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Dr Jaclyn Rajsic, BA (McGill), MA (York), DPhil (Oxford)

Jaclyn

Senior Lecturer in Medieval Literature

Email: jaclyn.rajsic@qmul.ac.uk

Profile

I joined the School of English and Drama in 2015, after having spent a year as a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Cambridge. Before that, I worked as a Post-Doctoral Research Assistant at Birmingham City University, where I helped to research and design The Bilingual Thesaurus of Everyday Life in Medieval England in the first year of the project. I completed my BA in English at McGill University in Canada, where I am originally from, and came to the UK to do my graduate work at the Universities of York (MA) and Oxford (D.Phil).

My doctoral thesis examined the reception and development of the mythical British past (ultimately drawn from Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia regum Britanniae) in histories and genealogies of England’s kings written in insular French, Latin, and English from the twelfth to the fifteenth century. This research evolved into a book project on ideas of materiality and ‘Brut’ history in royal genealogical rolls produced in England from the thirteenth to the early sixteenth century: History Unrolled in Late Medieval England: Negotiating the British and English Pasts in Royal Genealogies (forthcoming with Oxford University Press).

I continue to work on illustrated histories designed and transmitted in both rolls and books, especially in relation to reshapings of the legendary British and Arthurian pasts. I have long been fascinated by ‘Brut’ chronicles and Arthurian text. I am currently co-organising, with Professor Julia Marvin, the ‘Brut in New Troy’ virtual conference, provisionally scheduled for late June 2021.

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