This volume maps the phenomenon of medievalism in Aotearoa, initially as an import by the early white settler society, and as a form of nation building that would reinforce Britishness and ancestral belonging.
Anna Czarnowus is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Silesia, Katowice (Poland). She has published on Middle English literature and medievalisms, co-editing (with M.J.Toswell) Medievalism in English Canadian Literature: From Richardson to Atwood (2020), and (with Carolyne Larrington) Memory and Medievalism in George R.R. Martin and Game of Thrones: The Keeper of All Our Memories (2022). She is also the co-editor (with Laurel Ryan) of Medievalism and Slavic Popular Culture (forthcoming).
Janet M. Wilson is Professor Emerita in English and Postcolonial Studies at the University of Northampton, UK. She formerly taught medieval studies at universities in New Zealand and the UK. Her research now focuses on the postcolonial and diaspora writing of the white settler societies of Australia and New Zealand, as well as refugee writing, the global novel, transnationalism, and transculturalism. Katherine Mansfield is a special subject of interest. She is editor-in-chief of The Journal of Postcolonial Writing and the series Studies in World Literature.
