Thu 7th Dec, 1pm-3pm (DLT3): New PhDs Panel

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New PhDs Panel - Thu 7th December, 1-3pm (DLT3)

Georgie Anderson – ‘Tracing the Figure of the Black Knight in Medieval Pan-European Chivalric Romances’

Georgie is a first-year doctoral research whose project currently titled Tracing the Figure of the Black Knight in Medieval Pan-European Chivalric Romances, which seeks to locate and understand the presence of non-white people in the medieval West. By analysing a range of examples from the pre-eminent literary entertainment of its time, the genre of chivalric Arthurian romance, this project reveals the cultural implications of the figure of the Black Knight in respect of attitudes towards race, colour, and ethnicity in late medieval Europe. Georgie completed her BA and MA at the University of Kent in Film Studies before transferring her skills. Georgie’s supervisory team are Dr Clare Wright and Dr Ryan Perry.

 

Luke Farrell – ‘Mapping Elizabethan Canterbury’

Luke Farrell is a first-year PhD researcher at the University of Kent. He is a social historian whose research focuses on the social and cultural topography of Elizabethan Canterbury. This work looks to interlay with newly developing ML analytical tools, to investigate their impact and functionality as a tool to catalyze historical research. Luke is also the project manager for the “Marlowe’s Canterbury app”, a UKC, AHRC-funded project partnered with Canterbury Cathedral Library and Archives, Canterbury Archaeological Trust, Canterbury Business Improvement District, and the Marlowe Theatre in Canterbury, that is to build an immersive tourism app of Marlowe’s Canterbury.
Join us in Darwin Lecture Theatre 3 or online via zoom (Meeting ID: 814 9166 6176 |
Passcode: 960421).