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Meet the EUARTHURS network.

EUARTHURS brings together researchers across Europe to explore Arthurian traditions from the medieval period to the present. Meet the Supervisors, Doctoral Fellows, and External Advisory Board whose research, expertise, and perspectives contribute to the network.

Prof. Raluca Radulescu

Raluca Radulescu, FLSW, FRHistS, FEA, FSHEA, is Network Coordinator and Bangor University PI for EUARTHURS: European Arthurs, Medieval to Modern. She is currently the elected President of the International Arthurian Society (2024-27), and elected member of the Council of the Learned Society of Wales, the leading scholarly academy in Wales.

At Bangor University she is Professor of Medieval Literature and founding Director of the Centre for Arthurian Studies. Her research specialisms are late medieval English literature approached in its historical and political context, medieval manuscripts, and medievalism. She has published widely on Sir Thomas Malory, Arthurian and non-Arthurian romance, chronicles and genealogy, heraldry, gentry culture and manuscript miscellanies. Her most recent publications are The Cambridge History of Arthurian Literature and Culture, 2 vols, co-ed. with Andrew Lynch (Cambridge University Press, 2026) and The Routledge Companion to Medieval English Literature in a Trans-European Context, co-ed. with Sif Ríkharðsdóttir (Routledge, 2023).

Prof. Fabrizio Cigni

Fabrizio Cigni teaches Romance Philology at the University of Pisa. He has mainly worked on Medieval Chivalric Prose, on which he has produced a series of articles; he has also published the edition of Rustichello da Pisa.

Prof. Sebastien Douchet

A graduate of the École Normale Supérieure de Fontenay Saint-Cloud (1995), he holds the agrégation in Modern Literature (1997), a doctorate in Medieval Literature from the University of Paris IV-Sorbonne (2004), and a habilitation to supervise research in Medieval Literature from Sorbonne University (2018).

He is currently President of the French branch of the International Arthurian Society and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Perspectives médiévales .

Dr. Marjolein Hogenbirk

Marjolein Hogenbirk is senior lecturer and researcher at the department of Dutch, Historical Dutch literature. Her specialism is Middle Dutch Literature. She is also guest researcher at the Huygens Institute, where she is preparing a digital edition of the Middle Dutch Arthurian romance Arturs doet in European context (edition and study). For a link to the description on the website of the Huygens Institute, see: https://www.huygens.knaw.nl/en/projecten/arturs-doet/

In 2024 Marjolein was a Tiele Fellow (Tiele Stichting), and conducts research into the palimpsests leaves of the ‘Lancelot Compilation’, a cycle of ten Middle Dutch Arthurian romances, which has survived in MS. 129 A 10 of the Royal Library in The Hague (ca. 1320). In this project Marjolein collaborates with drs. Ed van der Vlist, conservator of manuscripts at the Royal Library in The Hague and with Dr. Ivan Shevchuk and dr. Kylee Ann Huskin from the University of Hamburg, renown photographers and experts in Multi Spectral Imaging. A publication about this project is in preperation.

Prof. Lino Leonardi

Lino Leonardi studied in Florence with d’Arco Silvio Avalle and in Padua with Gianfranco Folena. He has taught Romance Philology at the Universities of Florence, Chieti-Pescara, and Siena, where he chaired the PhD School in Modern Philology. He has been visiting professor in Paris (École nationale des Chartes, École Pratique des Hautes Études) and at St John’s College Cambridge. From 2014 to 2018 he was director of the CNR Institute Opera del Vocabolario Italiano in Florence. Since 2023 he chairs the PhD programme in Romance and Italian Digital Philology.

His research activity focuses on medieval Italian lyric poetry, medieval translations, French Arthurian prose romance, textual editing methods, and digital humanities. He has published, often as a team work, Guittone d’Arezzo’s sonnets (Einaudi 1994), studies about the thirteenth-century Italian lyric manuscripts (Sismel 2001, 2010), repertoires of hagiographic and biblical vernacular manuscripts (Sismel 2003, 2018), studies for (Garnier 2018) and the edition of the Guiron le Courtois cycle (8 vols, Sismel 2020-2022: Prix de la Grange dell’Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres), the translation of the Lancelot-Graal romances (4 vols, Einaudi 2020-2023), a handbook of textual criticism (Le Monnier 2022), an essay on the word razza (Mulino 2024: Premio Maria Corti).

Dr Aled Llion Jones

Aled LLion Jones works across a number of periods and disciplines, bringing philosophy and literary theory into dialogue with the modern and medieval literatures of Wales and Ireland. Theories of translation theory and multilingualism are central here. See especially his monograph, Darogan: Prophecy, Lament and Absent Heroes in Medieval Welsh Literature (2013), and also his article in Translation Studies, 9.

Recently, his research has been moving in two main areas: the philosophy of the twentieth century (especially figures such as Martin Heidegger, Maurice Blanchot, Martin Buber, Jacques Derrida, J.R. Jones) and medieval Welsh literature. A central event that brings these threads together is Martin Buber’s translation of the Four Branches of the Mabinogi (Die vier Zweige des Mabinogi) in 1914, and he has been looking at conceptual cross-fertilization between the Welsh legends and humanist-Hasidic traditions: see his article in Ysgrifau Beirniadol 34.

Dr. Martine Meuwese

Martine Meuwese is Assistant Professor in medieval art. She studied art history in Leiden, specialising in medieval art, medieval French literature and manuscript studies. As a researcher at the Leiden University NlcM project (Dutch literature and culture in the Middle Ages) she wrote a dissertation on the relationship between text and image in illustrated manuscripts of Jacob van Maerlant’s Rijmbijbel and Spiegel Historiael. She worked as a Research Assistant for the Lancelot-Graal project at the University of Pittsburgh, was Research Associate at Cambridge University for the Cambridge Illuminations Project, and Postdoc at Utrecht University for the NWO research project Arthurian manuscripts. From 2011 onwards she is Assistant Professor in medieval art at Utrecht University.

Prof. Sif Ríkharðsdóttir

Sif Ríkharðsdóttir is Professor of Comparative Literature and Vice-Head of Faculty of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies. She has held several honorary fellowships, including a Visiting Research Fellowship at St John’s College, University of Oxford in 2022, a Visiting Professorship at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice in 2018, and a Visiting Fellowship at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge in 2011. She was Executive Director of the New Chaucer Society 2023-2026, Chair of Comparative Literature 2019-2022 and Head of the Institute of Research in Literature and Visual Arts 2020-2023 and the President of the Nordic Branch of the International Arthurian Society 2016-2018. Her research is focused on cross-cultural and comparative studies of medieval literature, emotion theory, literary history, translation studies, voice, embodiment, the senses and gender.

Prof. Richard Trachsler

Richard Trachsler is Professor of French and Occitan Literature of the Middle Ages at the University of Zurich. He has worked on the French Medieval Romance, in prose and verse, and has studied the Arthurian tradition.