Associate ProfessorJan Shaw

I teach, supervise and research in the field of Middle English literature. I am on the board of the Medieval and Early Modern Centre at the University of Sydney and have been on the executive committee of the Australasian Universities Languages and Literature Association (2009-2014). The main focus of my research activity is women in medieval romance. I also work on narrative and gender in leadership studies, making connections between recent leadership theory and the humanities. My current work explores how the use of gendered identities in fifteenth-century romance opens up conversations about models of leadership and female agency.