Georgina Anderson

PhD title: Tracing the Figure of the Black Knight in Chivalric Romances from North-Atlantic Europe

Georgie Anderson is a PhD researcher at the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies at the University of Kent; her project which is currently titled Tracing the Figure of the Black Knight in Chivalric Romances from North-Atlantic Europe is funded by both CHASE and the Stuart Hall Foundation. Her research uses both a literary and codicological approach to investigate how race functions in the medieval Europe by assessing the presentation of People of Colour in popular romance narratives through analysis of case studies and tracking the reception and possible readership by cataloguing the extant manuscripts. Georgie’s PhD research tackles current impasses in the field of Premodern Critical Race Studies by calling attention to the inadequacies of the current terminologies which rely too heavily on modern semantics. Highlighting the long history of race, especially within the medieval world calls attention to the long-standing weaponisation of the period by white supremacist groups which has created the myth of a racial hegemony.  

Stuart Hall Foundation: https://www.stuarthallfoundation.org/scholars-and-fellows/georgie-anderson/
CHASE: https://www.chase.ac.uk/student-profiles-2#studentprofiles/view-chase-student-details/6762f8f46619dd02d1b05ad3/
X: @georgieberwick
Bluesky: @medievalgeorgie.bsky.social  

Georgie's research interests include:
- Medieval Literature, primarily vernacular romance literature
- Codicology - Particularly relating to late medieval manuscripts and their patronage
- Pre-modern Critical Race Studies
- Aspects of Medievalisms - primarily the relationship between the presentation of the medieval world on screen and the impact on our culture  

Georgie has helped teach on these modules:
ENGL7280 SPR - A Knight's Tale: Chivalric Literature and Courtly Love in Premodern England (2023/24)
ENGL6970 AUT - Chaucer and Late Medieval English Literature (2024/25)
ENGL8001 SPR - Race and Power (2024/25)