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Dr Ellie Crookes
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Lecturer in English literatures at the University of Wollongong. Victorianism, medievalism, women, empire, and the occult.

Currently writing a book on the post-medieval ‘Joans of Arc’ for Arc Humanities Press, 2025.

On unceded Dharawal land
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'The Many Joans of Arc' is out in the world!!! If you are interested in the historical and/or imagined Jeanne d'Arc, women's histories, historical anachronism, the misuse of the medieval, or occult weirdness then this might be the book for you. Available now: www.arc-humanities.org/978180270007...
Flyer for book: Ellie Crookes The Many Joans of Arc: Embodying Medievalism Worldwide This book centres on the phenomenon of the Joans of Arc —a global medievalist trend of women being celebrated as their nation’s own Joan. Though these women bear the name of a medieval French woman, use of the title is bound to diverse and shifting preoccupations, prejudices, and prerogatives of the post-medieval world. Joan’s legend has been moulded to fit a vast array of sometimes strange, often problematic agendas. The overarching aim of this book is to demystify the implications that arise when the ghost of Joan leaves the temporal and spatial bounds of medieval France to haunt post-medieval spaces and possess post-medieval personas. BIOGRAPHY Ellie Crookes is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Wollongong (Dharawal land). She specializes in the study of medievalism, examining how the motifs, legends, and characters of the medieval past are adopted, adapted, and manipulated to suit the needs of post-medieval people. Contains an image of the front cover. Depicts the Irish woman Maud Gonne as a Joan of Arc figure, wearing medieval armour and carrying a banner adorned with Irish symbols (a harp and a Celtic cross)
November 2, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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She finally arrived!! You can buy this wonderful collection of papers on the intersection of medievalism and Reception, edited by @ikax.bsky.social and me, here: boydellandbrewer.com/978184384730...
December 17, 2024 at 12:37 AM
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Like, who even am I?
Spotify list - Chappell Roan, Sabrina Carpenter, Dolly Parton, Lizzo, Simon and Garfunkel.
December 6, 2024 at 2:32 AM
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Is he one of my favourite visual artists? Yes. Do I think he is a garbage person? Yes.
Rossetti’s ‘Beata Beatrix’ painting. Shows a woman in the foreground with her head tilted in ecstasy, eyes closed. Symbols of death surround her.
December 6, 2024 at 2:16 AM