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Associate ProfessorHelen Young

Associate Professor

Faculty of Arts and Education/School of Communication and Creative Arts/Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation

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  • Associate Professor
    Faculty of Arts and Education/School of Communication and Creative Arts/Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation
  • Melbourne Burwood Campus, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria 3125

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Helen's research interests include: medievalism, popular culture (especially fantasy, video-games and the works of J. R. R. Tolkien), histories of race and racism, and literature and cultures of extremism.
PROJECTS:
Australian Research Council Future Fellowship project "The Politics of Medievalism: Persuasive Narratives" (2024-2028).
Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Research Award, 'Imagining Diversity: Race and Ethnicity in Popular Fantasy', (2012-2015).

GRANTS

  • GRANT
    Evaluation 'Game Changes'
    1 Oct 2024 - 17 Mar 2025
    People funded by this grant:
    • Helen Young
    All Together Now - $5,000.00
  • FELLOWSHIP
    The politics of medievalism: persuasive narratives
    27 Jul 2023 - 26 Jul 2027
    People funded by this grant:
    • Helen Young
    ARC Fellowships - Future Fellowships - FT230100030 - $843,280.00
  • GRANT
    Digital books and circulation of far-right extremist ideologies
    1 Jul 2023 - 1 Sep 2024
    People funded by this grant:
    KCL - The Global Network on Extremism and Technology (GNET) - International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR) - $11,200.00
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Popularizing the Past: History, Myth and Literature of the Middle Ages in Contemporary Fantasy and History Media.
    1 Jun 2023 - 21 Jul 2023
    People funded by this grant:
    • Helen Young
    University of Siegen - $8,049.70