Anne Marie D'Arcy

Anne Marie D’Arcy is Associate Professor in Medieval and Renaissance English in the School of Arts at the University of Leicester; Director of the Medieval Research Centre at the University of Leicester, and Visiting Research Fellow at the School of English, Trinity College Dublin. Her research interests lie in the areas of medieval and Renaissance Wisdom literature, medieval and Renaissance iconology and political theology; the patristic sources of Old and Middle English literature, and nineteenth and twentieth-century medievalisms, especially James Joyce. She has published a number of articles and two edited collections which reflect these interests, including several on Joyce’s treatment of such topics as Freemasonry, medieval Irish placelore, Dublin’s water supply, and ‘Araby’ as a grail quest. She is the author of Wisdom and the Grail: The Image of the Vessel in the Queste del Saint Graal and Malory's Tale of the Sankgreal (2000), and another monograph, The Artifice of Eternity: Mariology in the English Poetic Tradition, forthcoming from Oxford University Press. She was the Principal Investigator of a landmark exhibition in Marsh’s Library, Dublin: ‘James Joyce: Apocalypse and Exile’, which ran from 23 October 2014 to 20 October 2015. She is currently completing Joyce and the Irish Middle Ages: Saints, Sages, and Insular Culture, which is the first monograph devoted to Joyce’s engagement with the Insular period, specifically the influence of Irish learning and artistry on Britain and the Continent from the sixth to the twelfth centuries, c. ‘566 A.D.’ (FW 13.36; 14.7) to ‘1132 or 1169’ (FW 391.2).