Dr Helen Young
Senior Lecturer
Institution
Deakin University
Research Area Keywords
Far-right extremist fiction; white supremacy and racism; video games; medievalism; popular culture; conspiracy theories.
Contact: helen.young@deakin.edu.au
About Helen
Helen Young is a senior lecturer in literary and cultural studies in the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University, and from 2024-2028 will be an Australian Research Council Future Fellow leading the project “The Politics of Medievalism: Persuasive Narratives”. Helen has a PhD (2007) from the University of Sydney and a Bachelor of Arts/Creative Arts Hons I (2002) from the University of Wollongong.
Key Publications
Books
Violent emotions: the ‘Aryan’ medievalisms of Harold A. Covington, (in press) (2022)
Young, H
Race, Whiteness and ‘Reality’ in Medievalist Videogames (2021)
Young, H
Race and Popular Fantasy Literature: Habits of Whiteness (2016)
Young, H
Journal Articles
Authoritarian Politics and Conspiracy Fictions: The Case of QAnon (2022)
Young, H and Boucher, G M
Analyses & Commentary
Why the far-right and white supremacists have embraced the Middle Ages and their symbols (2021)
Young, H
Grants and Projects
Accelerationist Fiction
Boucher, G and Young, H
Deakin Motion Lab, 2021-2022
Medievalisms in Far-right Culture