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RADULESCU, RALUCA

Raluca Radulescu is a Senior Lecturer in the English department at Bangor University. She teaches the Arthurian legend from the medieval to the modern period, as well as across the medieval and early modern literature canon, including Old English literature, Chaucer, and medieval palaeography. Her research interests include, alongside romance (Arthurian and non-Arthurian), gentry culture, medieval chronicles and genealogy. These interests are reflected in her publications, ranging from articles and chapters to collaborative projects. Raluca’s doctoral research, revised and published as a monograph, was a study of Sir Thomas Malory’s Morte Darthur from the perspective of the political concerns that he shared with his fifteenth-century gentry readers. Malory’s work continues to feature among her other shorter studies (articles and chapters).

Raluca is currently working on a number of projects which focus on genre in romance literature and historical writing, and on journeys in medieval romance. These concentrate on developing an understanding of the links between the production and reception of romance in the larger socio-political context of fifteenth-century England. She has published extensively in both monographs and journals alike, including in Trivium, Arthurian Literature, Arthuriana and Studies in Philology.

Selected Publications:
The Gentry Context for Malory’s Morte Darthur (D. S. Brewer, 2003)

Contributed to:
Textual Traditions of Mediaeval Arthurian Literature: Essays in Honour of P.J.C. Field (contributor) (D.S. Brewer, 2004)
Re-viewing Le Morte Darthur: Texts and Contexts, Characters and Themes (co-editor and contributor) (D.S. Brewer, 2005)
Gentry Culture in Late Medieval England (co-editor and contributor) (Manchester University Press, 2005)
A Companion to Medieval English Literature c.1350-1500 (contributor) (Blackwell, 2007)
Broken Lines: Genealogical Literature in Medieval Britain and France (Medieval Texts and Cultures of Northern Europe Series) (co-editor and contributor) (Brepols, 2008)
Companion to Medieval Popular Romance (Series Studies in Medieval Romance) (co-editor and contributor) (D.S. Brewer, 2009)
A Companion to Arthurian Literature (contributor) (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009)