006.
Australian Research Council Network for Early European Research
Convenor: 2005; Management Committee and Publication Officer: 2005-09.
Editorships: Parergon, Refereed Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (Inc.): Editor 2002- ;Reviews Editor 1997-2001. In 2005, Parergon became the first Australasian humanities journal to be selected for electronic publication by Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University).
Editorial Boards: Arthuriana (USA); Australian Journal of Irish Studies; Chaucer Studio; (USA and Australia); Palgrave Macmillan: 'Studies in Arthurian and Courtly Cultures'; Parergon.
UWA Excellence in Teaching Award for Postgraduate Supervision, 2004.
Associate Dean (Research), Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, UWA, 2004-
Publications:
Books
Malory's Book of Arms: The Narrative of Combat in Le Morte Darthur (Arthurian Studies 39), Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1997; pp. 189.
Andrew Lynch and Philippa Maddern, eds. and intro., Venus and Mars: Engendering Love and War in Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Nedlands, WA.: University Of Western Australia Press, 1995) pp. viii, 214.
Andrew Lynch and Anne M. Scott, eds. and intro., Renaissance Poetry and Drama in Context: Essays for Christopher Wortham. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008.
Book chapters
'Imperial Arthur: home and away', in Elizabeth Archibald and Ad Putter (eds), The Cambridge Companion to the Arthurian Legend. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Forthcoming)
'Malory and History', in Helen Fulton (ed.), The Blackwell Companion to Arthurian Literature. Oxford: Blackwell. (Forthcoming)
'Love in Wartime. Troilus and Criseyde as Trojan History', in Corinne Saunders (ed.), A Concise Companion to Chaucer. Oxford: Blackwell, 2005, pp. 113-133.
'Archaism, Nostalgia and Tennysonian War in The Lord of the Rings, in Jane Chance and Alfred Siewers (eds), Tolkien's Modern Middle Ages. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, pp. 77-92.
'"I see a strangeness": Francis Webb's Norfolk and English Catholic Medievalism', in Stephanie Trigg (ed.), Medievalism and the Gothic in Australian Culture. Turnhout: Brepols; Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2005, pp. 41-59.
'"Peace is good after war": The Narrative Seasons of English Arthurian Tradition', in Corinne Saunders, Françoise Le Saux and Neil Thomas, eds, Writing War: Medieval Literary Responses to Warfare. Woodbridge. Boydell and Brewer, 2004, pp. 127-46.
'Le Morte Darthur for Children: Malory's Third Tradition', in Barbara Tepa Lupack, ed., Adapting the Arthurian Legends for Children. New York and Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004, pp. 1-49.
'"Thou woll never have done": Ideology, Context and Excess in Malory's War', in D. Thomas Hanks Jr. and Jessica G. Brogdon, eds, The Social and Literary Contexts of Malory's Morte Darthur (Arthurian Studies 42), Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell and Brewer, 2000, pp. 24-41.
'"The hoote blood ran freyshly uppon the erthe": A combat theme in Malory, and its extensions', in Andrew Lynch and Philippa Maddern, eds., Venus and Mars: Engendering Love and War in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (Nedlands, W.A.: University of Western Australia Press, 1995), pp. 88-105.
'Gesture and Gender in Malory's Le Morte Darthur', in Friedrich Wolfzettel, ed., Arthurian Romance and Gender (Rodopi: Amsterdam, 1995) pp. 285-295.
"'Be war, ye wemen': problems of genre and the gendered audience in Chaucer and Henryson", in R.S.White and Hilary Fraser, eds, Constructions of Gender: Feminism and Literary Studies, Nedlands: University of Western Australia Press, 1994, pp. 19-38.
Journal Articles
'Thingless names'? The St George legend in Australia'. LaTrobe Journal, 81 (Autumn 2008), pp. 40-52.
'C.J. Brennan's A Chant of Doom: Australia's Medieval War', Australian Literary Studies, 23.1 (2007), pp. 49-62.
'Beyond Shame: Chivalric Cowardice and Arthurian Narrative', Arthurian Literature, 23 (2006), pp. 1-17.
'A Tale of "Simple" Malory and the Critics', Arthuriana, 16.2 (2006): 10-15.
'"Manly cowardyse": Thomas Hoccleve's Peace Strategy', Medium Aevum, 53.2, 2004, pp. 306-23.
'Francis Webb's white swan of trespass: A Drum for Ben Boyd and Australian modernism in the 1940s', Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 36.1, June 2001, pp. 27-43.
'"The Terrible Knowledge That She Was Going To Go": History, Memory and Identity in Colm Toibin's The Heather Blazing.' Australian Journal of Irish Studies, 1, 2001, pp. 1-8.
'Malory Moralise: The Disarming of Le Morte Darthur, 1800-1918', Arthuriana, 9.4, 1999, pp. 81-93. (Winner of the James Randall Leeder Award for Outstanding Article in Arthuriana, 1999)
'Re-making the Middle Ages in Australia: Francis Webb's "The Canticle" (1953)', Australian Literary Studies, 19.1, 1999, pp. 44-56.
'"While I wrestled with the sum, the sun": Francis Webb's "Socrates"', Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 33(2), 1998, pp. 39-53.
'"Now, fye on youre wepynge": tears in medieval English romance', Parergon, New Series 9,1, June, 1991.
"Good name and narrative in Malory", Nottingham Medieval Studies, 1990, pp. 141-51.
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