Rate My Professor Raluca Radulescu

Professor Raluca Radulescu is Professor of Medieval Literature and Director of Research, Impact and Engagement in the School of Arts, Culture and Language at Bangor University, where she has been a faculty member since January 2005, progressing from Lecturer to her current role. She holds a BA joint honours in English language, literature, linguistics and culture and Romanian language, literature and culture from the University of Bucharest, as well as an MPhil and PhD in English medieval literature from the University of Manchester. Prior to Bangor, she held positions at Trinity College Dublin, University François Rabelais in Tours, and Victoria University of Manchester, along with research fellowships at New Europe College in Bucharest, Maison des Sciences de l'Homme/EHESS in Paris, Andrew Mellon Fellowship at the Huntington Library, and visiting researcher at Harvard University. Radulescu is Founding Director of the Centre for Medieval Studies (2005-2013), Co-Director of the Institute for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2013-2018), Co-Director of the Centre for Arthurian Studies (since 2015), and has led programmes such as the cross-school MA in Medieval Studies (2005-2019) and MA in Arthurian Studies (2005-2025). Her research specializations encompass late medieval literature and culture, including Arthurian and non-Arthurian romance, Thomas Malory, medieval chronicles such as the Prose Brut tradition, political culture, gentry studies, book history, cultural memory, and history of emotions. She approaches these through book history and cultural history lenses, with current projects on medieval miscellanies and Middle English Prose Brut chronicles. Notable awards include Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales (FLSW), Fellow of the English Association (FEA), Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS), Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA), and Bangor Teaching Excellence Fellowship (2017).

Radulescu's influence in the field is marked by leadership roles such as President of the International Arthurian Society (2024-2027), Vice-President (2021-2024), President of the British Branch (2015-2018), Founding Editor of the Journal of the International Arthurian Society (2011-2017), and Editor of its Annual Bibliography (2011-2015). She has secured major grants, including a €3 million Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Network grant as Principal Investigator for the EUARTHURS project (2026-2030). Key publications include monographs The Gentry Context for Sir Thomas Malory’s Morte Darthur (2003) and Romance and Its Contexts in Fifteenth-century England: Politics, Piety and Penitence (2013); edited volumes such as Cambridge History of Arthurian Literature and Culture (2026, with Andrew Lynch), Routledge Companion to Medieval English Literature (2022, with Sif Rikhardsdottir), and La tradition tardive en Angleterre et en Écosse (2020, with A. Putter); chapters like 'True Repentance? Malory’s Gawain and the Performance of Emotion' (Arthuriana, 2023) and 'Emotions and War in Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale' (2021); and articles such as 'Fiction and History in Late Medieval England: Arthur in the Brut Manuscripts' (2025). Her impact extends to REF 4* case studies, public engagement through TV/radio consultancy, Royal Mail Arthurian stamps (2021), articles in The Conversation, and events like Medieval Fun Day and Arthurian Quest. She serves on committees including the Learned Society of Wales Council (2025) and has examined PhDs internationally.